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Margaret Hamilton

1936 - Today

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Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist. She directed the Software Engineering Division at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, where she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer for the Apollo program. She later founded two software companies, Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hamilton has published more than 130 papers, proceedings, and reports, about sixty projects, and six major programs. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Hamilton is the 35th most popular businessperson (up from 132nd in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,478th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Businessperson.

Margaret Hamilton is most famous for being the lead software engineer on the Apollo 11 moon landing.

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Among businesspeople, Margaret Hamilton ranks 35 out of 847. Before her are Amancio Ortega, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Ludwig Erhard, P. T. Barnum, Guccio Gucci, and Eddie Jordan. After her are Linda McMahon, Jules Rimet, Colonel Sanders, Muhammad Yunus, Bertha Benz, and Robert Kiyosaki.

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Among people born in 1936, Margaret Hamilton ranks 14. Before her are Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Barry Barish, Amancio Ortega, Mikhail Tal, Ismail Kadare, and Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy. After her are Ken Loach, Valery Legasov, Harald zur Hausen, John McCain, F. W. de Klerk, and Louis Gossett Jr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 365 out of 20,380. Before her are John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960), Susan Sarandon (1946), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Rita Hayworth (1918), Irvin D. Yalom (1931), and Bernie Sanders (1941). After her are Ed White (1930), Willis Lamb (1913), Robert E. Lee (1807), Jimmy Wales (1966), Jesse Owens (1913), and Spencer Tracy (1900).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 16. Before her are Fred Trump (1905), William Boeing (1881), Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Estée Lauder (1906), Steve Ballmer (1956), and P. T. Barnum (1810). After her are Linda McMahon (1948), Colonel Sanders (1890), Robert Kiyosaki (1947), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Philip Kotler (1931), and David Rockefeller (1915).

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