Cal Alumni Clubs of the Los Angeles Area

I'd like to meet:

Well, Tom is one of our most famous Berkeley alumni in Los Angeles!

However, I'd love to meet you at one of our mixers or socials all across the Los Angeles area! Visit the West Los Angeles Club or the San Gabriel Valley Club websites, or take a look at the current West Los Angeles or San Gabriel Valley calendars!

EVENTS:
Recent events include wine tasting, trips to the Getty, volunteering to build wheelchairs for Wheels for Humanity, volunteering time for Reading to Kids, dinners and happy hours all across Los Angeles, working with Sierra Club to help clean the wetlands, Sake Tasting in Beverly Hills, Hollywood Bowl for The Sound of Music, MANY Cal Football viewing parties, Hollyhock House Docent tour, cooking for the homeless at epath, a tour of the Ansel Adams exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum, mixers with Stanfurd and more events than you can shake a stick at!

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Movies:

We have a soft spot for The Graduate.

Pirates of Silicon Valley, Congo, Van Wilder, The Andromeda Strain, Colossus: The Forbin Project, Junior, Forrest Gump, Legally Blond, Made in America, Who'll Stop the Rain and the Hulk

Books:

Heroes:

* Tom Anderson, B.A. 1998 - creator and founding member of MySpace (sold to News Corporation for $580 million)
* George Takei, 1959 (attended, later transferred to UCLA) - actor (Star Trek)
* Jerry Mathers, B.A. 1974 - actor (Leave it to Beaver)
* John Cho, B.A. 1996 - actor (American Pie [1999], Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle [2004])
* Masayoshi Son, B.A. 1980 - Founder and CEO of Softbank Capital
* Sadako Ogata, Ph.D. 1963 - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1991-2001)
* Gordon E. Moore, B.S. 1950 - Co-founder of Intel and the originator of Moore's Law
* Steve Wozniak, Class of 1976, graduated B.S. 1986 - Co-founder of Apple Computer, member of the National Academy of Engineering
* Andrew Grove, Ph.D. 1963 - 4th employee of Intel, and eventually its President, CEO, and Chairman, and TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1997
* Allan Alcorn, 1971 - Atari employee #3, electronics designer behind Atari's seminal PONG video arcarde unit, and erstwhile boss of Steve Jobs at Atari
* Thomas Cech, Ph.D. 1975 - Nobel laureate (1989, Chemistry)
* Steven Chu, Ph.D. 1976 - Nobel laureate (1997, Physics)
* Robert Curl, Ph.D. 1957- Nobel laureate (1996, Chemistry)
* Joseph Erlanger, B.S. 1895 - Nobel laureate (1944, Physiology or Medicine)
* Andrew Fire, B.A. 1978 - Nobel laureate (2006, Physiology or Medicine)
* William F. Giauque, B.S. 1920, Ph.D. 1922 - Nobel laureate (1949, Chemistry)
* Kathy Baker, B.A. 1977 - three-time Emmy Award winning actress (Picket Fences [TV series, 1992-1996)]; The Right Stuff [1983], Edward Scissorhands [1990], The Cider House Rules [1999], Cold Mountain [2003])
* Bill Bixby (attended) - director, actor (The Incredible Hulk)
* Golden Brooks, B.A. 1994 - film and television actress; currently appears on UPN sitcom, Girlfriends; studied literature and sociology with an emphasis on media representation of minorities at UC Berkeley
* John Cheng, 1996 - producer, Code Name: The Cleaner
* Jeff Cohen, B.S. 1996 - former actor (Chunk in The Goonies); currently entertainment lawyer
* Roxann Dawson, B.A. 1980 - actress, director, author, playwright
* Ralph Edwards, B.A. 1935 - national television host and producer
* Jon Else, B.A. 1968 - Prix Italia winner (The Day After Trinity), Emmy Award winner, nominated twice for the Academy Award, 1999 winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's Trophy, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, cinematographer on the Academy Award winning Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, professor of journalism at UC Berkeley
* Carl Franklin, B.A. 1971 - film director (One False Move [1992], Devil in a Blue Dress [1995], High Crimes [2002], Out of Time [2003])
