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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.
Loukas Papademos
Greek economist and Prime Minister
Tony Tan Keng Yam
7th President of Singapore
Raymond Kurzweil
American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)
Edgar Mitchell
American astronaut (1930-2016)
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)
Sal Khan
American educator (born 1976)
David Scott
American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut (born 1932)
Raymond Tomlinson
American computer programmer (1941-2016)
Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer
Katie Bouman
American engineer and computer scientist
Benjamin Lee Whorf
American linguist (1897–1941)
Lotfi A. Zadeh
American electrical engineer and computer scientist (1921–2017)
Charles Duke
American engineer, U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (born 1935)
José Figueres Ferrer
Costa Rican politician (1906–1990)
David Koch
American billionaire heir and businessman (1940–2019)
Qian Xuesen
Chinese rocket scientist (1911-2009)
William Redington Hewlett
American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1913–2001)
Michael Fincke
American astronaut
Hugh Lofting
British author (1886–1947)
Manuel Blum
Venezuelan computer scientist
Rudolf E. Kálmán
Hungarian-born American electrical engineer
Rusty Schweickart
American astronaut
Charles Koch
American billionaire and businessman
Virgilio Barco Vargas
President of Colombia (1986-1990)
Zeida@para deputy Oppo zer1001
American computer engineer and founder of the Internet Archive
Lisa Su
American business executive and electrical engineer
Wendy B. Lawrence
US astronaut and Navy Captain
K. Eric Drexler
American engineer (born 1955)
William Shepherd
American astronaut
Ali Akbar Salehi
Iranian politician
Janice E. Voss
American engineer and NASA astronaut (1956-2012)
Moshe Arens
Israeli diplomat, member of Knesset, and professor of aeronautics (1925-2019)
Richard Chace Tolman
American physicist (1881–1948)
Jimmy Doolittle
American military officer and aviation pioneer (1896–1993)
Ken Olsen
American engineer and businessman (1926–2011)
Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper
American naval officer and NASA astronaut
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist (born 1934)
Jasmin Moghbeli
US astronaut
Robert Thirsk
Canadian astronaut
Stephen Bowen
American astronaut
Alex Padilla
United States Senator from California since 2021
Dominic A. Antonelli
astronaut, Test Pilot
Dan Bricklin
American computer scientist
Edith Clarke
American electrical engineer (1884–1959)
Daniel M. Tani
American astronaut
Chris Sununu
82nd Governor of New Hampshire since 2017
Donald Norman
American academic
Kenneth Bainbridge
American physicist (1904–1996)
Thomas Massie
Thomas Harold Massie is an American politician and engineer. A member of the Republican Party, Massie has been the United States representative for Kentucky's 4th congressional district since 2012. The district is dominated by the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati area and Louisville's eastern suburbs extending over much of northeastern Kentucky.
Christopher Cassidy
American astronaut (born 1970)
Gregory Chamitoff
American astronaut
John E. Sununu
American politician (born 1964)
Nicholas Patrick
American astronaut
Amar Bose
Indian American academic entrepreneur (1929–2013)
Nick Hague
American astronaut and space force officer
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp
American mathematician (1940-2019)
William B. Lenoir
American astronaut (1939–2010)
Gordon Bell
American computer engineer (1934–2024)
Charles Stark Draper
American engineer (1901–1987)