- Clark Kerr
Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 - December 1, 2003) was the first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952-1958) and the 12th President of the University of California (1958-1967). - Barbara Lee
Barbara Jean Lee (born July 16 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing (map) and is the first woman to represent that district. Congresswoman Lee was born in El Paso, Texas. She moved from Texas to California in 1960 with her military family parents, and attended high school at San Fernando High School, San Fernando, California. - Ken Goldberg
Goldberg is Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, with an appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his PhD in Computer Science from CMU in 1990 and studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Edinburgh University, and the Technion. From 1991-95 he taught at the University of Southern California, and in Fall 2000 was visiting faculty at MIT Media Lab. - Shirley Dean
Shirley Ann Dean (Bryant) was the mayor of the U.S. city of Berkeley, California, from 1994 to 2002. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Social Welfare in 1956. Shirley Dean was considered a moderate politician in a notoriously liberal city. During most of her two-term tenure as Mayor, she presided over a divided City Council that had a 5-4 progressive majority. - Danah Boyd
Danah Michele Boyd (born 1977), also known as danah boyd, is an American academic, researcher, and blogger best known for media appearances where she speaks about social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace. Since 2003, she and her research have been quoted on the subject of social networking in dozens of different articles in media sources such as NPR, Wired, MSNBC, "USA Today", and "The O'Reilly Factor".. - John Battelle
John Battelle , 42, is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded scores of online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. Prior to founding Federated Media, Battelle co-founded and continues to serve as Executive Producer of the Web 2 Summit conference, as well as "band manager" with BoingBoing.net . - Hatem Bazian
Dr. Hatem Bazian is a senior lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and an adjunct professor at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses on Islamic Law and Society, Islam in America, Religious Studies, and Arabic language. During the Spring of 2006, he taught Middle Eastern Politics at the East Bay's Saint Mary's College of California. He also teaches Arabic and Maliki Fiqh at the Zaytuna Institute. - Chang-Lin Tien
Chang-lin Tien, as the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–97), was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major U.S. university. Born in Wuhan, mainland China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1955 and went on to a fellowship at the University of Louisville in 1956, … - Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He is also the head of the Networking Group and the Vice President of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. He received his Sc.B. in Physics from Brown University in 1978, and his PhD in Physics from University of Chicago in 1983. He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE. He is brother of string theorist Stephen Shenker. - Annalee Saxenian
Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PPIC, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College. - Jon Carroll
Jon Carroll is a columnist for the "San Francisco Chronicle", beginning in 1982. He is featured on the backpage of the Datebook (the newspaper's entertainment section) on weekdays. Locally, he is best known for his moderate-to-liberal politics and his cat columns. On the internet, he is known for starting the Unitarian Jihad movement. Carroll was born in Los Angeles and raised in nearby Pasadena. He attended (but did not finish) UC Berkeley. - Walter A. Haas
Walter A. Haas, Sr. (May 111889 - December 71979) was a former President and Chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. Haas was credited with saving the once struggling company. Haas graduated with a BS degree from the UC Berkeley School of Business in 1910. He also earned an honorary degree from Berkeley in 1958. In 1989, the school was renamed the Haas School of Business in his honor. Haas had three children: Rhoda Haas Goldman, Peter E. Haas, and Walter A. Haas, Jr.. - Tom Lantos
Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos, Ph.D (born February 1 1928, Budapest, Hungary as Lantos Tamás Péter) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing California's 12th congressional district, located in the southwest part of San Francisco County and the northern part of San Mateo County. He is the chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. - Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). He also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials. - Paul Saffo
Paul Saffo (born in 1954 in Los Angeles) is a technology forecaster. He is the Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. He is also a board member of the Long Now Foundation. He has degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. Saffo is frequently quoted in leading publications on issues ranging from high technology to global lifestyles. - Peter Brown
Peter Robert Lamont Brown (b. 1935) was born in Dublin, Ireland, to a Protestant family. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. He is a fellow of All Souls', Oxford. He has taught at Oxford, the University of London, and UC Berkeley, as well as Princeton University, where he is currently the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History. In 1982, Brown was named a MacArthur Fellow. - Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Charles Rodgers (born December 2, 1983 in Chico, California, USA) is an American football quarterback. He was drafted in the first round (24th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers and is earmarked to be Brett Favre's eventual successor. - Henry Chesbrough
Henry Chesbrough is the executive director of the Center for Open Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on managing technology and innovation. His new book, Open Innovation (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), articulates a new paradigm for organizing and managing R&D, in which companies must access external as well as internal technologies and take them to market through internal and external paths. - Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens (BS in Electrical Engineering, 1972) and at Princeton University (MS in Electrical Engineering, 1974 and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1976). He has also taught at Harvard, MIT, the National Technical University of Athens, Stanford, and UCSD. - Joan Blades
Joan Blades (b. ca. 1956 in Berkeley, California) was the cofounder in 1987 with her husband Wes Boyd of Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay area software company known for marketing the "After Dark" screensaver and the "You Don't Know Jack" trivia game. After selling Berkeley Systems in 1997 for $13.8 million, Blades and Boyd founded the liberal political group MoveOn.org. - Jack Block
Jack Block is a notable psychology professor emeritus at UC Berkeley. His main areas of interest are personality theory, personality development, research methodology, personality assessment, longitudinal research, and cognition. Block was born in 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1950. He has received many awards over the years and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. - Phillip E. Johnson
