List of engineers
This is a list of engineers who have made important contributions.
A.
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Carl Roman Dept. | 1850-1933 | Mountain railway and rack railway pioneer |
| Jakob Ackeret | 1898-1981 | aerodynamics |
| William Adams | 1823-1904 | Locomotive construction |
| Taqi ad-Din | 1526-1585 | Steam engine , piston pump , mechanical clocks , telescope |
| William Alexander Adams | 1821-1896 | Railroad car |
| William Bridges Adams | 1797-1872 | railroad |
| Clément Ader | 1841-1925 | Aderscher Telefon , aviation pioneer |
| Leonhard Adler | 1882-1965 | machine builders |
| Arnold Agatz | 1891-1980 | German port construction engineer and port construction director in Bremen |
| Ernst Alban | 1791-1856 | High pressure steam engine |
| Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson | 1878-1975 | Radiotelephony , high frequency alternating current generator |
| Al-Jazari | 1136-1206 | mechanical equipment and specialist literature |
| Othmar Ammann | 1879-1965 | Bridge building |
| William Anderson | 1834-1898 | Factory building |
| Sunshu Ao | around 630-593 BC Chr. | Chinese hydraulic engineer; irrigation |
| Hermann Appel | 1932-2002 | Motor vehicles, transportation, automotive industry |
| Alexander Alexandrovich Arkhangelsky | 1892-1988 | Aircraft construction ( Arkhangelsky Ar-2 ) |
| Archimedes | around 287–212 BC Chr. | Archimedes' principle , screw pump |
| John Argyris | 1913-2004 | Pioneer of the finite element method |
| Richard Arkwright | 1732-1792 | Spinning machine |
| Edwin Howard Armstrong | 1890-1954 | Feedback , broadband frequency modulation , multiplexing |
| Ferdinand Joseph Arnodin | 1845-1924 | Bridge, transporter bridge |
| Ove Arup | 1895-1988 | British-Danish-Norwegian engineer, structural engineer, theorist and founder of the Arup engineering office; Mulberry Harbor |
| Jean François d'Aubuisson de Voisins | 1769-1841 | French engineer and geologist; Hydraulics |
| Hertha Marks Ayrton | 1854-1923 | English mathematician and electrical engineer |
B.
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Brunolf Baade | 1904-1969 | Aircraft construction ( 152 ) |
| Joseph von Baader | 1763-1835 | Railway , engineering, mining, shipping |
| Charles Babbage | 1791-1871 | Pioneers of computer technology : Analytical machine and difference machine |
| Carl von Bach | 1847-1931 | mechanical engineering |
| George Bähr | 1666-1738 | Church building |
| John Logie Baird | 1888-1946 | watch TV |
| Benjamin Baker | 1840-1907 | Civil Engineering ( Firth of Forth Bridge ) |
| John Fleetwood Baker | 1901-1985 | British civil engineer and professor of structural engineering at Cambridge |
| Stephen Balzer | 1864-1940 | first rotary engine , Manly-Balzer engine |
| Hannskarl Bandel | 1925-1993 | Structural analysis |
| Peter Bang | 1900-1957 | Co-founder of Bang & Olufsen |
| Donát Bánki | 1859-1922 | Bánki-Csonka engine , carburetor , Bánki engine , cross- flow turbine |
| Ximen Bao | around 445 - 396 BC Chr. | Chinese hydraulic engineer; irrigation |
| John Barber | 1734-1801 | Theoretical principle of a gas turbine |
| Oskar Barnack | 1879-1936 | 35mm camera , Leica , 35mm film , 35mm format |
| John Barnard | * 1946 | Racing car developer |
| Mary Barra | * 1961 | Electrical engineer, first woman to head an automotive company (General Motors) |
| Eugenio Barsanti | 1821-1864 | Italian engineer and inventor of an internal combustion engine |
| Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld | 1861-1902 | German airship designer; Dragon balloon |
| Friedrich Bassler | 1909-1992 | German hydraulic engineer |
| Klaus-Jürgen Bathe | * 1943 | German engineering scientist, FEM |
| Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot | 1845-1903 | telecommunications |
| Gustav Bauer | 1871-1953 | Machines for high-speed steamers |
| Wilhelm Bauer | 1822-1875 | first modern submarine |
| Thank God Bauknecht | 1892-1976 | "Land friend" (Universal electric motor ), "Allfix" (electric Rührhilfe), founder of Bauknecht |
| Reinhard Baumeister | 1833-1917 | Urban development (general construction plan for Heilbronn ) |
| Johann Bauschinger | 1834-1893 | Material science, material testing, Bauschinger effect |
| Joseph Bazalgette | 1819-1891 | Civil engineering |
| Henri Bazin | 1829-1917 | France; Hydraulic engineer, Bazin flow formula |
| Andreas von Bechtolsheim | * 1956 | Computertechnik, co-founder of Sun Microsystems , Sun-1 |
| Heinrich Beck | 1878-1937 | High-performance spotlights |
| Georg Beer | around 1527–1600 | German Renaissance builder |
| Bernard de Bélidor | 1697 / 98-1761 | Engineering scientist; Hydraulics |
| Ralph Bellamy | * 1938 | Mechanical engineer, Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds | 1799-1883 | French explorer, building minister in Egypt, planning and building the Suez Canal |
| Ewald Bellingrath | 1838-1903 | shipbuilding |
| Giuseppe Belluzzo | 1876-1952 | Belluzzo steam turbine locomotive |
| August Benckiser | 1820-1894 | Machine builders; Iron foundry, bridge construction |
| Alfred Rosling Bennett | 1850-1928 | Electrical engineering |
| Carl Benz | 1844-1929 | Automobile , co-founder of Daimler Benz AG |
| Enrico Benzing | * 1932 | Machine builders; Aerodynamics, racing engine technology |
| Max Berek | 1886-1946 | Berek compensator, universal turntable, slit photometer |
| Rudolph Berg | 1823-1883 | German architect, civil engineer for hydraulic engineering and railway construction and city planning officer |
| Georgi Mikhailovich Beriev | 1903-1979 | Amphibious aircraft |
| Emil Berliner | 1851-1929 | Record , gramophone |
| Walter Bernatzik | 1899-1953 | Austrian civil engineer and geotechnician |
| Karl Bernhard | 1859-1937 | Civil engineering |
| Gabriele Bertazzolo | 1570-1626 | Italian engineer and cartographer |
| José Luis Sánchez Besa | 1879-1954 | Chilean aviation pioneer and flying boat developer |
| Henry Bessemer | 1813-1898 | Bessemer pear , Bessemer method |
| Jacques Besson | around 1540 - around 1576 | Thread lathe , first book on machine technology |
| Agustin de Betancourt | 1758-1824 | optical telegraph line |
| Karl Bethge | 1847-1900 | railroad |
| Enrico Betti | 1823-1892 | Mathematician and engineer, theorem of Betti |
| Albert Betz | 1885-1968 | Wind turbine |
| Charles Beyer (Karl Friedrich Beyer) | 1813-1876 | Railway pioneer |
| Kurt Beyer | 1881-1952 | Civil engineering |
| Otto Bieligk | 1897-1964 | German civil engineer and university professor |
| Fulgence Bienvenüe | 1852-1936 | Chief Engineer of the Paris Bridge and Road Construction Office; Paris metro |
| Paul Bilfinger | 1858-1928 | German bridge construction engineer |
| Georg Bilkenroth | 1898-1982 | Lignite industry, high temperature lignite gasification |
| Dieter Binninger | 1938-1991 | Eternity lightbulb |
| Edouard Biot | 1803-1850 | French railway engineer and sinologist |
| Marc Birkigt | 1878-1953 | Swiss automobile and engine building pioneer ( Hispano-Suiza ) |
| László József Bíró | 1899-1985 | Inventor of the ballpoint pen |
| Laurits Bjerrum | 1918-1973 | floor mechanic working in Norway |
| Viktor Blaess | 1876-1951 | German professor for applied mechanics and vibration theory |
| Heinrich Blasius | 1883-1970 | German engineer and university professor; Fluid mechanics |
| Adolf Bleichert | 1845-1901 | German engineer and entrepreneur; Cable car |
| John Blenkinsop | 1783-1831 | English engineer and entrepreneur; Cogwheel steam locomotive |
| Louis Blériot | 1872-1936 | Aviation pioneer |
| Rudolf Sigismund Blochmann | 1784-1871 | German engineer and entrepreneur, pioneer of gas lighting |
| Alan Blumlein | 1903-1942 | electrical two-channel sound recording process, stereophony , 405-line television system with 50 interlace |
| Adamo Boari | 1863-1928 | Italian civil engineer and architect |
| William Edward Boeing | 1881-1956 | Aircraft , founder of the Boeing company |
| Werner Boie | 1901-1978 | Machine builders; Combustion, power plant technology, heat technology |
| Ludwig Bölkow | 1912-2003 | jet-powered fighter aircraft |
| Léon Bollée | 1870-1913 | Automobiles ( Voiturette ) and calculating machines |
| Hermann Bonin | 1880-1945 | German mechanical engineer and rector of RWTH Aachen University |
| Hubert Cecil Booth | 1871-1955 | vacuum cleaner |
| Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward | 1890-1963 | Automotive constructions |
| Hubert Borowicka | 1910-1999 | Professor of Foundation Engineering and Soil Mechanics in Vienna |
| August from Borries | 1852-1906 | Development of steam locomotives |
| Bodo from Borries | 1905-1956 | Electrical engineering and co-inventor of the electron microscope |
| Carl Bosch | 1874-1940 | Co-developer of the Haber-Bosch process |
| Robert Bosch | 1861-1942 | Spark plug , diesel injection , founder of Bosch GmbH |
| Thomas Bouch | 1822-1880 | Railway construction (Firth-of-Tay-Bridge) |
| Isaac Watt Boulton | 1823-1899 | railroad |
| Matthew Boulton | 1728-1809 | English engineer and entrepreneur of the early Industrial Revolution |
| Eugène Bourdon | 1808-1884 | French watchmaker, engineer and inventor; Bourdon pen |
| Joseph Bramah | 1748-1814 | Hydraulic press |
| Giovanni Branca | 1571-1645 | Inventor of the steam turbine |
| Karl Brandau | 1849-1917 | German engineer and entrepreneur |
| Karlheinz Brandenburg | * 1954 | MP3 format |
| Heinz Brandl | * 1940 | Austrian civil engineer and geotechnician |
| Alfred Brandt | 1846-1899 | German engineer and inventor of the hydraulic rotary drill; Simplon tunnel |
| Thomas Brassey | 1805-1870 | English entrepreneur and civil engineer; Railway construction |
| Ferdinand Braun | 1850-1918 | Electrical engineering ( Braun tube ) |
| Wernher von Braun | 1912-1977 | Rocket and space technology |
| Karl Julius Braunsdorf | 1807-1883 | Machine builders; Wire rope conveyance |
| George Brayton | 1830-1892 | Researcher, inventor and entrepreneur ( Brayton cycle , Brayton engine, road and rail vehicles with Brayton engines) |
| Louis Charles Breguet | 1880-1955 | Gyroplane , co-founder of Air France |
| Louis Brennan | 1852-1932 | Irish-Australian designer and inventor; Torpedo, monorail |
| Guido Brescius | 1824-1864 | Railway construction |
| Rudolf Bredt | 1842-1900 | Machine builders; Crane construction, Bredt formula |
| Jacob and John Watkins board | 1808-1898, 1805-1863 |
Telegraphy , submarine cables |
| Johan August Brinell | 1849-1925 | Brinell machine , hardness of metals and alloys |
| Eric Broadley | 1928-2017 | Vehicle developer |
| Alec Broers | * 1938 | Electrical engineers and nanotechnicians , electron beam devices |
| Johann Brotan | 1843-1918 | Machine builders; Locomotive tube fire box ( Brotankessel ) |
| Samuel Brown | 1776-1852 | Bridge construction, chain bridge |
| Samuel Brown | ? -? | Combustion engine (gas engine) |
| Walter Bruch | 1908-1990 | watch TV |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 1806-1859 | Transportation: (shipbuilding, railway construction) |
| Marc Isambard Brunel | 1769-1849 | Tunnel construction (Thames tunnel) |
| Stefan Bryla | 1886-1943 | Technical and textbooks |
| Alfred Büchi | 1879-1959 | turbocharger |
| Hermann Bucking | 1848-1926 | German civil engineer and senior civil engineer in Bremen |
| Edwin Beard Budding | 1795-1846 | mechanical cylinder mower |
| Ettore Bugatti | 1881-1947 | automobile |
| Gerald Bull | 1928-1990 | Engineer, artillery gun |
| Hans-Jörg Bullinger | * 1944 | Machine builders; Fraunhofer Society |
| Bernardo Buontalenti | 1531-1608 | Italy; Fortifications, theater machines |
| Eberhard Burger | * 1943 | Construction director for the reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche |
| Arnold Bürkli | 1833-1894 | Urban planning ( Zurich ) |
| Fritz Büsching | * 1940 | Civil engineer and hydraulic engineer |
| Adolf Busemann | 1901-1986 | Aerodynamicist |
| Vannevar Bush | 1890-1974 | Analog computer |
| David Bushnell | 1740-1824 | first submarine |
| Cécile Butticaz | 1884-1966 | first European female electrical engineer |
C.
