This is a list of electrical engineers, people who were trained in or practice electrical engineering, computer engineering, etc.

Who	Contribution(s)
Edwin Armstrong	Regenerative circuit
Rowan Atkinson	Comedian
John Wolfe Barry	Institution of Electrical Engineers
Deane Blazie	founder of Blazie Engineering (now part of Freedom Scientific)
Amar Bose	Accoustics: Audio and speakers
Emile Baudot	Communications
Alexander Graham Bell	Bell telephone company
Michael Bloomberg	Businessman and Mayor
Karlheinz Brandenburg	Audio compression scheme MPEG Audio Layer 3
William Coolidge	X-rays
Seymour Cray	Supercomputer architect
Lee DeForest	Audion vacuum tube
George de Mestral	Velcro
Paul Dirac	Physicist; Dirac delta
Ray Dolby	Dolby sound
J. Presper Eckert	Computer pioneer
Thomas Edison	Principles of invention mass production
A. K. Erlang	Communications and Queueing
Edward Porter Felt	9/11 victim
Reginald Fessenden	"Father of Radio Broadcasting"
Ambrose Fleming	Inventor of the thermionic valve
Thomas Flowers	Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer
Jay Forrester	American computer pioneer
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	Physicist; Fourier transform/Fourier series
Augustin-Jean Fresnel	Optics
Bernhard Goetz	Subway vigilante
Lee Hamilton	businessman, current president of Freedom Scientific
Ralph Hartley	Electronics
Oliver Heaviside	Re-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus)
William Hewlett	Hewlett-Packard Company
Grace Hopper	Computer programmer (first compiler)
Jiang Zemin	People's Republic of China politician and statesman
Huang Ju	People's Republic of China Vice Premier
Bill Joy	Unix - Sun Microsystems
Simon R Jones	Computer Engineer
Jack Kilby	Integrated circuit
Herbert Kroemer	Heterostructures and semiconductor physics
Eric Laithwaite	Linear induction motor
Hedy Lamarr	Communications
Li Changchun	Communist Party of China Propaganda chief
Guglielmo Marconi	Practical radio
John Mauchly	ENIAC designer
Arthur Nielsen	Nielsen ratings developer
Kenneth Olsen	Magnetic core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation
David Packard	Hewlett-Packard
Mihajlo Pupin	Long-distance telephone communication. "Pupin coil"
Hyman Rickover	"Father of the Nuclear Navy"
Julius Rosenberg	Soviet spy
T.J. Seebeck	Thermoelectric effect
Claude Shannon	"Father of Communication theory"
Charles Proteus Steinmetz	Alternating current theories
Nikola Tesla	Radio and Wireless technology. "Tesla coil"
Elihu Thomson	Entrepreneur
Milan Vidmar	Power transformers and transmission of electric current
George Westinghouse	AC power Industrialist
Steve Wozniak	Personal computers; Apple Computer Company
Zhu Rongji	Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China member
Konrad Zuse	Computers

See also

• List of engineers - for lists of engineers from other disciplines.