List of Harvey Mudd College people

Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States.

Notable alumni

Astronauts and aeronautics

• Stan Love, 1987, astronaut, crew member for Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-122, "capcom" or communications officer with the International Space Station
• George "Pinky" Nelson, 1972, astronaut, flew on three Space Shuttle program missions, first American to walk in space without a tether to a spacecraft

Entertainment

• Sean 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
• Scott Stokdyk, 1991, Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks, co-recipient of the 2004 Academy Award for visual effects, for Spider-Man 2
• Michael Tapper, 2000, former member of the band We Are Scientists
• Michael G. Wilson, 1963, producer of the James Bond series of films

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
• Joseph Costello, 1974, chairman and CEO of think3, former president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems
• Ned Freed, 1982, co-author of the MIME email standard (RFCs 2045-2049)
• Robert Freitas, 1974, Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2009)
• Nabeel Gareeb, CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.; sixth highest paid CEO in 2007 (with a salary of $79.6 million)
• Jonathan Gay, 1989, creator of Flash software
• Dominic Mazzoni, 1999, creator of the Audacity sound editing program
• Bruce Nelson, 1974, (deceased) inventor of the remote procedure call for computer communications
• Tom Preston-Werner (attended but did not graduate), co-founder of GitHub, creator of Gravatar
• Sage Weil, 2000, co-founder of WebRing, DreamHost, Inktank, and Ceph
• Richard Yegan, 2001, founder of Admiral Online, inventor of DictoMail voicemail-to-text messaging (visual voicemail)

Politics

• Richard H. Jones, 1972, former US Ambassador to Israel, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Chief Policy Officer and Deputy Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
• Amanda Simpson, 1983, Executive Director of the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force, Department of Defense

Business

• Eric B. Kim, 1976, Chief Marketing Officer of Intel, former CMO of Samsung Electronics

Miscellaneous

• Patri Friedman, 1998, son of David D. Friedman, grandson of Milton Friedman, Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute, transhumanist, anarchist advocate of competitive social systems
• Karl Mahlburg, 2001, mathematician who proved Freeman Dyson's "crank conjecture" about certain congruences involving partition functions
• Joe Pelton, 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 Legends of Poker tournament

Notable faculty

• William B. Allen
• Arthur T. Benjamin
• J. Arthur Campbell (deceased), first faculty member hired at HMC and co-developer of the CHEM Study curriculum
• Nathaniel Davis (deceased)
• President Maria Klawe
• Ran Libeskind-Hadas
• Nick Pippenger

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