Notable Alumni of Harvey Mudd College

Amanda Simpson 1961–

Pilot, aerospace executive and former government official

Also attended: University of Arizona, California State University-Northridge

Richard Jones 1950–

Diplomat, former Deputy Executive Director of the IEA

Also attended: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Derek Stanford 1970–

Washington State senator and statistician

Also attended: University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Tom Preston-Werner 1979–

Software developer and entrepreneur

Jonathan Gay 1967–

Programmer and co-founder of FutureWave Software

Eric B. Kim 1954–

Korean American technology businessman

Also attended: University of California-Los Angeles, Harvard University

Nabeel Gareeb

Businessman, former MEMC president and CEO

Also attended: Claremont Graduate University

Stanley G. Love 1965–

NASA astronaut and scientist

Also attended: University of Washington-Seattle Campus

George Nelson 1950–

Retired NASA astronaut and astronomer

Also attended: University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Donald D. Chamberlin 1944–

Computer scientist and co-designer of SQL

Also attended: Stanford University

Robert Freitas 1952–

American nanotechnologist

Also attended: Santa Clara University

Arif Zaman

Pakistani mathematician and statistics professor

Also attended: Claremont Graduate University, Stanford University

Arunas Rudvalis 1945–

Mathematician known for the Rudvalis group

Also attended: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Dartmouth College

Sharon R. Long 1951–

Plant biologist and Stanford University professor

Also attended: California Institute of Technology, Yale University, Harvard University

Spouse: Harold McGee (California Institute of Technology, Yale University)

F. Michael Christ 1955–

Mathematician and professor at UC Berkeley

Also attended: University of Chicago

Scott Pace 1959–

Director of GWU Space Policy Institute

Also attended: RAND School of Public Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bruce Jay Nelson 1952–1999

Computer scientist, inventor of remote procedure call

Attended until 1974

Also attended: Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University

Henry E. Brady 1947–

Political scientist, former dean of Berkeley's Goldman School

Bachelor of Science · Class of 1969

Also attended: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

Catherine A. Pilachowski 1949–

Indiana University astronomer, former AAS president

Attended until 1971

Shelly Miller

Mechanical engineer and professor at University of Colorado Boulder

Bachelor of Science · Applied mathematics · Class of 1986

Also attended: University of California-Berkeley, Claremont Graduate University

David Bercovici 1960–

Geophysicist known for plate tectonics theory

Also attended: University of California-Los Angeles

Michael G. Wilson 1942–

Producer of the James Bond film series

Also attended: Stanford University

Sibling: Barbara Broccoli (Loyola Marymount University)

Sean Plott 1986–

StarCraft commentator known as Day[9]

Bachelor of Science · Mathematics

Also attended: University of Southern California

Sibling: Nick Plott (Regis University)

Patri Friedman 1976–

Libertarian theorist, founder of The Seasteading Institute

Also attended: New York Institute of Technology, Stanford University

Father: David D. Friedman (University of Chicago, Harvard University)