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Santiago Calatrava | * 1951 | Architecture and Civil Engineering ( Turning Torso , Puente del Alamillo ) |
| Rudolf Camerer | 1869-1921 | German mechanical engineer and university professor; specific speed |
| Giovanni Battista Caproni | 1886-1957 | Aviation pioneer |
| Albert Caquot | 1881-1976 | France; Aviation and civil engineering |
| Gerolamo Cardano | 1501-1576 | Italy; Polymath; Medicine, mathematics, engineering, architecture and much more. The cardan shaft is named after him. |
| Rudolf von Carnall | 1804-1874 | German mining engineer |
| Edmond Cartwright | 1743-1823 | mechanical loom |
| Arthur Casagrande | 1902-1981 | Soil mechanics , geotechnics and civil engineering |
| Carlo Alberto Castigliano | 1847-1884 | Builder, engineer and scientist |
| Salomon de Caus | 1576-1626 | Co-inventor of the steam engine |
| Louis Alexandre de Cessari | 1719-1806 | Hydraulic structures near Cherbourg |
| Clyde Vernon Cessna | 1879-1954 | Aviation pioneer |
| Albert Champion | 1878-1927 | AC spark plug, Champion Ignition Company |
| Octave Chanute | 1832-1910 | American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer |
| André Chapelon | 1892-1988 | Development of steam locomotives |
| Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman | 1928-1982 | Lotus founder |
| Claude Chappe | 1763-1805 | optical telegraph |
| Alexander Alexandrovich Kharkevich | 1904-1965 | Scientist and pioneer in communications technology |
| Jacques Charles | 1746-1823 | Hydrogen balloon |
| Antoine de Chézy | 1718-1798 | Hydraulics |
| John Walter Christie | 1865-1944 | Christie drive (armored suspension), u. a. for the T-34 . Turret for ship guns , front-wheel drive for automobiles |
| Walter Percy Chrysler | 1875-1940 | automobile |
| Juan de la Cierva | 1895-1936 | Aviation pioneer |
| Cesar Cipolletti | 1843-1908 | Italian / Argentine engineer, hydraulic engineering |
| André Citroën | 1878-1935 | automobile |
| Émile Clapeyron | 1799-1864 | French physicist and engineer; Thermal equation of state of ideal gases , Clapeyron equation , Clausius-Clapeyron equation , Clapeyron slope , Clapeyron equation in structural engineering / beam theory |
| Adolphe Clément | 1855-1928 | Automobile and airship pioneer, designer and entrepreneur |
| Heinrich Clobes | around 1880 – around 1935 | mechanical street sweeper |
| Henry Clothier | 1872-1938 | English heavy current engineer and inventor |
| Ray W. Clough | 1920-2016 | Structural engineering and co-founder of the finite element method |
| Henri Marie Coanda | 1886-1972 | Thermal jet |
| Christopher Cockerell | 1910-1999 | Hovercraft |
| Edmond Coignet | 1851-1915 | Concrete moated castle, water towers |
| François Coignet | 1814-1888 | Reinforced concrete pioneer |
| Ludwig August Colding | 1815-1888 | Danish physicist and engineer; Conservation of energy law, road construction, gas and water supply |
| Alexandre Collin | 1808-1890 | French civil engineer, geotechnical pioneer |
| Samuel Colt | 1814-1862 | Inventor of the Colt - revolver |
| Charles Combes | 1801-1872 | French engineer |
| Nicolas-Jacques Conté | 1755-1805 | Hardness of pencils , optical telegraphy |
| William Fothergill Cooke | 1806-1879 | telegraphy |
| John Cooper | 1923-2000 | Automobile and racing car designer |
| Henry Cort | 1740-1800 | England; Iron rolling, puddling process |
| Heitor da Silva Costa | 1873-1947 | Civil engineering ( Christ statue ) in Rio de Janeiro |
| Mike Coughlan | * 1959 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Charles Augustin de Coulomb | 1736-1806 | Engineer officer and physicist; Contributions to electrostatics ( Coulomb's law ), magnetostatics, structural analysis, earth pressure, shear law, static friction |
| Pierre Couplet | around 1670–1743 | Earth pressure on vault construction |
| Poul La Cour | 1846-1908 | Wind turbine |
| Jack Cover | 1920-2009 | Stun gun |
| Edward Alfred Cowper | 1819-1893 | Cowper apparatus ( wind heater ), bicycle tangential spokes |
| André Coyne | 1891-1960 | Dams , especially arch dams |
| Thomas Russell Crampton | 1816-1888 | Mechanical engineering: steam-powered driving machine, Crampton locomotive |
| Luigi Cremona | 1830-1903 | Italian mathematician, structural engineer and politician; Cremonaplan |
| Hardy Cross | 1885-1959 | Cross procedure |
| Frank Crowe | 1882-1946 | American civil engineer; Chief Engineer at Hoover Dam and other major dams |
| Johann Culemeyer | 1883-1951 | German civil engineer and Reichsbahn machine technician; Street scooter "Culemeyer" |
| Karl Culmann | 1821-1881 | Truss bridges, truss theory |
| Charles Gordon Curtis | 1860-1953 | American engineer, inventor, and patent attorney; Curtis steam turbine |
| Glenn Curtiss | 1878-1930 | Aviation pioneer |
D.
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Gustaf Dalén | 1869-1937 | Swedish engineer, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 |
| Gottlieb Daimler | 1834-1900 | Petrol engine (further development of the Otto engine ), automobile , co-founder of Daimler Benz AG |
| Ernst Danielson | 1866-1907 | Swedish heavy current engineer, pioneers in Swedish electrical engineering |
| Konrad Dannenberg | 1912-2009 | Rocket pioneer , V2 rocket development program Peenemünde |
| Henry Darcy | 1803-1858 | Groundwater and seepage currents |
| Sidney Darlington | 1906-1997 | impulskomprimierende chirp - radar technology , Darlington circuit |
| Alexandre Darracq | 1855-1931 | Automotive pioneer, designer and entrepreneur |
| Georges Darrieus | 1888-1979 | Darrieus rotor ( wind turbine ) |
| Marcel Dassault | 1892-1986 | Mirage aircraft, founder of Dassault Aviation |
| Kurt Heinrich Debus | 1908-1983 | German rocket pioneer |
| Alonzo G. Decker | 1884-1956 | Co-founder of Black & Decker , pistol grip with built-in pressure switch on hand drill |
| Wolfgang Deppert | * 1938 | Mechanical engineer and philosopher |
| Marcel Depréz | 1843-1918 | Electrical engineer; Energy transfer |
| Frank Dernie | * 1950 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Jochen Deuse | * 1967 | Machine builders; Work and production systems |
| John Dickinson | 1782-1869 | Paper machine |
| William KL Dickson | 1860-1935 | Electrical engineer and inventor - kinetograph , kinetoscope |
| Rudolf Diesel | 1858-1913 | Diesel engine |
| Albert de Dion | 1856-1946 | Automotive pioneer |
| Silviu Dimitrovici | 1925-1964 | Civil engineering |
| Franz Dischinger | 1887-1953 | Reinforced concrete shell construction and prestressed concrete |
| Ray Dolby | 1933-2013 | Dolby process |
| Mikhail Ossipowitsch Doliwo-Dobrowolski | 1862-1919 | Asynchronous motor , three-phase current , three-phase high-voltage transmission , phase meter , ferrodynamic wattmeter |
| Nikolai Antonowitsch doll scarf | 1899-2000 | Soviet-Russian energy technician; soviet atomic bomb |
| Hans Dominik | 1872-1945 | Electrical engineering , mechanical engineering and science fiction novels |
| Bryan Donkin | 1768-1855 | Co-inventor of the high-speed press and the drying cylinder |
| Walter Dornberger | 1895-1980 | Mechanical engineer and major general of the German Wehrmacht, rocket weapons , rocket technology |
| Claude Dornier | 1884-1969 | Aircraft construction ( Do 17 , Do 217 , Alpha Jet ) |
| Donald Wills Douglas | 1892-1981 | Planes , McDonnell Douglas |
| Karl Drais | 1785-1851 | Bicycle ( draisine ) |
| Charles Stark Draper | 1901-1987 | Inertial navigation system |
| Heinrich Dubbel | 1873-1947 | Machine builders; Paperback for mechanical engineering |
| Henri Edouard Dubied | 1823-1878 | Founder of Edouard Dubied & Cie. SA , further development of the knitting machine |
| André Dubonnet | 1897-1980 | Entrepreneur ( Dubonnet , Dubonnet (automobile manufacturer) ), development of the Dubonnet suspension |
| Alfred Durand-Claye | 1841-1888 | French engineer; Sewage fields |
| Gérard Ducarouge | 1941-2015 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Keith Duckworth | 1933-2005 | British engineer; Motors for automotive sports |
| William Du Bois Duddell | 1872-1917 | English electrical engineer |
| Momir Durovic | * 1941 | Electrical engineering |
| Joseph-Michel Dutens | 1765-1848 | French civil engineer and economist |
| Karl Dyckerhoff | 1825-1893 | German civil engineer, grandson of the company's founder Dyckerhoff |
| Wilhelm Gustav Dyckerhoff | 1805-1894 | Civil engineering, founder of Dyckerhoff AG |
| James Dyson | * 1947 | Founder of Dyson , Bagless Vacuum Cleaner, Rotorless Fan |
E.
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| George Eastman | 1854-1932 | Polaroid , Kodak |
| John Presper Eckert | 1919-1995 | Computer pioneer |
| Thomas Alva Edison | 1847-1931 | Electrical engineering : incandescent lamp , microphone , electric motor , generator , Edison effect , phonograph |
| Harold E. Edgerton | 1903-1990 | Stroboscope |
| Power Arnold Ehricke | 1917-1984 | German-American rocket engineer ; V2 rocket development program Peenemünde |
| Gustave Eiffel | 1832-1923 | Eiffel Tower , Statue of Liberty |
| Roland Eisenlohr | 1887-1959 | German aviation technician and civil engineer |
| Paul Eisler | 1907-1992 | Circuit board |
| Anton Elbel | 1834-1912 | Austrian locomotive designer |
| Ægidius Elling | 1861-1949 | first working gas turbine |
| James Elmes | 1782-1862 | Civil engineering and architecture |
| Ludwig Elsbett | 1913-2003 | Elsbett engine |
| Friedrich Ignaz Edler von Emperger | 1862-1942 | Founder of the concrete calendar |
| Hubert Engels | 1854-1945 | German hydraulic engineer and university professor |
| Wilhelm Engerth | 1814-1884 | Mountain locomotive |
| John Ericsson | 1803-1889 | Steam locomotives, ship propellers, hot air engines |
| Nils Ericson | 1802-1870 | Swedish engineer; Trollhabe Canal |
| Hans Conrad Escher from Linth | 1767-1823 | Civil engineering |
| Nicolas Esquillan | 1902-1989 | Bridge and shell construction |
| Use Essers | 1898-1994 | Aircraft designer, autobiographer and biographer; Engineering diploma in 1926 at the Institute for Mechanics and Aerodynamics of Aeronautics at the Royal Rhenish-Westphalian Polytechnic School in Aachen with Theodore von Kármán , doctorate in 1929 from TH Berlin - the first doctorate to be awarded to a woman in the mechanical engineering department. |
| Maria Esslinger | 1913-2009 | Aeronautical engineer, developed method for calculating orthotropic plates , research on post-buckling behavior in shells |
| Eupalinos | 6th century BC Chr. | Tunnel construction ( Tunnel des Eupalinos ) |
| August Hanns Leonhard Euler | * 1940 | German development engineer at Eurocopter |
| Oliver Evans | 1755-1819 | American inventor and entrepreneur. Automatic flour mill , conveyor system , machine for flour cooling, steam excavator , amphibious vehicle ( Orukter Amphibolos ), improvement of the high - pressure steam machine , basics for steam refrigerator. Standard works on milling |
| George Everest | 1790-1866 | Surveying technology |
| James Alfred Ewing | 1855-1935 | Magnetism, hysteresis |
| Karl Exter | 1816-1870 | German railway pioneer |
| Johann Albert Eytelwein | 1764-1848 | Civil engineering , architecture and hydraulic engineering |
| Max Eyth | 1836-1906 | Mechanical engineering, literature |
F.
