List of electrical engineers

This is a list of electrical engineers (by no means exhaustive), people who have made notable contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.

Name Contribution(s)A Norman Abramson ALOHAnet network communication Robert Campbell Aitken Testing and diagnosis of integrated circuits Ernst Alexanderson Inventing the Alexanderson alternator, amplidyne, tuned radio frequency receiver, and television advancements.Luigi AmerioLaplace transforms Edwin Armstrong Radio, Regenerative circuit, superheterodyne receiver, frequency modulation (FM) Maria Artini First female university graduate in electrical engineering in Italy (1918) Rodney Adkins First African American to serve as a senior vice president at IBM, worked on IBM ThinkPad.Mohamed M. AtallaCo-inventor of the MOSFET transistor Hertha Marks Ayrton Electric arc lighting, Hughes Medal of the Royal SocietyWilliam Edward Ayrton Measuring instruments, electric railways, searchlightB John Bardeen Two Nobel Prizes: transistor, superconductivity Emile Baudot Telegraphy communicationsAndy BechtolsheimCo-founder of Sun MicrosystemsArnold Orville BeckmanpH meter, Beckman Instruments, Silicon Valley pioneerAlexander Graham BellBell Telephone CompanyAlfred Rosling BennettPioneer of electric lighting and telephones Harold Stephen Black Negative feedback amplifier Ottó Bláthy Pioneering electrical engineerAndré BlondelOscillography, electrical machine theoryAlan BlumleinInventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television, radar Hendrik Wade Bode Control theory, Bode plot David Boggs Co-invented Ethernet Amar Bose Founder of Bose Corporation Mikhail Botvinnik Computer chess, expert system AI Paul Boucherot Reactive power Karlheinz Brandenburg Audio compression scheme MP3Charles Tilston BrightTransatlantic telegraph cable Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown Co-founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie William C. Brown Crossed-field amplifier, microwave power transmission Walter Bruch Television pioneer, inventor of the PAL colour television system Charles Brush Efficient dynamo, electric lighting, a founder of General Electric, wind power James Buie Inventor of TTL Logic Charles Frederick Burgess Battery technology development, pioneer of electrochemical engineering Vannevar Bush First practical Differential analyser, radar advancements while head of OSRD, and co-founded RaytheonC Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton Theory of television Marvin Camras Magnetic recording John Renshaw Carson Single-sideband modulation Morris Chang Founder of TSMC Harold Chestnut Helped establish the fields of control theory and systems engineering John Cioffi Digital subscriber line (DSL) James Kilton Clapp Clapp oscillator, General Radio Corporation Wesley A. Clark TX-0, TX-2, LINC one of the first minicomputers Edith Clarke First American female professor of EE, author of Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems, Alpha–beta transformation. Lynn Conway Very large scale integrated circuit design, Mead and Conway revolutionWilliam CoolidgeX-ray technology Martin Cooper Father of the wireless cellphoneWilliam CorinSnowy Mountains Scheme Ron Crane Co-inventor of Ethernet Seymour Cray Supercomputer architect Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton Electric lighting, FRS, Crompton & Company, Major in the U.K. ArmyD Sidney Darlington Darlington transistor Lee de Forest Audion vacuum tube Giovanni De Micheli Network on a chip design automation and Electronic design automation contributions Jack Dennis Time sharing, Multics Robert Dennard Dynamic random-access memory Marcel Deprez HVDC power transmission pioneer Vinod Dham Contributions to Intel's Pentium processorBern DibnerFounder Burndy Co., electrical connectors, historian of the Transatlantic telegraph cable Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky Inventor of three-phase motor Ray Dolby Dolby noise-reduction system William Duddell Oscillography, the singing arc lamp Allen DuMont Television manufacturing