List of electrical engineers
This is a list of electrical engineers, people who have made notable contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.
| Name | Contribution |
| Otto A. Knopp | Innovator of the standard testing transformer and the compensation winding. |
| A. K. Erlang | Communications and Queueing |
| Alan Blumlein | Inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television, radar |
| Albert H. Taylor | First demonstration of radar |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Bell Telephone Company |
| Alec Reeves | Inventor of pulse code modulation |
| Alfred Rosling Bennett | Pioneer of electric lighting and telephones |
| Alessandro Volta | Inventor of electrical battery and pioneer of electrical science |
| André Blondel | Oscillography, electrical machine theory |
| Andrew Viterbi | Communications |
| Andy Bechtolsheim | Co-founder of Sun Microsystems |
| Arnold Orville Beckman | pH meter, Beckman Instruments, Silicon Valley pioneer |
| Antonio Meucci | Telephone pioneer |
| Hugo Hirst | Co-founder of General Electric Company plc |
| Benjamin G. Lamme | Niagara Falls power engineering |
| Bern Dibner | Founder Burndy Co., electrical connectors, historian of the Transatlantic telegraph cable |
| Bernard M. Oliver | Hewlett-Packard, Founder HP Labs |
| Bernard D. H. Tellegen | Inventor of the pentode, formulated Tellegen's theorem |
| Bill Joy | Unix - Sun Microsystems |
| Charles Tilston Bright | Transatlantic telegraph cable |
| Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown | Co-founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie |
| Edwin Armstrong | Radio, Regenerative circuit, superheterodyne receiver, frequency modulation |
| Hertha Marks Ayrton | Electric arc lighting, Hughes Medal of the Royal Society |
| Hidetsugu Yagi | Yagi-Uda antenna |
| John Bardeen | Two Nobel prizes: transistor, superconductivity |
| Limor Fried | Founder of Adafruit Industries, open source hardware advocate |
| Leonard F. Fuller | Radio pioneer, carrier current on power systems |
| Luigi Amerio | Laplace transforms |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | Computer chess, expert system AI |
| Norman Abramson | ALOHAnet network communication |
| Robert Campbell Aitken | testing and diagnosis of integrated circuits |
| Emile Baudot | Telegraphy communications |
| Harold Stephen Black | Negative feedback amplifier |
| Ottó Bláthy | Pioneering electrical engineer |
| Hendrik Wade Bode | Control theory, Bode plot |
| Paul Boucherot | Reactive power |
| Karlheinz Brandenburg | Audio compression scheme MP3 |
| William C. Brown | Crossed-field amplifier, microwave power transmission |
| Walter Bruch | Television pioneer, inventor of the PAL colour television system |
| Charles F. Brush | Efficient dynamo, electric lighting, a founder of General Electric, wind power |
| James L. Buie | Inventor of TTL Logic |
| Charles Frederick Burgess | Battery technology 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 |
| Edith Clarke | First American female professor of EE, author of Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems |
| Lynn Conway | Very large scale integrated circuit design, Mead & Conway revolution |
| Seymour Cray | Supercomputer architect |
| R. E. B. Crompton | Electric lighting, FRS, Crompton &Co., Major in the U.K. Army |
| Sidney Darlington | Darlington transistor |
| Lee DeForest | Audion vacuum tube |
| Jack Dennis | Time sharing, Multics |
| Robert H. Dennard | Dynamic random-access memory |
| Marcel Deprez | HVDC power transmission pioneer |
| 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 |
| Cyril Frank Elwell | Continuous Wave radio transmission, AM radio, founder of Federal Telegraph Company |
| Douglas Engelbart | Computer mouse, hypertext |
| Justus B. Entz | Electric transmission,electric vehicles, worked with Edison |
| 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 and editor |
| Gerhard Fischer | Handheld metal detector |
| John Ambrose Fleming | Inventor of the thermionic valve |
| 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 |
| Dennis Gabor | Hungarian inventor of holography, Nobel Laureate |
