Founded in 1885. Women admitted 1969.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Buzz Aldrin |
Astronaut |
20-Jan-1930 |
|
Second man on the Moon |
| Paul Allaire |
Business |
21-Jul-1938 |
|
Twice CEO of Xerox |
| Gil Amelio |
Business |
1-Mar-1943 |
|
CEO of Apple, 1996-97 |
| Carl David Anderson |
Physicist |
3-Sep-1905 |
11-Jan-1991 |
Discovered the positron, mu-meson |
| Gary E. Anderson |
Business |
c. 1945 |
|
CEO of Dow Corning, 1999-2004 |
| Edwin H. Armstrong |
Inventor |
18-Dec-1890 |
31-Jan-1954 |
Inventor of FM radio |
| John Atanasoff |
Inventor |
4-Oct-1903 |
15-Jun-1995 |
Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
| Norman Augustine |
Business |
27-Jul-1935 |
|
CEO of Martin Marietta, 1987-97 |
| Horace W. Babcock |
Astronomer |
13-Sep-1912 |
29-Aug-2003 |
Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model |
| Leo Baekeland |
Scientist |
14-Nov-1863 |
23-Feb-1944 |
Father of plastics |
| John Bardeen |
Physicist |
23-May-1908 |
30-Jan-1991 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Joe Barton |
Politician |
15-Sep-1949 |
|
Congressman, Texas 6th |
| Jeff Bezos |
Business |
12-Jan-1964 |
|
Founder of Amazon |
| Michael J. Birck |
Business |
25-Jan-1938 |
6-Jul-2015 |
CEO of Tellabs, 1975-2004 |
| Michael Bloomberg |
Politician |
14-Feb-1942 |
|
Mayor of New York City, 2002-13 |
| Samuel Bodman |
Government |
26-Nov-1938 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
| Amar Bose |
Inventor |
2-Nov-1929 |
12-Jul-2013 |
Inventor of Bose speakers |
| William R. Brody |
Educator |
4-Jan-1944 |
|
President, Salk Institute |
| Vannevar Bush |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1890 |
30-Jun-1974 |
Pre-internet visionary |
| Melvin Calvin |
Chemist |
8-Apr-1911 |
8-Jan-1997 |
Deciphered photosynthesis |
| Frank Capra |
Film Director |
18-May-1897 |
3-Sep-1991 |
It's A Wonderful Life |
| Willis Carrier |
Inventor |
26-Nov-1876 |
7-Oct-1950 |
Created the first air conditioning |
| Gene Cernan |
Astronaut |
14-Mar-1934 |
|
Last man on the moon (Apollo 17) |
| John S. Chen |
Business |
1-Jul-1955 |
|
CEO of Sybase |
| Bill Clements |
Politician |
17-Apr-1917 |
29-May-2011 |
Twice Governor of Texas |
| G. Wayne Clough |
Educator |
c. 1942 |
|
Secretary of the Smithsonian |
| Jared L. Cohon |
Educator |
c. 1947 |
|
President, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Philip M. Condit |
Business |
2-Aug-1941 |
|
CEO of Boeing, 1996-2003 |
| Robert B. Coutts |
Business |
c. 1950 |
|
EVP at Lockheed Martin |
| Seymour Cray |
Inventor |
28-Sep-1925 |
5-Oct-1996 |
Inventor of Cray supercomputers |
| Lester Crown |
Business |
7-Jun-1925 |
|
CEO of Henry Crown & Co. |
| Mark Dean |
Engineer |
2-Mar-1957 |
|
Computer architecture |
| Ray Milton Dolby |
Inventor |
18-Jan-1933 |
12-Sep-2013 |
Inventor of Dolby stereo |
| Nicholas M. Donofrio |
Business |
7-Sep-1945 |
|
EVP at IBM |
| James J. Duderstadt |
Educator |
5-Dec-1942 |
|
President, University of Michigan, 1988-96 |
| William B. Ellis |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Northeast Utilities, 1983-93 |
| Doug Engelbart |
Computer Programmer |
30-Jan-1925 |
2-Jul-2013 |
Pioneer of human-computer interaction |
| Daniel J. Evans |
Politician |
16-Oct-1925 |
|
Governor of Washington, 1965-77 |
| Max Faget |
Scientist |
26-Aug-1921 |
9-Oct-2004 |
Designer of NASA spacecraft |
| Ferdinand F. Fernandez |
Judge |
29-May-1937 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1989-2002 |
| David Filo |
Business |