* Takashi Fujimoto, B.A. 1962 - Cinematographer and director of photography; Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 1991 for work on Silence of the Lambs, National Society of Film Critics Award in 1996 for Devil in a Blue Dress
* Peter Gethers (attended 1970-1972) - screenwriter and author of bestselling Norton the cat trilogy
* Amos Gitai, Ph.D. (Architecture) 1986 - Israeli film director (Field Diary [1982], Eden [2001], Free Zone [2005])
* Karen Grassle, B.A. 1965 - actress, best known for her role as Caroline Ingalls (the mother) on the Little House on the Prairie television series
* William Hung (attended) - rejected singer from American Idol, acted in film My Crazy Mother (2004), cameo on Arrested Development
* Oren Jacob, B.S. 1992, M.S. 1995 - Pixar Animation Studios technical director
* Stacy Keach, B.A. 1963 - actor
* Adam Lamberg (Class of 2006) - actor (Lizzie McGuire Movie)
* Sanaa Lathan, B.A. 1992 - actress (Blade [1998], Something New [2006]; Tony Award nomination [2004], Raisin in the Sun)
* Audry Lederer, B.A. 1981 - screenwriter (The Truth about Cats and Dogs)
* Quentin Lee, B.A. 1992 - Asian-American film director (Shopping for Fangs [1997], Drift [2001], Ethan Mao [2004])
* Joshua Marston, B.A. 1990 - film director (Maria Full of Grace [2004])
* Quinn Martin, B.A. 1949 - television producer (The Fugitive, Streets of San Francisco)
* Freida Lee Mock, B.A. 1961 - documentary filmmaker, winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1995 (for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision)
* Errol Morris (attended philosophy graduate program) - documentary film director (The Thin Blue Line [1988], Fog of War [2003])
* Gregory Peck, B.A. 1939 - actor, won the Academy Award for portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), nominated for the Oscar four other times; served as president of the Screen Actors Guild
* Walter Plunkett, B.A. 1923 - Academy Award winning costume designer
* James Schamus, B.A. 1982, M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 2003 - screenwriter and movie producer known for his frequent collaborations with Ang Lee on movies (Eat Drink Man Woman, The Wedding Banquet, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain), professor at Columbia University
* Andrew Schneider, B.A. 19?? - screenwriter and executive producer, co-winner of an Emmy Award in 1992 for Northern Exposure
* Randi Mayem Singer, B.A. 1979 - writer and producer, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jack and Jill.
* Brian Barish, B.A. 1991 - president of the investment firm Cambiar Investors, LLC.
* Bengt Baron, B.S. 1985, M.B.A. 1988 - CEO of V&S Group (Stockholm, Sweden); former CEO of Absolut Vodka; 1980 Summer Olympics Gold Medalist in 100m Men's Backstroke
* Stephen D. Bechtel, 1954 (honorary) - Founder of Bechtel Corporation
* Nicholas Benjamin, 2005 - Co-founder of TDink Magazine
* Jeffrey Berg, B.A. 1969, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of International Creative Management, member of the board of directors at Oracle Corporation, President of the Executive Board of the College of Letters and Sciences
* Joan Blades, B.A. 1977 - Co-founder of After Dark "flying-toaster" screensaver company Berkeley Systems, co-founder of MoveOn.org
* Stewart Blusson, Ph.D. 1964 - multimillionaire diamond magnate (Ekati Diamond Mine) and philanthropist
* Richard C. Blum, B.S., M.B.A. 1959 - investment banker (Blum Capital Partners), founder of the American Himalayan Foundation, Regent of the University of California
* Weili Dai, B.A. Computer Science 1984 - Co-founder of broadband firm Marvell Technology Group
* Barbara J. Desoer - Global Technology, Service and Fulfillment Executive at Bank of America Corporation
* Patricia Dunn, B.A. 1975 - Chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard
* Charles H. Ferguson, B.A. 1978 - Co-founder and CEO of Vermeer Technologies Incorporated (original creator of Microsoft FrontPage)
* Donald Fisher, B.S. 1951 - Founder and Chair, The Gap
