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People

• George Berkeley
  George Berkeley
  
  George Berkeley , also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an Irish people philosopher. His primary philosophical achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" ....
  , idealist philosopher
• The Berkeley family
  Berkeley family
  
  The Berkeley family has an unbroken male Kinship and descent from a Saxons ancestor before the Norman conquest of England in 1066 to the present day....
   of England
• Lord Berkeley
  Lord Berkeley
  
  Lord Berkeley may refer to:*Viscount Berkeley *Marquess of Berkeley *Baron Berkeley of Stratton *Anthony Gueterbock, 18th Baron Berkeley...
   (disambiguation page)
• Baron Berkeley
  Baron Berkeley
  
  The title Baron Berkeley has been created twice in the Peerage of England, both times by Hereditary peer#Writs of summons. It was first granted to Sir Thomas de Berkeley in 1295, but the title of that creation became extinct at the death of the fifth Baron, when no heirs to the barony remained....
  
• Berkeley Baronets
  Berkeley Baronets
  
  There have been two baronetcies created for people named Berkeley, both in the Baronetage of England. The first was on 29 June 1611 for Henry Berkeley of Wymondham in Leicestershire, a descendant of Thomas Berkeley, younger son of Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley....
  
• "Anthony Berkeley", a pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley Cox
  Anthony Berkeley Cox
  
  Anthony Berkeley Cox was an England crime writer. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A....
  , writer
• Busby Berkeley
  Busby Berkeley
  
  Busby Berkeley , born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical film choreographer....
  , film choreographer
• Edmund Berkeley
  Edmund Berkeley
  
  Edmund Callis Berkeley was an American computer scientist who co-founded the Association for Computing Machinery in 1947. He was also a social activist who worked to achieve conditions that might minimize the threat of nuclear war....
  , mathematician and computer scientist, founder of the Association for Computing Machinery and inventor of the first personal computer, Simon
• Elizabeth Berkeley
  Elizabeth Berkeley
  
  *Elizabeth Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort*Elizabeth Berkeley, Countess of Ormond, daughter of Anne Berkeley, Baroness Berkeley and wife of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond...
  , wife of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort
• Humphry Berkeley
  Humphry Berkeley
  
  Humphry John Berkeley was a United Kingdom politician noted for his many changes of parties....
  , politician
• Jon Berkeley
  Jon Berkeley
  
  Jon Berkeley is a Dublin-born illustrator and children's author. He travelled widely in the 1980s, working freelance in London, Sydney and Hong Kong before returning to Dublin in 1992, where he formed a loose coalition known as Baggot Street Central with other leading Irish illustrators and Angela Clarke....
  , author and illustrator
• Sir Lennox Berkeley
  Lennox Berkeley
  
  Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an England composer....
  , composer
• Mary Berkeley (courtier), mistress of Henry VIII and mother of his son, John Perrot
  John Perrot
  
  Sir John Perrott was lord deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I of England and is best known for his part in the Tudor re-conquest of Ireland....
  
• Michael Berkeley
  Michael Berkeley
  
  Michael Berkeley is a United Kingdom composer and broadcaster on music....
  , composer and son of Sir Lennox
• Miles Joseph Berkeley
  Miles Joseph Berkeley
  
  Miles Joseph Berkeley was an England cryptogamist and clergyman.Berkeley was born at Biggin Hall, Northamptonshire, and educated at Rugby School and Christ's College, Cambridge....
  , botanist
• Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt
  Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt
  
  Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt was a British noble and a governor of the Virginia Colony from 1768 to 1770....
   (1718-1770), Member of Parliament and governor of Virginia Colony
• Theresa Berkeley, London madam
• Sir William Berkeley
  William Berkeley
  
  Sir William Berkeley was a List of colonial governors of Virginia, appointed by Charles I of England, of whom he was a favorite.He was governor from 1641-1652 and 1660-1677....
  , colonial governor of Virginia
• Vivian Berkeley
  Vivian Berkeley
  
  Vivian Berkeley is a Canada blind Bowls, 1996 Paralympic Games silver medalist and world class athlete. Berkeley is the #1 ranked women's singles B1 blind lawn bowler in the world....
  , Canadian blind lawn bowling champion and 1996 paralympic silver medalist
• Xander Berkeley
  Xander Berkeley
  
  Alexander Harper Berkeley is an United States actor....
  , actor
• Berkeley Breathed
  Berkeley Breathed
  
  Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, Film director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters and humorous analogies....
  , cartoonist and illustrator

Places

United Kingdom

• Berkeley, Gloucestershire
  Berkeley, Gloucestershire
  
  Berkeley is a town and civil parish between the south bank of the River Severn and the M5 motorway within the Stroud of Gloucestershire, England, at ....
  
