1936 - Today
Margaret Heafield Hamilton (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 160,788 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Margaret Hamilton is the 59th most popular businessperson (up from 65th in 2019), the 667th most popular biography from United States (up from 677th in 2019) and the 22nd 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 59 out of 604. Before her are Joan Gamper, J. Bruce Ismay, Calouste Gulbenkian, Robert McNamara, Paul Allen, and Giovanni Agnelli. After her are Rupert Murdoch, Li Ka-shing, Fred Trump, Dietrich Mateschitz, Lee Byung-chul, and Guccio Gucci.
1877 - 1930
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 53
1862 - 1937
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 54
1869 - 1955
HPI: 73.41
Rank: 55
1916 - 2009
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 56
1953 - 2018
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 57
1866 - 1945
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 58
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 59
1931 - Present
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 60
1928 - Present
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 61
1905 - 1999
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 62
1944 - Present
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 63
1910 - 1987
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 64
1881 - 1953
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 65
Among people born in 1936, Margaret Hamilton ranks 37. Before her are Albert Finney, Jim Clark, Burt Reynolds, Zubin Mehta, Buddy Holly, and Roy Orbison. After her are Virna Lisi, Tariq Aziz, Benedict Anderson, Steve Reich, Don Cherry, and Choummaly Sayasone.
1936 - 2019
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 31
1936 - 1968
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 32
1936 - 2018
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 33
1936 - Present
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 34
1936 - 1959
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 35
1936 - 1988
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 36
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 37
1936 - 2014
HPI: 72.51
Rank: 38
1936 - 2015
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 39
1936 - 2015
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 40
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.03
Rank: 41
1936 - 1995
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 42
1936 - Present
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 43
Among people born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 667 out of 15,968. Before her are Larry Hagman (1931), John Lee Hooker (1917), Matthew C. Perry (1794), Donald Rumsfeld (1932), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), and Hattie McDaniel (1893). After her are Wyatt Earp (1848), Alice Cooper (1948), Hulk Hogan (1953), Thomas Harris (1940), Harry Belafonte (1927), and L. Ron Hubbard (1911).
1931 - 2012
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 661
1917 - 2001
HPI: 73.04
Rank: 662
1794 - 1858
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 663
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 664
1929 - 2019
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 665
1893 - 1952
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 666
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 667
1848 - 1929
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 668
1948 - Present
HPI: 72.98
Rank: 669
1953 - Present
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 670
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 671
1927 - Present
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 672
1911 - 1986
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 673
Among businesspeople born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 22. Before her are Jeff Bezos (1964), Robert Kiyosaki (1947), Johns Hopkins (1795), Madam C. J. Walker (1867), Robert McNamara (1916), and Paul Allen (1953). After her are Fred Trump (1905), Estée Lauder (1906), Martin Cooper (1928), Benjamin Guggenheim (1865), Ronald Wayne (1934), and William Randolph Hearst (1863).
1964 - Present
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 16
1947 - Present
HPI: 74.97
Rank: 17
1795 - 1873
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 18
1867 - 1919
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 19
1916 - 2009
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 20
1953 - 2018
HPI: 73.32
Rank: 21
1936 - Present
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 22
1905 - 1999
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 23
1906 - 2004
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 24
1928 - Present
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 25
1865 - 1912
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 26
1934 - Present
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 27
1863 - 1951
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 28