Bonnie Kathaleen Land (21 November 1918 - 7 October 2012) was a computer and mathematician at NASA's Langley facility.
The 2016 movie Hidden Figures, which brought awareness to this early success within the NASA space program, was written by Land's former Sunday school student, and Land served as one of the first interviewees during research for the novel.
Land was called the "inspiration behind, catalyst for, and gateway to" the creation of Hidden Figures.
[1][2][3] She married Stanley Land on 1 December 1941 in Newport News, Virginia, and they had three daughters.
[1][2] She worked as a human computer and mathematician at NASA's Langley Research Center facility.