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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
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
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.[1]
- Phil Chenier - basketball player for the Washington Bullets in the 1970s
- Jack LaLanne, 1935 - fitness educator
- John Lambert - basketball player at USC and in NBA for multiple teams
- Billy Martin, 1946 - second baseman for five New York Yankees World Series teams 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
- Steve Odom, American Football Player - Wide Receiver Green Bay Packers 1974 - 1977
Authors, journalists, and poets
Filmmakers
Mathematicians and computer scientists
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, 2000 - 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.
- Steve Gaboury - (pianist) session musician, music director for Cyndi Lauper.
- Benny Green, 1980 - jazz pianist
- Joe and Eddie (Joe Gilbert and Eddie Brown), folk singers
- Phil Lesh, 1957 - Grateful Dead bass player
- David Margen - bass guitar Carlos Santana
- 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). [2]
- Marcia Singman - dance teacher (d. 2000)[1][2][3][4]
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