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Oscar Faber | 1886-1956 | English civil engineer |
| Sir William Fairbairn | 1789-1874 | iron hull, Lancashire boiler |
| Henri Farman | 1874-1958 | Aviation and automotive pioneer, entrepreneur |
| Johannes Faulhaber | 1580-1635 | German mathematician, engineer and fortress builder |
| Wolmar Fellenius | 1876-1957 | Geotechnics |
| Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti | 1864-1930 | Ferranti-Thomson alternator , electrolytic electricity meter |
| Galileo Ferraris | 1847-1897 | Three-phase technology , Ferraris meters , Ferrari rotors |
| Reginald Fessenden | 1866-1932 | "Father of Radio - Broadcasting's " |
| Fritz Fiedler | 1899-1972 | BMW- Ägide |
| Henri Fierz | 1897-1972 | Swiss aircraft designer and entrepreneur |
| Albert Fink | 1827-1897 | Railway bridges |
| James Finley | 1756-1828 | Bridge construction (Jacob's Creek Bridge) |
| Ulrich Finsterwalder | 1897-1988 | Structures |
| Aristotle Fioravanti | around 1415 or 1420 - around 1486 | Italian builder of the Renaissance; Military engineer and artillery commander |
| Artur Fischer | 1919-2016 | Fischer dowels , Fischertechnik |
| Werner Fischer | * 1939 | Mechanical engineer, university didactic |
| Karl Flach | 1821-1866 | German-Chilean engineer; U-boat flat (submarine) |
| Eugène Flachat | 1802-1873 | French railway engineer |
| John Ambrose Fleming | 1849-1945 | Tube diode , electron tube , " Fleming valve " |
| Anton Flettner | 1885-1961 | Flettner rotor , airplanes, helicopters |
| Henrich Focke | 1890-1979 | helicopter |
| Anton Herman Gerard Fokker | 1890-1939 | Planes |
| August Föppl | 1854-1924 | Construction, electrodynamics, Föppl bracket |
| Hermann Föttinger | 1877-1945 | Torque converter |
| Philipp Forchheimer | 1852-1933 | Civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, Forchheimer's equation |
| Henry Ford | 1863-1947 | Automobile and assembly line manufacturing |
| Lee de Forest | 1873-1961 | Vacuum tube ( triode ) |
| Mauro Forghieri | * 1935 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Rudolf Formis | 1894-1935 | German engineer and radio technician |
| Jay W. Forrester | 1918-2016 | Computer technology pioneer |
| Benoit Fourneyron | 1802-1867 | Fourneyron turbine |
| John Fowler | 1826-1864 | Steam plow |
| John Fowler | 1817-1898 | Railway bridge construction ( Firth of Forth Bridge ) |
| Charles Fox | 1810-1874 | Civil and Railway Engineering ( Crystal Palace ) |
| Douglas Fox | 1840-1921 | British civil engineer, railway pioneer, bridge and tunnel builder |
| James Fox | 1789-1859 | Machine tools |
| Henri de France | 1911-1986 | watch TV |
| James B. Francis | 1815-1892 | Francis turbine |
| Rudolf Franke | 1870-1962 | German electrical engineer |
| Ludwig Franzius | 1832-1903 | German hydraulic engineer, Bremen senior construction director, " Weserkorrektion " |
| Otto Franzius | 1877-1936 | German civil engineer for hydraulic engineering and rector of the TH Hannover |
| Augustin Jean Fresnel | 1788-1827 | Fresnel lens , wave structure of light |
| Eugène Freyssinet | 1879-1962 | Prestressed concrete , bridges , halls, hangars, dams |
| Conrad Freytag | 1846-1921 | Reinforced concrete construction |
| Carl Ludwig Fresh | 1830-1890 | Telegraphy , intercom, railroad block, forerunner of the loudspeaker , first electric locomotive |
| Max Friz | 1883-1966 | Airplane engine with altitude carburetor, BMW R32 motorcycle |
| Otto Karl Fröhlich | 1885-1964 | Austrian civil engineer and geotechnician |
| Alfred Führböter | 1931-1992 | Civil engineer and hydraulic engineer |
| Robert Fulton | 1765-1815 | Submarine, steamships North River Steam Boat , USS Fulton |
G
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Dennis Gábor | 1900-1979 | Hungarian engineer; Nobel Prize in Physics 1971 (invention of holography ) |
| Elijah Galloway | ? -1856 | Displacement forming prime mover |
| Henry Gantt | 1861-1919 | Machine builders; Project management , Gantt chart |
| Josef Ganz | 1899-1967 | Automobile constructions ( VW Beetle ) |
| Herbert William Garratt | 1864-1913 | English locomotive designer and inventor of the Garratt locomotive |
| Louis Gathmann | 1843-1917 | Mills, guns |
| Lucien Gaulard | 1850-1888 | AC transformers |
| Emiland-Marie Gauthey | 1732-1806 | Churches, canal construction, bridges |
| Fritz Heinrich Birth | 1883-1952 | first electrically heated sauna |
| William Ged | 1699-1749 | Stereotype |
| Robert W. Gore | * 1937 | Gore-Tex |
| Heinrich Gottfried Gerber | 1832-1912 | Bridge construction, tanner girders |
| Franz Anton von Gerstner | 1796-1840 | Bohemian-Austrian engineer and railway pioneer |
| Robert Gerwig | 1820-1885 | German civil engineer and politician; Road construction, railways |
| Carl Ritter von Ghega | 1802-1860 | Semmering Railway |
| Henri Giffard | 1825-1882 | Airships |
| Karl Heinrich Gisbert Gillhausen | 1856-1917 | Bridges, industrial plants |
| Julius Wilhelm Gintl | 1804-1883 | Austrian telegraph network |
| Philippe Henri de Girard | 1775-1845 | Flax spinning machine , tubular boiler, rotating steam engine , steam cannon |
| Pierre-Simon Girard | 1765-1836 | Hydraulics |
| Kate Gleason | 1865-1933 | Inventor of the prefabricated house |
| Alfred de Glehn | 1848-1936 | Development of steam locomotives |
| Jacob Goedecker | 1882-1957 | Aircraft construction |
| George Washington Goethals | 1858-1928 | Builder of the Panama Canal |
| Emanuel Goldberg | 1881-1970 | Chemist, technician, inventor and pioneer of computer science |
| Rudolf Goldschmidt | 1876-1950 | High frequency telegraph |
| Karl Gölsdorf | 1861-1916 | Austrian locomotive designer |
| Louis Adolf Gölsdorf | 1837-1911 | Austrian locomotive designer |
| Bernd Gombert | * 1960 | Mechanical engineer, mechatronics engineer ; Brake-by-wire |
| Daniel Gooch | 1816-1889 | Railway engineer and British MP |
| Fritz Gosslau | 1898-1965 | Test engineer at the Fieseler works , jet engine |
| Eveline Gottzein | * 1931 | Aerospace Engineering |
| Hans Grade | 1879-1946 | Aviation pioneer; first powered flight in Germany |
| Franz Grashof | 1826-1893 | Technical science, machine science |
| Elisha Gray | 1835-1901 | Telegraphy , telephone , " telautograph " |
| Nigel Gresley | 1876-1941 | Mechanical engineer, steam locomotive designer ; LNER class A4 |
| Otto Griessing | 1897-1958 | People's Receiver |
| Alan Arnold Griffith | 1893-1963 | British engineer; Fatigue , jet turbines |
| Helmut Gröttrup | 1916-1981 | Steering and control systems of the V2 |
| Martin Fürchtegott Brooder | 1851-1935 | German mechanical engineer; Gruger equation |
| Max Grundig | 1908-1989 | Founder of Grundig AG |
| Heinrich Eduard Gruner | 1873-1947 | Swiss civil engineer; Hydroelectric power stations, arch dam on Lac de Montsalvens |
| Gustav Guanella | 1909-1982 | Swiss electrical engineer and inventor; High frequency technology DSSS , balun |
| Gerd Gudehus | * 1938 | German engineering scientist; Soil mechanics and foundation |
| Otto von Guericke | 1602-1686 | Vacuum , air pressure , meteorology , electricity |
| Mikhail Iossifowitsch Gurevich | 1893-1976 | MiG aircraft |
| John Gwynn | 1713-1786 | Bridge building |
H
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Conrad Haas | 1509-1576 | Military and missile technology |
| Timothy Hackworth | Beginning 19th century | English engineer; Steam locomotive "Puffing Billy" 1813 |
| Philipp Matthäus Hahn | 1739-1790 | Inclination balance , adding machine |
| Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen | 1797-1884 | Hagen-Poiseuille's law |
| Charles Martin Hall | 1863-1914 | Hall-Héroult process for aluminum extraction |
| William Halcrow | 1883-1958 | Tunnel, war technology |
| Jørgen Brinch Hansen | 1909-1969 | Danish civil engineer; Foundation engineering and soil mechanics |
| Thomas Harrison | 1744-1829 | Bridge building |
|
Charles Augustus Hartley (also Härtling or Hartmann) |
1825-1915 | Hydraulic engineering |
| Richard Hartmann | 1809-1878 | Steam locomotive , Saxon machine factory |
| Wilhelm Eugen Hartmann | 1853-1915 | Spring galvanometer and mirror galvanometer |
| Friedrich August Haselwander | 1859-1932 | Inventor of the alternator |
| Zvi Hashin | 1929-2017 | Solid mechanics |
| Caroline Haslett | 1895-1957 | English electrical engineer and founder of the British Women's Engineering Society (WES) |
| Walter Häussermann | 1914-2010 | German-American rocket engineer |
| Geoffrey de Havilland | 1882-1965 | Aviation pioneer |
| Thomas Hawksley | 1807-1893 | Water supply |
| Gebhard Hees | 1926-2009 | German civil engineer and professor of structural engineering |
| Ernst Heinrich Heinkel | 1888-1958 | Aviation pioneer |
| Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck | 1845-1904 | Hefner candle , electrical engineering |
| Roland Heinisch | * 1942 | Machine builders; Deutsche Bahn AG |
| Henry Selby Hele-Shaw | 1854-1941 | British engineer and university professor; Automotive and aerospace, Hele Shaw cell |
| Jozef Karol Hell | 1713-1789 | Mining engineer; Inventor of a water pump |
| Rudolf Hell | 1901-2002 | German electrical engineer and inventor with 131 patents |
| Richard von Helmholtz | 1852-1934 | German engineer and steam locomotive designer |
| Kurt Hemmerling | 1898-1977 | Theater construction |
| Heinrich Hencky | 1885-1951 | German engineer |
| Carl Anton Henschel | 1780-1861 | Hydraulic chain blower, Henschel-Jonval turbine |
| Moritz Hensoldt | 1821-1903 | Pioneer of optics , microscopy , binoculars - and geodetic sector , orthoscopic eyepiece , binocular , scale - rangefinder , Pentagon - angle prism |
| Gunter Henn | * 1947 | Architecture and civil engineering |
| Walter Henn | 1912-2006 | Architecture and civil engineering |
| François Hennebique | 1842-1921 | Reinforced concrete |
| Otto Henninger | 1885-1966 | German engineer; Schluchseewerk |
| Kurt Herdemerten | 1900-1951 | German mining engineer and polar explorer |
| Carl Hering | 1860-1926 | Electrical engineer; Induction experiment |
| August Hertwig | 1872-1955 | German civil engineer, construction officer and university lecturer |
| Max Duke | 1926-2012 | Swiss civil engineer |
| Jürgen Hesselbach | * 1949 | Machine builders; University professor |
| William Hewlett | 1913-2001 | Hewlett-Packard Company |
| Heron of Alexandria | probably 1st century AD | Heron's ball , also called aeolipile |
| Edmund Heusinger from Waldegg | 1817-1886 | Mechanical engineer, railway pioneer; Heusinger control for steam locomotives |
| Johann Wilhelm van Heys | 1871-1960 | Wind turbines |
| Wolfgang Hilberg | 1932-2015 | Radio controlled clock |
| Ott Christoph Hilgenberg | 1896-1976 | Electrical engineering; Expansion theory |
| Bernd Hillemeier | * 1941 | Civil engineer; Building materials and building material testing |
| Hans Hoebel | 1877-1966 | German hydraulic engineer |
| Karl Hofacker | 1897-1991 | Swiss civil engineer |
| Wilhelm Hoff | 1883-1945 | German flight technician |
| Wilhelm Höpflinger | 1853-1928 | Ball bearings, Höpflinger ball cage for roller bearings |
| Walter Hohmann | 1880-1945 | Space pioneer |
| Herman Hollerith | 1860-1929 | Punch card system |
| Hans Erich Hollmann | 1899-1960 | Radar technology |
| August Friedrich Wilhelm Holtzhausen | 1768-1827 | Steam engine |
| Karl Holub | 1830-1903 | Weapon technology : tabernacle lock |
| Helmut Hölzer | 1912-1996 | German computer and rocket pioneer |
| Hans Holzwarth | 1877-1953 | German mechanical engineer, inventor of the Holzwarth gas turbine |
| Hellmut Homberg | 1909-1990 | German civil engineer; Bridge construction, girder grid calculation |
| Hermann Honnef | 1878-1961 | Wind turbine |
| Thank God Honold | 1876-1923 | senior engineer at Robert Bosch , automotive engineering; High voltage magneto ( spark plug ) |
| Max Honsell | 1843-1910 | Hydraulic engineering |
| Hanns Hörbiger | 1860-1931 | World ice theory |
| August Horch | 1868-1951 | Automobile, Audi |
| Ludwig Hotopp | 1854-1934 | German civil engineer; Hotoppsche locks |
| Bernhard Howaldt | 1850-1908 | Machine, ship and plant engineering entrepreneur from Kiel |
| Georg Howaldt | 1841-1909 | Kiel entrepreneur and shipbuilder |
| Elias Howe | 1819-1867 | Further development of the sewing machine |
| William Howe | 1803-1852 | American lattice bridges, How girders |
| Alexander Hrennikoff | 1896-1984 | Co-founder of the finite element method |
| Jürgen Hubbert | * 1939 | Machine builders; Daimler AG |
| Fritz Huber | 1881-1942 | German designer and "father of the bulldog " |
| Ernst Hueter | 1896-1954 | German theoretical electrical engineer |
| David Edward Hughes | 1831-1900 | Type printing telegraph , Hughes telephone |
| Thomas JR Hughes | * 1943 | American engineer and mathematician |
| Pierre Henri Hugoniot | 1851-1887 | Rankine-Hugoniot equation |
| Sven Hultin | 1889-1952 | Swedish civil engineer and geotechnical pioneer |
| Carl Humann | 1839-1896 | German engineer and archaeologist; Pergamon Altar |
| Walter Hunt | 1796-1859 | Safety pin , tricycle , rocket ball , further development of the sewing machine |
| Benjamin Huntsman | 1704-1776 | England; Iron smelting, cast steel |
| Ulrich W. Hütter | 1910-1990 | Wind turbine |
| Mikael Juul Hvorslev | 1895-1989 | Danish pioneer of soil mechanics |
I.