• Berkeley nuclear power station
  Berkeley nuclear power station
  
  Berkeley nuclear power station is situated on the bank of the River Severn in Gloucestershire, England. Construction began in 1956 and the power station opened in 1962....
  , located next to Berkeley village
• HMS Berkeley Castle
  HMS Berkeley Castle
  
  Two ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Berkeley Castle after Berkeley Castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire.* Berkeley Castle was a 48-gun wooden warship captured by the French Navy on 25 October 1695....
  
• Berkeley Square
  Berkeley Square
  
  Berkeley Square is a town square in the West End of London of London in the City of Westminster, originally laid out in the mid 18th century by architect William Kent....
  , London
• Berkeley Square, Bristol
  Berkeley Square, Bristol
  
  Berkeley Square is close to Park Street, Bristol in the Clifton, Bristol area of Bristol.It was laid out around 1790 in Georgian architecture style with a central grass area behind railings, by Thomas Paty and William Paty....
  

United States of America

• Berkeley, California
  Berkeley, California
  
  Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland, California and Emeryville, California....
  , a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, University of California site
• Berkeley, Illinois
  Berkeley, Illinois
  
  Berkeley is a village located in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. Incorporated in 1924, the population at the 2000 census was 5,245....
  , a suburb of Chicago.
• Berkeley, Missouri
  Berkeley, Missouri
  
  Berkeley is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in St. Louis County, Missouri, Missouri, United States. The population was 10,063 at the 2000 census....
  , a northwestern suburb of St. Louis
• Berkeley, Albemarle County, Virginia
  Berkeley, Albemarle County, Virginia
  
  Berkeley is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, Virginia.Reference*
• Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia
• Berkeley Hundred
  Berkeley Hundred
  
  Berkeley Hundred in the Virginia Colony comprised about eight thousand acres on the north bank of the James River near Herring Creek in an area then known as Charles City ....
  , later Berkeley Plantation
  Berkeley Plantation
  
  Berkeley Plantation, one of the first great estates in America, comprises about 1000 acres on the banks of the James River on State Route 5 in Charles City County, Virginia....
  , Virginia
• Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
  Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
  
  Berkeley Heights is a township in Union County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 13,407....
  
• Berkeley Lake, Georgia
  Berkeley Lake, Georgia
  
  Berkeley Lake is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. From its 1956 origins as a summer retreat, Berkeley Lake has grown into a thriving community centered on its namesake lake....
  
• Berkeley Township, New Jersey
  Berkeley Township, New Jersey
  
  Berkeley Township is a Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 39,991....
  
• Berkeley County, South Carolina
  Berkeley County, South Carolina
  
  Berkeley County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. In 2000, its population was 142,651. The 2005 Census Bureau estimate placed the population at 151,673....
  
• Berkeley County, West Virginia
  Berkeley County, West Virginia
  
  Berkeley County is a county located in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia region of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of 2007, the population is 99,734, making it the second-most populous county in West Virginia, behind Kanawha County, West Virginia....
  

Canada

• Berkeley, Ontario
  Berkeley, Ontario
  
  Berkeley is a community in Chatsworth, Ontario, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.The Berkeley Post Office was opened in 1853. There were three churches in Berkeley; the Presbyterian Church, the Anglican Church and the United Church....
  

Australia

• Berkeley, New South Wales
  Berkeley, New South Wales
  
  Berkeley is a suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, New South Wales. The suburb is located in Wollongong's southern suburbs, on the northern shore of Lake Illawarra....
  
• Berkeley Vale, New South Wales
  Berkeley Vale, New South Wales
  
  Berkeley Vale is a List of Central Coast suburbs of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Wyong Shire Local Government Areas of New South Wales....
  

Universities and colleges

• University of California, Berkeley
  University of California, Berkeley
  
  The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
  
• Berkeley College
  Berkeley College
  
  Berkeley College is a private, for-profit college specializing in business, with seven locations in New York and New Jersey, plus Berkeley College Online....
  , in New York and New Jersey
• Berkeley College (Yale)
  Berkeley College (Yale)
  
  Berkeley College is a residential college at Yale University, constructed in 1934. The eighth of Yale's 12 residential colleges, it was named in honor of Reverend George Berkeley , dean of Derry and later bishop of Cloyne, in recognition of the assistance in land and books that he gave to Yale in the 18th century....
  
• Berkeley City College
  Berkeley City College
  
  Berkeley City College , formerly Vista Community College, one of the California Community Colleges, is part of the Peralta Community College District....
  , a community college in Berkeley, California.