| Claire F. Gmachl | Advanced development of quantum cascade lasers |
| Bernhard Goldenberg | Responsible for the rapid expansion of electrification in the Rhineland and Ruhr area |
| James Edward Henry Gordon | Electric lighting and power |
| Zénobe Gramme | Dynamo |
| Elisha Gray | Telephone pioneer |
| Richard Grimsdale | Transistorized computers |
| Susan Hackwood | Co-inventor of electro-wetting |
| Edward E. Hammer | Spiral compact fluorescent lamp |
| Naomi Halas | Nanophotonics |
| Ralph Hartley | Electronics |
| Caroline Haslett | Founder of The Woman Engineer |
| Oliver Heaviside | Re-formulated Maxwell's equations |
| Oskar Heil | Field-effect transistor, loudspeaker |
| Heinrich Rudolf Hertz | Hertzian waves |
| Peter Cooper Hewitt | Mercury vapor lamp, mercury arc rectifier |
| William Hewlett | Hewlett-Packard |
| Godfrey Hounsfield | Inventor of the world's first computed tomography 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 |
| Lawrence A. Hyland | Radar pioneer, leader of Hughes Aircraft |
| Kees Schouhamer Immink | Pioneer optical recording, CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc |
| Konrad Zuse | Computers |
| Fleeming Jenkin | Submarine telegraph cables |
| Kristina M. Johnson | Polarization-control techniques |
| Paul Horowitz | SETI, co-author of The Art of Electronics |
| Samuel Insull | Central station generation, electrical utilities, Edison pioneer |
| Rudolf Kalman | Inventor of the Kalman filter |
| Kálmán Kandó | Pioneer of high voltage railway electrification systems |
| Nathaniel S. Keith | Founding secretary of 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 |
| Uno Lamm | Swedish, HVDC and mercury-arc valves |
| 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 |
| Florence Violet McKenzie | Australia's first female EE, educator, OBE |
| 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 diode |
| Edward Lawry Norton | Norton's theorem |
| Robert Noyce | Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel |
| Kenneth Olsen | Magnetic core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Stanford R. Ovshinsky | Semiconductors |
| David Packard | Hewlett-Packard |
| Robert H. Park | Park's transformation |
| 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 of TRW and Bunker Ramo Corporation |
| Richard H. Ranger | Wireless fax, radar, magnetic tape recording |
| 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 |
| Francis Ronalds | Built first working electric telegraph |
| Arye Rosen | Semiconductor devices and circuits for use in microwave systems and for microwave applications to medicine |
| 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 |
| Carl Wilhelm Siemens | Telegraphy, motors and generators, electric pyrometer |
| Alexander Siemens | Electric lighting, power, Society of Telegraph Engineers |
| Phillip Hagar Smith | Smith chart |
| Percy Spencer | Microwave oven |
| Frank J. Sprague | 'Father' of electric traction |
| Chauncey Starr | Founder of Electric Power Research Institute |
| J. J. Stiffler | key contributions in communications and fault-tolerant computing |
| Charles Proteus Steinmetz | Alternating current theories, first use of j operator |
| Sarkes Tarzian | Radio inventor, broadcasting, radio manufacturer |
| Nikola Tesla | Revolving magnetic field induction motor, Tesla coil, polyphase transmission systems, transformer |
| Silvanus P. Thompson | Educator, author, electrical machinery, X-ray technology, radio |
| Elihu Thomson | Entrepreneur, co-founder of what would become General Electric |
| William Thomson | Telegraphic cables |
| René Thury | High-voltage direct current power transmission, electric traction |
| Kálmán Tihanyi | Television pioneer |
| Philip Torchio | Edison Electric Company |
| Charles Joseph Van Depoele | Electric railway pioneer |
| C. F. Varley | Submarine cable, Varley bridge |
| Milan Vidmar | Power transformers and high-voltage transmission |
| 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 |
| Otto Julius Zobel | Filters |
| William Coolidge | X-ray technology |
| William Corin | Snowy Mountains Scheme |
| William Edward Ayrton | Measuring instruments, electric railways, searchlight |