https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_affiliated_with_the_University_of_California,_Berkeley

And that's just the Nobel Prize winners. There are lots more:

John Coolidge Adams – composer
Ben Affleck – actor, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director
Eric Allman – computer programmer, author of sendmail
Mai Kitazawa Arbegast – landscape architect[1]
Billie Joe Armstrong – singer-songwriter, actor, guitarist, and lead singer of the Berkeley-based punk rock band Green Day
Tim Armstrong – member of punk rock bands Rancid, Transplants and Operation Ivy
Anastasia Ashman – writer and producer
Craig Barron – filmmaker and visual effects supervisor
Lowell Bergman – television journalist, former producer of 60 Minutes
Elmer Bischoff – painter
Justina Blakeney – designer and author
Harrod Blank – documentary filmmaker and son of Les Blank
Les Blank – documentary filmmaker
Emit Bloch – songwriter, guitarist, journalist
Bruce Bolt – seismologist
Jeff Borowiak, – tennis player
Richard Bozulich – journalist, author, publisher, go expert
Marion Zimmer Bradley – author
Lenni Brenner – author, lecturer
David Brower – environmentalist
Jerry Brown – former Mayor of Oakland and long-time Governor of California since 2011; previously served 1975-1983
Peter Buck – guitarist for R.E.M.
John Buckman – internet entrepreneur
Ernest Callenbach – environmentalist, author of Ecotopia
Fritjof Capra – author of The Tao of Physics
Emilio Castillo – musician
Michael Chabon – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Sheldon Warren Cheney – author and art critic
Alan Chin – artist
Frank Chin – author
John Cipollina – guitarist, Quicksilver Messenger Service
Eldridge Cleaver – political activist
Daniel Clowes – cartoonist
Aaron Cometbus – documentarian of the Punk rock music world
Tre Cool – drummer of the band Green Day
Francis Ford Coppola – Academy Award-winning producer, director and screenwriter; vintner
A. Scott Crossfield – aviator
Robert Crumb – cartoonist
Robert Culp – actor
Augusta Dabney – actress
Jay DeFeo – painter
Rosebud Denovo, People's Park activist killed by police
Philip K. Dick – author
Richard Diebenkorn – painter
Mike Dirnt – bassist of Green Day
Rockmond Dunbar – actor
Robert Duncan – poet
Adam Duritz – singer/songwriter, Counting Crows
Dave Eggers – writer
Daniel Ellsberg – military analyst, publisher of Pentagon Papers
John Fahey – guitarist
Philo T. Farnsworth all-electronic television inventor
John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
C.S. Forester – author, Horatio Hornblower series and The African Queen
Gabriela Lena Frank – Grammy-winning composer, Grammy-nominated pianist
Rodney Franklin – jazz pianist
Matt Freeman – member of punk rock bands Rancid and Operation Ivy
John Gage – one of the founders of Sun Microsystems
David E. Garfin – scientist
Allen Ginsberg – poet
Whoopi Goldberg – Academy Award-winning actress and TV personality
Karen Grassle – actress
Benny Green – jazz pianist
Chick Hafey – baseball Hall of Famer
Mark Hamill – actor, voice actor, and writer, Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars series of movies
Nina Hartley – pornographic actress
Glenn Hauser – DXer
Davey Havok – singer for AFI
Patty Hearst – newspaper heiress and kidnap victim
Michael Heizer – earth artist, sculptor
Julie Heldman (born 1945) - tennis player
Stanley Hiller – helicopter pioneer
Gregory Hoblit – film and television director
Hans Hofmann – painter, teacher
Joseph Holmes – landscape photographer
Ken Hom – chef
David Horowitz – 1960s radical turned conservative activist
Eddie House — NBA player
Wayne Hsiung - animal rights activist and co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere
Charlie Hunter – jazz musician
David Immerglόck – guitarist, Counting Crows
Ishi – last of the Yahi
Helen Jacobs (1908–1997) - tennis player
Candido Jacuzzi – inventor of submersible pump
Ynez Johnston – painter, sculptor, printmaker and born in Berkeley.[2]
June Jordan – poet, novelist, journalist, activist
Bill Joy – developer of BSD UNIX and co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Pauline Kael – film critic
Theodore Kaczynski – aka the Unabomber
Scott Hamilton Kennedy Oscar Nominated Documentary Filmmaker
Wasiullah Khan – founder of East-West University
Molly Katzen – cookbook author, chef
William Keith – landscape artist
Josh Kornbluth – monologist and talk show host
KSHMR – EDM producer and DJ
Stephen "Doc" Kupka – musician
Brad Lackey – professional motocross racer
Jack LaLanne – health and fitness enthusiast
Ronnie Landfield – painter
Dorothea Lange – photographer
Ursula K. Le Guin – author
Timothy Leary – LSD researcher and promoter
Phil Lesh – Grateful Dead bassist
Wendy Lesser – editor and critic
Michael Lewis – author
Marshawn Lynch – NFL Football player for the Oakland Raiders (formerly for the Seattle Seahawks)
