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the list is very longMany fascinating people have been engineers or have an engineeringbackground. As the list below shows, engineers are not just researchers,designers, and inventors. They are also artists, Super Bowl winners, astronauts,Olympians, heads of state, and even Academy Award recipients!Famous people who are also engineers or have an engineering bac kground :Scott Adams - cartoonist and creator of "Dilbert" - read an interview withhim in Prism MagazineYasser Arafat - Palestinian leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.hGraduated as a civil engineer from the University of Cairo.Neil Alden Armstrong - became the first man to walk on the moon onJuly 20, 1969, at 10:56 p.m. EDT. He and "Buzz" Aldren spent about twoand one-half hours walking on the moon, while pilot Michael Collinswaited above in the Apollo 11 command module. Armstrong received hisB.S. in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University and an M.S. inaerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.Rowan Atkinson - A British comedian, best known for his starring rolesin the television series "Blackadde"r and "Mr. Bean," and several filmsincluding Four Weddings And A Funeral. Atkinson attended firstManchester then Oxford University on an electrical engineering degree.Leonid Brezhnev - leader of the former Soviet Union, metallurgicalengineer.Alexander Calder - a native of Pennsylvania, received his degree inmechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken,New Jersey, and shortly thereafter moved to Paris, where he studied artand began to create his now-famous mobiles. Many of his largesculptures are on permanent outdoor display at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, where the first major retrospective of his workwas held in 1950.Frank Capra - film director - "It Happened One Night", "Mr. Smith Goesto Washington", "It's a Wonderful Life" - college degree in chemicalengineering.Jimmy Carter - 39th President of the United States. Attended GeorgiaSouthwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology andreceived a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946.In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic andPacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen by AdmiralHyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned toSchenectady, N.Y., where he took graduate work at Union College inreactor technology and nuclear physics and served as senior officer ofthe pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf.Roger Corman -film director, industrial engineering degree from StanfordUniversity. He started direct involvement in films in 1953 as a producerand screenwriter, making his debut as director in 1955. Between thenand his official retirement in 1971 he directed dozens of films, often asmany as six or seven per year, typically shot extremely quickly onleftover sets from other, larger productions. His probably unbeatablerecord for a professional 35mm feature film was twodays and a night to shoot the original version of "TheLittle Shop of Horrors".Leonardo Da Vinci - Florentine artist, one of the great masters of theHigh Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer,and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was thekeynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations inthe field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than acentury after his death, and his scientific studies - particularly in thefields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics - anticipated many of thedevelopments of modern science.Thomas Edison - Edison patented 1,093 inventions in his lifetime,earning him the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park." The mostfamous of his inventions was an incandescent lightbulb. Besides the light bulb, Edison developed thephonograph and the kinetoscope, a small box forviewing moving films. He also improved upon theoriginal design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, andAlexander Graham Bell's telephone. Edison wasquoted as saying, "Genius is one percent inspirationand 99 percent perspiration."Lillian Gilbreth - is considered a pioneer in the field of time-and-motionstudies, showing companies how to increase efficiency and productionthrough budgeting of time, energy, and money. Dr. Gilbreth received herPh.D. in psychology from Brown University and was a professor atPurdue's School of Mechanical Engineering, Newark School ofEngineering and the University of Wisconsin. She is "Member No. 1" ofthe Society of Women Engineers. She and her husband used theirindustrial engineering skills to run their household, and those efforts arethe subject of the book and family film "Cheaper by the Dozen."Roberto C. Goizueta - former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola. Chemical engineering degree from Yale University.Herbie Hancock - jazz musician.Alfred Hitchcock - British-born American director andproducer of many brilliantly contrived films, most ofthem psychological thrillers including "Psycho", "TheBirds", "Rear Window", and "North by Northwest." Hewas