EXHIBIT EX-24

                              POWER OF ATTORNEY


KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS:

          Each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints BURTON E.
BROOME and ROBERT D. MYERS and each of them with power to act alone, his or
her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of
substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place
and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign (either manually or
electronically through the EDGAR System of the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission) the 1994 Annual Report on Form 10-K for Transamerica
Corporation and any and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, together
with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto such attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done in and about the premises hereof, as fully to all
intents and purposes as he or she might do or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his substitutes may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

          Executed on the 26th day of January, 1995.


                                        R. F. O'BRIEN
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Myron Du Bain                           Raymond F. O'Brien


SAM GINN                                TONI REMBE
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Sam Ginn                                Toni Rembe


JAMES R. HARVEY                         CONDOLEEZZA RICE
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James R. Harvey                         Condoleezza Rice


FRANK C. HERRINGER
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Frank C. Herringer                      Charles R. Schwab


G. E. MOORE                             FORREST N. SHUMWAY
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Gordon E. Moore                         Forrest N. Shumway


                                        PETER V. UEBERROTH
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                                        Peter V. Ueberroth