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NAME OCCUPATION SUMMARY BORN DIED  
Gene Amdahl Engineer Parallel computing pioneer 16-Nov-1922 TBD ADD
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 ADD
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 ADD
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 ADD
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 ADD
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 ADD
Carver A. Mead Engineer Microelectronics 01-May-1934 TBD ADD
William D. Mensch Engineer Co-Designer, 6502 microprocessor 09-Feb-1945 TBD ADD
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 ADD
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 ADD
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 ADD
Konrad Zuse Engineer Built first Turing-complete computer 22-Jun-1910 18-Dec-1995 DEAD