This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year.

Notable faculty members are in the article List of UC Berkeley faculty.

Royalty

Haakon VIII, B.A. 1999 – King of Norway Prince 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 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

Heads of state or government

Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, B.A. 1882 – President of Colombia (1922–1926) Francisco I. Madero (attended 1892–1893) – President of Mexico (1911–1913) Sun Fo, B.A. 1916 – Premier of the Republic of China, president of National Chiao Tung University, chairman of the board of trustees of Soochow University Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, B.A. 1950 – President of Pakistan (1971–1973), Prime Minister of Pakistan (1973–1977), father of Benazir Bhutto Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1966 – President of Costa Rica (1998–2002) Andrej Bajuk, M.S. 1972 – Prime Minister of Slovenia Ruhakana Rugunda, M.S. 1977 – Prime Minister of Uganda

Governors Edmund G. Brown Jr., B.A. 1961 – Governor of California C.C. Young, B.L. 1892 – Governor of California James H. Budd, A.B. 1873 – Governor of California John Morton Eshleman, B.A. 1903, M.A. 1905 – Lieutenant Governor of California (1915–1916) John Garamendi, BA 1966 – Lieutenant Governor of California (2007–2009) Neil Goldschmidt, J.D. 1967 – Governor of Oregon (1987–1991) Walter A. Gordon, B.A. 1918, J.D. 1922 – University of California's first All-American, first African American graduate of Berkeley Law, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, Federal District Judge, member of National Football Foundation Hall of Fame Jennifer Granholm, B.A. 1984, J.D. – Governor of Michigan (2003–2011), first woman to hold this position in the state of Michigan; instructor at UC Berkeley after her governorship Richard Lamm, J.D. 1961 – Governor of Colorado (1975–1987) Sione Manu'uli Luani – Governor of Vava'u, Tonga (2009–2010) Ellis E. Patterson, A.B. 1921 – Lieutenant Governor of California (1939–1943) James Soong, M.A. 1967 – Governor of Taiwan Province Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, LL.B. 1914 – Attorney General of California, 1939–1943; Governor of California, 1943–1953; 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969 Pete Wilson, J.D. 1962 – U.S. Senator, Governor of California George C. Pardee, (attended 1903–1907) – Governor of California Hiram W. Johnson, (attended 1911–1917) – Governor of California and US Senator (1917–1945) Ridwan Kamil, M.U.D. 2001 – Governor of West Java, Indonesia

Executive council members

The following served as cabinet-level officials.

Jerome Adams, M.P.H. 2000 – Surgeon General of the United States Andrej Bajuk, M.S. 1972 – Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia, Prime Minister of Slovenia (May–November 2000) Ruhakana Rugunda, M.S. 1977 – Prime Minister of the Republic of Uganda Sandra Black, BA 1991 – member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers W. Michael Blumenthal, B.S. 1951 – United States Secretary of the Treasury (1977–1979) Michael Boskin, B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1971 – chair, Presidential Council of Economic Advisors, professor at Stanford University Mostafa Chamran, PhD 1963 – former Iranian minister of defense Prithviraj Chavan M.S. 1967 – Chief Minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra, Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha (India's Upper house of Parliament), currently a Minister of State in the prime minister's Office, Government of India Steven Chu, PhD 1976, United States Secretary of Energy (2009–2013) Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn, B.S. 1964 – Life peer in the House of Lords (1990–present); senior unofficial member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (1985–1988); senior unofficial member of the Hong Kong Executive Council (1988–1995); non-executive deputy chairman of HSBC (1992–2008) Laura Giuliano, PhD 2003 – adviser to White House Council of Economic Advisers Neil Goldschmidt, J.D. 1967 – United States Secretary of Transportation (1979–1981) Judith Heumann, M.P.H. 1975 – pioneer for disability rights and former Assistant United States Secretary of Education Raffi Hovannisian, 1977 (attended) – former Foreign Minister of Armenia Dorodjatun Kuntjoro-Jakti, M.A. 1966, Ph.D 1980 – former coordinating minister for economic affairs of the Republic of Indonesia; former Indonesian ambassador to the United States Franklin Lane, 1887 – United States Secretary of the Interior (1913 to 1920), Interstate Commerce Commission (1905–1913), 1902 Democratic nominee for Governor of California Ray Marshall, Ph.D. 1954 – United States Secretary of Labor (1977–1981), professor emeritus of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin Robert McNamara, B.A. 1937 – president of World Bank (1968–1981), United States Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), president of Ford Motor Company (1960) G. William Miller, J.D. 1952 – United States Secretary of the Treasury (1979–1981), Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1978–1979) Norman Mineta, B.S. 1953 – Congressman (D-California) (1975–1995), United States Secretary of Transportation (2001–2006), United States Secretary of Commerce (2000–2001) Widjojo Nitisastro, PhD 1961 – former Indonesian Minister for Economy, Finance and Industry Rodrigo Rato, M.B.A. 1974 – Spain's former minister of economy, managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2004–2007) Jesse Rothstein, PhD – senior economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers Dean Rusk (studied law, Class of 1940) – United States Secretary of State (1961–1969) Robert Seamans, PhD – adviser to White House Council of Economic Advisers Jay Shambaugh, PhD 2002 – member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers James Stock, M.A. 1982, PhD 1983 – member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Ann Veneman, M.P.P. 1971 – United States Secretary of Agriculture (2001–2005); executive director of UNICEF (2005–present)