Other

• Either of two British car manufacturers (see Berkeley cars
  Berkeley cars
  
  Berkeley Cars Ltd of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England produced small cars with engines from 322 cc to 700 cc between 1956 and 1960. In 1991 a new company, Berkeley Developments, was formed to restore original cars and in 1993 they started to build complete T60 models....
  )
• Berkeley Square
  Berkeley Square (film)
  
  Berkeley Square is the title of a 1933 in film film produced by Fox Film Corporation. It was directed by Frank Lloyd and stars Leslie Howard , Heather Angel , Valerie Taylor and Colin Keith-Johnston....
  , a 1933 movie inspired by the location of the same name.
• Berkeley Square (TV miniseries)
  Berkeley Square (TV miniseries)
  
  Berkeley Square is a 1998 television miniseries which tells the story of three young women who gain positions as nannies in London. It stars Clare Wilkie, Victoria Smurfit, Tabitha Wady, and Jason O'Mara....
  , a TV miniseries inspired by the movie of the same name.
• Berkeley (film)
  Berkeley (film)
  
  Berkeley is a 2005 in film film by Bobby Roth filmed in Berkeley, California. It stars Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, and Henry Winkler....
  , a 2005 film
• Berkeley (band), a Letterkenny
  Letterkenny
  
  Letterkenny is the largest town in County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in Ireland. It is located on the River Swilly. Despite its size, Letterkenny is not the County Town of County Donegal....
   rock band
• A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (song)
  A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (song)
  
  "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is the title of a well-known romantic United Kingdom popular song with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Manning Sherwin and Jack Strachey....
  , a popular British song
• Berkeley DB
  Berkeley DB
  
  Berkeley DB is a computer software Library that provides a high-performance embedded database, with Binding in C , C++, Java , Perl, Python , Ruby , Tcl, Smalltalk, and many other programming languages....
  , an embedded database system by Sleepycat Software
• Berkeley Fast File System
• Berkeley font
• Berkeley Software Distribution
  Berkeley Software Distribution
  
  Berkeley Software Distribution is the Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995....
  
• Berkeley Systems
  Berkeley Systems
  
  Berkeley Systems was a San Francisco Bay Area software company cofounded in 1987 by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades. It made money early on by doing contract work for the National Institutes of Health, specifically in making modifications to the Macintosh so that it could be usable by people with very low vision, or even the blind....
  , a San Francisco Bay Area software company
• the Berkeley Pit
  Berkeley Pit
  
  The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper Mining located in Butte, Montana, United States. It is one mile long by half a mile wide with an approximate depth of ....
  , a former copper mine in Butte, Montana, the largest Superfund site.
• the Berkeley (ferryboat)
  Berkeley (ferryboat)
  
  The Berkeley was one of several ferryboats of the Southern Pacific Railroad that operated on San Francisco Bay between the Oakland Long Wharf and the San Francisco Ferry Building for sixty years....
  , a ferryboat from the San Francisco Bay Area and now a museum ship in San Diego.
• the USS Berkeley (DDG-15)
  USS Berkeley (DDG-15)
  
  USS Berkeley was a Charles F. Adams class destroyer guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Major General Randolph C....
  , named for General Randolph Carter Berkeley, USMC, a Virginian.
• the Berkeley Carroll School
  Berkeley Carroll School
  
  The Berkeley Carroll School is an independent school, nonsectarian, coed day school, enrolling about 750 students from pre-kindergarten through high school....
  , a private school in Brooklyn, New York City.
• the Berkeley Hunt
  Berkeley Hunt
  
  The Berkeley Hunt is a Hunting in England. Its country lies in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, between Gloucester and Bristol. The "hill country" above Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge is hunted mainly in March and early April, and adjoins the Duke of Beaufort's estate....
  .
• Berkeley Preparatory School
  Berkeley Preparatory School
  
  Berkeley Preparatory School is a Kindergarten to Twelfth grade private college preparatory school. Founded in 1960, it is located on a campus is located in Tampa, Florida, USA....
  , a private school in Tampa, Florida.
• Berkeley Cinemas
  Berkeley Cinemas
  
  fobox_Company | company_name = Berkeley Cinemas New Zealand | company_logo = | company_type = Private company | foundation = Auckland, New Zealand...
   - A cinema chain in Auckland, New Zealand.
• International House Berkeley
  International House Berkeley
  
  The International House, Berkeley is a multi-cultural residence and program center serving students at the University of California, Berkeley. According to the International House, its mission is to foster intercultural respect, understanding, lifelong friendships and leadership skills for the promotion of a more tolerant and peaceful world....
   - Students Housing and Residence.

See also

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  
  The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , is a United States Department of Energy United States Department of Energy National Labs conducting unclassified scientific research....