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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 MestralGeorge de Mestral ( June 19, 1907 February 8, 1990) was an electrical engineer who invented Velcro. Born near Lausanne, Switzerland, de Mestral designed a toy airplane at age twelve and patented it. He attended the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne -- VelcroVelcro is a brand name of fabric hook-and-loop fasteners used for connecting objects. Velcro was invented in 1948 by George de Mestral, a Swiss engineer. The idea came to him after he took a close look at the seed pod burrs which kept sticking to his dog
- Ray DolbyRay Dolby (born January 18, 1933) is the inventor of the sound reduction system known as Dolby Sound. He is the founder and chairman of Dolby Laboratories. Dolby was inducted into the National Inventors' Hall of Fame in 2004. External link Dolby, Ray. -- Dolby sound
- J. Presper EckertJohn Presper Eckert a computer pioneer, was born April 9, 1919 in Philadelphia and died June 3, 1995 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Together with John W. Mauchly he constructed the ENIAC, sometimes considered the first digital computer (but see John Vincent -- Computer pioneer
- Thomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison ( February 11, 1847 October 18, 1931) was an inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. The Wizard of Menlo Park was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention. -- Principles of invention mass production
- A. K. ErlangAgner Krarup Erlang ( January 1, 1878 February 3, 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician, and engineer who invented the fields of queueing theory and traffic engineering. Erlang was born at Lonborg (Lonborg), near Tarm, in Jutland. He was the son -- Communications and Queueing
- Edward Porter FeltEdward Porter Felt ( November 9, 1959 September 11, 2001) was an American engineer. He was born in Utica, New York and graduated from Clinton High School. In 1981 he received his undergraduate degree from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He then -- 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.
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