David Friedberg living
founder & CEO of The Production Board, agtech entrepreneur, sold The Climate Corporation to Monsanto (2013), angel investor
1980- (44)
Tom Anderson living
Eric Schmidt living
billionaire tech executive, futurist, pioneer in cloud computing, founder of Innovation Endeavors, Schmidt Foundation, AI enthusiast, former chairman and CEO of Alphabet (Google) from 2001-2015
1955- (69)
x.com
Patty Hearst living
media executive, editor, author, brainwashed newspaper heiress who helped her captors (kidnappers) rob several banks, victim of the 1974 kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army, one of the most infamous cases of Stockholm syndrome, granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst
1954- (70)
apnews.com
Jim Simons living
Hedge fund manager, founder of Renaissance Technologies, billionaire financier, mathematician aka "The Quant King", pioneer in quantitative trading (quants), code breaker, philanthropist
1938- (86)
Daniel Kahneman
psychologist, pioneer in hedonism, behavioral ecnomics and cognitive biases of entrepreneurs, author of Thinking Fast and Slow, Noise A Flaw in Human Judgement, Attention and Effort
1934-2024 (90)
Leonard Michaels
Essayist, short story writer, fictional writer, fiction writer, fabulist writer of fables
1933-2003 (70)
senate.universityofcalifornia.edu
Allan Gotlieb
Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 1981-1989, diplomat, civil servant
1928-2020 (92)
international.gc.ca
Donald Davidson
Cartesian philosopher, mathematician
1917-2003 (86)
britannica.com
Heinz Berggruen
art dealer, founder of the Berggruen Art Museum
1914-2007 (93)
Theodor W. Adorno
Enlightenment philosopher, sociologist on discrimination, psychologist, co-author of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, pioneer in social/aestheic theory and negative dialectics, Marxist theorist, critical theorist of society, musicologist, music critic, composer
1903-1969 (66)
britannica.com
Daniel Coit Gilman
Educator, pioneer in postgraduate education, academic, co-founder of Sheffield Scientic School at Yale College, Skull & Bones Society at Yale, 2nd president of UC Berkeley, founding president of Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), Carnegie Institution (Foundation)
1831-1908 (77)
britannica.com
Daniel Kammen
Scientist, renewable energy activist
kammen.berkeley.edu
Bob Fabry
Computer programmer, founder of Computer Systems Research Group (with DARPA funding), inventor of AT&T Unix file system
A. James Gregor
Author, political commentator, politics, fascism, Marxism, national security, Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley
Geoff Nunberg
Linguist, linguistics research professor at UC Berkeley
geoffreynunberg.com
J. Robert Oppenheimer
theoretical physicist on the Manhattan Project, pioneer in quantum mechanics, metaphysics and nuclear atomic energy, creator of the atomic bomb