1936 - Today
Margaret Elaine Hamilton (born Heafield on 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 185,365 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Margaret Hamilton is the 63rd most popular businessperson (down from 59th in 2019), the 698th most popular biography from United States (down from 667th in 2019) and the 21st 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 63 out of 601. Before her are Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Ma, Martin Cooper, Lee Byung-chul, Roman Abramovich, and Frank Williams. After her are Helena Rubinstein, Robert McNamara, J. Bruce Ismay, Jakob Fugger, Calouste Gulbenkian, and Larry Ellison.
1984 - Present
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 57
1964 - Present
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 58
1928 - Present
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 59
1910 - 1987
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 60
1966 - Present
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 61
1942 - 2021
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 62
1936 - Present
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 63
1872 - 1965
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 64
1916 - 2009
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 65
1862 - 1937
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 66
1459 - 1525
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 67
1869 - 1955
HPI: 64.02
Rank: 68
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 69
Among people born in 1936, Margaret Hamilton ranks 37. Before her are Michael Landon, Burt Reynolds, Buddy Holly, Tariq Aziz, Albert Finney, and Roy Orbison. After her are Bill Wyman, Georges Perec, Steve Reich, Gerhard Ertl, B. J. Habibie, and Kris Kristofferson.
1936 - 1991
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 31
1936 - 2018
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 32
1936 - 1959
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 33
1936 - 2015
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 34
1936 - 2019
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 35
1936 - 1988
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 36
1936 - Present
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 37
1936 - Present
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 38
1936 - 1982
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 39
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 40
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 41
1936 - 2019
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 42
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 43
Among people born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 698 out of 18,182. Before her are Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), Chick Corea (1941), Donald Knuth (1938), Victor Fleming (1889), Jamie Lee Curtis (1958), and Roy Orbison (1936). After her are Thomas Harris (1940), Paul Morphy (1837), Carl Lewis (1961), Philip Johnson (1906), Robert E. Howard (1906), and Matthew C. Perry (1794).
1868 - 1921
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 692
1941 - 2021
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 693
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 694
1889 - 1949
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 695
1958 - Present
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 696
1936 - 1988
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 697
1936 - Present
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 698
1940 - Present
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 699
1837 - 1884
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 700
1961 - Present
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 701
1906 - 2005
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 702
1906 - 1936
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 703
1794 - 1858
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 704
Among businesspeople born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 21. Before her are J. Paul Getty (1892), Robert Kiyosaki (1947), Ronald Wayne (1934), Robert Kardashian (1944), Mark Zuckerberg (1984), and Martin Cooper (1928). After her are Robert McNamara (1916), Larry Ellison (1944), Estée Lauder (1906), Paul Allen (1953), Larry Flynt (1942), and Benjamin Guggenheim (1865).
1892 - 1976
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 15
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 16
1934 - Present
HPI: 66.56
Rank: 17
1944 - 2003
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 18
1984 - Present
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 19
1928 - Present
HPI: 64.91
Rank: 20
1936 - Present
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 21
1916 - 2009
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 22
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 23
1906 - 2004
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 24
1953 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 25
1942 - 2021
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 26
1865 - 1912
HPI: 62.25
Rank: 27