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Berkeley

Berkeley is the name of several places:

It can refer to University of California, Berkeley. (also known as "UC Berkeley" or "Cal", and not to be confused with the Berklee College of Music)

(There are also some places named Berkley.)

It can refer to several people:

It can refer to a museum ship named Berkeley

It can refer to two British car manufaturers (see Berkeley cars).

It can refer to Berkeley DB, an embedded database system by Sleepycat Software.

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


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