This is a list of electrical engineers, people who made contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.
| Who | Contribution(s) |
|---|---|
| Norman Abramson | ALOHAnet network communication |
| Edwin Armstrong | Regenerative circuit, frequency modulation (FM) |
| William Edward Ayrton | Measuring instruments, electric railways, searchlight |
| John Bardeen | Two Nobel prizes: transistor, superconductivity |
| Emile Baudot | Telegraphy communications |
| Andy Bechtolsheim | Cofounder of Sun Microsystems |
| Arnold Orville Beckman | pH meter, Beckman Instruments, Silicon valley pioneer |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Bell telephone company |
| Alfred Rosling Bennett | Pioneer of electric lighting and telephones |
| Harold Stephen Black | Negative feedback amplifier |
| Ottó Bláthy | Pioneering electrical engineer |
| André Blondel | Oscillography, electrical machine theory |
| Alan Blumlein | Inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television, radar |
| Hendrik Wade Bode | Control theory, Bode plot |
| Paul Boucherot | Reactive power |
| Karlheinz Brandenburg | Audio compression scheme MP3 |
| Charles Tilston Bright | Transatlantic 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 F. Brush | Efficient dynamos, electric lighting,founder of one of the General Electric companies, wind power |
| Charles Frederick Burgess | Batteries' development, pioneer of electrochemical engineering |
| Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton | Theory of television |
| Marvin Camras | Magnetic recording |
| John Renshaw Carson | Single-sideband modulation |
| James Kilton Clapp | Clapp oscillator, General Radio Corporation |
| Lynn Conway | very large scale integrated circuit design, Mead & Conway revolution |
| William Coolidge | X-rays |
| William Corin | Snowy Mountains Scheme |
| R. E. B. Crompton | electric lighting, instruments, manufacturer |
| Seymour Cray | Supercomputer architect |
| Sidney Darlington | the Darlington transistor |
| Lee DeForest | Audion vacuum tube |
| Georges de Mestral | Velcro |
| Jack Dennis | time sharing, Multics |
| Robert H. Dennard | Dynamic random access memory |
| Marcel Deprez | HVDC power transmission pioneer |
| Bern Dibner | Founder Burndy Co., electrical connectors, historian of the Transatlantic cable |
| Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky | Inventor of three-phase motor |
| Ray Dolby | Dolby sound |
| William Duddell | Oscillography, the singing Arc lamp |
| Allen B. DuMont | television manufacturing pioneer |
| J. Presper Eckert | Computer pioneer |
| Thomas Edison | Prolific inventor: phonograph, first practical light bulb, telegraph improvements |
| Douglas Engelbart | computer mouse, hypertext |
| Justus B. Entz | Electric transmission,electric vehicles, worked with Edison |
| A. K. Erlang | Communications and Queueing |
| Lloyd Espenschied | Developments in radio communications and coaxial cable technology. |
| Federico Faggin | Intel microprocessor, Zilog z80 |
| Michael Faraday | Discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday shield |
| Moses G. Farmer | Electric railway |
| Philo T. Farnsworth | American television pioneer |
| Galileo Ferraris | Rotating magnetic field |
| Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti | Ferranti Corporation |
| Reginald Fessenden | "Father of Radio Broadcasting" |
| Donald G. Fink | Radio navigation LORAN, television standards, author |
| Gerhard Fischer | Handheld metal detector |
| John Ambrose Fleming | Inventor of the thermionic valve (vacuum tube) |
| Thomas Flowers | Designer of the first programmable digital electronic 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 series |
| Leonard F. Fuller | radio pioneer, carrier current on power systems |
| Dennis Gabor | Hungarian inventor of holography, Nobel Laureate |
| Zénobe Gramme | Dynamo |
| Elisha Gray | telephone pioneer |
| Richard Grimsdale | transistorized computers |
| Edward E. Hammer | Spiral Compact fluorescent lamp |
| Ralph Hartley | Electronics |
| 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-Packard |
| Hugo Hirst | Co founder, General Electric Company plc |
| Godfrey Hounsfield | Inventor of the world's first computed tomography (CT) scanner, shared a 1979 Nobel prize |
| Edwin J. Houston | Arc lighting, cofounder of what would become General Electric, president of AIEE |
| John Hopkinson | Inventor of Three-phase electrical system |
| Grace Hopper | Computer programmer (first compiler) |
| Paul Horowitz | SETI, coauthor of The Art of Electronics |
| Lawrence A. Hyland | Radar pioneer, leader of Hughes Aircraft |
| Kees Schouhamer Immink | Pioneer optical recording, CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc |
| Samuel Insull | Central station generation, electrical utilities, Edison Pioneer |
| Fleeming Jenkin | Submarine telegraph cables |
| Bill Joy | Unix - Sun Microsystems |
| Rudolf Kalman | Inventor of the Kalman filter |