20-Apr-1966 |
|
Co-Founder of Yahoo |
| George M. C. Fisher |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Kodak, 1993-2000 |
| Ernie Fletcher |
Politician |
12-Nov-1952 |
|
Governor of Kentucky, 2003-07 |
| Kirk Fordice |
Politician |
10-Feb-1934 |
7-Sep-2004 |
Governor of Mississippi, 1992-2000 |
| James J. Forese |
Business |
c. 1936 |
|
CEO of Ikon, 1998-2002 |
| William A. Fowler |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1911 |
14-Mar-1995 |
Element generation within stars |
| H. Laurance Fuller |
Business |
c. 1939 |
|
CEO of Amoco, 1991-98 |
| Owen K. Garriott |
Astronaut |
22-Nov-1930 |
|
Skylab, Spacelab astronaut |
| William W. George |
Business |
14-Sep-1942 |
|
CEO of Medtronic, 1991-2001 |
| Ivar Giaever |
Physicist |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Tunneling through superconductors |
| Raymond V. Gilmartin |
Business |
6-Mar-1941 |
|
CEO of Merck, 1994-2005 |
| Donald A. Glaser |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1926 |
28-Feb-2013 |
Inventor of the bubble chamber |
| George Goethals |
Architect |
29-Jun-1858 |
21-Jan-1928 |
Creator of the Panama Canal |
| Richard J. Goldstein |
Engineer |
c. 1936 |
|
Fluid mechanics |
| Mary L. Good |
Educator |
20-Jun-1931 |
|
Donaghey Professor, U. Arkansas |
| Patrick W. Gross |
Business |
15-May-1944 |
|
Co-Founder, American Management Systems |
| Andy Grove |
Business |
2-Sep-1936 |
|
CEO of Intel, 1987-98 |
| Leroy Grumman |
Business |
4-Jan-1895 |
4-Oct-1982 |
Co-Founder, Grumman Aircraft |
| Fred Haise |
Astronaut |
14-Nov-1933 |
|
Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 13 |
| John L. Hall |
Physicist |
21-Aug-1934 |
|
Quantum optics |
| Martin Hellman |
Inventor |
2-Oct-1945 |
|
Public key cryptographer |
| John L. Hennessy |
Educator |
c. 1953 |
|
President of Stanford University |
| Richard Herman |
Educator |
c. 1941 |
|
Chancellor, UI Urbana-Champaign |
| Robert T. Herres |
Military |
12-Jan-1932 |
24-Jul-2008 |
Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs, 1987-90 |
| Herman Hollerith |
Inventor |
29-Feb-1860 |
17-Nov-1929 |
Invented the punchcard |
| Lee Iacocca |
Business |
15-Oct-1924 |
|
Former chairman, Chrysler Corporation |
| Irwin M. Jacobs |
Business |
18-Oct-1933 |
|
Co-Founder of Qualcomm |
| Paul E. Jacobs |
Business |
c. 1963 |
|
CEO of Qualcomm |
| Fob James |
Politician |
15-Sep-1934 |
|
Twice Governor of Alabama |
| Kelly Johnson |
Engineer |
27-Feb-1910 |
21-Dec-1990 |
Lockheed Skunk Works plane designer |
| Joseph M. Juran |
Scientist |
24-Dec-1904 |
28-Feb-2008 |
The Pareto Principle |
| Robert E. Kahn |
Scientist |
23-Dec-1938 |
|
Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol |
| Charles F. Kettering |
Engineer |
29-Aug-1876 |
25-Nov-1958 |
Invented the electric starter |
| Jack S. Kilby |
Inventor |
8-Nov-1923 |
20-Jun-2005 |
Electrical engineering pioneer |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| William I. Koch |
Business |
3-May-1940 |
|
Koch Industries |
| Charles R. LaMantia |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Arthur D. Little, 1988-99 |
| Robert S. Langer |
Chemist |
29-Aug-1948 |
|
Institute Professor at MIT |
| Irving Langmuir |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
| Paul C. Lauterbur |
Scientist |
6-May-1929 |
27-Mar-2007 |
Magnetic resonance imaging |
| William P. Lear |
Inventor |
26-Jun-1902 |
14-May-1978 |
Lear Jet, Inc. |
| Bill Luther |
Politician |
27-Jun-1945 |
|
Congressman from Minnesota, 1995-2003 |
