Berkeley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Berkeley is the name of several places:

• Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England
• Berkeley, California
• Berkeley, Illinois
• Berkeley, Missouri
• Berkeley, Virginia
• Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
• Berkeley Lake, Georgia
• Berkeley Township, New Jersey
• Berkeley County, South Carolina
• Berkeley County, West Virginia
• Berkeley Plantation in Virginia

It can also refer to University of California, Berkeley. (also known as "UC Berkeley" or "Cal")

(There are also some places named Berkley.)

It can also refer to several people:

• Any of the holders of several titles in the British Peerage known as Lord Berkeley
• George Berkeley, empiricist philosopher
• Theresa Berkeley, London madam

Note that English places and people called Berkeley are pronounced "Barclay" while American ones are pronounced "Burclee", possibly by derivation from an Irish pronunciation.

---

This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.

The original article can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.