List of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) people
Summary
The following is a list of individuals associated with Berkeley High School (California) through attending as a student, or serving as a member of the faculty or staff.
Don Barksdale, 1941, All-American basketball player at UCLA; first African-American on US Olympic basketball team (1948); first African-American to play in NBA All-Star game (1953)
Billy Martin, 1946, Major League Baseball player; second baseman for five New York YankeesWorld Series teams in the 1950s, and manager of four playoff teams (Twins, Yankees, Detroit, A's), including one championship
Albert Gjedde 1965, neuroscientist, co-inventor of Gjedde-Patlak plot; McGill University Montreal Canada, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sam Ruben, 1931?, co-discoverer of C14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, in 1940; the isotope led to many advances in the fields of biochemistry and medicine as well as its use in carbon dating for archeology
Pei-Yuan Wei, 1986, (魏培源, pinyin: Wèi Péiyuán), created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers
Pumpsie Green, first black player for the Boston Red Sox; coached baseball at Berkeley High for many years
Edgar Manske, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, former assistant football coach at Cal under Pappy Waldorf; taught biology at Berkeley High for 20 years (1955–1975)
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^"Cal's Brittany Boyd is a Naismith semifinalist". San Jose Mercury News. March 3, 2015. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015.
^Zwikel, Toby (1977-06-09). "Basketball remains first love of Dodgers' Burke". The Valley News (Van Nuys). Retrieved 2007-01-29. [dead link]
^Smith, Jessie Carney; Phelps, Shirelle (1992). Notable Black American Women. Vol. 2. Gale Research. pp. 408–411. ISBN 978-0-8103-9177-2 – via Google Books.
^Ellen Lee, Special to The Chronicle (25 April 2010). "Monster toys are latest designer must-have". SFGate. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
^Jones, Carolyn (2012-01-11). "George Livingston, Richmond's 1st black elected mayor". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-01-20.