[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Here's a slightly more modern item: Michael Crichton, writer of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, is a Harvard Medical School graduate, and wrote and produced the series ER.

And another Arthur C. Clarke factoid:
Although Clarke is generally credited with writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, that credit is actually shared with Stanley Kubrick. The movie was based on a Clarke short story, The Sentinel (which essentially covered the Moon sequence when they discovered the monolith), but Clarke and Kubrick collaborated on creating a cinematic version of the story, and Clarke wrote the novelization of the story based on their collaboration.