Engineer
NAME
OCCUPATION
SUMMARY
BORN
DIED
Gene Amdahl
Engineer
Parallel computing pioneer
16-Nov-1922
TBD
Ove Arup
Engineer
Danish civil engineer
16-Apr-1895
1988
DEAD
Sir Benjamin Baker
Engineer
Bridged the Firth of Forth
31-Mar-1840
19-May-1907
DEAD
Cecil Balmond
Engineer
Deputy Chairman, Ove Arup
1943
TBD
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Engineer
Chief engineer of the Great Western Railway
09-Apr-1806
15-Sep-1859
DEAD
Sir William Cubitt
Engineer
British civil engineer
1785
13-Oct-1861
DEAD
Dave Ditzel
Engineer
Founder of Transmeta
1956
TBD
Lloyd H. Donnell
Engineer
Donnell's thin shell theory
20-May-1895
07-Nov-1997
DEAD
Daniel C. Drucker
Engineer
Drucker's stability postulate
1918
25-Aug-2001
DEAD
William F. Durand
Engineer
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
05-Mar-1859
09-Aug-1958
DEAD
William L. Emmet
Engineer
All-electric warships
10-Jul-1859
26-Sep-1941
DEAD
George Ferris
Engineer
Ferris Wheel
14-Feb-1859
22-Nov-1896
DEAD
John Ambrose Fleming
Engineer
Invented the vacuum tube
29-Nov-1849
19-Apr-1945
DEAD
John R. Freeman
Engineer
Charles River Dam
27-Jul-1855
06-Oct-1932
DEAD
Richard H. Gallagher
Engineer
Finite element method
17-Nov-1927
30-Sep-1997
DEAD
Henry Gantt
Engineer
Gantt chart
1861
23-Nov-1919
DEAD
Robert R. Gilruth
Engineer
NASA scientist
18-Oct-1913
17-Aug-2000
DEAD
Richard J. Goldstein
Engineer
Fluid mechanics
1936
TBD
Frederick A. Halsey
Engineer
Kept America safe from the metric system
12-Jul-1856
20-Oct-1935
DEAD
Mayo D. Hersey
Engineer
Tribology
30-Aug-1886
05-Sep-1978
DEAD
Nicholas J. Hoff
Engineer
Aluminum in aircraft design
03-Jan-1906
04-Aug-1997
DEAD
Alexander Lyman Holley
Engineer
Designed steel foundries
20-Jul-1832
29-Jan-1882
DEAD
John Hopkinson
Engineer
English electrical engineer
27-Jul-1849
27-Aug-1898
DEAD
Godfrey N. Hounsfield
Engineer
Computerized axial tomography (CAT scans)
28-Aug-1919
12-Aug-2004
DEAD
Caldwell Johnson
Engineer
Designer, early NASA space program
1919
TBD
Albert Kingsbury
Engineer
Kingsbury thrust bearing
23-Dec-1863
28-Jul-1943
DEAD
Chris Kraft
Engineer
Long-time voice of NASA's Mission Control
28-Feb-1924
TBD
Carver A. Mead
Engineer
Microelectronics
01-May-1934
TBD
William D. Mensch
Engineer
Co-Designer, 6502 microprocessor
09-Feb-1945
TBD
Raymond D. Mindlin
Engineer
Mindlin's problem
17-Sep-1906
22-Nov-1987
DEAD
Jay Miner
Engineer
Father of the Amiga Computer
31-May-1932
20-Jun-1994
DEAD
William Mulholland
Engineer
Los Angeles Aqueduct
11-Sep-1855
22-Jul-1935
DEAD
Burt Munro
Engineer
Subject of biopic
The World's Fastest Indian
25-Mar-1899
06-Jan-1978
DEAD
Bradford W. Parkinson
Engineer
Global Positioning System
16-Feb-1935
TBD
John Roebling
Engineer
Began construction of Brooklyn Bridge
12-Jun-1806
22-Jul-1869
DEAD
William R. Sears
Engineer
Airfoil engineer
01-Mar-1913
12-Oct-2002
DEAD
Isaac Shoenberg
Engineer
405-line format television
01-Mar-1880
25-Jan-1963
DEAD
George Stephenson
Engineer
Early railroad builder
09-Jun-1781
12-Aug-1848
DEAD
Robert Stephenson
Engineer
Builder of railroad bridges
16-Oct-1803
12-Oct-1859
DEAD
John Frank Stevens
Engineer
Chief engineer of the Panama Canal
25-Apr-1853
02-Jun-1943
DEAD
Robert Stevenson
Engineer
Scottish lighthouse designer
08-Jun-1772
12-Jul-1850
DEAD
Ivan Sutherland
Engineer
Father of computer graphics
16-May-1938
TBD
Thomas Telford
Engineer
Scottish canal, bridge, and road builder
09-Aug-1757
02-Sep-1834
DEAD
Sébastien de Vauban
Engineer
Mastermind of the siege
15-May-1633
30-Mar-1707
DEAD
Thomas A. Watson
Engineer
Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell
18-Jan-1854
13-Dec-1934
DEAD
Robert Zubrin
Engineer
Mars Direct
1952
TBD
Konrad Zuse
Engineer
Built first Turing-complete computer
22-Jun-1910
18-Dec-1995
DEAD
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