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin | 1894-1977 | Ilyushin aircraft |
| Mario Illien | * 1949 | Machine builders; Formula 1 engine developer, Ilmor |
| Karl Imhoff | 1876-1965 | Civil engineering , pioneer in sewage technology |
| Imhotep | around 2700 BC Chr. | Pyramid construction , water supply. (The oldest engineer known by name and the only one worshiped as a god.) |
| Otto Intze | 1843-1904 | Hydraulic engineering , pioneer of dam construction and water towers |
| Benjamin F. Isherwood | 1822-1915 | Machine builders; Railway construction and shipbuilding |
| Heinz Isler | 1926-2009 | Swiss civil engineer; Shell structures |
| Shun'ichi Iwasaki | * 1926 | Computer hard drives |
J
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Otto Jabelmann | 20th century | Challenger , Bigboy locomotives |
| Joseph-Marie Jacquard | 1752-1834 | Net knitting machine , jacquard loom (" jacquard machine ") |
| Alexander Sergejewitsch Jakowlew | 1906-1989 | Yakovlev aircraft |
| József Jáky | 1893-1950 | Hungarian civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics |
| Nilmar Janbu | 1921-2013 | Norwegian civil engineer and soil mechanic |
| Karl Janisch | 1870-1946 | German mechanical engineer and industry manager |
| Gabriel Janka | 1864-1932 | Austrian forest scientist; Hardness testing of wood |
| Karl Guthe Jansky | 1905-1950 | Radio astronomy |
| Richard Jelinek | 1914-2010 | Austrian civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics, professor in Munich |
| Fleeming Jenkin | 1833-1885 | British electrical engineer |
| Ronald Jenkins | 1907-1975 | English engineer; Structural Engineering , Mulberry Harbor |
| Alfred Jensch | 1912-2001 | Reflecting telescopes and other astronomical instruments |
| Hans-Ludwig Jessberger | 1932-2001 | German civil engineer for foundation engineering |
| William Jessop | 1745-1814 | English civil engineer; Canal construction, port construction, railways |
| Steve Jobs | 1955-2011 | Co-founder of Apple , Apple I and II |
| Nicolas J. Jonval | around 1843 | Henschel-Jonval turbine |
| Claude François Jouffroy d'Abbans | 1751-1832 | French engineer, first steamship |
| Bill Joy | * 1954 | Co-developer of Unix , vi , further development of TCP / IP , SPARC , Solaris (SunOS), Java , Jini , co-founder of Sun Microsystems , father of the open source idea |
| Reinhardt Jünemann | * 1936 | Machine builders; industrial logistics |
| Hugo Junkers | 1859-1935 | Airplanes , counter-rotating engines , gas appliances, bath stoves, jet coolers |
| Günther W. Jörg | * 1927 | Ground effect vehicles , tandem Airfoil flair boats |
K
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Mikhail Timofejewitsch Kalashnikov | 1919-2013 | Assault rifle ( AK-47 ) |
| Gaspar Kani | 1910-1968 | Civil engineer; Kani method |
| Viktor Kaplan | 1876-1934 | Kaplan turbine |
| Theodore von Kármán | 1881-1963 | aerodynamics |
| Shōzō Kawasaki | 1837-1912 | Shipbuilding, aerospace technology, vehicle construction (railways, construction vehicles, motorcycles), structural and civil engineering as well as machine and energy plant construction (gas turbines, wind turbines) |
| Karl Kegel | 1876-1959 | Mining engineer , lignite briquetting |
| Hans-Peter Keitel | * 1947 | German civil engineer and manager |
| Rob Kell | 1902-1983 | Heating and ventilation technology |
| Franz Keller | 1807-1870 | Engineer; Railway network in Baden |
| Carl waiter | 1826-1855 | Telescopes, microscopes, orthoscopic eyepiece (Kellner eyepiece) |
| Hermann Kemper | 1892-1977 | Magnetic levitation train |
| Jean Kerisel | 1908-2005 | French geotechnical engineer, researcher of historical construction methods |
| Charles Kettering | 1876-1956 | American inventor, entrepreneur ( Delco ) and manager ( NCR , GM ). Electric cash register , electric starter , kettering bow (precursor of cruise missile ), incubator , generator for diesel locomotives |
| Árpád Kézdi | 1919-1983 | Hungarian civil engineer in foundation engineering and soil mechanics |
| Abdul Kadir Khan | * 1935 | Pakistani engineer and former nuclear technology trader |
| Fazlur Khan | 1929-1982 | Bengali-American civil engineer and architect |
| Jack Kilby | 1923-2005 | American electrical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics 2000, integrated circuit |
| Eugene Kittel | 1859-1946 | Machine builders; Locomotive constructions, smock steam powered rail cars |
| Erasmus Kittler | 1852-1929 | Electrical engineering pioneer |
| Oscar Kjellberg | 1870-1931 | Coated welding electrode for welding in shipbuilding |
| Ewald Georg von Kleist | 1700-1748 | first condenser ( Leiden bottle ) |
| Wilhelm Klingenberg | 1899-1981 | German civil engineer; Construction management, bridge construction |
| Charles Yale Knight | 1868-1940 | Knight engine |
| John Frederick Knoop | Knoop machine , hardness of metals and alloys | |
| Georg Knorr | 1859-1911 | Machine builders; Railway technology, Knorr-Bremse |
| Ilse Knott-ter Meer | 1899-1996 | first German graduate engineer (mechanical engineering) |
| Maurice Koechlin | 1856-1946 | Civil engineer; Eiffel Tower |
| Mathias Koenen | 1849-1924 | Reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete |
| Claus Koepcke | 1831-1911 | Blue miracle |
| Franz Gustav Kollmann | * 1934 | German mechanical engineer |
| Paul Kollsman | 1900-1982 | German-American machine builder; Aircraft instruments , variometer |
| Otto Kornei | 1903-1993 | Co-developer of electrophotography |
| Ernst Körting | 1842-1921 | Injector , steam jet pumps , co-founder of Körting Hannover AG |
| Sergei Pavlovich Korolev | 1907-1966 | Missile constructions |
| August Köstlin | 1825-1894 | Bridge construction engineer |
| Paul Krainer | 1869-1935 | Professor of marine engineering |
| Otto Krafft | 1879-1916 | Urban planning |
| Ludwig Kraus | 1911-1997 | Machine builders; Daimler-Benz AG, "Silver Arrows", Audi NSU Auto Union AG |
| Johann Kravogl | 1823-1889 | Electric motor , electric bell |
| Arthur Constantin Krebs | 1850-1935 | Submarine , airship , gyroscope , automobile pioneer |
| Carl Gustav Kreischer | 1834-1891 | Mining |
| Franz Xaver Kreuter | 1842-1930 | Civil engineering |
| Franz Jakob Kreuter | 1813-1889 | Architecture and civil engineering |
| Hans-Detlef Krey | 1866-1928 | Earth pressure , slip circle method |
| Julius Kröhl | 1820-1867 | German-American engineer and submarine designer |
| Franz Kruckenberg | 1882-1965 | Pioneer of express rail transport, the rail zeppelin |
| Karl Küpfmüller | 1897-1977 | Telecommunications, measurement and control technology, acoustics, information theory, theoretical electrical engineering |
| Karl-Eugen Kurrer | * 1952 | German civil engineer and historian of civil engineering |
| Anton Kutter | 1903-1985 | Mechanical engineer and director; Cutter-Schiefspiegler |
| Wilhelm Rudolf cutter | 1818-1888 | Hydraulic engineering, flow formula |
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| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Erich Lackner | 1913-1992 | German engineering scientist of Austrian origin |
| Wilhelm Lahmeyer | 1859-1907 | electrical systems and machines |
| Eric Laithwaite | 1921-1997 | Linear motor |
| T. William Lambe | 1920-2017 | American geotechnician |
| Ferruccio Lamborghini | 1916-1993 | automobile |
| Joseph-Louis Lambot | 1814-1887 | Concrete boats, ferrocement |
| Frederick William Lanchester | 1868-1946 | British engineer, winglet |
| Vincenzo Lancia | 1881-1937 | Founder of Lancia , VR engine (Lancia principle) |
| Werner Lang | 1922-2013 | German mechanical engineer and automobile designer; "Father of the Trabant" |
| Eugene Langen | 1833-1895 | Suspension railway and co-developer of the gasoline engine |
| Samuel Pierpont Langley | 1834-1906 | Inventor of the bolometer , unmanned aircraft, aerodynamics |
| Frederick W. Lanchester | 1869-1946 | Lanchester compensation , Lanchester law , steel spoke wheels, oil pressure plain bearings, four-wheel drive , piston rings , manifold injection , disc brakes , turbochargers |
| Heinrich Lanz | 1838-1905 | Locomotives , tractors , and later also airships |
| Pierre Lardy | 1903-1958 | Swiss civil engineer and professor |
| Edgar Larner | 1869-1930 | Television pioneer |
| Charles Lartigue | 1834-1907 | French engineer; Lartigue monorail |
| Benjamin Latrobe | 1764-1820 | Water supply |
| Henry Sellon Boneval Latrobe (Benjamin Henry Latrobe jun.) | 1806-1878 | Civil engineering |
| Max Lattmann | 1910-2011 | Swiss air defense electronics engineer |
| Carl Gustav Patrik de Laval | 1845-1913 | Steam turbine , Laval nozzle |
| Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves | 1788-1864 | Bridge building, fish belly girders |
| Semyon Alexeyevich Lavochkin | 1900-1960 | Lavochkin aircraft |
| Hans Ledwinka | 1878-1967 | Automotive constructions |
| Jan Adriaanszoon Leeghwater | 1575-1650 | Mill constructions |
| Ernst Leitz senior (I) | 1843-1920 | Microscopes , laboratory microscopes , slide projectors , episcopes |
| Ludwig Leitz | 1867-1898 | Micro - and macro photography , Microtomy , Photography , Epidiaskope , lenses , microscopes |
| Ernst Leitz II | 1871-1956 | Optical instrument making , photography, microscopes |
| André Lefebvre | 1894-1964 | Automotive constructions ( Traction Avant , Citroën 2CV , Citroën DS ) |
| Wilhelm Lefeldt | 1813-1913 | Milk centrifuge |
| Karl von Leibbrand | 1839-1898 | Government builder; Bridge constructions |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 1646-1716 | Calculating machine ( universal genius ) |
| Ludwig Leichtweiß | 1878-1958 | German hydraulic engineer |
| Henry M. Leland | 1843-1932 | Mechanical engineer and automotive entrepreneur, founder of Cadillac and Lincoln |
| Jan Pawel Lelewel | 1796-1847 | War technology and architecture (also freedom fighters) |
| Cornelis Lely | 1854-1929 | Hydraulic engineering |
| Étienne Lenoir | 1822-1900 | Enamelling and electrolysis processes , gas engine , railway technology, kneading machine , gas engine , Hippomobile , telegraph for the transmission of written or drawn documents, leather tanning process with ozone |
| Hans Peter Lenz | * 1934 | Machine builders; Internal combustion engines, drive technology |
| Gerald A. Leonards | 1921-1997 | Canadian-American geotechnician |
| Fritz Leonhardt | 1909-1999 | Bridges, skyscrapers and television towers |
| Kurt Leschonski | 1930-2002 | Mechanical Process Engineering |
| Ferdinand de Lesseps | 1805-1894 | Co-developer of the Suez and Panama Canal |
| Jacob Leupold | 1674-1727 | Mechanicus and Inventor; technical encyclopedia |