born in London and trained there as an engineerat Saint Ignatius College. Although Hitchcock neverwon an Academy Award for his direction, he receivedthe Irving Thalberg Award of the Academy of MotionPicture Arts and Sciences in 1967 and the AmericanFilm Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1979. During the final year ofhis life, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, even though he had longbeen a naturalized citizen of the United States.Herbert Hoover - having graduated from Stanford University in California,Hoover was a 26 -year-old mining engineer in Tientsin, China, when thecity was attacked by 5,000 Chinese troops and 25,000 members of themartial arts group known as the Boxers. (The Boxer Rebellion was aviolent 1900 uprising against foreign business interests in China.)Hoover took charge of setting up barricades to protect Tientsin until itsrescue after 28 days of bombardment. Thirty years later, Herbert Hooverbecame the 31st President of the United States; he and his wifecontinued to speak Chinese when they wanted privacy in the WhiteHouse.Lee Iacocca - former chairman and CEO of Chrysler Corp. Iacoccagraduated from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1945 and receiveda master's degree in engineering from Princeton University in 1946. Bestknown for his helmsmanship at Chrysler Motors, Iacocca started out asa sales manager at the Ford Motor Co. in 1946 and by 1970 waspresident of the company. Joining Chrysler in 1978, Iacocca helped dragthe troubled company from the brink of extinction by helping secure$1.5 billion in government loans. Iacocca's legendary status in theautomobile industry is reinforced by his role in the introduction of thatAmerican icon: the Ford Mustang. He was also one of the first CEOs toproselytise his company's products on national television with the K carcampaign.Bill Koch - yachtsman and winning America's Cup captain in 1992 , aswell as the chairman of the America3 Foundation.Tom Landry - former Dallas Cowboys coach.Hedy Lamarr - a famous 1940s actress not formally trained as anengineer, Lamarr is credited with several sophisticated inventions,among them a unique anti-jamming device for use against Nazi radar.Years after her patent had expired, Sylvania adapted the design for adevice that today speeds satellite communications around the world.She is also credited with the line: "Any girl can be glamorous. All youhave to do is stand still and look stupid."Jair Lynch - 1992 and 1996 Olympic gymnast. Civil Engineering degreefrom Stanford University.Arthur Nielsen - developer of Nielsen rating system.Tom Scholtz - leader of the rock band Boston. Master's degree fromMIT in mechanical engineering.John Sununu - former White House Chief of Staff for President GeorgeBush, former governor of New Hampshire, current CNN commentator on" Crossfire ."Boris Yeltsin - former president of Russia.John F. Welch, Jr . - received his engineeringundergraduate degree in his home-state at theUniversity of Massachusetts. After he earned hisPh.D. in chemical engineering from the University ofIllinois, he accepted a job offer from General Electric.The rest is history -- he became chairman and CEOof General Electric in 1981.Montel Williams - a highly decorated former Naval engineer and NavalIntelligence Officer, he is now an author of inspirational books and hostof a popular syndicated television talk show.Famous EngineersEdwin Howard Armstrong - His crowning achievement (1933) was theinvention of wide-band frequency modulation, now known as FM radio.Armstrong earned a degree in electrical engineering from ColumbiaUniversity in 1913.Alexander Graham Bell , inventor of the telephone.He also worked in medical research and inventedtechniques for teaching speech to the deaf. In 1888he founded the National Geographic Society.Henry Bessemer - English inventor and engineer who invented the firstprocess for mass-producing steel inexpensively - essential to thedevelopment of skyscrapers.Joseph Armand Bombardier - manufacturer of the first successfulsnowmobile.Philip Condit - CEO, The Boeing Company, mechanical/aeronauticalengineering.American engineer and inventor Willis Haviland Carrier developed theformulae and equipment that made air conditioning possible. Carrierattended Cornell University and graduated with an M.E. in 1901.William D. Coolidge's name is inseparably linked with the X-ray tube -popularly called the 'Coolidge tube.' This invention completelyrevolutionized the generation of X-rays and remains to this day themodel upon which all X-ray tubes for medical applications arepatterned. Coolidge, born in Hudson, Mass., graduated from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1896, majoring in electricalengineering. At General Electric, he invented ductile tungsten, thefilament material still used in lamps, and worked on high-qualitymagnetic steel, improved ventilating fans and the electric blanket.Seymour Cray - After a brief service during World War II, he went to theUniversity of Minnesota where he studied engineering. In 1951 he joinedEngineering Research Associates, which was developing computers forthe Navy. Later