Margaret Hamilton
Born on August 17, 1936 in Indiana, US, Margaret Hamilton has influenced many fields. She studied mathamatics and philosophy at Earlham College and went on to become one of the first software engineers. She played a vital role in the development of the code used for command and lunar modules for the Apollo Mission. She went on to create Hamilton Technology and teach at MIT while working on a computer program that could predict the weather. It's thanks to her and her team that the Apollo missions were sucessful. She was also the first person to refer to computer scientists as software engineers.