* Jean Paul Getty (transferred to the University of Oxford)
* Timothy Guertin, B.S. c. 1971? - President and Chief Executive Officer of Varian Medical Systems
* Walter A. Haas, B.S. 1910 - Co-founder of Levi Strauss & Co.
* William Randolph Hearst, Jr. (attended) - newspaper publisher
* Paul E. Jacobs, B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986, Ph.D 1989 - CEO of Qualcomm
* Edgar F. Kaiser, 1930 - Founder of Kaiser Permanente
* Pradman Kaul, B.S. 1968, M.S. 1968 - Chairman and CEO of Hughes Network Systems, member of the National Academy of Engineering
* Michael C. Kavanaugh, B.S. 1961, M.S. 1974 - Vice-President of the environmental engineering firm of Malcolm Pirnie, member of the National Academy of Engineering
* John W. Kercheval,III, BS 1987, MBA 1993- Prominent Financier and Professor
* David C. Lee, B.A. 2002 - Founder of TDink Magazine
* Howard Lincoln, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1965 - former Chairman of Nintendo of America, Chairman and CEO of the Seattle Mariners
* Daniel S. Loeb, hedge fund manager
* Thomas J. Long, B.S. 1932 - Founder of Longs Drugs
* Hong Llang Lu, B.S. 1978 - Founder and CEO of billion-dollar Fortune 1000 company UTStarcom
* Bob Lutz, B.S. 1961, M.B.A. 1962 - GM Vice Chairman, Product Development, and Chairman, GM North America, former Vice Chairman for Chrysler
* Brian Maxwell, B.A. 1975 - Founder of PowerBar
* Teresa Meng, M.S. 1984, Ph.D. 1988 - Founder of Atheros Communications
* Michael Milken, B.S. 1968 - Financier, Drexel Burnham Lambert, philanthropist
* Michael Olson, B.A. 1991, M.A. 1992 - CEO of Sleepycat Software, one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB
* Paul Otellini, M.B.A. 1974 - CEO of Intel (2005-present)
* Denny Parker, B.S. 1965, M.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1970 - Senior Vice-President, Brown and Caldwell; member of the National Academy of Engineering
* Robert S. Pepper, B.S. 1957, M.S. 1959, Ph.D. 1961 - Founder and CEO of Level One Semiconductor
* Ryan Petersen - Co-founder, Faculty Imports
* Martin P. Rex - B.S. 1966, Co-founder, Mountain High Ice Cream and Yoghurt Co., Denver, CO; General Manager, Deerfield Ranch Winery, Kenwood, CA
* John Riccitiello, B.S. 1981 - managing director and co-founder of Elevation Partners; former president and chief operating officer (October 1997 to April 2004) of Electronic Arts; former President and Chief Executive Officer, Bakery Division, at Sara Lee; former President and Chief Executive Officer of Wilson Sporting Goods
* Arun Sarin, M.S. 1978, M.B.A. 1978 - CEO of London-based Vodafone (2003-present)
* John Schaeffer, 1971 - Founder of ecologically-friendly Real Goods solar energy store and the Solar Living Center
* John Scharffenberger, 1973 - namesake and co-founder of chocolate company "Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker" (acquired by Hershey's)
* Jim Simons, Ph.D. 1972 - mathematician, philanthropist, founder of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies
* Paul Stephens, B.S. 1967, M.B.A. 1969 - Investment banker, co-founder of Robertson Stephens & Company
* George Strompolos - Co-founder, Faculty Imports
* Sehat Sutardja, M.S. 1983, Ph.D. 1988 EECS - Co-founder of broadband firm Marvell Technology Group
* Pantas Sutardja, B.S. 1983, M.S. 1985, Ph.D. 1988 EECS - Co-founder of Marvell Technology Group
* Theodore Van Zelst, B.S. 1944 - Co-founder of Soiltest (testing company for soil, rock, concrete, and asphalt), recipient of the 1988 ASCE's "Chicago Engineer of the Year" award, developed the swing-wing design that allows supersonic aircraft to exceed the sound barrier, developed the first mobile baggage inspection unit, and developed lunar construction and soil testing for humankind's first steps on the moon.
* Cher Wang - Chair of VIA Technologies
* Ralph Warner (Law, ca. 1966) - pioneer in the legal self-help book industry, founder of Nolo Press
* Dean Witter, 1909 - Co-founder and Partner, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
* Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, B.A. 1950 - President of Pakistan (1971-1973), Prime Minister of Pakistan (1973-1977)
* Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands (Laurentien Brinkhorst), M.Jour. 1991 - Princess of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands; wife of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands and daughter of the Dutch minister of Economic Affairs, Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst and Jantien Brinkhorst-Heringa
* Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau (attended College of Engineering 1986-1988) - Prince of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands; second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Prince Claus von Amsberg
* Sun Ke, B.A. 1916 - Premier of the Republic of China, President of National Chiao Tung University, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Soochow University
* Francisco I. Madero (attended 1892-1893) - President of Mexico (1911-1913)
* Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway, B.A. 1999 - heir to the throne of Norway
* Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1966 - President of Costa Rica (1998-2002)
* James H. Budd, 1873 - Governor of California
* Edmund G. Jerry Brown Jr., B.A. 1961 - Governor of California, Mayor of Oakland, California
* John Morton Eshleman, B.A. 1903, M.A. 1905 - Lieutenant Governor of California (1915-1916)
* Walter A. Gordon, B.A. 1918, J.D. 1922 - Governor of the Virgin Islands, judge, member of National Football Foundation Hall of Fame
* Jennifer Granholm, B.A. 1984 - Governor of Michigan (2003-present), first female to hold this position in the state of Michigan
* James Soong, M.A. 1967 - Governor of Taiwan Province
* Marcelo Trivelli, M.B.A. 1980 - Governor (Intendente) of Santiago, Chile
* Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, J.D. 1914 - Attorney General of California, 1939-1943; Governor of California, 1943-1953; 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953-1969
* Pete Wilson, J.D. 1962 - U.S. Senator, Governor of California
* John Kenneth Galbraith, M.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1934 - Harvard Professor Emeritus of Economics; Ambassador to India
* March Fong Eu, B.S. 1943 - former California Secretary of State, former US Ambassador to Micronesia, mother of Matt Fong, another noted Chinese-American politician
* Philip Habib, Ph.D. 1952 - U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East
* James D. Zellerbach, 1913 - United States Ambassador to Italy
* Zoe Baird, B.A. 1974, J.D. 1977 - attorney, President of Markle Foundation; nominated by President Clinton for United States Attorney General post
* Melvin Belli, J.D. 1929 - attorney
* Bill Lockyer, B.A. 1965 - California Attorney General (1999-present)
* Edwin Meese III, J.D. 1958 - United States Attorney General (1985-1988)
* Theodore Olson, J.D. 1965 - United States Solicitor General (2001-2004)
* Larry Sonsini, B.A. 1963, J.D. 1966 - Chair of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Silicon Valley law firm)
* Michael Tigar, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1966 - prominent litigator whose clients have included the Chicago Seven and Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols; Research Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University
* Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, J.D. 1914 - Attorney General of California, 1939-1943; 1943-1953 (also listed under Governors section and Justices section)
* Richard Bolt B.A. 1933, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1939 - Professor at MIT and Internet pioneer and businessman, founder of the groundbreaking computer company Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN)
* Gary Chevsky - Co-founder of Ask.com, where he served as the chief software architect of its natural language processing search engine
* George Crow, B.S. EE 1966 - one of the original computer hardware designers of the Apple Macintosh
