Pink Man

Pink Man

male
Oakland, San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley, From San Francisco, Unicycling, impromptu
Pink Man (real name: Michael Maxfield) is a local celebrity from the San Francisco Bay Area, although his hometown is Leominster, Massachusetts. He...
Hans Jenny

Hans Jenny

male, deceased (1992)
University of Missouri–Columbia, University of Missouri–Columbia faculty, University of Missouri, pedologist, Pedology, The Soil Resource, Origin and Behaviour…University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley
Hans Jenny was a soil scientist and expert on pedology (study of soil resources), particularly the processes of soil formation. Hans Jenny was born...

Henry Durant

male, deceased (1875)
University of California, Yale University alumni, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, College of California
Henry Durant was the founding president of the University of California. Trained at Phillips Academy, Andover, and the Andover Theological...
Robert McAfee Brown

Robert McAfee Brown

male, deceased (2001)
minister, Stanford University, Presbyterian, Heath, Amherst College, American anti-Vietnam War activist…Berkeley
Robert McAfee Brown (born 28 May 1920 Carthage, Illinois, died 4 September 2001 near Heath, Massachusetts) was an American theologian and activist....
Jeff Ott

Jeff Ott

male
Basic Radio, Punk rock musician, punk rock, punk, Berkeley, Crimpshrine
Jeff Ott is an activist, musician, author, and longtime member of the Berkeley punk community, having fronted such seminal bands as Crimpshrine,...
Charles Jordan

Charles Jordan

male, deceased (1944)
magician, American, Berkeley, Charles Thorton Jordan, Thirty Card Mysteries, Jordan Count
Charles Thorton Jordan (born on October 1 1888 in Berkeley, California - 1944) was a magician. In 1919 he published a book on card magic entitled...
Andrew Joron

Andrew Joron

male
poet, science fiction writer, American, Berkeley, Gertrude Stein Award, experimental poetry
Andrew Joron is an American writer of experimental poetry. He currently lives in Berkeley, California. He has won the Rhysling Award three times:...
John Thow

John Thow

male
University of Southern California, Frank Salazar, Chumash Songs, John Holland Thow, Earl Kim, Rome Prize…Berkeley
John Holland Thow American composer John Thow produced an extensive and diverse body of work comprising solo, chamber, vocal, choral, operatic and...
Arthur M. Young

Arthur M. Young

male, deceased (1995)
inventor, Process philosophy, Arthur Middleton Young, Consciousness studies, Bell Helicopter, Amateur Radio…Berkeley
Arthur Middleton Young (November 3, 1905, Paris, France-May 30, 1995, Berkeley, California) was inventor of the Bell helicopter, as well as a...
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

male, 90 years old
Matteucci Medal, Wolfgang K.H. "Pief" Panofsky, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, National Medal of Science recipient, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center…Berkeley
Wolfgang K.H. "Pief" Panofsky (born April 24 1919), a German-American physicist, was born the son of a renowned art historian named Erwin Panofsky....