| Léon Levavasseur | 1863-1922 | French power station engineer, aircraft builder and inventor |
| Octave Levenspiel | 1926-2017 | Chemical engineering; Levenspiel fountain |
| Maurice Lévy | 1838-1910 | Materials science and applied mechanics |
| Ernst Wolfgang Lewicki | 1894-1973 | Construction management |
| Hans Liebherr | 1915-1993 | Construction machinery |
| Otto Lilienthal | 1848-1896 | " Hang glider " and research on aerodynamics |
| Carl von Linde | 1842-1934 | Linde process , cooling machines |
| Gustav Lindenthal | 1850-1935 | Bridge building |
| William Lindley | 1808-1900 | Water supply and disposal |
| Alexander Lippisch | 1894-1976 | Aircraft construction |
| Hermann von Littrow | 1858-1931 | Mechanical engineering , railways and trams |
| Birger Ljungström | 1872-1948 | Svea bicycle , Ljungström turbine |
| Fredrik Ljungström | 1875-1964 | Svea bicycle, Ljungström turbine |
| Eduard Locher | 1840-1910 | Mountain railway and rack railway pioneer |
| Joseph Locke | 1805-1860 | railroad |
| Hermann Lohse | 1815-1893 | Wage earners |
| Prosper L'Orange | 1876-1939 | Pre-chamber injection , injection pump , needle injection nozzle |
| Hans Lorenz | 1905-1996 | Civil engineer |
| René Lorin | 1877-1933 | Ramjet |
| Franz Lösel | 1883-1951 | Back pressure turbine |
| Friedrich Ritter von Lössl | 1817-1907 | Pioneer of railway line construction in Bavaria and Austria, autodynamic clock system |
| Oleg Vladimirovich Lossew | 1903-1942 | Semiconductor technology , Crystadyn receiver |
| Archibald Low | 1888-1956 | Image transmission (television forerunner), radio remote control |
| Fritz Lüdi | 1903-1963 | Power converter , multi-slot magnetron (" Turbator "), preliminary work for the development of the " Klystron " |
| Adolf Ludin | 1879-1968 | Hydraulic engineering, dam construction |
| Heinrich Luebbe | 1884-1940 | German mechanical engineer and aviation pioneer; Interrupter gear |
| Otto Lueger | 1843-1911 | Hydraulic engineering, lexicon of all technology |
| Lumière brothers | 1862-1954 and 1864-1948, respectively |
Cinematographs |
| Robert Lusser | 1899-1969 | Light aircraft ( Klemm L 25 ) |
| Friedrich Lutzmann | 1859-1930 | Automobile designer |
M.
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Kurt Magnus | 1912-2003 | Technical mechanics |
| Robert Maillart | 1872-1940 | Arch bridges mushroom ceilings , Salginatobel bridge |
| Anatole Mallet | 1837-1919 | Mallet chassis for steam locomotives |
| Louis Malus | 1775-1812 | French engineer and physicist; Refraction |
| Herbert Mang | * 1942 | Writings on structural engineering and strength theory |
| Charles Matthews Manly | 1876-1927 | Manly-Balzer engine , Curtiss OX-5 |
| Robert Manning | 1816-1897 | Manning flow formula |
| Ferdinand Mannlicher | 1848-1904 | Firearms pioneer , Mannlicher system |
| Walter Marcard | 1891-1947 | Boiler industry |
| Guglielmo Marconi | 1874-1937 | Radio transmission pioneer |
| Siegfried Marcus | 1831-1898 | Automobile and magneto ignition |
|
Fritz Marguerre (Karl Friedrich Marguerre) |
1878-1964 | High pressure feed , Voith-Marguerre coupling |
| Glenn Luther Martin | 1886-1955 | Planes , Lockheed Martin |
| Pierre Martin | 1824-1915 | Siemens-Martin process |
| Erwin Otto Marx | 1893-1980 | Electrical engineering; Energy transfer, Marx generator |
| Felice Matteucci | 1808-1887 | Italian engineer and inventor of an internal combustion engine |
| John William Mauchly | 1907-1980 | Computer pioneer |
| Henry Maudslay | 1771-1831 | Mechanical engineering, tools |
| Heinrich Mauersberger | 1909-1982 | Inventor of the MALIMO |
| Guy Maunsell | 1884-1961 | Bridge building |
| Wilhelm Maybach | 1846-1929 | Automobile and internal combustion engine |
| Karl Maybach | 1879-1960 | Engine construction, luxury automobiles |
| Hiram Maxim | 1840-1916 | Machine gun |
| John Loudon McAdam | 1756-1836 | Road construction, macadam |
| James Smith McDonnell | 1899-1980 | Planes , McDonnell Douglas |
| Elwood Mead | 1858-1936 | Hoover Dam |
| Carl Friedrich Meerwein | 1737-1810 | Flying machines |
| Markus Meier | 1955-2005 | Product development |
| Hubert M. Meingast | 1911-1961 | Borgward ; Metal heat treatment and materials technology, hydraulic technology |
| Heinrich August Meißner | 1862-1940 | Baghdad Railway |
| Joseph Melan | 1853-1941 | Bridge construction, melan construction |
| Federico Luigi Menabrea | 1809-1896 | Engineer, General and Politician Set by Menabrea |
| Christian Menn | 1927-2018 | Bridge building |
| Marion Merklein | * 1973 | Forming technology / manufacturing technology, Leibniz Prize |
| Willy Messerschmitt | 1898-1988 | Planes |
| Georges de Mestral | 1907-1990 | Velcro fastener |
| John Metcalf | 1717-1810 | Road construction |
| Carl Metz | 1861-1941 | Mathematicians, lenses , optimally corrected wide-field eyepieces , oil immersion lenses |
| Antonio Meucci | 1808-1896 | first phone |
| Joachim Siegfried Meurer | 1908-1997 | Diesel multi-fuel engine (center ball or M process), "father of the whisper engine" |
| Adolf Meyer | 1880-1965 | first commercially usable gas turbine |
| Jörn-Axel Meyer | * 1962 | Mechanical engineer, industrial engineer |
| George Geoffrey Meyerhof | 1916-2003 | German-born Canadian civil engineer |
| Hans Mezger | 1929-2020 | Mechanical engineers, motorsport engines |
| Anthony Michell | 1870-1959 | Cross-flow turbine |
| Sam Michael | * 1971 | Mechanical engineer, Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Artyom Ivanovich Mikoyan | 1905-1970 | MiG aircraft |
| Mikhail Mil | 1909-1970 | helicopter |
| Oskar von Miller | 1855-1934 | Power transmission and founder of the Deutsches Museum |
| Charles Joseph Minard | 1781-1870 | Infographic |
| Ralph Modjeski | 1861-1940 | Bridge building |
| Christian Otto Mohr | 1835-1918 | Structural engineering, technical mechanics ( Mohr's circle of tension ) |
| Hans Molly | 1902-1994 | Machine builders; Work on the basis of hydraulics , in particular on hydrostatic displacement units |
| Ernst Mohr | 1910-1989 | Machine builders; Missile designer |
| Joseph Monier | 1823-1906 | Reinforced concrete |
| Montgolfier brothers | 1740-1810 1745-1799 |
Hot air balloon |
| Paul Morgan | 1948-2001 | Machine builders; Ilmor engines |
| Emil Mörsch | 1872-1950 | Reinforced concrete construction |
| Emil Mosonyi | 1910-2009 | German-Hungarian hydraulic engineer |
| Heinz Muhs | 1911-1990 | German civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics |
| William Mulholland | 1855-1935 | Water supply |
| Gerhard Müller | 1915-1985 | Ski lifts |
| Johann Helfrich von Müller | 1746-1830 | Adding machine |
| Heinrich Müller-Breslau | 1851-1925 | Structural analysis |
| Leopold Müller-Salzburg | 1908-1988 | Rock and geomechanics, tunnel construction, new Austrian tunnel construction |
| William Murdoch | 1754-1839 | Gas lamp |
| Gordon Murray | * 1946 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Erwin Musger | 1909-1985 | Austrian aircraft and vehicle designer |
| Pieter van Musschenbroek | 1692-1761 | first condenser ( Leiden bottle ) |
| Ulrich Müther | 1934-2007 | Shell structures |
N
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Shuji Nakamura | * 1954 | Electrical engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 (blue LED) |
| Fritz Nallinger | 1898-1984 | German engineer and automobile designer |
| James Nasmyth | 1808-1890 | Inventor of the steam hammer and the Nasmyth telescope |
| Rudolf Nebel | 1894-1988 | Missile designer |
| Alois Negrelli from Moldelbe | 1799-1858 | Co-developer of the Suez Canal |
| Pier Luigi Nervi | 1891-1979 | Ferrocement |
| Eugene Nesper | 1879-1961 | Seven-tube receiver |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Neuffer | 1882-1960 | Bridge construction, soil mechanics |
| Ernst Neumann-Neander | 1871-1954 | Mechanical engineering ( automobile , motorcycle , motor yacht ), founder of Neander Motorfahrzeug GmbH Düren-Rölsdorf |
| Adrian Newey | * 1958 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Thomas Newcomen | 1663-1729 | Inventor of the atmospheric steam engine |
| Nathan M. Newmark | 1910-1981 | Mathematics: Numerical Integration (actually civil engineer) |
| Steve Nichols | * 1947 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Nikolai Vasilyevich Nikitin | 1907-1973 | Ostankino tower , monumental statues |
| Johann Nikuradze | 1894-1979 | Georgian / German engineer and physicist |
| Paul Gottlieb Nipkow | 1860-1940 | Electric telescope and Nipkow disk |
| Heinz Nixdorf | 1925-1986 | System 820 , EDV , founder of Nixdorf Computer AG |
| Alfred Noble | 1844-1914 | Construction of waterways, bridges and tunnels as well as consultant in planning the Nicaragua and Panama Canal |
| Heinrich Nordhoff | 1899-1968 | Machine builders; Volkswagen |
| Robert Noyce | 1927-1990 | Fairchild Semiconductor |
| Manfred Nussbaumer | * 1940 | German civil engineer for geotechnical engineering |
O
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Neil Oatley | * 1954 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Hermann Oberth | 1894-1989 | Space pioneer |
| Willgodt Theophil Odhner | 1845-1905 | Sweden; Inventor of a sprocket calculating machine |
| Wilhelm von Oechelhäuser jun. | 1850-1923 | Counter-rotating motor |
| Max Oertz | 1871-1929 | Yacht building, shipbuilding, aircraft construction |
| Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain | 1911-1998 | Aviation pioneer and father of the jet engine |
| Johann Ohde | 1905-1953 | Geotechnics |
| Kenneth Olsen | 1926-2011 | Core memory , Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Friedrich Opel | 1875-1938 | Chief designer at Opel |
| Michael O'Shaughnessy | 1864-1934 | Irish civil engineer, urban planner in San Francisco |
| Fritz Ossberger | 1877-1947 | Turbines, Ossberger cross- flow turbine |
| Peter Ottenbruch | * 1957 | Machine builders; vehicle construction |
| Gustav Otto | 1883-1926 | German aircraft manufacturer |
| Robert Otzen | 1872-1934 | German civil engineer; Highways |
| Benjamin Outram | 1764-1805 | English engineer, industrialist and railway pioneer |
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| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Franz Pacher | 1919-2018 | Tunneling pioneer ( New Austrian Tunneling Method ) |
| David Packard | 1912-1996 | Hewlett-Packard Company |
| James Ward Packard | 1863-1928 | Packard Electric ; Packard Motor Car Company |
| Charles Grafton Page | 1812-1868 | High Voltage - induction coil , electromagnetic piston engine , free triggering circuit breakers , moving-coil galvanometer and Induktionsmagnet- double helix |