Larry Livermore – writer, musician, founder of Lookout Records
Brandon McCartney (Lil B or the BasedGod) – rapper, record producer, author, activist and motivational speaker
Country Joe McDonald – singer/songwriter, and activist
Joanna Macy – writer, translator of Rainer Maria Rilke
Billy Martin – baseball player and manager
Andrew Martinez – social activist
Ed Masuga – singer, musician, and songwriter
Dylan Mattingly – composer
Dave Mello – drummer for ska punk band Operation Ivy
Bob Melvin (born 1961) – Major League Baseball player and manager
Jesse Michaels – ska punk singer/songwriter for Operation Ivy and Common Rider
Czesław Miłosz – poet, Nobel Prize winner in literature
Norman Mineta – US Transportation Secretary
Roger Montgomery – urban designer, architect, Dean University of California, Berkeley
Wes Montgomery – jazz guitarist
Gordon Moore – co-founder of Intel
Rita Moreno – actress, dancer; Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award winner
Markos Moulitsas – blogger, author
Walter Murray – gridiron football player
Sam Nahem (1915–2004) – Major League Baseball pitcher
Huey P. Newton – member of Black Panther Party
Nick 13 – vocalist, guitarist
Adm. Chester Nimitz – Supreme Allied Commander Pacific Theater, World War II
Joaquin Nin-Culmell – UC professor (emeritis), composer, brother of Anaοs Nin
Frank Norris – author of The Octopus
Lisa Onodera – film producer, Picture Bride, The Debut, Americanese
Robert Oppenheimer – scientist and head of the Manhattan Project
The Pack – rap group
Michael Parenti – political analyst, author, lecturer, professor
Gwydion Pendderwen – born Thomas deLong, American Wiccan folk singer
Mariko Peters – Dutch politician and lawyer
Lenny Pickett – Saturday Night Live band leader, saxophone player
Paul Pierce – former NBA Basketball player for the Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets, Washington Wizards, and the Los Angeles Clippers
Michael Pollan – author
Jamieson Price – voice actor
Richard Pryor – comedian, actor
Joshua Redman – jazz saxophonist
Peter Reginato – sculptor
Robert Reich – politician, academic, writer, and political commentator
Malvina Reynolds – singer, songwriter
Friend Richardson – Governor of California, 1923-1926
Nicole Richie – socialite, reality TV personality
Michael Ritchie – film director
Rosalie Ritz – courtroom artist, reporter
Terrell Roberts – NFL player
Rebecca Romijn – model, actress
Galen Rowell – photographer, writer
Jerry Rubin – social activist, Yippie
Andy Samberg – actor, Saturday Night Live comedian
Joe Satriani – heavy metal/hard rock guitarist and teacher
Mario Savio – 1960s Free Speech Movement icon
Akiva Schaffer – director and songwriter of The Lonely Island
Zahara Schatz – sculptor, artist
Eric Schmidt – ex-CEO of Google
Bobby Seale – co-founder, Black Panther Party
Charles Seeger – UC musicologist, pacifist, and father of folk singer Pete Seeger
Nancy Selvin – sculptor
Tessa Seymour – cellist
Jeremy Shafer – origami artist
Sam Shankland – chess player
Cindy Sheehan – anti-war activist
Izzy Sher – sculptor
Margaret Singer – clinical psychologist, professor at UC Berkeley
Alex Skolnick – jazz and metal guitarist, writer
Tabitha Soren – MTV News reporter
Jeff Stevens – Major League Baseball pitcher[3]
George R. Stewart – author of Earth Abides and Storm
Chris Strachwitz – founder of Arhoolie Records
Asa Taccone – founder and lead singer of band Electric Guest
Jorma Taccone – actor and director
Chris Tashima – actor and filmmaker
Edward Teller – nuclear physicist, developer of thermonuclear weapons
Chang-Lin Tien – 8th Chancellor of University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major United States university
Adrian Tomine – cartoonist
Phil Tippett – Academy Award-winning special effects artist
Amani Toomer – wide receiver for the New York Giants
Laura Tyson – economist and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors
Sasha Velour – drag queen
Kyle Vincent – singer, songwriter, author
Peter Voulkos – ceramist, sculptor
Jay Ward – creator of animated TV series Crusader Rabbit, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and George of the Jungle
Alice Waters – restaurateur, chef, and activist
Wavy Gravy – professional clown, activist, Hog Farm founder
Thornton Wilder – playwright, Our Town
Sean Williams – professor of ethnomusicology
Helen Wills – tennis champion
Pete Wilson – former governor of California
Dave Winer – software developer and entrepreneur
Charlie Winton – publisher
Steve Wozniak – engineer and entrepreneur, Apple Inc. co-founder
Daniel Wu – Hong Kong actor
Janet Yellen – Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Clement C. Young – Progressive Governor of California, 1927–1931
Saul Zaentz – film and music producer
Rami Zur – Olympic sprint canoer
Daniel Kahneman – Economist and Psychologist