乔治·贝克莱（George Berkeley，1685年3月12日—1753年1月14日），出生于爱尔兰基尔肯尼的一个乡村绅士家庭，十八世纪的哲学家、近代经验主义的重要代表之一，开创了主观唯心主义。并对后世的经验主义的发展起到了重要影响。为纪念他加州大学的创始校区定名为加州大学伯克利分校（University of California, Berkeley）。
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word， all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men， that houses， mountains， rivers， and in a word all sensible objects， have an existence， natural or real， distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