| Alberto Palacio | 1856-1939 | Basque engineer and architect |
| Nikolai Papaleksi | 1880-1947 | High frequency technology: interference method , radio location |
| Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim | 1594-1632 | Gear pump |
| Antonio Paretti | 1899-1979 | Road construction |
| Charles Parsons | 1854-1931 | Steam turbine |
| Blaise Pascal | 1623-1662 | Adding machine |
| Erik Pasche | 1955-2010 | German hydraulic engineer and university professor |
| Yevgeny Paton | 1870-1953 | Bridge construction, welding technology; Arc welding ("Paton method") |
| Friedrich August von Pauli | 1802-1883 | Pioneer of railway bridge construction |
| Richard Peacock | 1820-1889 | English engineer and MP; Founder of the locomotive manufacturer Beyer-Peacock |
| Heinrich von Pechmann | 1774-1861 | Hydraulic engineering , sewer construction |
| Ralph Brazelton Peck | 1912-2008 | Canadian-American civil engineer, soil mechanic, and geotechnician |
| Frank William Peek | 1881-1933 | American electrical engineer |
| Lester Pelton | 1829-1908 | Pelton turbine |
| Slavoljub Eduard Penkala | 1871-1922 | Polish-Dutch-Croatian engineer and inventor |
| Albert Auguste Perdonnet | 1801-1867 | French engineer and railway pioneer |
| Jean-Rodolphe Perronet | 1708-1794 | Bridge construction, stone bridges |
| Armand Peugeot | 1849-1915 | automobile |
| Fritz Pfleumer | 1881-1945 | Inventor of the tape |
| Bernhard Philberth | 1927-2010 | Philberth probe , transformer , voltage selector |
| Karl Philberth | * 1929 | Philberth probe , transformer , voltage selector |
| Gerard Philips | 1858-1942 | Founder of Philips |
| Ferdinand Piëch | 1937-2019 | Mechanical engineering, Volkswagen AG |
| John Robinson Pierce | 1910-2002 | Satellite communication |
| Carl Abraham Pihl | 1825-1897 | railroad |
| Alastair Pilkington | 1920-1995 | Float glass process , Pilkington |
| Wolfgang Pilz | 1911-1994 | German aerospace engineer |
| Giovanni Battista Pirelli | 1848-1932 | Rubber and tire manufacturing, Pirelli SpA |
| Carl Philipp Heinrich Pistor | 1778-1847 | optical telegraphy |
| Henri de Pitot | 1695-1771 | Hydraulic engineering |
| Rudolf Plank | 1886-1973 | Mechanical engineering; Refrigeration |
| Ludwig Plate | 1893-1967 | German hydraulic engineer |
| Antoine-Rémy Polonceau | 1778-1847 | railroad |
| Camille Polonceau | 1813-1859 | Railway, bridge building, polonceaubinder |
| Jean-Victor Poncelet | 1788-1867 | Mechanics, turbines, water wheels |
| Alexander Stepanovich Popov | 1859-1906 | Radio technology pioneer |
| Franz Josef Popp | 1886-1954 | Aircraft engines, founder of BMW |
| Ferdinand Porsche | 1875-1951 | Automobile, supercharged engine , torsion bar suspension , founder of Porsche |
| Theodor Pöschl | 1882-1955 | Austrian mathematician and engineer |
| Harvey Postlethwaite | 1944-1999 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Helmut Potente | * 1939 | Mechanical engineering, process engineering, plastics technology |
| Isaac Potter | 1690-1735 | English engineer and designer working in Austria; Steam engine |
| Gerhart Potthoff | 1908-1989 | Transportation Science |
| Valdemar Poulsen | 1869-1942 | " Telegraphone " |
| William Prager | 1903-1980 | mechanical engineering |
| Ludwig Prandtl | 1875-1953 | Mechanical engineering, fluid mechanics ; Boundary layer theory , Prandtl number |
| Horst Prem | 1940-2019 | Mechanical engineer, aircraft designer |
| Ralph R. Proctor | 1894-1962 | American civil engineer; Geotechnics: Proctor experiment , Proctor density |
| Gaspard de Prony | 1755-1839 | Hydraulics, hydraulic engineering |
| Johann Puch | 1862-1914 | Bicycles and motorcycles, automobiles ( Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG ) |
| Adolf Pucher | 1902-1968 | Austrian civil engineer specializing in reinforced concrete construction |
| Alfred Puck | * 1927 | Mechanical engineering, fiber-plastic composite |
| Emil Pümpin | 1840-1898 | Machine builders; Railway engineer |
| Jesco from Puttkamer | 1933-2012 | German-American aerospace engineer and publicist |
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| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Ladislaus von Rabcewicz | 1893-1975 | Tunneling pioneer ( New Austrian Tunneling Method ) |
| Karl Rabe | 1865-1968 | Chief engineer at Porsche , Porsche sports car type 356, stationary engines, air-cooled Porsche diesel tractors |
| Agostino Ramelli | 1531-1600 | Italian engineer, inventor of the book wheel , rotary piston water pump , amphibious chariot |
| Erich Rammler | 1901-1986 | Process engineering , lignite |
| John Ramsbottom | 1814-1897 | railroad |
| William John Macquorn Rankine | 1820-1872 | Rankine-Hugoniot equation , one of the founders of thermodynamics , theory of the steam engine , frame structures |
| Karl Rapp | 1882-1962 | Petrol engines, aircraft engines, founder of Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH (predecessor company of BMW ) |
| Jef Raskin | 1943-2005 | "Father of the Macintosh ", drag and drop , Canon Cat , scalable user interface |
| Auguste Rateau | 1863-1930 | French mining and mechanical engineer; Turbomachinery, inventor of the Rateau turbine |
| Emil Rathenau | 1838-1915 | Mechanical engineering, co-founder of AEG |
| André Rebouças | 1838-1898 | Brazilian engineer and abolitionist |
| Ferdinand Redtenbacher | 1809-1863 | Founder of scientific mechanical engineering |
| Theodor Rehbock | 1864-1950 | Hydraulic engineering |
| Peter Rehder | 1843-1920 | Hydraulic engineer and chief construction director; Elbe-Lübeck Canal |
| Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach | 1771-1826 | Steam and other machines |
| Franz Xaver Reimspieß | 1900-1979 | Austrian vehicle designer, VW boxer engine |
| Johann Philipp Reis | 1834-1874 | phone |
| Eric Reissner | 1913-1996 | American engineer of German origin, technical mechanics |
| Hans Jacob Reissner | 1874-1967 | German engineer, mathematician and physicist |
| Christian Reithmann | 1818-1909 | Four-stroke engine |
| Louis Renault | 1877-1944 | automobile |
| John Rennie Sr. | 1761-1821 | Bridge construction, canals and docks |
| Jesse Reno | 1861-1947 | Escalator |
| Josef Ressel | 1793-1857 | Ship propeller |
| Franz Reuleaux | 1829-1905 | "Mechanical engineering as an exact science" |
| Otto Reuter | 1866-1922 | Aviation engineer at Junkers |
| Theodor Reuter | 1838-1909 | Mechanical engineer and school director of a mechanical engineering school |
| Adrian Reynard | * 1951 | Mechanical engineer, racing car designer |
| Klaus Riedel | 1907-1944 | Missile designer |
| Alois Riedler | 1850-1936 | Austrian mechanical engineer and designer as well as reformer of the mechanical engineering degree |
| Anton von Rieppel | 1852-1926 | Statics, aircraft construction, mechanical engineering, Müngsten Bridge |
| Niklaus Riggenbach | 1817-1899 | Mountain railway and rack railway pioneer, counter pressure brake, rack |
| Johann Rihosek | 1869-1956 | Locomotive designer, specialist in braking |
| Pierre-Paul Riquet | 1609-1680 | Builder of the Canal du Midi |
| August Ritter | 1826-1908 | Ritter's cutting method |
| Max Ritter | 1884-1946 | Swiss civil engineer |
| Peter von Rittinger | 1811-1872 | Inventor, miner, pioneer of ore processing technology, water column machine |
| Nicholas-Louis Robert | 1761-1828 | Paper machine |
| Richard Roberts | 1789-1864 | British engineer; automated production, machine tools |
| Donald Roebling | 1908-1959 | Amphibious Vehicle , Landing Vehicle Tracked |
| Johann August Roebling | 1806-1869 | Brooklyn Bridge |
| Washington Augustus Roebling | 1837-1926 | Brooklyn Bridge |
| Stephen Kern Robinson | * 1955 | Mechanical engineer and astronaut |
| Alphonse Beau de Rochas | 1815-1983 | Four-stroke engine |
| Stanley P. Rockwell | around 1919 | Rockwell Machine , Hardness of Metals and Alloys , Stanley P. Rockwell Company |
| Arthur Rohn | 1878-1956 | Swiss civil engineer |
| Hans Gustav Röhr | 1895-1937 | German designer and automobile manufacturer |
| Nicola Romeo | 1876-1938 | Automobile ( Alfa Romeo ) |
| Jacobus Johannes van Ronzelen | 1800-1865 | Dutch hydraulic engineer and Bremen building officer |
| Francis Marion Roots | 1824-1889 | Roots blower |
| Philander Roots | ? -1879 | Roots blower |
| Paul Rosche | 1934-2016 | Machine builders; Formula 1 engine designer |
| Kenneth Harry Roscoe | 1914-1970 | British civil engineer, civil engineering and soil mechanics |
| Peter Rowe | 1922-1997 | British experimental engineer; Geotechnician |
| Henry Royce | 1863-1933 | Rolls-Royce founder |
| Max Rudeloff | 1857-1929 | German engineer and professor, materials testing |
| Paul Leo Ruden | 1903-1970 | German engineer, aviation expert and university lecturer |
| Reinhold Rüdenberg | 1883-1961 | Engineer and inventor of electrostatic electron microscope |
| Johannes Rudloff | 1848-1934 | German naval engineer and professor |
| Arthur Rudolph | 1906-1996 | German rocket engineer; V2 rocket |
| Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff | 1803-1877 | Ruhmkorff spark inductor |
| Burkhart Rümelin | 1916-2012 | German engineer (water management) |
| Theodor Rümelin | 1877-1920 | German hydraulic engineer |
| Ernst Ruska | 1906-1988 | Electrical engineer, pioneer of electron microscopy |
| Franciszek Rychnowski | 1850-1929 | Polish engineer and inventor |
| Nikolai Alexejewitsch Rynin | 1887-1942 | Russian aerospace engineer and author of aerospace and pre-astronautics |
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| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Jutta Saatweber | * 1938 | Electrical Engineer, Quality Function Deployment |
| Ernst Sachs | 1867-1932 | Gear hub with coaster brake on the bike ( torpedo hub ), founder of Fichtel & Sachs |
| Johann Sahulka | 1857-1927 | Electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, lighting, measurement and communication technology, rectifying effect of the mercury vapor arc |
| Adolf Slaby | 1849-1913 | Electrical engineering, radio transmission , antenna technology |
| Bernhard Salomon | 1855-1936 | Electrical engineer |
| Eugene singer | 1905-1964 | Aerospace pioneer |
| Henry Phineas Riall Sankey | 1853-1925 | Machine builders; Steam engines, Sankey diagram |
| Otto Sarrazin | 1842-1921 | German engineer and secret senior building officer |
| Thomas Savery | 1650-1715 | Steam pump |
| Sigurd Savonius | 1884-1931 | Wind turbines , Savonius rotor |
| Klaus Scheelhaase | * 1932 | "Father" of the Hanover light rail |
| Hans Scherenberg | 1910-2000 | German automobile designer |