Phillip E. Johnson (born 1940) is a retired UC Berkeley American law professor and author. He became a born-again Christian as a tenured professor. He is considered the father of the intelligent design movement, which criticizes the theory of evolution, and promotes intelligent design, as an alternative. Johnson also denies the predominant scientific view that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the sole cause of AIDS (see AIDS reappraisal). - Kevin Starr
Kevin Starr (born 3 September 1940 in San Francisco) is an American historian, best-known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "America and the California Dream". Starr is currently University Professor and Professor of History at the University of Southern California, but has been a professor or visiting lecturer at numerous California universities, including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Riverside, Santa Clara University, … - Eric Allman
As Sendmail's Chief Science Officer and co-founder, Eric Allman leads the company's technology strategy and direction. Allman authored sendmail, the world's first Internet Mail program, in 1981 while at the University of California at Berkeley. He continues to spearhead sendmail.org, the global team of volunteers that maintain and support the sendmail Open Source platform. - Daniel Boyarin
Daniel Boyarin (born 1946) is a Jewish-American academic. Born Asbury Park, New Jersey, he holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship. - Paul Debevec
Paul Debevec is a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. He is best known for his pioneering work in high dynamic range imaging and image-based modelling and rendering. Debevec received his Ph.D. in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1996; his thesis research was in photogrammetry, or the recovery of the 3D shape of an object from a collection of still photographs taken from various angles. - Rod Benson
Rodrique Zsorryon Benson was born on October 10, 1984 in Fairfield, California. In high school he pursued a love of basketball and volleyball. Rod went to UC Berkeley playing basketball. After his four standout seasons in California, he played pro in the NBA Development League with the Toros for his 2006-2007 season. Rod then went to Bismarck, North Dakota to play for the Dakota Wizards, to finish the season. - Andrew Lam
Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American writer. He was born South Vietnam. His father is General Lâm Quang Thi of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. In April 1975, Lam left Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon with his family. He attend UC Berkeley, and then decided to be a writer. Lam has written many factual stories about the United States' involvement in Vietnam. He currently is the editor of the Pacific News Service. He is also a journalist and short story writer. - Leon Litwack
Dr. Leon F. Litwack is an American historian and professor of history at the University of California Berkeley. He is the 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history for his book "Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery." - Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes is an American poet. She was born in Manila, Philippines and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at San Francisco State University. She is the author of "Gravities of Center" (Arkipelago, 2003) and "Poeta en San Francisco" (Tinfish, 2005), for which she received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. - Nnamdi Asomugha
Nnamdi Asomugha (N-NAM-Dee Asoh-Muh-Wah) (born July 6, 1981 in Lafayette, Louisiana) whose name means "My Father Lives" (although various sources erroneously state that it means "Jesus Lives") is an American football player who currently plays cornerback for the Oakland Raiders. He is an American-born Nigerian. He attended and played at Narbonne High School in Los Angeles, California and continued at the University of California, … - Hubert Howe Bancroft
Hubert Howe Bancroft (May 5, 1832-1918), an American historian and ethnologist, was born in Granville, Ohio. He attended the Granville Academy until he was sixteen, and he then became a clerk in a bookstore in Buffalo, New York. Relocating to San Francisco, California, he managed a bookstore there from March 1852 to 1868, and he began his own publishing house. He also accumulated a great library of historical material, … - Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist at UC Berkeley and the author of "Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject" (2005). In this book she theorizes the concept of habitus from a genealogy that begins with Aristotle and extends into the Islamic tradition. She thinks of ethics as a type of armature that a female subject forms by submitting to body practices. Through these body practices, such as weeping, praying five times a day, attending mosque, … - Harvey Bialy
Harvey Bialy (born New York City, 1945) is an American molecular biologist and AIDS dissident. He was one of the original signatories to the letter establishing the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis, the editor of its first newsletter, and was a member of the controversial South African Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel convened by Thabo Mbeki in 2000. - Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy is a Marxist sociologist, best known as author of "Manufacturing Consent" (a famous study on work and organizations) and as a leading proponent of public sociology. Burawoy was also president of the American Sociological Association in 2004 and is presently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006-2010, he is vice-president for the Committee of National Associations of the International Sociological Association. - Todd Spitzer
Todd Allan Spitzer (born November 26, 1960) is a California politician. A Republican, he currently represents the 71st district in the California State Assembly, serves in the Assembly Republican leadership as Chief Republican Whip, and is the dean of the Orange County Assembly Delegation. Born in Whittier, California, Spitzer earned his B.A. in English at University of California, Los Angeles in 1982, his Master of Public Policy at UC Berkeley in 1989, … - D. A. Miller
D. A. Miller is an American political and literary critic of narrative representation in the novel and in film whose work is centered on the Victorian era. He often takes a Foucaultian or Barthesian approach in his criticism, examining the subtleties of power dynamics and the construction of subjectivity. - Martin Jay
Martin Jay (born 1944) is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual Historian and his research has revolved around Marxism, the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, and other moments and concepts in German History. He received his B.A from Union College in 1965. In 1971, he completed his Ph.D. in History at Harvard under the tutelage of H. Stuart Hughes. - Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (6 September, 1920 – 15 February, 2006) was an American poet and critic most often associated with the New York School. Born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California, Guest earned a B.A. in General Curriculum-Humanities in 1943 at UC Berkeley. She spent years in New York City where she became involved with the New York School Poets. She was also well-known for her book on the poet H.D., … - Vijay Vazirani
Vijay Vazirani received his Bachelor's degree from MIT in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, and is currently McKay Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this he taught algorithms at the undergraduate level as a Professor of Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi during the early to mid nineties.
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