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List of electrical engineers
This is a list of electrical engineers, people who were trained in or practice electrical engineering, computer engineering, etc.
| Who | Contribution(s) |
| Edwin Armstrong | Regenerative circuit, Frequency modulation (FM) |
| Rowan Atkinson | Comedian |
| John Wolfe Barry | Institution of Electrical Engineers |
| Deane Blazie | Founder of Blazie Engineering (now part of Freedom Scientific) |
| Amar Bose | Accoustics: Audio and speakers |
| Emile Baudot | Communications |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Bell telephone company |
| Michael Bloomberg | Businessman and Mayor |
| Karlheinz Brandenburg | Audio compression scheme MP3 |
| William Coolidge | X-rays |
| Seymour Cray | Supercomputer architect |
| Lee DeForest | Audion vacuum tube |
| George de Mestral | Velcro |
| Paul Dirac | Physicist; Dirac delta |
| 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" |
| John Ambrose Fleming | Inventor of the thermionic valve |
| Thomas Flowers | Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer |
| Jay Forrester | American computer pioneer |
| Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier | Physicist; Fourier transform/Fourier series |
| 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 |
| Grace Hopper | Computer programmer (first compiler) |
| Kees A.S. Immink | Optical recording |
| Huang Ju | People's Republic of China Vice Premier |
| Bill Joy | Unix - Sun Microsystems |
| 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 |
| Bernard M. (Barney) Oliver | Hewlett Packard. Founder HP Labs |
| 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 |
See also
- List of engineers - for lists of engineers from other disciplines.
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