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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, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Hamilton has received more than 196,274 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Margaret Hamilton is the 132nd most popular businessperson (down from 65th in 2019), the 1,478th most popular biography from United States (down from 698th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Businessperson.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Margaret Hamiltons by language

Over the past year Margaret Hamilton has had the most page views in the with 54,228 views, followed by French (41,680), and Portuguese (19,558). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Icelandic (111.25%), Serbian (109.16%), and Ido (104.45%)

Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Margaret Hamilton ranks 132 out of 847. Before her are Colonel Tom Parker, Ren Zhengfei, Sam Walton, John McAfee, Piero Ferrari, and Thomas Lipton. After her are Armand Peugeot, Larry Flynt, Chaleo Yoovidhya, Massimo Moratti, Lee Kun-hee, and Alisher Usmanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Margaret Hamilton ranks 78. Before her are Joe D'Amato, Iolanda Balaș, Bruce Dern, Abdul Qadeer Khan, Duncan Edwards, and Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz. After her are Ljubiša Samardžić, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Jacques Charrier, Anna German, Jill Ireland, and Kenneth G. Wilson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 1,478 out of 20,380. Before her are Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), Paul Stanley (1952), David Gross (1941), Barry Levinson (1942), Tom Ford (1961), and Irving Stone (1903). After her are Bob Ross (1942), Daniel Bell (1919), George Clinton (1739), Michael Madsen (1957), Larry Flynt (1942), and Clive Cussler (1931).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 43. Before her are Fred Trump (1905), Christina Onassis (1950), William Randolph Hearst (1863), William Boeing (1881), Madam C. J. Walker (1867), and Sam Walton (1918). After her are Larry Flynt (1942), Phil Knight (1938), Asa Griggs Candler (1851), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Lee Iacocca (1924), and Henry Ford II (1917).

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