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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin is an American former astronaut, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot. He was the second person to walk on the Moon after mission commander Neil Armstrong. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. Following the deaths of Armstrong in 2012 and pilot Michael Collins in 2021, he is the last surviving Apollo 11 crew member. Following Jim Lovell's death in 2025, Aldrin became the oldest living astronaut.
Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
United States Army general (1934–2012)
Wally Schirra
American astronaut (1923–2007)
Karl Guthe Jansky
American physicist and radio engineer
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
American psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972)
Frank Bunker Gilbreth
American industrial engineer (1868-1924)
Rusty Schweickart
American astronaut
John DeLorean
American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry (1925–2005)
John R. Pierce
American electrical engineer, acoustics expert, and author (1910–2002)
John Walter Christie
Automotive Engineer and Inventor (1865-1944)
Beatrice Hicks
engineer from the United States
Robert J. Cenker
American astronaut
Jack Northrop
American aircraft industrialist and designer, founder of Northrop Corporation (1895–1981)
Shiva Ayyadurai
Indian inventor
James Berardinelli
American film critic
Isaac Newton Lewis
American soldier and inventor of the Lewis gun (1858–1931)
Joseph Francis Shea
aerospace engineer (1926-1999)
Alan Kotok
American computer scientist (1941–2006)
William Strickland
American architect (1788–1854)
Edward Weston
United States chemist (1850–1936)
Harrington Emerson
American efficiency engineer and business theorist (1853–1931)
John Stevens
American lawyer, engineer and inventor (1749-1838)
Chris Malachowsky
American electrical engineer; co-founder of Nvidia
Lyndsey Scott
American model, iOS mobile app software developer, and actress
Otto Julius Zobel
American electrical engineer (1887–1970)
Alfred Lutter
American actor
Simon Lake
American inventor (1866–1945)
Andrew Lawrence Riker
American automobile engineer
Alicia Nash
Salvadoran-American physicist, mental health-care advocate
George S. Greene
Union United States Army general (1801-1899)
Gary Rizzo
American sound engineer
Horatio Allen
American civil engineer and inventor
Oberlin Smith
American engineer (1840-1926)
Allen B. DuMont
American electronics engineer and inventor (1901-1965)
Clemens Herschel
Hydraulic engineer, inventor of the Venturi meter
Anthony James Barr
Programming Language Designer, Software Engineer, Inventor
J. Erik Jonsson
American businessperson and politician (1901–1995)
Donald Roebling
Inventor and philanthropist
Joe Hewitt
American software programmer
George Harold Brown
American engineer (1908–1987)
Robert W. Lucky
American engineer
Isaac M. Laddon
American aircraft designer
A. Michael Noll
American engineer (born 1939)
David Bates Douglass
American civil and military engineer; academic administrator; and cemetery architect (1790-1849)
Hayward A. Harvey
American inventor (1824–1893)
Treena Livingston Arinzeh
American biomedical engineer
John McMullen
American businessman (1918–2005)
Joyce Weisbecker
engineer, actuary and the first female independent video game designer
Samuel Jefferson Mason
American electronics engineer
Anthony Walton White Evans
American civil engineer (1817-1886)
George Edward Pendray
journalist, rocketeer
Robert Furman
American military engineer and intelligence officer (1915-2008)
Louis Alan Hazeltine
American physicist (1886-1964)
James Hart Wyld
American engineer and rocket scientist (1912–1954)
T.J. O'Malley
American aeronautical engineer (1915-2009)