pioneer Russell Dupuis pioneering contributions MOCVD, LEDs, and III-V heterojunction devicesE Martin Eberhard Co-founder of Tesla John Presper Eckert Computer pioneer of the ENIAC and UNIVAC I Thomas Edison Prolific inventor: phonograph, first practical light bulb, telegraph improvements Cyril Frank Elwell Continuous Wave radio transmission, AM radio, founder of Federal Telegraph Company Douglas Engelbart Computer mouse, hypertextGertrude Lilian EntwisleFirst woman student member of Institution of Electrical Engineers first female engineer at British Westinghouse. Justus Entz Electric transmission, electric vehicles, worked with EdisonAgner Krarup ErlangCommunications and Queueing Lloyd Espenschied Developments in radio communications and coaxial cable technology.F Federico Faggin Intel microprocessor, Zilog z80 Michael Faraday Discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday shield Moses Farmer Electric railway Philo Farnsworth American television pioneer Galileo Ferraris Rotating magnetic field Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti Ferranti Corporation Reginald Fessenden 'Father' of radio broadcasting Donald Fink Radio navigation LORAN, television standards, author and editor Hal Finney Helped Satoshi Nakamoto create Bitcoin Gerhard Fischer Handheld metal detector John Ambrose Fleming Inventor of the thermionic valve (vacuum tube) Tommy Flowers Designer of the first programmable digital electronic compute, the Colossus computer Jay Forrester American computer pioneer Charles Legeyt Fortescue Symmetrical components for three-phase power system analysis Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier Physicist; Fourier transform / Fourier seriesLimor FriedFounder of Adafruit Industries, open source hardware advocateLeonard FullerRadio pioneer, carrier current on power systemsG Dennis Gabor Hungarian inventor of holography, Nobel Prize in Physics Jack Gifford Co-founded Maxim Integrated Products and Advanced Micro Devices Claire Gmachl Advanced development of quantum cascade lasers Bernhard Goldenberg Responsible for the rapid expansion of electrification in the Rhineland and Ruhr areaMaxwell K. GoldsteinHelped develop and deploy High-frequency direction finding during World War II James Edward Henry Gordon (J.E.H. Gordon) Electric lighting and power Zénobe Gramme Dynamo Elisha Gray Telephone pioneer Cecil Howard Green Co-founder of Texas Instruments Richard Grimsdale Transistorized computers Victor Grinich Co-founded Fairchild SemiconductorH Susan Hackwood Co-inventor of electro-wetting Patrick E. Haggerty Co-founder of Texas InstrumentsErna Hamburger Swiss electrical engineer working in radio-wave research. First female STEM professor in Switzerland. Edward E. Hammer Spiral compact fluorescent lamp Naomi Halas Nanophotonics Roger F. Harrington Computational electromagnetics, method of moments (MoM) Ralph Hartley Electronics Caroline Haslett Founder of The Woman Engineer Oliver Heaviside Re-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus) Oskar Heil Field-effect transistor, loudspeaker Heinrich Rudolf Hertz Hertzian waves Peter Cooper Hewitt Mercury vapor lamp, mercury arc rectifier William Hewlett Hewlett-PackardHugo HirstCo-founder of General Electric Company Marcian Hoff Co-developed the microprocessor, ADALINE neural network, least mean squares filter Godfrey Hounsfield Inventor of the world's first computed tomography (CT) scanner, shared 1979 Nobel Prize Edwin J. Houston Arc lighting, co-founder of what would become General Electric, president of AIEE John Hopkinson Inventor of three-phase electrical system Grace Hopper Computer programmer (first compiler) Jensen Huang Founder of Nvidia Lawrence A. Hyland Radar pioneer, leader of Hughes Aircraft Paul Horowitz SETI, co-author of The Art of ElectronicsMina HsiangThird Administrator of the United States Digital Service, Executive Office of the President of the United StatesI Masaru Ibuka Co-founder of Sony Kees Schouhamer Immink Pioneer optical recording, CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc