List of Harvey Mudd College people
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This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States.
Academia
- James Enstrom, 1965, physicist, epidemiologist[1]
- Robert L. Smith, 1966, engineer[2]
- Jerrold B. Tunnell, 1972, mathematician[3]
Astronauts and aeronautics
- Stan Love, 1987, astronaut, crew member for Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-122, "capcom" or communications officer with the International Space Station[4]
- George "Pinky" Nelson, 1972, astronaut, flew on three Space Shuttle program missions, second American to walk in space without a tether to a spacecraft[5]
- Iris Cummings, Olympian, aviator, and sponsor of the flying club.
Entertainment
- Sean "Day9" Plott, 2008, professional StarCraft player and commentator who represented the United States in the 2004 and 2005 World Cyber Games Grand Finals; won the 2007 WCG Pan American Championship[6]
- Scott Stokdyk, 1991, Academy Award winner for best visual effects for Spider-Man 2; Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks[7]
- Michael Tapper, 2000, former member of the band We Are Scientists[8]
- Michael G. Wilson, 1963, producer of the James Bond series of films[9]
Software and engineering
- Donald D. Chamberlin, 1966, co-inventor of SQL (database query language) and IBM representative to the working group developing the XQuery language[10]
- Joseph Costello, 1974, chairman and CEO of think3, former president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems[11]
- Ned Freed, 1982, co-author of the MIME email standard (RFCs 2045-2049)[12]
- Robert Freitas, 1974, Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2009)[13]
- Nabeel Gareeb, CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.[14]
- Jonathan Gay, 1989, creator of Adobe Flash software[15]
- Bruce Nelson, 1974, inventor of the remote procedure call for computer communications[16]
- Tom Preston-Werner (dropped out), co-founder of GitHub, creator of Gravatar[17]
- Sage Weil, 2000, co-founder of WebRing, DreamHost, Inktank, and Ceph[18]
Politics
- Richard H. Jones, 1972, former US ambassador to Israel, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, and Lebanon; chief policy officer and deputy administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq[19]
- Amanda Simpson, 1983, executive director of the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force, Department of Defense[20]
Business
- Eric B. Kim, 1976, chief marketing officer of Intel, former CMO of Samsung Electronics[21]
Miscellaneous
- Joe Pelton, 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 Legends of Poker tournament[22]