This is a list of notable alumni and faculty of Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States.
Academia
Astronauts and aeronautics
- Stan Love, 1987, astronaut, crew member for Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-122, "capcom" or communications officer with the International Space Station
- George "Pinky" Nelson, 1972, astronaut, flew on three Space Shuttle program missions, second American to walk in space without a tether to a spacecraft
- Iris Cummings, Olympian, aviator, and sponsor of the flying club.
Entertainment
Software and engineering
- Donald D. Chamberlin, 1966, co-inventor of SQL (database query language) and IBM representative to the working group developing the XQuery language
- Joseph Costello, 1974, chairman and CEO of think3, former president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems
- Ned Freed, 1982, co-author of the MIME email standard (RFCs 2045-2049)
- Robert Freitas, 1974, Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (2009)
- Nabeel Gareeb, CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.
- Jonathan Gay, 1989, creator of Adobe Flash software
- Bruce Nelson, 1974, inventor of the remote procedure call for computer communications
- Tom Preston-Werner (dropped out), co-founder of GitHub, creator of Gravatar
- Sage Weil, 2000, co-founder of WebRing, DreamHost, Inktank, and Ceph
Politics
Business
Miscellaneous
- Joe Pelton, 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 Legends of Poker tournament
Notable faculty
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