Alston Scott Householder (Rockford, Illinois, USA, 5 May 1904 – Malibu, California, USA, 4 July 1993) is an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis, inventor of the Householder transformation. Married to Belle Householder (d. 1975), children: John, Jackie and remarried 1984 to Heidi Householder, née Vogg.