Berkeley most often refers to: *

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and E ...

, a city in the United States **

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

, a public university in Berkeley, California *

George Berkeley George Berkeley (; 12 March 168514 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley ( Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland) – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immate ...

(1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher Berkeley may also refer to:

Places

Australia

* Berkeley, New South Wales, a suburb of Wollongong

Canada

Berkeley, Ontario Berkeley is a community on Ontario Highway 10 in the township of Chatsworth, Grey County Grey County is a county of the Canadian province of Ontario. The county seat is in Owen Sound. It is located in the subregion of Southern Ontario named S ...

, a community in Grey County

United Kingdom

Berkeley (hundred) The hundred of Berkeley was one of the ancient Hundred (county subdivision), hundreds of Gloucestershire, England. Hundreds originated in the late Anglo-Saxon England, Saxon period as a subdivision of a county and lasted as administrative divisi ...

, an administrative division from late Saxon period to the 19th century *

Berkeley, Gloucestershire Berkeley ( ) is a market town and parish in the Stroud District in Gloucestershire, England. It lies in the Vale of Berkeley between the east bank of the River Severn and the M5 motorway. The town is noted for Berkeley Castle, where the impriso ...

, a town in England

United States

, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, the largest city named Berkeley *

Berkeley, Denver Berkeley is a city-center neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, located in the area traditionally called the, "Northside", on the west side of Interstate 25 and just south of Interstate 70. The neighborhood is bounded by Federal Boulevard on the east ...

, a neighborhood in Denver, Colorado * Berkeley, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago * Berkeley, Missouri, a northwestern suburb of St. Louis * Berkeley Township, Ocean County, New Jersey * Berkeley, Rhode Island * Berkeley, Virginia (disambiguation) * Berkeley, West Virginia *

Berkeley County (disambiguation) Berkeley County is the name of two counties in the United States: * Berkeley County, South Carolina * Berkeley County, West Virginia {{Geodis, uscounty ...

People

Berkeley (given name) Berkeley is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Berkeley Bell (1907–1967), American male tennis player * Berkeley Breathed (born 1957), American cartoonist * Berkeley L. Bunker (1906–1999), United States Senator and Representa ...

, a given name (and list of people with that name) *

Berkeley (surname) Berkeley is a surname. It is also used, uncommonly, as a given name. The name is a habitation name from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, itself derived from Old English ''beorce léah'' meaning ''birch lea''. People with the name include: * T ...

, a surname (and list of people with that name) *

Berkeley family The Berkeley family is an ancient English noble family. It is one of only four families in England that can trace its patrilineal descent back to Anglo-Saxon times (the other three being the Arden family, the Swinton family and the Wentworth f ...

, an aristocratic English family

Brands and enterprises

* Berkeley (1913), a car manufacturer in the U.K. *

Berkeley Cars Berkeley Cars Ltd of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England produced economical sporting microcars with motorcycle-derived engines from 322 cc to 692 cc and front wheel drive between 1956 and 1960. History The Berkeley automobile w ...

, a British car manufacturer *

Berkeley Cinemas Berkeley Cinemas refers to a two-complex premium brand of cinemas owned by Hoyts Pty Australia. Previously owned by Everard Entertainment, the Berkeley Cinema Group was one of the largest cinema chains in Auckland, New Zealand, with complexes i ...

, a cinema chain in Auckland, New Zealand *

Berkeley Group Holdings The Berkeley Group Holdings plc is a British property developer and house-builder based in Cobham, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. History The company was founded by Tony Pid ...

, a British housebuilding company *

Berkeley Systems Berkeley Systems was a San Francisco Bay Area software company co-founded in 1987 by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades. It made money early on by performing contract work for the National Institutes of Health, specifically in making modifications to the ...

, a San Francisco Bay Area software company

Hotels

* Berkeley Hotel, an historic former hotel in Montreal, Canada, now part of the

Maison Alcan Maison Alcan (English: Alcan House) is a building complex located on Sherbrooke Street in the Golden Square Mile district of Montreal, Canada. The complex was used to house the world headquarters for Alcan, now part of Rio Tinto Alcan, until 20 ...

complex *

The Berkeley The Berkeley is a five-star deluxe hotel, located in Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, London. The hotel is owned and managed by Maybourne Hotel Group, which also owns Claridge's and The Connaught in Mayfair, London. History 1800s and early 1900s L ...

, Wilton Place, Knightsbridge, London, England *

The Berkeley, Scunthorpe The Berkeley Hotel is a Grade II listed public house and hotel in Scunthorpe. It was built in 1940 and is listed on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. It was Grade II listed in 2015 by Historic England ...

, pub and hotel in Scunthorpe, England

Schools

, a public research university in Berkeley, California, U.S *

Berkeley Adult School The Berkeley Adult School is administered by the Berkeley Unified School District. The school is located at 1701 San Pablo Avenue, between Virginia and Francisco Streets in Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of Sa ...

, in Berkeley, California, U.S. *

Berkeley City College Berkeley City College (BCC, formerly Vista Community College) is a public community college in Berkeley, California. It is part of the California Community Colleges System and the Peralta Community College District. Berkeley City College is accr ...

, a community college in Berkeley, California, U.S. *

Berkeley College (Yale University) Berkeley College is a residential college at Yale University, opened in 1934. The eighth of Yale's 14 residential colleges, it was named in honor of Bishop George Berkeley (1685–1753), dean of Derry and later bishop of Cloyne, in recognition ...

, a residential college at Yale University, U.S. *

Berkeley College Berkeley College is a private for-profit college with campuses in New York, New Jersey, and online. It was founded in 1931 and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificate programs. Berkeley College is accredited by the Middle S ...

, in New York and New Jersey, U.S. *

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. * Berkeley County Schools, the operating school district within Berkeley County, West Virginia, U.S. * Berkeley High School (disambiguation)

Ships

* ''Berkeley'' (ferryboat), a ferryboat that operated on San Francisco Bay for sixty years * HMS ''Berkeley Castle'', two British naval ships

Software

Berkeley DB Berkeley DB (BDB) is an unmaintained embedded database software library for key/value data, historically significant in open source software. Berkeley DB is written in C with API bindings for many other programming languages. BDB stores arbitr ...

, an embedded database system by Sleepycat Software * Berkeley Fast File System, Unix file system *

Berkeley Software Distribution The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Be ...

, a Unix operating system

Other uses

* ''Berkeley'' (film), a 2005 drama directed by Bobby Roth * Berkeley Hundred or Berkeley Plantation, Charles City, Virginia, U.S. *

Berkeley Hunt The Berkeley Hunt is a foxhound pack in the west of England. Its country lies in the southern part of Gloucestershire, between Gloucester and Bristol. History The Berkeley Hunt's establishment is said to have been, in its (18th century) day, ...

, a foxhound pack in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire counties, England *

Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs, United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, t ...

, a United States national laboratory near Berkeley, California, U.S. * Berkeley Test, saliva nitric test for assessing cardioprotection * Berkeley Racing Canoe Center, a non-profit organization promoting dragon boat sport in the Berkeley Marina, Berkeley, CA