List of electrical engineers
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This is a list of electrical engineers, people who were trained in or practice electrical engineering, computer engineering, etc.
- Edwin Armstrong -- Regenerative circuit
- Rowan Atkinson-- Comedian
- John Wolfe Barry -- Institution of Electrical Engineers
- Deane Blazie founder of Blazie Engineering (now part of Freedom Scientific, known for technology for blind people who use braille.
- Amar Bose - Speakers
- Emile Baudot -- Communications
- Alexander Graham Bell -- Bell telephone company
- Michael Bloomberg -- Businessman and Mayor
- Karlheinz Brandenburg-- Audio compression scheme MPEG Audio Layer 3
- William Coolidge -- X-rays
- Seymour Cray -- Supercomputer architect
- Lee DeForest -- Audion vacuum tube
- George de Mestral -- Velcro
- Ray Dolby -- Dolby sound
- J. Presper Eckert -- Computer pioneer
- Thomas Edison -- Principles of invention mass production
- A. K. Erlang -- Communications and Queueing
- Edward Porter Felt -- 9/11 victim
- Reginald Fessenden -- "Father of Radio Broadcasting"
- Ambrose Fleming -- Inventor of the thermionic valve
- Thomas Flowers -- Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer
- Jay Forrester -- American computer pioneer
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel -- Optics
- Bernhard Goetz -- Subway vigilante
- Lee Hamilton businessman, current president of Freedom Scientific
- Ralph Hartley -- Electronics
- Oliver Heaviside -- Re-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus)
- William Hewlett -- Hewlett-Packard Company
- Grace Hopper -- Computer programmer (first compiler)
- Jiang Zemin -- People's Republic of China politician and statesman
- Huang Ju -- People's Republic of China Vice Premier
- Bill Joy -- Unix - SUN
- Simon R Jones -- Computer Engineer
- Jack Kilby -- Integrated circuit
- Herbert Kroemer -- Heterostructures and semiconductor physics
- Eric Laithwaite -- Linear induction motor
- Hedy Lamarr -- Communications
- Li Changchun -- Communist Party of China Propaganda chief
- Guglielmo Marconi -- Practical radio
- John Mauchly -- ENIAC designer
- Arthur Nielsen -- Nielsen ratings developer
- Kenneth Olsen -- Magnetic core memory - Digital Equipment Corporation
- David Packard -- Hewlett-Packard
- Mihajlo Pupin -- Long-distance telephone communication. "Pupin coil"
- Hyman Rickover -- "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
- Julius Rosenberg -- Soviet spy
- T.J. Seebeck -- Thermoelectric effect
- Claude Shannon -- "Father of Communication theory"
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz -- Alternating current theories
- Nikola Tesla -- Radio and Wireless technology. "Tesla coil"
- Elihu Thomson -- Entrepreneur
- Milan Vidmar -- Power transformers and transmission of electric current
- George Westinghouse -- AC power Industrialist
- Steve Wozniak -- Personal computers - Apple Computer Company
- Zhu Rongji -- Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China member
- Konrad Zuse -- Computers
This is a list of people who were trained in other fields but made significant contributions in electrical engineering, computer engineering, etc.
- P.A.M Dirac -- Physicist
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier -- Physicist
See also
- List of engineers - for lists of engineers from other disciplines.
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