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Engineer Biographies
Every archived life recorded as engineer, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Contemporary era
Jensen Huang
b. February 17, 1963
American entrepreneur and businessman; founder and CEO of Nvidia
Contemporary era
Junaid Jamshed
September 3, 1964 – December 7, 2016
Pakistani recording artist
Modern era
Saif Ali Janjua
April 25, 1922 – October 10, 1948
Pakistani engineer
Contemporary era
Cecil Chaudhry
August 27, 1947 – April 13, 2012
Pakistani academic and activist (1947–2012)
Modern era
Munir Ahmad Khan
May 20, 1926 – April 22, 1999
Pakistani physicist
Modern era
Samar Mubarakmand
b. September 17, 1942
Pakistani physicist
Modern era
Bao Zheng
December 1, 1927 – October 21, 2020
Chinese engineer
Early Modern era
Jeong Yak-yong
1762 – 1836
Korean scholar and philosopher (1762 - 1836)
Modern era
Ramon Magsaysay
August 31, 1907 – March 17, 1957
President of the Philippines from 1953 to 1957
Ancient era
Hemiunu
c. 2500 BCE – c. 2501 BCE
Ancient Egyptian prince and vizier
Ancient era
Ctesibius
284 BCE – 221 BCE
Greek inventor and mathematician
Ancient era
Hero of Alexandria
10 CE – 75 CE
Ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
Ancient era
Apollodorus of Damascus
50 CE – 125 CE
2nd century Syrian Roman architect and engineer
Modern era
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
September 15, 1860 – April 14, 1962
Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore (1861-1962)
Modern era
Satish Dhawan
September 25, 1920 – January 3, 2002
Former ISRO Chairman
Modern era
Verghese Kurien
November 26, 1921 – September 9, 2012
Indian entrepreneur
Ancient era
Vitruvius
80 BCE – 15 BCE
Roman architect and engineer
Modern era
Herbert Hoover
August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964
President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 (1874–1964)
Modern era
Yasser Arafat
August 4, 1929 – November 11, 2004
Palestinian political leader (1929-2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)
Modern era
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
October 15, 1931 – July 27, 2015
Indian scientist, president and statesman (1931–2015)
Modern era
G. H. Hardy
August 14, 1882 – January 9, 1966
English entomologist (1882-1966)
Modern era
John McCarthy
September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
Modern era
Gustav Kirchhoff
March 12, 1824 – October 17, 1887
German physicist (1824–1887)
Medieval era
Al-Jazari
1164 – 1206
Mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164–1206)
Modern era
Mario Molina
March 19, 1943 – October 7, 2020
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
Modern era
Charles Goodyear
December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860
American inventor (1800-1860)
Modern era
Leo Baekeland
November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944
Belgium American inventor (1863-1944)
Modern era
Vikram Sarabhai
August 12, 1919 – December 30, 1971
Father of Indian space programme (1919–1971)
Modern era
Qian Xuesen
December 11, 1911 – October 31, 2009
Chinese rocket scientist (1911-2009)
Modern era
Norman Borlaug
March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009
American biologist (1914–2009)
Modern era
Gustave Eiffel
December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923
French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)
Modern era
Jacques Piccard
July 28, 1922 – November 1, 2008
Swiss oceanographer (1922–2008)