* Kevin Donelly, B.S. EECS 1985 - Vice-President of Engineering at Rambus
* Lee Felsenstein, B.S. EECS 1972 - pioneer in the personal computer industry, founder of Community Memory, designer of the Osborne 1 computer, and influential leading mediator of the Homebrew Computer Club, from which would emerge 23 companies, including Apple Computer
* Charles Giancarlo, M.S. EECS 1980 - Chief Development Officer of Cisco Systems [5]
* Steve Gibson (attended) [6] - Founder of Gibson Research Corporation and co-host of Security Now!
* Eugene Jarvis, B.S. EECS 1976 - creator of the classic Defender video arcade game
* Lynne Greer Jolitz, B.A. 1989 - co-author, with husband William Jolitz, of 386BSD, which is the ancestor of FreeBSD, which in turn is an ancestor of Apple's Darwin operating system
* William Jolitz, B.A. 1997 - co-author, with wife Lynne Greer Jolitz, of 386BSD
* Bill Joy, M.S. 1982 - Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
* Özalp Babaoglu, Ph.D. 1981 - principal designer of BSD Unix - currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bologna, Italy
* E. Floyd Kvamme, B.S. EECS 1959 - Venture capitalist Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers [7]
* Barbara Liskov, B.A. 1961 - first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science (in 1968 at Stanford), creator of CLU, professor at MIT
* Peter Merholz, B.A. 1993 - coined the term "blog"
* Jay Miner, 1959 - inventor of the Amiga personal computer
* Eric E. Schmidt, M.S. 1979, Ph.D. 1982 - CEO of Google (2001-present)
* Charles Simonyi, B.S. 1972 - computer scientist. At Xerox PARC, he created the first WYSIWYG word processor, Bravo, then joined Microsoft to spread the WYSIWYG and computer mouse gospel. Originally from Hungary, he is the "Hungarian" in Hungarian notation, which he created
* Lucy Suchman, B.A. 1972, M.A. 1977, Ph.D. 1984 - Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University (UK); former research anthropologist at Xerox PARC and pioneer of human-computer interaction studies; author of Plans and Situated Actions (1987); awarded 2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science
* Andrew Tanenbaum, Ph.D. 1971 - computer scientist and creator of Minix, the precursor to Linux
* William Yeager, B.A. 1964 - author of the first multiple-protocol router software, which comprised the core of the first Cisco Systems IOS
* David Gross, Ph.D. 1966 - Nobel laureate (2004, Physics)
* Alan Heeger, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (2000, Chemistry)
* Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. 1961 - Nobel laureate (2002, Economics)
* Lawrence Klein, B.A. 1942 - Nobel laureate (1980, Economics)
* Willis Lamb, B.S. 1934, Ph.D. 1938 - Nobel laureate (1955, Physics)
* Robert Laughlin, B.A. 1972 [1] - Nobel laureate (1998, Physics)
* Yuan T. Lee, Ph.D. 1962 - Nobel laureate (1986, Chemistry), Professor of Chemistry, Principal Investigator, Materials and Molecular Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
* Willard Libby, B.S. 1931, Ph.D. 1933 - Professor of Chemistry, Nobel laureate (1960, Chemistry)
* John C. Mather, Ph.D. 1974 - Nobel laureate (2006, Physics)
* Mario Molina, Ph.D. 1972- Nobel laureate (1995, Chemistry)
* Kary Mullis, Ph.D. 1973 - Nobel laureate (1993, Chemistry)
* Douglass North, B.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1952- Nobel laureate (1993, Economics)
* Thomas Schelling, B.A. 1944 - Nobel laureate (2005, Economics)
* Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D. 1937 - Nobel laureate (1951, Chemistry), University Professor of Chemistry, Associate Director, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Chancellor, Berkeley campus (1958-1961)
* Hamilton Smith, B.A. 1952 - Nobel laureate (1978, Physiology or Medicine)
* Otto Stern, L.L.D 1930 - Nobel laureate (1943, Nobel Prize in Physics)
* Henry Taube, Ph.D. 1940 - Nobel laureate (1983, Chemistry )
* Harold Urey, Ph.D. 1923 - Nobel laureate (1934, Chemistry)
* Selman Waksman, Ph.D. 1918 - Nobel laureate (1952, Physiology or Medicine)