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Famous Berkeley Alumni
Joan Acocella,
English '66, dance and literature critic
  Scott
Adams, MBA '86, creator of Dilbert comic stripBeverly Cleary, English '38, children's book author ("Ramona the Pest") Philip K. Dick,* science-fiction writer ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?") Joan Didion, '56, novelist ("Play It as It Lays") and essayist Mark Di Suvero, '56, sculptor  Pauline
Esther Friedman, c. '38, a.k.a
Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby")Rube Goldberg, '04, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist William Randolph Hearst, Jr., '29, newspaper publisher Maxine Hong Kingston, '62, novelist ("The Woman Warrior") Pauline Kael, '40, New Yorker film critic Jack London,* novelist ("The Call of the Wild")  Terry
McMillan, '77, novelist ("Waiting To Exhale")Julia Morgan, 1894, architect Robert Penn Warren, '27, writer Jann Wenner, '67, founder of Rolling Stone 
 Joy
Biefeld (née Fawcett), '92, U.S. Women's World
Cup soccer team and U.S. Olympian Matt Biondi, '88, Olympic swimmer, winner of 8 gold medals Connie Carpenter Phinney, '81, cycling gold medalist Natalie Coughlin, '05, record-breaking swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Michele Granger, '93, softball pitcher and Olympic gold medalist Kevin Johnson, '97, NBA All-Star and community activist Jason Kidd,* NBA All-Star and U.S Olympian Mary T. Meagher, '87, Olympic swimmer, winner of 3 gold medals  Jonny
Moseley,'07, 1998
Winter Olympics gold medalist skierHelen Wills, '25, winner of eight Wimbledon tennis championships and two Olympic gold medals 
Douglas Engelbart,
M.S. '53, Ph.D. '55, inventor of the computer mouse
Andrew Grove, Ph.D. '63, Intel Corporation cofounder  Bill
Joy, M.S. '79, cofounder of Sun
Microsystems and cocreator of Berkeley Unix, JavaFloyd Kvamme, '59, cofounder of National Semiconductor T. Y. Lin, M.S. '33, pioneered prestressed concrete in structural design Gordon E. Moore, '50, cofounder of Intel and the originator of Moore's Law Shantanu Narayen, MBA '93, CEO Adobe Kim Polese, '84, CEO of SpikeSource & Marimba cofounder Paul Otellini, MBA '74, president and CEO of Intel Corporation Tiffany Shlain, '92, filmmaker and founder of Webby Awards  Eric Schmidt, M.S. '79, Ph.D. '82, CEO of Google Ken Thompson, B.S. '65, M.S. '66, cocreator of the Unix operating system Steve Wozniak, '86, cofounder of Apple Computer 
David P. Gardner, M.A. '59 and Ph.D. '66
15th president of the University of California
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Louise Jackson, B.A. '22, M.A. '23, education and public-health
pioneer Clark Kerr, Ph.D. '39, UC president 1958-1967 Robert Sproul, '13, UC president 1930-1958 Judith Heumann, M.P.H. '75, pioneer for disability rights and former assistant U.S. secretary of education 
David Brower,*, environmentalist,
first executive director Sierra Club
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Bill Bixby,*
actor ("The
Incredible Hulk")
John Cho, '96, actor ("American Pie," "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle")  Roxann
Dawson, '80, actress (B'Elanna Torres on "Star Trek")Adam Duritz,* lead singer, Counting Crows Carl Franklin, '71, director ("Devil in a Blue Dress") Karen Grassle, '65, actress ("Little House on the Prairie")  Oren
Jacob,
B.S. '92, M.S. '95, Pixar Animation Studios technical directorAdam Lamberg, enrolled, actor ("Lizzie McGuire") Jerry Mathers, '74, actor ("Leave it to Beaver") Errol Morris,* director ("Fog of War")  Gregory
Peck, '42, actor ("To Kill a Mockingbird")James Schamus, '82 M.A. '87 Ph.D. '03, screenwriter ("Crouching Tiger") George Takei, transferred to UCLA, actor (Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek") 
Horace M. Albright, '12, helped create the National Park Service
Melvin Belli, B.A. '29, J.D. '33, attorney known as "King of Torts" Rose Bird, '65, chief justice California Supreme Court, 1977-1987 Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, '61, California governor 2011-present and 1975-1983 Maria Echaveste, J.D. '80, White House deputy chief of staff 1998-2001 Julie Gerberding, M.P.H. '90, director of the Centers for Disease Control 2002-2009 Walter Gordon, J.D. '22, governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. district judge Barbara Lee, M.S.W. '75, U.S. Congress (D-Oakland) 1998-present  Ed Lee, J.D. '78, first Asian American mayor of San Francisco
John McCone, '22, CIA director 1961-1965 Robert S. McNamara, '37, secretary of defense 1961-1968 Haakon Magnus, '99, Crown Prince of Norway Edwin Meese, '58, U.S. attorney general 1985-1988 Norman Y. Mineta, '53, secretary of transportation 2001-2006 Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverrķa, M.A. '66, Ph.D. '66, James Soong, M.A. '67, governor of Taiwan Province 1994-1998  Earl
Warren,
B.A. '12, J.D. '14, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court 1954-1970 and three-time California governor Lionel Wilson, '38, first African-American mayor of Oakland Pete Wilson, J.D. '62, governor of California 1991-1999 
 Tom
Anderson, '96, cofounder and president of
MySpace Stephen D. Bechtel,** '23, longtime president of Bechtel, an engineering & construction firm  Walter A. Haas, '10, president of
Levi Strauss & Co.Donald G. Fisher, '51, founder of The Gap, Inc. Edgar F. Kaiser, '30, founder of Kaiser Permanente health group Thomas J. Long , '32, founder of Longs Drugs Brian Maxwell, '75, Cal track coach and founder of PowerBar Dean Witter, '09, cofounder of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter 
First year cited is date Nobel
prize was awarded; second is year that degree was granted
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