List of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) people

The following is a list of individuals associated with Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.

Notable alumni

Activists

*Bob Avakian, 1960 - head of Revolutionary Communist Party
*John Froines, 1957 - Chicago Seven defendant, state track title team member, UCLA professor
*Bobby Seale - co-founder of the Black Panther Party

Actors

*Robert Culp, 1947 - actor
*Richard Gant, 1961 - television and film actor
*Nina Hartley, 1977 - actress
*Timothy Hutton, 1978 - film and television actor
*Josh Kornbluth, 1975 - Monologist, writer, actor,host of the "The Josh Kornbluth Show"
*Eli Marienthal, 2004 - actor
*Andy Samberg, 1996 - Cast member of" Saturday Night Live"
*Rebecca Romijn, 1990 - actress

Artists

* Ariel Schrag, 1998 - Cartoonist/graphic novelist
*Galen Rowell, 1958 - wilderness photographer and climber

Athletes

*Chidi Ahanotu, 1988 - was an American football defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL.
*Shooty Babitt, 1977 - Major League Baseball Player Oakland A's
*Don Barksdale, 1941 - All-American basketball player at UCLA; first African American on U.S. Olympic basketball team (1948); first African American to play in NBA All-Star Game (1953)
*Glenn Burke, 1970 - baseball player.Cite news |url=http://news.google.com/archivesearch/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=0-0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspaperarchive.com%2Fnewspapers1%2Fna0021%2F2881048%2F15089966.html&ei=6MC9Rf-BJa_mFdL2oakO&usg=__ecqoY5ee3w6KadbE4az1SGajwpc=| title=Basketball remains first love of Dodgers' Burke| date=1977-06-09| accessdate=2007-01-29| last=Zwikel| first=Toby| work=The Valley News (Van Nuys)]
*Phil Chenier - basketball player for the Washington Bullets in the 1970s
*Jack LaLanne, 1935 - fitness educator
*John Lambert - basketball player at U.S.C. and in N.B.A. for multiple teams
*Billy Martin, 1946 - second baseman for five Yankee World Series champs in the 1950s, and manager of four playoff teams, (Twins, Yankees, Detroit, A's) including one championship
*Claudell Washington - baseball outfielder
*Hannibal Navies, 1995 - American football player

Authors, journalists, and poets

*Anastasia M. Ashman, 1982 - author
*Philip K. Dick - author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?," on which the movie "Blade Runner" was based, and many other books
*Sandra Gulland, novelist
*Shelley Jackson - author of "Patchwork Girl."
*Ursula K. Le Guin - science fiction author of the Earthsea series, "The Left Hand of Darkness", and many other books
*Elizabeth Treadwell, 1985 - poet
*Thornton Wilder, c. 1915 - novelist and playwright
*Charlotte Wilder, c. 1915 -poet and sister of Thornton Wilder

Filmmakers

*Katie Galloway, 1989 - film director
*Gregory Hoblit, 1962 - television and film director
*Ian Inaba, 1989 - music video/film director.
*Leah Meyerhoff, 1997 - Student Academy Award nominated filmmaker.
*Dave Meyers, 1990 - music video/film director.
*Michael Ritchie, 1956 - film director

Mathematicians and computer scientists

*Richard Bolt, 1928 - a physics professor at MIT with an interest in acoustics; Created BBN ("Modem" and "e-mail")
*Pei-Yuan Wei, 1986 - (魏培源, pinyin: Wèi Péiyuán), created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers.
*John Brillhart, 1948 - mathematician, author of books on large-number factorization

Military

*Kenneth Cameron, 1946 - U.S. Navy captain and pilot who was a POW in the Vietnam War

Musicians

*Peter Apfelbaum, 1978 - multi-instrumentalist/composer of Hieroglyphics Ensemble
*Ambrose Akinmusire - jazz trumpet player.
*Stephen Bishop, 1958 - classical pianist known as Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich and as Stephen Kovacevich
*Aaron Cometbus - Legendary punk drummer of east bay bands such as Crimpshrine and Pinhead Gunpowder, author of widely acclaimed Cometbus fan zine.
*Benny Green, 1980 - jazz pianist
*Joe and Eddie (Joe Gilbert and Eddie Brown), folk singers
*Phil Lesh, 1957 - Grateful Dead bass player
*Jesse Michaels - son of writer Leonard Michaels, most notably the singer of the East Bay punk band Operation Ivy, Common Rider
*Lenny Pickett - Saturday Night Live Saxophone player
*Thomas Pridgen - Current drummer for The Mars Volta
*Joshua Redman, 1986 - jazz musician
*Geoff Tyson - Acclaimed guitarist and record producer.
*The Pack - some members attended Berkeley High School
*Kyle Vincent - Contemporary pop recording artist/singer-songwriter, producer

Politicians

*Audie Bock, 1963/64?, California politician and film scholar
*Shirley Dean, Berkeley City Council Member 1975-1982 and 1986-1994, and Mayor of Berkeley 1994-2002
*Aaron Peskin, 1982 - President, Board of San Francisco City Supervisors

Notable faculty

* Nancy Rubin - taught the class "Social Living" at Berkeley High from 1977 through 1996. She published a book titled "Ask Me If I Care: Voices from an American High School" by addresses teen social issues and is compiled entirely of journal entires by anonymous Berkeley High School students written during their Social Living classes (a mandatory course at the school). [cite book
title=Ask Me if I Care
last=Rubin
first=Nancy J.
publisher=Ten Speed Press
isbn=978-0898155976
date=1994]
*Marcia Singman - dance teacher (d. 2000) [http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2001-02-22/article/3587?headline=Death-of-dance-teacher-remembered] [http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2000-07-06/article/621?headline=Berkeley-High-principal-reassigned] [http://books.google.com/books?id=1r3RRkafIccC&pg=PA180-IA13&lpg=PA180-IA13&dq=%22Marcia+Singman%22&source=web&ots=aPbzqwHkYQ&sig=nrBzJU6EzCrP4L5wtWQ9rmJnS7s&hl=en] [http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?archiveDate=06-16-00&storyID=461]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.berkeleyalum.org/ Berkeley Alumni Association]
* [http://www.jreeves.com/bhs Class of 1977]
* [http://berkeleyhighalumni.com/index.php/category/classes-of-1970-79/1978 Class of 1978]
* [http://www.98.org/ Class of 1998]