| Ferdinand Schichau | 1814-1896 | Machine builders; Mechanical engineering company, shipbuilding, shipyards |
| Heinrich Schickhardt | 1558-1635 | Württemberg court architect and Renaissance master builder |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler | 1856-1920 | first fully electric kitchen , founder of Elektra Bregenz |
| Jörg Schlaich | * 1934 | Engineering structures, thermal power plant |
| Marcel Schlumberger | 1884-1953 | French engineer, founder of Schlumberger (company) |
| Hugo Schmeisser | 1884-1953 | Weapon constructions |
| Louis Schmeisser | 1848-1917 | Weapon constructions |
| Martin Schmidt | 1928-2003 | German hydraulic engineer and dam expert; Upper Harz water shelf |
| Wilhelm Schmidt | 1858-1924 | Superheated steam technology |
| Otto Schmitt | 1913-1998 | Schmitt trigger (actually biophysicist) |
| Anton Adolph Schmoll called Eisenwerth | 1834-1918 | Bridge and hydraulic engineering |
| Charles Conrad Schneider | 1843-1916 | German-born engineer and bridge designer in the USA |
| Ernst Schneider | 1894-1975 | Voith Schneider Propeller |
| Ferdinand Schneider | 1866-1955 | directly controllable radio receiver, electric chopper |
| Andrew Noel Schofield | * 1930 | British civil engineer; Foundation engineering and soil mechanics |
| Walter Schottky | 1886-1976 | Schottky diode , Schottky effect |
| Moritz Schröter | 1851-1925 | German mechanical engineer and university professor |
| Johann Andreas Schubert | 1808-1870 | Steam ships , steam locomotives , bridge construction ( Göltzschtal bridge ) |
| Georg Oskar Schubert | 1900-1955 | Television pioneer |
| Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov | 1853-1939 | Steel structures, steel bridges, winding towers |
| Sergei Yakovlevich Schuk | 1892-1957 | Hydraulic engineer |
| Maximilian Schuler | 1882-1972 | Inventor of the multi-gyro compass |
| Eduard Schüller | 1904-1976 | Tape recorder , " magnetophone " |
| Rudolf Schulten | 1923-1996 | Visionary of an energy industry that is characterized by cutting-edge nuclear technology |
| Wilhelm Schulz | 1805-1877 | Mining |
| Edgar Schultze | 1905-1986 | German civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics in Aachen |
| Maximilian Schumann | 1827-1889 | Weapons designer |
| Johann Schütte | 1873-1940 | Airships |
| Arthur Schütz | 1880-1960 | Engineer and writer, mine dogs |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Schwamkrug | 1808-1880 | Machine builders; Sponge jug turbine |
| Johann Wilhelm Schwedler | 1823-1894 | Bridge construction, Schwedler girders , Schwedler dome |
| Alfred Angas Scott | 1874-1923 | Rim brake , two-stroke engine with a central flywheel on the crankshaft , founder of the Scott Motor Cycle Company |
| Harry Bolton Seed | 1922-1989 | British civil engineer and geotechnician |
| Laurent Seguin | 1883-1944 | first rotary engine ( "Gnôme" ) |
| Louis Seguin | 1869-1918 | first rotary engine ("Gnôme") |
| Marc Seguin | 1786-1875 | Boilers for steam engines, steam locomotives , inventors of the cable-stayed bridge |
| Heinrich Seidel | 1842-1906 | Yorckbrücken , hall construction of the Anhalter Bahnhof , engineer song |
| Berthold Seliger | * 1928 | Rocket technology |
| Carlo Semenza | 1893-1961 | Engineer building the Vajont dam |
| Léon Serpollet | 1858-1907 | Steam boilers , steam cars , trams |
| Thomas Kilgore Sherwood | 1903-1976 | Sherwood number |
| Guo Shoujing | 1231-1316 | Chinese hydraulic engineer, astronomer and mathematician |
| Isaac Shoenberg | 1880-1963 | Television pioneer |
| Carl Wilhelm Siemens | 1823-1883 | Regenerative melting furnace , Siemens-Martin process |
| Werner from Siemens | 1816-1892 | Electric machines, electric locomotive , Siemens AG |
| Igor Sikorsky | 1889-1972 | helicopter |
| Johann Esaia's silver strike | 1721-1791 | German Lutheran theologian and naturalist, hydraulic engineer |
| Casimir Simienowicz | 1600-1651 | Military and missile technology |
| Walther Simmer | 1888-1986 | Simmerring |
| Isaac Merritt Singer | 1811-1875 | Founder of the Singer Company , sewing machine improvement |
| Alec Skempton | 1914-2001 | Geotechnician, soil mechanic |
| Emil from Škoda | 1839-1900 | Mechanical engineering, founder of Škoda |
| John Smeaton | 1724-1792 | Canal construction, steam engine, lighthouse, "father of civil engineering" |
| Phillip Smith | 1905-1987 | Smith chart ( AC bill ) |
| Willoughby Smith | 1828-1891 | Insulating materials |
| George Thomas Smith-Clarke | 1884-1960 | Machine builders; Automotive engineering |
| Ulrich Smoltczyk | * 1928 | German geotechnician |
| Werner Sobek | * 1953 | Lightweight construction, "R128", Post Tower , Sony Center |
| George F. Sowers | 1921-1996 | Geotechnician, soil mechanic |
| Daniel Specklin | 1536-1589 | Fortress construction, cartography |
| Elmer Ambrose Sperry | 1860-1930 | Arc lamp system , dynamo machines , non-magnetic gyro compass , "air torpedo" |
| Frank Julian Sprague | 1857-1934 | American electrical engineer and inventor, “father of electrical traction,” electric motors, trains and elevators |
| Moritz Stambke | 1830-1903 | Machine builders; Railway machine technology |
| William Stanley | 1858-1916 | AC transformer |
| Fritz Stastny | 1908-1985 | Styrofoam , Palusol , Neopolen |
| Wilhelm Steenbeck | 1896-1975 | Cutting tables |
| Erwin Stein | 1931-2018 | Technical mechanics |
| Karl Steinbuch | 1917-2005 | Computer science |
| Charles Proteus stonemason | 1865-1923 | German-American electrical engineer; AC theory, Steinmetz circuit |
| Frank Stelzer | 1934-2007 | Stelzer engine |
| George Stephenson | 1781-1848 | railroad |
| Robert Stephenson | 1803-1859 | Railway, bridge construction |
| Edwin Augustus Stevens | 1795-1868 | American engineer, inventor and entrepreneur; Ironclad |
| John Stevens | 1749-1838 | Steamship, locomotive |
| John Frank Stevens | 1853-1943 | Great Northern Railroad, Panama Canal |
| Robert Livingston Stevens | 1778-1856 | Railway technology, steamers and ferry boats, wide-foot rails |
| Simon Stevin | 1548 / 49-1620 | Sailing carriages , fortress construction |
| Andreas Stihl | 1896-1973 | Chainsaw |
| Hans Peter Stihl | * 1932 | Machine builders; Chainsaws |
| Robert Stirling | 1790-1878 | Stirling engine |
| Aurel stodola | 1859-1942 | Slovak mechanical engineer and professor; Turbines, steam turbine , Stodola's law |
| Franz Stolze | 1836-1910 | first gas turbine |
| Hans Straub | 1895-1962 | Swiss civil engineer and historian of civil engineering |
| Joseph Baermann Strauss | 1870-1938 | Bridge construction, Golden Gate Bridge |
| Alfred Streck | 1896–? | German civil engineer for foundation engineering and soil mechanics, professor in Hanover |
| Karl Strecker | 1858-1934 | German physicist and electrical engineer; Electrotelegraphy, telegraph technology |
| Emil Strub | 1858-1909 | Mountain railway and rack railway pioneer |
| Alfred Stucky | 1892-1969 | Swiss dam builder |
| Ernst Stuhlinger | 1913-2008 | German-American atomic, electrical engineering and space scientist |
| William Sturgeon | 1783-1850 | Electromagnet , galvanometer |
| Pavel Ossipovich Sukhoi | 1895-1975 | Sukhoi planes |
| Su Song | 1020-1101 | Chinese mechanical engineer and universal scientist |
| Eduard Suling | 1856-1922 | German master builder and chief construction director in Bremen |
| Ivan Sutherland | * 1938 | Computer graphics , sketchpad , head-mounted display , Cohen-Sutherland algorithm |
| Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton | 1863-1930 | Lead sheathing of cables , heat effect of focused cathode rays |
| Vladimir Sworykin | 1888-1982 | Television , electron microscope |
| William Symington | 1764-1831 | Steamship pioneer , steamboat Charlotte Dundas |
| Pat Symonds | * 1953 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing engineer |
| István Szabó | 1906-1980 | German / Hungarian engineer and mathematician |
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| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Mariano di Jacopo detto Taccola | 1382 – around 1453 | machinery |
| Georg Talbot | 1864-1948 | Railway engineer and manufacturer from Aachen ( Talbot wagon factory ) |
| Kurt Tank | 1898-1983 | Aircraft manufacturer and aviation pioneer |
| Donald Wood Taylor | 1900-1955 | American geotechnician |
| Frederick Winslow Taylor | 1856-1915 | Taylorism , Taylor-White process , high-speed steel |
| Thomas Telford | 1757-1834 | first modern civil engineer |
| Bernard Tellegen | 1900-1990 | Tellegen theorem |
| Frederick Emmons Terman | 1900-1982 | "Father of Silicon Valley" |
| Karl of Terzaghi | 1883-1963 | Soil mechanics |
| Nikola Tesla | 1856-1943 | Tesla coil and utilization of alternating current |
| Ludwig von Tetmajer | 1850-1905 | Materials testing and research |
| Hugo Thiemann | 1917-2012 | Head of the Battelle Genève Institute and Nestlé R&D |
| Alexander Thom | 1894-1985 | Megalithic stone circles, megalithic yard |
| Hans Thoma | 1887-1973 | Inventor of piston engines |
| Andrew Sydney Withiel Thomas | * 1951 | Mechanical engineer and astronaut |
| George Holt Thomas | 1870-1929 | Aviation pioneer |
| Sidney Thomas | 1850-1885 | Thomas process for steel production |
| Elihu Thomson | 1853-1937 | Electric welding , high frequency generator and transformer, three-phase motor, founder of Thomson and Alstom |
| James Thomson | 1822-1892 | Irish-Scottish scientist, engineer and inventor |
| James Thomson | 1852-1927 | Scottish engineer and architect |
| Reinhold Tiling | 1893-1933 | Rocket pioneer |
| Fritz Todt | 1891-1942 | Road construction, Reichsautobahn |
| Hans Kurt Tönshoff | * 1934 | Machine builders; Production engineering |
| Charles Cagniard de la Tour | 1777-1859 | siren |
| Sakichi Toyoda | 1867-1930 | Founder of Toyota , Six Sigma method |
| Alfred Bustards | 1828-1908 | mechanical engineering |
| Friedrich Trautwein | 1888-1956 | Electronic music pioneer; Trautonium |
| Charles-Armand Trépardoux | 1853-1920 | Steam boiler, automotive pioneer ( De Dion, Bouton & Trépardoux ) De Dion axis |
| Henri Tresca | 1814-1885 | Mechanics, standard meter |
| Ludwig Georg Treviranus | 1790-1869 | German mechanical engineer |
| Richard Trevithick | 1771-1833 | Railway construction pioneer |
| Richard Francis Trevithick | 1845-1913 | British engineer, steam locomotives in Japan |
| Stephen W. Tsai | * 1929 | Mechanical engineering: strength criterion for fiber-plastic composite |
| Boris Evsejewitsch Chertok | 1912-2011 | Soviet rocket designer and space pioneer |
| Henri Owen Tudor | 1859-1928 | Inventor of the first usable lead-acid battery |