he co-founded Control Data Corporation, and in 1972 hefounded CRAY Research. Seymour Cray unveiled the CRAY-1 in 1976,considered the first supercomputer.George de Mestral -attended the Ecole Polytechnique Federale deLausanne, Switzerland where he graduated as an electrical engineer. In1955 the "hook and loop fastener" he created was patented under thename Velcro which was derived from two French words: velour andcrochet ("velvet" and "hooks").Though best known for his invention of the pressure-ignited heat enginethat bears his name, the French-born Rudolf Diesel was also an eminentthermal engineer.Ray Dolby - audio system innovator and founder ofDolby Laboratories. His technical expertise has wonhim both an Academy Award and a Grammy!Bonnie Dunbar - NASA astronaut who earned her B.S. and M.S. degreesin ceramic engineering from the University of Washington and adoctorate in mechanical/biomedical engineering from the University ofHouston. While working at Rockwell International, Dr. Dunbar helped todevelop the ceramic tiles that enable space shuttles to survive re-entry.She has had an opportunity to test those tiles first hand as a four-timeastronaut, including a stint on the first shuttle mission to dock with theRussian Space Station Mir.Reginald A. (Aubrey) Fessenden - Canadian-born American physicist andelectrical engineer who is known for his early work in wirelesscommunication. He began his research at the University of Pittsburgh;after designing a high-frequency alternator, he broadcast (1906) the firstprogram of speech and music ever transmitted by radio. That sameyear, he established two-way transatlantic wireless telegraphcommunication. Fessenden also invented the heterodyne system ofradio reception, the sonic depth finder, the radio compass, submarinesignaling devices, the smoke cloud (for tank warfare), and theturboelectric drive (for battleships).Sir Sanford Fleming - a civil engineer and scientist, played a key role indeveloping the Canadian railway system and created the worldwidesystem of standard time.Henry Ford held many patents on automotive mechanisms but is bestremembered for helping devise the factory assembly approach toproduction that revolutionized the auto industry by greatly reducing thetime required to assemble a car. Born in Wayne County, Mich., Fordshowed an early interest in mechanics, constructing his first steamengine at the age of 15. In 1891, Ford became an engineer with theEdison Illuminating Company in Detroit. He became Chief Engineer in1893 and this position allowed him to devote attention to his personalexperiments on internal combustion engines. In 1893 he built his firstinternal combustion engine, a small one-cylinder gasoline model, and in1896 he built his first automobile. In June 1903, Ford helped establishFord Motor Company. He served as president of Ford from 1906 to 1919and from 1943 to 1945.Jay W. Forrester was a pioneer in early digital computer developmentand invented random-access, coincident-current magnetic storage,which became the standard memory device for digital computers. Hereceived a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1939 from theUniversity of Nebraska and a M.S. degree from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology in 1945.Yuan-Cheng Fung - Fung is widely recognized as the father ofbiomechanics, having established the fundamentals of biomechanicalproperties in many of the human body's organs and tissues. He foundedthe bioengineering program at the University of California, San Diego. InNovember 2001 he became the first bioengineer to receive thePresident's National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientifichonor.Robert Hutchings Goddard pioneered modern rocketryand space flight and founded a whole field of scienceand engineering. Goddard's interest in rockets beganin 1899, when he was 17. He conducted static testswith small solid-fuel rockets at Worcester Tech asearly as 1908, and in 1912 he developed the detailedmathematical theory of rocket propulsion. In 1915 heproved that rocket engines could produce thrust in avacuum and therefore make space flight possible. Hesucceeded in developing several types of solid-fuel rockets to be firedfrom handheld or tripod-mounted launching tubes, which were the basisof the bazooka and other powerful rocket weapons of World War II. Atthe time of his death Goddard held 214 patents in rocketry.Andrew Grove - co-founder, Intel, chemical engineer.William Hewlett and David Packard , co-founders of Hewlett-Packard.Beulah Louise Henry was known in the 1920s and 30s as "the ladyEdison" for the many inventions she patented, including a vacuum icecream freezer, a typewriter that made multiple copies without carbonpaper, and a bobbinless lockstitch sewing machine. Henry foundedmanufacturing companies to produce her creations, making a fortune inthe process.Grace Murray Hopper, a computer engineer and RearAdmiral in the U.S. Navy, developed the firstcomputer compiler in 1952 and the computerprogram language COBOL. Upon discovering that amoth had jammed the works of an early computer,Hopper popularized the term "bug." In 1983, byspecial presidential