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Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
Heinrich Hertz
German physicist (1857–1894)
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Russian physicist
Lee de Forest
American inventor (1873–1961)
Edwin Howard Armstrong
American electrical engineer and inventor (1890–1954)
Reginald Fessenden
Canadian radio pioneer (1866–1932)
David Edward Hughes
Welsh-American scientist and musician (1831–1900)
David Sarnoff
Russian-born American businessman (1891–1971)
Ernst Alexanderson
Swedish American electrical engineer (1878–1975)
Édouard Branly
French physicist (1844-1940)
Augusto Righi
Italian physicist (1850-1920)
Jozef Murgaš
Slovak entomologist, painter, inventor and roman catholic priest (1864-1929)
Georg von Arco
German physicist (1869–1940)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bonch-Bruevich
Russian engineer (1888-1940)
Gustave-Auguste Ferrié
French radio pioneer and army general (1868–1932)
Frank Conrad
American electrical engineer (1874–1941)
Eric Tigerstedt
Finnish inventor
John Stone Stone
American electrical engineer (1869–1943)
John Renshaw Carson
American telecommunications engineer (1886-1940)
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
American radio pioneer (1877–1956)
Louis Winslow Austin
American physicist (1867-1932)
Otto Julius Zobel
American electrical engineer (1887–1970)
John Milton Miller
American electrical engineer (1882-1962)
John Howard Dellinger
American engineer (1886–1962)
Vic Hayes
Father of Wi-Fi
Adolf Slaby
German wireless pioneer (1849-1913)
John P. McCarthy
American film director and screenwriter (1884–1962)
Landell de Moura
Brazilian priest and radio pioneer (1861-1928)
Julio Cervera Baviera
Spanish engineer (1854–1927)
Harald T. Friis
American electrical engineer (1893–1976)
Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan
Romanian writer (1870-1941)
Christos Tsigiridis
Greek electrical engineer
Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș
Romanian academic
Hanso Idzerda
Dutch radio host (1885–1944)
Clara Ingram Judson
American children's writer, biographies (1879-1960)
Allen B. DuMont
American electronics engineer and inventor (1901-1965)
John H. DeWitt, Jr.
American radio astronomy pioneer. Observed first moonbounce transmission in 1946.
Nevil Maskelyne
British magician and inventor (1863–1924)
Mary Taylor Slow
British physicist (1898-1984)
Rudolf Formis
German engineer (1896–1935)
Nathan Stubblefield
American radio pioneer (1860–1928)
Leonard F. Fuller
American electrical engineer
George Clark Southworth
American radio pioneer (1890–1972)
Walter Ransom Gail Baker
American electrical engineer (1892-1960)
H. J. Round
British inventor (1881–1966)
Enrique Telémaco Susini
Argentine film director
Charles Samuel Franklin
British radio pioneer (1879–1964)
Camille Papin Tissot
French physicist (1868–1917)
Archie Frederick Collins
American radio pioneer and writer (1869-1952)
Foster Hewitt
Canadian broadcaster
Ernst Walter Ruhmer
German physicist (1878–1913)
Leo C. Young
American radio and radar pioneer (1891-1981)
John Vincent Lawless Hogan
American radio pioneer (1890–1960)
Charles Litton, Sr.
American radio pioneer