This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year.
Notable faculty members are in the article List of UC Berkeley faculty.
Founders and co-founders
Tom Anderson, B.A. 1998 – co-founder of social networking website MySpace (acquired by News Corporation for $580 million) Brian Behlendorf – co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, Mozilla Foundation board member, co-founder and CTO of CollabNet Joan Blades, B.A. 1977 – co-founder of software company Berkeley Systems (acquired by Sierra Online for $13 million), co-founder of political activist group MoveOn.org Richard C. Blum, B.S. 1958, M.B.A. 1959 – founder of private equity firm Blum Capital and the American Himalayan Foundation, Regent of the University of California Richard Bolt, B.A. 1933, M.A. 1937, PhD 1939 – co-founder of ARPANET developer Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) Eric Brewer, B.S. EECS 1989 – co-founder of web search engine company Inktomi (acquired by Yahoo! for $235 million), director of Intel Labs Berkeley; lead researcher at Google Gary Chevsky, attended for undergraduate degree 1990–1994 – co-founder and chief architect of web search engine company Ask Jeeves (known now as Ask.com, and acquired by InterActive Corp for $1.9 billion), Senior VP at Symantec and YouSendIt Frederick Gardner Cottrell, B.S. Chemistry, 1896 – founder of patent holding company Research Corporation (which held the rights to the patent for Ernest O. Lawrence's cyclotron); inventor of the electrostatic precipitator, which removes pollution from factory exhaust fumes; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1992 E. Morris Cox, B.S. 1924 – cofounder of Dodge & Cox investment management firm Ed Crane, B.S. 1967 – founder of the Cato Institute David Culler, B.A. 1980 – Chair of the Department of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, associate Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley), and Associate CIO of the College of Engineering (UC Berkeley); co-founder of smart grid monitoring company Arch Rock (acquired by Cisco Systems) Weili Dai, B.A. Computer Science 1984 – co-founder (with Sehat Sutardja MS 1983, PhD 1988 EECS and Pantas Sutardjai MS 1983, PhD 1988) of NASDAQ-100 broadband technology company Marvell Technology Group; namesake of Sutardja-Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus Lee Felsenstein, B.S. EECS 1972 – founder of Community Memory, designer of Osborne 1 computer, mediator of Homebrew Computer Club, from which would emerge 23 companies, including Apple Inc. Charles H. Ferguson, B.A. 1978 – co-founder of Vermeer Technologies Incorporated (acquired by Microsoft for $133 million), founder and president of Representational Pictures, winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary for Inside Job (2010), Academy Award nomination for the documentary film No End in Sight (2007), former fellow at the Brookings Institution, lifelong member of the Council on Foreign Relations (also listed in "Academy Awards" section) Donald Fisher, B.S. 1951 – founder and former CEO of NYSE-listed S&P 500 clothing retailer The Gap, the largest apparel retailer in the United States Rob Fulop, B.S. CS 1980 – co-founder of video game companies Imagic and PF Magic (creator of first virtual pets such as Dogz), Atari engineer, developed Missile Command and Night Driver Jean Paul Getty (attended and transferred to the University of Oxford) – founder of the Getty Oil Company Steve Gibson (attended) – founder of software security company Gibson Research Corporation and co-host of Security Now! Edward Ginzton, B.S. 1936, M.S. 1937 – researcher in klystron tubes, co-founder of Varian Associates (which later split into three companies: NYSE-listed Varian Medical Systems; Varian Semiconductor, acquired by Applied Materials for $4.9 billion; and Varian, Inc., acquired for 1.5 billion by Agilent Technologies) Diane Greene, M.S. CS 1988 – co-founder (with Mendel Rosenblum M.S. 1989, PhD 1992 and Edward Wang BS EECS 1983, MS 1988, PhD 1994) of NYSE-listed company VMWare Garrett Gruener, M.A. Political Science 1977 – co-founder of web search engine company Ask Jeeves (known now as Ask.com, and acquired by InterActive Corp for $1.9 billion) Ashraf Habibullah, S.E., M.S. 1970 – co-creator of the first computer-based structural-engineering applications and founder, President, and CEO of the structural-engineering software company Computers and Structures, Inc. John Hanke, M.B.A. 1996 – founder and CEO of Keyhole, Inc. (acquired by Google, renamed to Google Earth); founder of video game company Niantic (which created Pokémon Go) William Harlan, B.A.