This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States.
Academia James Enstrom, 1965, physicist, epidemiologist Robert L. Smith, 1966, engineer Jerrold B. Tunnell, 1972, mathematician Roger T. Howe, 1979, Professor Emeritus in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.
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, second American to walk in space without a tether to a spacecraft 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 Scott Stokdyk, 1991, Academy Award winner for best visual effects for Spider-Man 2; Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks 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. Jonathan Gay, 1989, creator of Adobe Flash software Bruce Nelson, 1974, inventor of the remote procedure call for computer communications Tom Preston-Werner (dropped out), co-founder of GitHub, creator of Gravatar Sage Weil, 2000, co-founder of WebRing, DreamHost, Inktank, and Ceph
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 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 Joe Pelton, 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 Legends of Poker tournament
Notable faculty
William B. Allen Arthur T. Benjamin Nathaniel Davis Weiqing Gu Maria Klawe Ran Libeskind-Hadas Lisette de Pillis Nick Pippenger Francis Su Talithia Williams
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