20 Notable alumni of
Harvey Mudd College
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Harvey Mudd College is 2097th in the world, 730th in North America, and 688th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 20 notable alumni from Harvey Mudd College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Michael G. Wilson
- Occupations
- writerscreenwriteractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Michael Gregg Wilson, is an American-British screenwriter and film producer, best known for his association with the James Bond film series.
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Tom Preston-Werner
- Occupations
- business executivebusinesspersoncomputer scientistsoftware engineerprogrammer
- Biography
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Thomas Preston-Werner is an American billionaire software developer and entrepreneur. He is an active contributor within the free and open-source software community, most prominently in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives.
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Sean Plott
- Enrolled in Harvey Mudd College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in mathematics
- Occupations
- professional gamertelevision presenteresports commentator
- Biography
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Sean Saintmichael Plott, better known as Day, is an American esports commentator, player, event host, and game designer. Plott is best known for his contributions in the professional StarCraft scene, where he regularly appeared first as a player and later as a commentator and host at various tournaments for the game for many years. He has also played other competitive games such as Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone, and Dota 2. For the latter, Plott co-hosted The International 2017, the game's premier tournament.
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Patri Friedman
- Occupations
- poker playersoftware engineernonprofit administrator
- Biography
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Patri Friedman is an American libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, and theorist of political economy. He founded The Seasteading Institute, a non-profit that explores the creation of sovereign ocean colonies.
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Donald D. Chamberlin
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery.
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Amanda Simpson
- Occupations
- politicianaircraft pilotscientist
- Biography
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Amanda Renae Simpson is an American pilot, businesswoman and politician.
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George Nelson
- Occupations
- physicistastronautastronomeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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George Driver "Pinky" Nelson is an American physicist, astronomer, science educator, and retired NASA astronaut.
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Stanley G. Love
- Occupations
- astronomerastronaut
- Biography
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Stanley Glen Love is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut from Oregon.
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Richard Jones
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Richard Henry Jones is an American diplomat and the former Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.
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Scott Pace
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Scott Norman Pace currently serves as Director of the Space Policy Institute, Director of the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy and Director of the MA International Science and Technology Policy program at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. He served as the Executive Secretary of the National Space Council from July 2017 to January 2021, when he resigned. Pace was formerly the Director of the Space Policy Institute at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, where he was also a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs.
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Bruce Jay Nelson
- Years
- 1952-1999 (aged 47)
- Enrolled in Harvey Mudd College
- Studied in 1974
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Bruce Jay Nelson was an American computer scientist best known as the inventor of the remote procedure call concept for computer network communications.
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Scott E. Fraser
- Enrolled in Harvey Mudd College
- 1972-1976 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- biologistbiophysicist
- Biography
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Scott E. Fraser is an American biophysicist and Provost Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is also the Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Convergent Bioscience and Director of Science Initiatives, where he is helping to launch USC’s Initiative in Convergent Bioscience. In addition, he holds joint appointments in the Departments of Physiology and Biophysics, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Pediatrics, Radiology, and Ophthalmology.
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Robert Charrow
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Robert Phillip Charrow is an American lawyer and government official.
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Karl Mahlburg
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Karl Mahlburg is an American mathematician whose research interests lie in the areas of modular forms, partitions, combinatorics and number theory. He is the author of over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles. Mahlburg received his PhD in 2006 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Between 2011 and 2021 he was an assistant professor and an associate professor of mathematics at Louisiana State University.
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Jack Cuzick
- Occupations
- mathematicianepidemiologist
- Biography
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Jack Martin Cuzick is an American-born British academic, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and head of the Centre for Cancer Prevention. He is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute, Queen Mary University of London.
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F. Michael Christ
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Francis Michael Christ is an American mathematician and professor at University of California, Berkeley, specializing in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and several complex variables. He is known for the Christ–Kiselev maximal inequality.
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Roger Thomas Howe
- Occupations
- university teacherelectrical engineeracademic
- Biography
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Roger Thomas Howe is the William E. Ayer Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He earned a B.S. degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, California) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 and 1984, respectively. He was a faculty member at Carnegie-Mellon University from 1984-1985, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1985-1987, and at UC Berkeley between 1987-2005, where he was the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor. He has been a faculty member of the School of Engineering at Stanford since 2005.
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Henry E. Brady
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Enrolled in Harvey Mudd College
- In 1969 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- political scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Henry E. Brady is an American political scientist specializing in methodology and its application in a diverse array of political fields. He was Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley from 2009–2021 and holds the Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. He was elected President of the American Political Science Association, 2009–2010, giving a presidential address entitled "The Art of Political Science: Spatial Diagrams as Iconic and Revelatory." He has published academic works on diverse topics, co-authoring with colleagues at a variety of institutions and ranks, as well as many solo authored works. His principal areas of research are on political behavior in the United States, Canada, and the former Soviet Union, public policy and methodological work on scaling and dimensional analysis. When he became President of the American Political Science Association, a number of his colleagues and co-authors contributed to his presidential biography entitled "Henry Brady, Big Scientist," discussing his work and the fields to which he has contributed and has also shaped.
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Joe Pelton
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Joe Pelton is an American business analyst and poker tournament player, who is based in Newport Beach, California. He attended Harvey Mudd College and graduated in 1999. While studying at Harvey Mudd, his nickname was the "Moral Pillar".
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Denison Bollay
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Denison Bollay is a software engineer working on programming languages and search algorithms, with applications for e-commerce and financial information.