Samuel Insull Central station generation, electrical utilities, Edison pioneerJ Irwin M. Jacobs Co-founder of Qualcomm Fleeming Jenkin Submarine telegraph cables Kristina Johnson Polarization-control techniquesBill JoyUnix - Sun MicrosystemsK Robert Kahn Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) with Vint CerfDawon KahngCo-inventor of the MOSFET transistor Rudolf Kálmán Inventor of the Kalman filter Kálmán Kandó Pioneer of high voltage railway electrification systems Nathaniel S. Keith Founding secretary of AIEE; electric powerArthur E. Kennelly Complex numbers in AC circuit theory Charles Kettering Automobile electrical innovations, Delco founder Jack Kilby Nobel Prize: integrated circuit Max Knoll Electron microscopeOtto A. KnoppInnovator of the standard testing transformer and the compensation winding. Alan Kotok PDP-10 John D. Kraus Radio telescope, antennas Herbert Kroemer Heterostructures and semiconductor physics Gabriel Kron DiakopticsL Eric Laithwaite Linear induction motor Uno Lamm Swedish, HVDC and mercury-arc valvesAyyalasomayajula LalithaIndia’s first female electrical engineerBenjamin G. Lamme Niagara Falls power engineeringBertha LammeWestinghouse's first female engineer, first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering Georges Leclanché Primary battery Morris E. Leeds Leeds & Northrup measurement and control devices Burn-Jeng Lin Pioneered immersion lithography at TSMC Alexander Lodygin Russian, incandescent lighting, motorsM Chris Malachowsky Co-founder of Nvidia and worked on Sun Microsystems GX graphics architecture Östen Mäkitalo 'Father' of cellular phone Guglielmo Marconi Practical radio Orlando R. Marsh Electrical sound recording Erwin Otto Marx Marx generator high voltage DCMabel Lucy MatthewsBritish electrical and production engineer, instigator of idea for the Electrical Association for Women John Mauchly ENIAC and UNIVAC I designer Florence Violet McKenzie Australia's first female EE, educator, OBE Sanjay Mehrotra Co-founder of Sandisk and CEO of Micron Charles Hesterman Merz NESCO electric power grid, England William Henry Merrill Founder of Underwriters Laboratories Robert Metcalfe Ethernet, 3ComAntonio MeucciTelephone pioneer John L. Moll Solid-state physics, the Ebers-Moll transistor model Robert Moog Electronic music pioneer, invented Moog synthesizer Daniel McFarlan Moore Electrical discharge lighting Samuel Morse Electrical telegraph and Morse codeN Satya Nadella Microsoft CEO Shuji Nakamura Blue gallium-nitride light-emitting diode Thyagarajan Nandagopal Wireless network optimization, RFID systems, and network architectures Arun Netravali HDTV, digital compression, signal processing. Edward Lawry Norton Norton's theorem Robert Noyce Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and IntelO Bernard M. (Barney) Oliver Hewlett-Packard, founder HP Labs Kenneth Olsen Magnetic-core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation Stanford R. Ovshinsky SemiconductorsP David Packard Hewlett-Packard Konstantinos Papathanassiou Polarimetric interferometry for synthetic aperture radar Robert H. Park Park's transformationMargaret PartridgeElectrical engineer, contractor and founder member of the Women's Engineering Society (WES) and the Electrical Association for Women (EAW). Helped change the International Labour Organisation convention on night work for women in 1934 David Patterson Berkeley RISC, DLX, RISC-V, reduced instruction set computerR. Fabian PeaseProfessor at Stanford University Donald Pederson 'Father' of SPICE Serge Pelissou Characterize extruded cables and components in their life cycles Dinh Thuy Phan Huy Wireless 5G research in Europe G. W. Pierce Oscillator, crystal control William Henry Preece Telegraphy, nemesis of Heaviside Curtis Priem Co-founder of Nvidia, Sun Microsystems GX architecture, IBM Professional Graphics Adapter Franklin Leonard Pope Telegraphy, electric lighting, Edison influence Valdemar Poulsen Magnetic recording Michael I. Pupin Long-distance telephone communication; "Pupin coil"R Simon Ramo Physicist, microwaves, mis