Category
page 1Engineers from California
Herbert Hoover
president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
Frank Capra
Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)
Howard Hughes
American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer (1905–1976)
Alan Shepard
American astronaut, first American in space, lunar explorer (1923–1998)
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
Bill Anders
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–2024)
Larry Wall
American computer programmer and author
Nolan Bushnell
American entrepreneur
Gordon Cooper
American astronaut (1927–2004)
Anita Borg
American computer scientist (1949-2003)
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Bruce McCandless II
American astronaut (1937–2017)
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972)
Ellen Ochoa
American engineer and former astronaut
Dana Scott
American mathematician and computer scientist
Rube Goldberg
American cartoonist (1883–1970)
Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of WhatsApp
Gerald Carr
American astronaut (1932–2020)
Leroy Chiao
American astronaut and engineer
Charles Geschke
American computer scientist
Robert L. Gibson
American astronaut
Burt Rutan
American aerospace engineer (born 1943)
Stockton Rush
American businessman (1962–2023)
Travis Kalanick
American entrepreneur
Greg Gianforte
American politician and businessman
Steven R. Nagel
American astronaut (1946-2014)
Jose M. Hernandez
American engineer and astronaut
Frederick Hauck
American astronaut
Kevin P. Chilton
United States general and astronaut
Harold Camping
American doomsday prophet (1921-2013)
James van Hoften
American astronaut
Michael James Adams
aviator, engineer and astronaut (1930–1967)
Michael J. McCulley
American astronaut
Rob Cavallo
American record producer, audio engineer
Gene Haas
American businessman
Ben Horowitz
American businessman
Jack Northrop
American aircraft industrialist and designer, founder of Northrop Corporation (1895–1981)
Palmer Luckey
American founder of Oculus VR and inventor of the Oculus Rift
Jerry McNerney
U.S. Representative from California
Bill Dana
NASA research pilot and astronaut (1930–2014)
Brian Krzanich
American chemist, engineer, entrepreneur and businessperson
Jerry Finn
American record producer (1969–2008)
C. Kumar N. Patel
Indian electrical engineer
Paul MacCready
American aeronautical engineer (1925-2007)
Mary Golda Ross
America aerospace engineer, first Native American female engineer.
John Joseph Montgomery
American aviation pioneer, inventor, scientist (1858-1911)
Jeri Ellsworth
American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer
Keith Olsen
American record producer and sound engineer (1945–2020)
Barbara Oakley
Translator, writer, engineer and teacher.
Gordon E. Sawyer
sound engineer (1905-1980)
Madman Muntz
American businessman and engineer (1914–1987)
Adolph Sutro
American mayor (1830-1898)
Bob Minkler
American sound engineer (1937-2015)
Dale Dehaven Myers
Deputy Administrator of NASA
Arturo Angeles
American soccer referee
Loren L. Ryder
American sound engineer (1900-1985)
Gregg Rudloff
re-recording mixer (1955-2019)
Alfred Lutter
American actor
Carl Sassenrath
computer scientist