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): Aleksandr Maksimenkov • Austin Butler • Brady Corbet • Francis Gary Powers • Gilby Clarke • Henry Cadwalader Chapman • John Brahm • John Humphrys • Ken Kwapis • Leslie Groves • Lida Moser • Mario Theissen • Mike Lewis (musician) • Reggie Duff • Vivienne de Watteville • Øyvind Leonhardsen

Born in the same month (August 1936): Andre Dubus • Benedict Anderson • Bill Monbouquette • Frank Howard (baseball) • Henry Lee Lucas • Hideki Shirakawa • Jan Pieńkowski • Jerry G. Bishop • John Callaway • John McCain • Kenny Guinn • Kjell Grede • Lien Chan • Malene Schwartz • Nikolai Baturin • Patrick Tse • Robert Redford • Rudy Lewis • Seamus Mallon • W. D. Hamilton • Wilt Chamberlain