| Kálmán Kandó | Pioneer of high voltage railway electrification systems |
| Nathaniel S. Keith | founding secretary AIEE; electric power |
| Arthur E. Kennelly | complex numbers in AC circuit theory |
| Charles Kettering | Automobile electrical innovations, Delco founder |
| Jack Kilby | Nobel prize: Integrated circuit |
| Max Knoll | Electron microscope |
| John D. Kraus | Radio telescope, antennas |
| Herbert Kroemer | Heterostructures and semiconductor physics |
| Eric Laithwaite | Linear induction motor |
| Hedy Lamarr | Communications |
| Uno Lamm | Swedish, HVDC and mercury arc valves |
| Benjamin G. Lamme | Niagara Falls power engineering |
| Georges Leclanché | primary battery |
| Morris E. Leeds | Leeds & Northrup measurement and control devices |
| Alexander Lodygin | Russian, incandescent lighting, motors |
| Östen Mäkitalo | Father of Cellular Phone |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Practical radio |
| Orlando R. Marsh | electrical sound recording |
| Erwin Otto Marx | Marx generator high voltage DC |
| John Mauchly | ENIAC designer |
| Charles Hesterman Merz | NESCO Electric power grid, England |
| William Henry Merrill | founder of Underwriters Laboratories |
| Robert Metcalfe | Ethernet, 3Com |
| 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 |
| Shuji Nakamura | blue gallium-nitride Light emitting diodes |
| Edward Lawry Norton | Norton's theorem |
| Robert Noyce | Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel |
| Bernard M. (Barney) Oliver | Hewlett-Packard, Founder HP Labs |
| Kenneth Olsen | Magnetic core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Stanford R. Ovshinsky | semiconductors |
| David Packard | Hewlett-Packard |
| Donald Pederson | Father of SPICE |
| G. W. Pierce | oscillator, crystal control |
| William Henry Preece | Telegraphy, nemesis of Heaviside |
| Franklin Leonard Pope | telegraphy, electric lighting, Edison influence |
| Valdemar Poulsen | Magnetic recording |
| Michael I. Pupin | Long-distance telephone communication. "Pupin coil" |
| Simon Ramo | Physicist, microwaves, missiles, founder TRW and Bunker Ramo Corporation |
| Richard H. Ranger | wireless fax, radar, magnetic tape recording |
| Alec Reeves | Inventor of pulse code modulation |
| Johann Philipp Reis | Inventor of the Reis telephone |
| Hyman G. Rickover | "Father of the Nuclear Navy" |
| Edward S. Rogers, Sr. | Inventor of the first successful AC radio tube |
| Harold Rosen | Syncom communication satellite |
| H. J. Round | Radio pioneer and assistant to Guglielmo Marconi |
| Reinhold Rudenberg | Electron microscope |
| Carl Louis Schwendler | Electric lighting and telegraph |
| Thomas Johann Seebeck | Thermoelectric effect |
| Oliver B. Shallenberger | AC electricity meters |
| Claude Shannon | "Father of Communication Theory" |
| Ernst Werner von Siemens | Inventor, industrialist, Siemens & Halske, Siemens (unit) |
| Carl Wilhelm Siemens | Telegraphy, motors and generators, electric pyrometer |
| Alexander Siemens | Electric lighting, power, Society of Telegraph Engineers (predecessor to IEE) |
| Phillip Hagar Smith | Smith chart |
| Percy Spencer | Microwave oven |
| Frank J. Sprague | "Father of Electric Traction" |
| Chauncey Starr | Founder, Electric Power Research Institute |
| Charles Proteus Steinmetz | Alternating current theories |
| Sarkes Tarzian | Radio inventor, broadcasting, radio manufacturer |
| Albert H. Taylor | First demonstration of radar |
| Bernard D. H. Tellegen | inventor of the Pentode, formulated Tellegen's theorem |
| Nikola Tesla | Revolving magnetic field electric motor, Tesla coil, Polyphase transmission systems, transformer |
| Silvanus P. Thompson | Educator, author, electrical machinery, X-rays, radio |
| Elihu Thomson | Entrepreneur, co-founder of what would become General Electric |
| William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) | Telegraphic cables |
| René Thury | High voltage direct current power transmission, electric traction |
| Kálmán Tihanyi | Television pioneer |
| Charles Joseph Van Depoele | Electric railway pioneer |
| C. F. Varley | Submarine cable, Varley bridge |
| Milan Vidmar | Power transformers and transmission of electric current |
| Andrew Viterbi | Communications |
| Trevor Wadley | Innovations in radio and microwave technology |
| Harry Ward Leonard | Inventor of the Ward Leonard control system. |
| Robert Watson-Watt | First practical radar |
| George Westinghouse | AC power industrialist |
| Harold Alden Wheeler | Automatic volume control, radar |
| Uncas A. Whitaker | Founder of AMP Inc. and philanthropist |
| Bob Widlar | Integrated circuits |
| Niklaus Wirth | Computer programming languages |
| Steve Wozniak | Personal computers; Apple Computer |
| Pavel Yablochkov | Electric arc lighting |
| Jerry Yang | Co-Founder, Former CEO of Yahoo |
| Hidetsugu Yagi | Yagi-Uda antenna |
| Otto Julius Zobel | Filters |
| Konrad Zuse | Computers |
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