Berkeley
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- For another similar name, see Berkley
Berkeley may refer to:
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[edit] People
- The Berkeley family of England
- Lord Berkeley (disambiguation page)
- Baron Berkeley
- Berkeley Baronets
- "Anthony Berkeley" a pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley Cox, writer
- Busby Berkeley, film choreographer
- Elizabeth Berkeley, wife of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort
- Edmund Berkeley, mathematician and computer scientist, founder of the Association for Computing Machinery and the inventor of the first personal computer, Simon
- Bishop George Berkeley, idealist philosopher
- Humphry Berkeley, politician
- Sir Lennox Berkeley, composer
- Michael Berkeley, composer and son of Sir Lennox
- Miles Joseph Berkeley, botanist
- Theresa Berkeley, London madam
- Sir William Berkeley, colonial governor of Virginia
- Xander Berkeley, actor
[edit] Places in the United Kingdom
[edit] Places in the United States of America
- Berkeley, California
- "Berkeley" may refer to the University of California, Berkeley, also known as "UC Berkeley" or "Cal", but should not be confused with Berkeley College, Berkeley College at Yale, or Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Berkeley City College, a community college in Berkeley, California.
- Berkeley, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
- Berkeley, Missouri
- Berkeley, Virginia
- Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
- Berkeley Lake, Georgia
- Berkeley Township, New Jersey
- Berkeley County, South Carolina
- Berkeley County, West Virginia
[edit] Places in Canada
[edit] Places in Australia
- Berkeley, New South Wales
[edit] Pronunciation
Places in England and English people called Berkeley are pronounced /ˈbɑː.kliː/ while American places named Berkeley are pronounced /ˈbəɹ.kli/ possibly by derivation from an Irish pronunciation, /ˈbɑɹ.kli/.
[edit] Other uses for Berkeley
In addition, Berkeley may refer to:
- Either of two British car manufacturers (see Berkeley cars)
- Berkeley Square, a 1933 movie inspired by the location of the same name.
- Berkeley Square, a TV miniseries inspired by the movie of the same name.
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square is a popular British song.
- Berkeley DB, an embedded database system by Sleepycat Software
- Berkeley Fast File System
- Berkeley Software Distribution
- Berkeley Systems, a San Francisco Bay Area software company
- the Berkeley Pit, a former copper mine in Butte, Montana, the largest Superfund site.
- the Berkeley, a ferryboat from the San Francisco Bay Area and now a museum ship in San Diego.
- the USS Berkeley (DDG-15), named for General Randolph Carter Berkeley, USMC, a Virginian.
- the Berkeley Carroll School, a private school in Brooklyn, New York City.
- the Berkeley Hunt.
- Berkeley Preparatory School, a private school in Tampa, Florida.