Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)

Margaret Elaine Hamilton 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. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

17 August 1936

Born on the same birth date (17 August 1936): Seamus Mallon

Born on the same birth day (17 August): Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. • Herta Müller • Jake Virtanen • Johannes Maria Staud • Liam Heath • Michael Preetz • Mikhail Botvinnik • T. J. Anderson • Tarja Turunen

Born in the same month (August 1936): A. S. Byatt • Alan Hodgkinson • August 2 • Chuck Brown • Giridharilal Kedia • Henry Lee Lucas • Jan Pieńkowski • Julián Javier • Laurie Taylor (sociologist) • Malene Schwartz • Patrick Tse • Peter North (legal scholar) • Richard McBrien • Rudy Lewis • Werner Stengel • Wilt Chamberlain