appointment, Hopper waspromoted to the rank of Commodore. Two yearslater, she became one of the first women to beelevated to the rank of Rear Admiral. In 1986, afterforty-three years of service, RADM Grace Hopperceremoniously retired on the deck of the USSConstitution. At 80 years, she was the oldest active duty officer at thattime. She spent the remainder of her life as a senior consultant toDigital Equipment Corporation. Hopper received numerous honors overthe course of her lifetime. In 1969, the Data Processing ManagementAssociation awarded her the first Computer Science Man-of-the-YearAward. She became the first person from the United States and the firstwoman to be made a Distinguished Fellow of the British ComputerSociety in 1973. She also received multiple honorary doctorates fromuniversities across the nation. The Navy christened a ship in her honor.In September 1991, she was awarded the National Medal of Technology,the nation's highest honor in engineering and technology.Clarence "Kelly" Johnson - played a leading role inthe design of more than 40 aircraft and set up aSkunk Works-type operation to develop a Lockheedsatellite--the Agena-D--that became the nation'sworkhorse in space. His achievements over almostsix decades captured every major aviation designaward and the highest civilian honors of the U.S.government and made him an aerospace legend. Hewas elected to the National Academy of Sciences in1965, was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall ofFame in 1974, and was awarded the the Medal ofFreedom in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnsonrecognizing, his "significant contributions to the quality of Americanlife."Bill Joy - co-founder of Sun Microsystems, electrical engineer. Hereceived a B.S.E.E. in electrical engineering from the University ofMichigan in 1975, after which he attended graduate school at U.C.Berkeley where he was the principal designer of Berkeley UNIX (BSD)and received a M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science. TheBerkeley version of UNIX became the standard in education andresearch, garnering development support from DARPA, and was notablefor introducing virtual memory and Internet working using TCP/IP toUNIX. In 1997, Joy was appointed by President Clinton as co-chairmanof the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee.Jack Kilby - inventor of the integrated circuit. Kilby received a B.S.E.E.degree from the University of Illinois in 1947 and an M.S.E.E. from theUniversity of Wisconsin in 1950. In 2000, he received the Nobel Prize inPhysics for his work with the integrated circuit.William LeMessurier - structural designer of the Citicorp building,structural engineer.Elijah McCoy was a Black inventor who was awardedover 57 patents. The son of runaway slaves fromKentucky, he was born in Canada and lived there asa youth. Educated in Scotland as a mechanicalengineer he returned to Detroit and in 1872 inventeda lubricator for steam engines. His new oiling devicerevolutionized the industrial machine industry byallowing machines to remain in motion while beingoiled. This device, although imitated by otherdesigners, was so successful that people inspectingnew equipment would ask if it contained the realMcCoy.Guglielmo Marconi - The "Father of Radio" - Marconi received manyhonors including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909.James Morgan - CEO, Applied Materials, mechanical engineer. In 1996he received the National Medal of Technology for his industry leadershipand for his vision in building Applied Materials into the world's leadingsemiconductor equipment company, a major exporter and a globaltechnology pioneer which helps enable the Information Age.Bill Nye - worked for Boeing before he became the "science guy",Mechanical engineering degree from Cornell University.Kevin Olmstead - world-record game show payoff winner - $2,180,000winner, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" - and environmental engineer.After acquiring chemical engineering degrees from Case WesternReserve University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Olmstead earned a doctorate degree in environmental engineering fromthe University of Michigan. He also taught civil and environmentalengineering and is currently a senior project engineer with Tetra TechMPS, an international consulting firm specializing in infrastructure andcommunications systems.Kenneth Olsen - inventor of magnetic core memory, co-founder, DigitalEquipment Corporation. After serving in the Navy between 1944 and1946, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where heearned a B.S. (1950) and an M.A. (1952) in electrical engineering.Arati Prabhakar - director, National Institute of Standards andTechnology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce. Prabhakar wasappointed the 10th NIST Director in May 1993. NIST promotes U.S.economic growth by working with industry to develop and applytechnology, measurements, and standards. Previously, Prabhakar servedas director of the Microelectronics Technology Office in the DefenseDepartment's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). She holdsthe distinction of being the first woman with a doctorate from theCalifornia Institute of Technology, and was also the youngest director ofthe institute.Ludwig Prandtl - the father of fluid mechanics, mechanical engineer.Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. - former CEO of Pfizer, Inc., electrical engineer.Judith Resnik - Challenger astronaut, electrical engineer. Received abachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970 and a doctorate in electrical engineering fromthe University of Maryland in 1977.Hyman G. Rickover - the "Father ofthe Nuclear Navy" he led thedevelopment of the Navy nuclearsubmarine fleet. Masters inelectrical engineering fromColumbia University. During WorldWar II, he headed the electricalsection of the Navy's Bureau ofShips, and in 1946 was enlisted intothe U.S. atomic program. The nextyear he returned to the Navy tomanage its nuclear-propulsionprogram. Regarded as a fanatic byhis detractors, he completed theworld's first nuclear submarine--theUSS Nautilus--ahead of schedule in1955. While continuing his work with the Navy, he helped build the firstmajor civilian nuclear power plant at Shippingport, PA. Always anoutspoken advocate of U.S. nuclear supremacy, he was promoted to therank of vice admiral in 1959 and admiral in 1973. He retired from theNavy in 1982 after serving as an officer for a record 63 years.Throughout his long naval career his decorations included theDistinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Navy CommendationMedal, two Congressional Gold Medals, as well as the title of HonoraryCommander of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of theBritish Empire. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter presented him thePresidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest non-military honor.Norbert Rillieux - revolutionized in the sugar industry by inventing arefining process that reduced the time, cost, and safety risk involved inproducing sugar from cane and beets. His inventions protected lives byending the older dangerous methods of sugar production. As the son ofa French planter/inventor and a slave mother, Norbert Rillieux was bornin New Orleans, LA. He was educated at the L'Ecole Central in Paris,France in 1830, were he studied evaporating engineering and served asan educator.Washington Roebling - completed the Brooklyn Bridge which was startedby his father, civil engineer.Katherine Stinson - the first female graduate of NCState University's College of Engineering. Initiallydenied admission as a freshman, Stinson went on tobecome one of NC State's most distinguished andactive alumni. Graduating vice president of her class,she was soon hired by the Civil AeronauticsAdministration as its first female engineer. Later, sheserved as technical assistant chief in its Engineeringand Manufacturing Division until her retirement in 1973. She went on tofound the Society of Women Engineers.Nikola Tesla - invented the induction motor with rotating magnetic fieldthat made unit drives for machines feasible and made AC powertransmission an economic necessity.Stephen Timoshenko - the father of engineering mechanics, engineeringscientist.Theodore von Karman - Dr. von Karman was one of the world's foremostaerodynamicsts and scientists and is widely recognized as the father ofmodern aerospace science. He was a professor of aeronautics at theCalifornia Institute of Technology and was one of the principal foundersof NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.George Westinghouse - invented a system of air brakes that made travelby train safe and built one of the greatest electric manufacturingorganizations in the United States. In 1886, he founded theWestinghouse Electric Company, foreseeing the possibilities ofalternating current as opposed to direct current, which was limited to aradius of two or three miles. Westinghouse enlisted the services ofNikola Tesla and other inventors in the development of alternatingcurrent motors and apparatus for the transmission of high-tensioncurrent, pioneering large-scale municipal lighting.American inventor, pioneer, mechanical engineer, and manufacturer EliWhitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin. He alsoaffected the industrial development of the United States when, inmanufacturing muskets for the government, he translated the concept ofinterchangeable parts into a manufacturing system, giving birth to theAmerican mass-production concept.Steve Wozniak cofounded Apple Computer, Inc. in1976 with the Apple I computer. Wozniak's Apple IIpersonal computer - introduced in 1977 and featuringa central processing unit (CPU), keyboard, floppydisk drive, and a $1,300 price tag - helped launch thePC industry. In 1980, just a little more than four yearsafter being founded, Apple went public. Wozniak leftApple in 1981 and went back to Berkeley and finishedhis degree in electrical engineering/computerscience. Since then, he has been involved in variousbusiness and philanthropic ventures, focusingprimarily on computer capabilities in schools,including an initiative in 1990 to place computers in schools in theformer Soviet Union.