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

Sean Plott, 2008, professional StarCraft player and commentator who represented the United States in the 2004 and 2005 World Cyber Games Grand Finals; won the 2007 WCG Pan American Championship
Scott Stokdyk, 1991, Academy Award winner for best visual effects for Spider-Man 2; Visual Effects Supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks
Michael Tapper, 2000, former member of the band We Are Scientists
Michael G. Wilson, 1963, producer of the James Bond series of films

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.; sixth highest paid CEO in 2007 (with a salary of $79.6 million)
Jonathan Gay, 1989, creator of Adobe Flash software
Dominic Mazzoni, 1999, creator of the Audacity sound editing program
Bruce Nelson, 1974 (deceased), 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

Richard H. Jones, 1972, former US Ambassador to Israel, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, and Chief Policy Officer and Deputy Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
Amanda Simpson, 1983, Executive Director of the Army Energy Initiatives Task Force, Department of Defense

Joe Pelton, 2000, professional poker player, winner of 2006 Legends of Poker tournament

People

Presidents	Joseph Platt (1955–1976) D. Kenneth Baker (1976–1988) Henry E. Riggs (1988–1997) Jon C. Strauss (1997–2006) Maria Klawe (2006–2023) Harriet Nembhard (2023-present)

Athletics

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