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> [en.wikipedia.org]
> tes_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


Who lot of Hollyweird crazy on that list.