| Johann Gottfried Tulla | 1770-1828 | Hydraulic engineering, straightening the Rhine |
| Alexei Andreevich Tupolev | 1925-2001 | Tupolev aircraft |
| Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev | 1888-1972 | Tupolev aircraft |
| Edward Turner | 1902-1973 | British engineer and businessman; Ariel Square Four |
| Juanelo Turriano | after 1500–1585 | Watchmaker, mechanic and machine builder; Toledo water art |
| Stepan Tymoshenko | 1878-1972 | Pioneer of applied mechanics (technical mechanics), elasticity theory , beam theory |
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| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Uda Shintaro | 1896 1976 | Japanese electrical engineer and co-inventor of the Yagi-Uda antenna (with Yagi) |
| Rudolf Uhlenhaut | 1906-1989 | German engineer and automobile designer; Uhlenhaut Coupés (Mercedes 300SLR) |
| Richard Ulbricht | 1849-1923 | German electrical engineer; Telegraphy, telephone and signal systems, low-voltage technology, integrating sphere |
| Lewis Urry | 1927-2004 | Inventor of the alkaline manganese battery |
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| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Alfred Vail | 1807-1859 | telegraphy |
| Johann Vaillant | 1852-1920 | Heating technology , founder of Vaillant , bath heater |
| Cromwell Fleetwood Varley | 1828-1883 | Dual- stream encryption , dual- stream relay , Varley bridge circuit |
| Samuel Alfred Varley | 1832-1921 | English electrical engineer |
| Guillaume le Vasseur de Beauplan | * around 1600–1673 | Military engineer; Fortress construction |
| Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban | 1633-1707 | Fortress construction |
| Jacques de Vaucanson | 1709-1782 | Automatic machines , robots , punch card system |
| Christian Veder | 1907-1984 | Austrian civil engineer for geotechnics; Inventor of diaphragm wall technology |
| Edy Velander | 1894-1961 | Swedish electrical engineer |
| Louis Vicat | 1786-1861 | artificial cement |
| Harry Vickers | 1898-1977 | Founder of modern hydraulics. Inventor of the first power steering. |
| Milan Vidmar | 1885-1962 | powerful transformers and power transmissions |
| Charles Blacker Vignoles | 1793-1875 | Railway engineer; Vignole rail |
| Arnold de Ville | 1653-1722 | Walloon engineer; Machine from Marly |
| Leonardo da Vinci | 1452-1519 | Mechanical and hydraulic engineering, weapons (universal genius) |
| Arthur Vierendeel | 1852-1940 | Inventor of the Vierendeel bearer |
| M. Visvesvaraya | 1861-1962 | Hydraulic engineering |
| Vitruvius | 1st century BC Chr. | “Ten books on architecture”, column order |
| Hans Vogt | 1890-1979 | Sound film |
| Gabriel Voisin | 1880-1973 | Pioneer of aviation, automobile construction ("Avions Voisin") and the construction of prefabricated houses |
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| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Franz Xaver Wagner | 1837-1907 | Wagner gear , inventor of the type lever typewriter |
| Karl Willy Wagner | 1883-1953 | electric filters |
| Adolf Wallichs | 1869-1959 | German university lecturer for machine tools and industrial engineering |
| Barnes Neville Wallis | 1887-1979 | English scientist and engineer; Roll bomb |
| Egide Walschaerts | 1820-1901 | Mechanical engineer, railway pioneer; Walschaerts control for steam locomotives |
| Hellmuth Walter | 1900-1980 | Submarines , Walter engines , rocket engines |
| Bernhard Walz | 1939-2009 | German engineering scientist |
| Felix Wankel | 1902-1988 | Inventor of the rotary engine |
| Frank Wanlass | 1933-2010 | American electrical engineer |
| Huang Wanli | 1911-2001 | Chinese engineer and hydrologist |
| Hans-Jürgen Warnecke | 1934-2019 | Machine builders; manufacturing engineering |
| Thomas A. Watson | 1854-1934 | Co-inventor of the telephone |
| Robert Watson-Watt | 1892-1973 | radar |
| James Watt | 1736-1819 | Improvement of the steam engine |
| Gustav Adolf Wayss | 1851-1917 | Reinforced concrete pioneer |
| Max Maria von Weber | 1822-1881 | Railroad and literature |
| Waloddi Weibull | 1887-1979 | Weibull distribution |
| Julius Weisbach | 1806-1871 | Mining machines, mine separators , surveyors |
| Klaus White | 1932-2009 | German civil engineer for geotechnics, Degebo Berlin |
| Anton Weissenbach | * 1929 | German geotechnician, especially excavation pits |
| Alan Wells | 1924-2005 | British engineer; Wells turbine |
| Hans Wendler | 1905-1989 | German steam locomotive designer, pulverized lignite combustion |
| Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren | 1881-1961 | Monorail , Alwegbahn , founder of Electrolux |
| Jonas Wenström | 1855-1893 | Swedish heavy current engineer, pioneer of Swedish electrical engineering; Three-phase alternating current |
| Josef Werndl | 1831-1889 | Founder of the Austrian Arms Factory and co-inventor of the tabernacle lock |
| George Westinghouse | 1846-1914 | Air brakes on railways, AC machines |
| Jakob Johann von Weyrauch | 1845-1917 | Engineering technology, elasticity theory, heat theory and aeromechanics |
| Robert Weyrauch | 1874-1924 | Hydraulic engineer, hydraulic engineer, professor in Stuttgart |
| Richard T. Whitcomb | 1921-2009 | American aerospace engineer, winglet |
| Robert Whitehead | 1823-1905 | torpedo |
| Frank Whittle | 1907-1996 | Jet engine |
| Joseph Whitworth | 1803-1887 | Whitworth thread , further development of tool (precision) machines |
| Hermann Wiebe | 1818-1881 | German mill construction and mechanical engineer |
| Wendelin Wiedeking | * 1952 | Mechanical engineering; Porsche |
| Thomas Wiegand | * 1970 | Electrical engineering; H.264 video coding |
| Heinrich Wild | 1877-1951 | Levels , theodolites |
| Johannes Wild | 1814-1894 | Swiss engineer, surveyor and cartographer |
| Trevor Wilkinson | 1923-2008 | Founder of TVR |
| William Boutland Wilkinson | 1819-1902 | Reinforced concrete, reinforced concrete ceilings |
| Christian Josef Willenberg | 1676-1731 | Military engineer ; Founder of the Civil Engineering School in Prague |
| Frederic Calland Williams | 1911-1977 | English engineer; Williams tube , Manchester Mark I. |
| Emil Winkler | 1835-1888 | Bridge construction, tunnel construction, earthworks, structural engineering |
| Johannes Winkler | 1897-1947 | first European liquid rocket |
| Johann Baptist Winklhofer | 1859-1949 | Co-founder of Wanderer , Continental typewriter , coaster brake , motorcycle |
| Pavel Vladimirovich Vinogradov | * 1953 | Mechanical engineer and cosmonaut |
| Erich winter coat | * 1956 | Machine builders; Medical technology |
| Hans Wittfoht | 1924-2011 | German civil engineer and entrepreneur |
| Sigmar Wittig | * 1940 | Machine builders; Turbo machines |
| Walter Wittke | * 1934 | German engineer and geotechnician |
| August Wöhler | 1819-1914 | Wöhler test (Wöhler line) |
| William Hyde Wollaston | 1766-1828 | Wollaston element , Wollaston prism , single lenses, reflection goniometer , refractometer , dip sector |
| Reinhard Woltman | 1757-1837 | Hydraulic engineering |
| Johann-Dietrich Woerner | * 1954 | Civil engineering and aerospace |
| Steve Wozniak | * 1950 | Co-founder of Apple , Apple I and II |
| Wright Brothers | 1871-1948 1867-1912 |
Pioneers of the powered aircraft |
| Peter Wright | * 1946 | Machine builders; Formula 1 racing car designer |
| Charles Peter Wroth | 1929-1991 | British geotechnician |
| Edward M. Wu | 1938-2009 | Strength criterion for fiber-plastic composite |
| Wu Xiangming | * 1938 | commercial implementation of the Transrapid |
| Georg Wulf | 1895-1927 | Canard |
| Karl Wurmb | 1850-1907 | Austrian railway engineer |
Y
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Yi Xing | 683-727 | Chinese astronomer, mathematician, mechanical engineer and Buddhist monk; Astronomical clock |
Z
| engineer | Life dates | Inventions, achievements, engineering activities |
| Lotfi Zadeh | 1921-2017 | Electrical engineer; Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic |
| Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu | 1887-1973 | Chemical engineer who received her first mechanical engineering diploma at the Technical University of Berlin in 1912 and who explored Romania's natural resources |
| Walter Zapp | 1905-2003 | Minox , - miniature cameras , - pocket telescopes , - optical devices |
| Engelbert Zaschka | 1895-1955 | Helicopter pioneer , folding car , muscle power plane |
| Leonardo Zeevaert | 1914-2010 | Mexican civil engineer |
| Johann Zeh | 1816-1882 | Machine builders; Locomotive designer |
| Heinrich Zeising | † 1613 | six-part machine book “Theatri machinarum”, Leipzig 1607 to 1612/14 |
| Carl Zeiss | 1816-1888 | Precision mechanics , optics |
| Heinz Zemanek | 1920-2014 | Computer pioneer |
| Clarence Melvin Zener | 1905-1993 | Zener diode , zener effect |
| Ferdinand von Zeppelin | 1838-1917 | Airship |
| Dieter Zetsche | * 1953 | Electrical engineer, Daimler AG |
| Gustav Zeuner | 1828-1907 | mechanical engineering |
| Franz Ziegler | 1937-2016 | mechanical engineering |
| Hans Ziegler | 1911-1999 | Space pioneer |
| Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz | 1921-2009 | Pioneer of the finite element method |
| Carl Ziese | 1848-1917 | Ship engineering at the Schichau works in Elbing, Danzig and Pillau |
| Gerhart Ziller | 1912-1957 | Mechanical engineer, electrical engineer and minister |
| Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann | * 1934 | German engineer and economist |
| Konstantin Eduardowitsch Ziolkowski | 1857-1935 | Space pioneer, rocket equation |
| Heinrich Zoelly | 1862-1937 | Mexican-Swiss engineer; Steam turbine (Zoelly turbine), turbine-powered steam locomotive |
| François Zola | 1795-1847 | French engineer; Zola dam |
| Conradin Zschokke | 1842-1918 | Hydraulic engineering, compressed air foundation , floating dredger , founder of Zschokke-Holding |
| Olivier Zschokke | 1826-1898 | Swiss engineer and politician; Railway system |
| Richard Zschokke | 1865-1946 | Suworow Monument , Jungfrau Railway |
| Eduard Züblin | 1850-1916 | Concrete construction , founder of Ed. Züblin AG |
| Günter Zumpe | * 1929 | German civil engineer, statics |
| Walter Zuppinger | 1814-1889 | Zuppinger wheel |
| Konrad Zuse | 1910-1995 | first computer (actually civil engineer) |
Individual evidence
- ^ Gabriele Bertazzolo in the Italian language Wikipedia
- ↑ Nicolas Esquillan in French-speaking Wikipedia
- ↑ Emiland Marie Gauthey in the Swedish-language Wikipedia
- ^ Encyclopedia of Railways
- ^ Antoine Rémy Polonceau in the French language Wikipedia
- ^ Carlo Semenza in the Italian language Wikipedia
- ^ Library of Congress