Judges

Robert Aguilar, B.A., 1954, J.D., 1958 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Richard G. Andrews, J.D., 1981 – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware Stanley Barnes, A.B., 1924, J.D., 1927 – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Marsha Berzon, J.D., 1973 – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Rose Bird, J.D., 1965 – first female chief justice of the California Supreme Court Charles R. Breyer, J.D., 1966 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Allen Broussard, B.A., 1950, J.D., 1953 – associate justice of the California Supreme Court Lloyd Hudson Burke, LL.B., 1940 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Edward M. Chen, B.A., 1975, J.D., 1979 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Maxine M. Chesney, B.A., 1964, J.D., 1967 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Vince Girdhari Chhabria, J.D., 1998 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California William Perry Copple, B.A., 1948, J.D., 1951 – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona Myron Donovan Crocker, LL.B., 1940 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Eastern District of California Frank C. Damrell Jr., B.A., 1961 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California George B. Daniels, J.D., 1978 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York William Denman, B.Litt., 1894 – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit James Donato, B.A. 1983 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Joan Donoghue, J.D. 1978 – judge, International Court of Justice Miranda Du, J.D., 1994 – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada Herbert Wilson Erskine, A.B., 1908 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Michael W. Fitzgerald, J.D., 1985 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Beth Labson Freeman, B.A., 1976 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Monroe Mark Friedman, A.B., 1916, LL.B., 1920 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Lloyd D. George, J.D., 1961 – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada Steven Gonzalez, J.D., 1991 – associate justice, Washington Supreme Court Louis Earl Goodman, B.A., 1913 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Sherrill Halbert, A.B., 1924, J.D., 1927 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Oliver Deveta Hamlin, Jr., B.L., 1914 – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Thelton Henderson, B.A., 1956, J.D., 1962 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Harry Aaron Hollzer, B.L., 1902, LL.B., 1903 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California Sandra Segal Ikuta, A.B., 1976 – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Anthony W. Ishii, J.D., 1973 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California Lance Ito, J.D. 1975 – judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court, presided over O. J. Simpson trial D. Lowell Jensen, A.B., 1949, LL.B., 1952 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Alan Cooke Kay, LL.B., 1960 – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii William Duffy Keller, B.S., 1956 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California David Vreeland Kenyon, B.A., 1952 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Gerald Sanford Levin, A.B., 1927, LL.D., 1930 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California M. James Lorenz, B.A., 1957 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California Thomas Jamison MacBride, A.B., 1936, J.D., 1940 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Eastern District of California Kiyo A. Matsumoto, B.A 1976 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York Linda Hodge McLaughlin, LL.B., 1966 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Charles Merton Merrill, A.B., 1928 – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Frank C. Newman, LL.B., 1941 – associate justice, California Supreme Court Fernando M. Olguin, M.A., J.D., 1989 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Lawrence Joseph O'Neill, B.A., 1973 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California William Horsley Orrick, Jr., LL.B., 1941 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California John B. Owens, B.A., 1993 – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Richard Paez, J.D., 1972 – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California John Slater Partridge, A.B., 1892, A.M., 1894 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Virginia A. Phillips, J.D., 1982 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Harry Pregerson, LL.B., 1950 – judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Edward Dean Price, A.B., 1947, LL.B., 1949 – judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California Jane A. Restani, B.A., 1969 – judge, U.S. Court of International Trade Cruz Reynoso, LL.B., 1958 – first Latino Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court