| John McCone |
Government |
4-Jan-1902 |
14-Feb-1991 |
CIA Director, 1961-65 |
| James A. McDivitt |
Astronaut |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Commander, Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 |
| James F. McDonald |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
CEO of Scientific-Atlanta, 1993-2006 |
| Edwin M. McMillan |
Physicist |
18-Sep-1907 |
7-Sep-1991 |
Discovered neptunium and plutonium |
| James R. Mellor |
Business |
3-May-1930 |
|
CEO of General Dynamics, 1994-97 |
| William D. Mensch |
Engineer |
9-Feb-1945 |
|
Co-Designer, 6502 microprocessor |
| Ruben Mettler |
Business |
23-Feb-1924 |
23-May-2006 |
CEO of TRW, 1969-77 |
| Thomas Midgley |
Chemist |
18-May-1889 |
2-Nov-1944 |
Ethyl gasoline, Freon |
| Robert A. Millikan |
Physicist |
22-Mar-1868 |
19-Dec-1953 |
Determined the charge of an electron |
| Robert Moog |
Inventor |
23-May-1934 |
21-Aug-2005 |
Invented the synthesizer |
| Kary Mullis |
Chemist |
28-Dec-1944 |
|
Nutball 1993 Nobel laureate |
| Arun Netravali |
Business |
26-May-1946 |
|
Chief Scientist at Lucent, 2002-03 |
| Arthur C. Nielsen |
Business |
5-Sep-1897 |
1-Jun-1980 |
Founder of A.C. Nielsen ratings company |
| David Packard |
Business |
7-Sep-1912 |
26-Mar-1996 |
Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard |
| Larry Page |
Business |
26-Mar-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| Paul Patton |
Politician |
26-May-1937 |
|
Governor of Kentucky, 1995-2003 |
| Linus Pauling |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1901 |
19-Aug-1994 |
Scientist and peacenik |
| John B. Peatman |
Educator |
? |
|
Engineering Professor at Georgia Tech |
| Martin L. Perl |
Physicist |
24-Jun-1927 |
30-Sep-2014 |
Discovered the tau lepton |
| Charles Plosser |
Economist |
19-Sep-1948 |
|
President and CEO, Philadelphia Fed |
| James D. Plummer |
Educator |
3-Dec-1944 |
|
Dean of Stanford's Engineering School |
| Michael Porter |
Scholar |
1947 |
|
Competitive Strategy |
| E. M. Purcell |
Physicist |
30-Aug-1912 |
7-Mar-1997 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| Monroe Rathbone |
Business |
1-Mar-1900 |
2-Aug-1976 |
Formed Exxon |
| Cordell Reed |
Business |
26-Mar-1938 |
|
Former Senior VP, ComEd |
| John S. Reed |
Business |
1939 |
|
CEO of Citibank, 1984-2000 |
| L. Rafael Reif |
Educator |
21-Aug-1950 |
|
President of MIT |
| Frederick Reines |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1918 |
26-Aug-1998 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Donald B. Rice |
Business |
4-Jun-1939 |
|
Secretary of the US Air Force, 1989-93 |
| Donald L. Ritter |
Politician |
21-Oct-1940 |
|
Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-93 |
| Steven B. Sample |
Educator |
29-Nov-1940 |
|
President, University of Southern California |
| Henry Samueli |
Business |
20-Sep-1954 |
|
Co-Founder of Broadcom |
| David Sarnoff |
Business |
27-Feb-1891 |
12-Dec-1971 |
CEO of RCA, founder of NBC |
| Henry B. Schacht |
Business |
16-Oct-1934 |
|
Former CEO of Cummins, Lucent |
| David Scott |
Astronaut |
6-Jun-1932 |
|
Commander, Apollo 15 |
| Michael M. Sears |
Business |
16-Jul-1947 |
|
CFO of Boeing, 2000-03 |
| Claude Shannon |
Scientist |
30-Apr-1916 |
24-Feb-2001 |
Pioneer in information theory |
| Milton J. Shapp |
Politician |
25-Jun-1912 |
24-Nov-1994 |
Governor of Pennsylvania, 1971-79 |
| William Shockley |
Physicist |
13-Feb-1910 |
12-Aug-1989 |
Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Clifford G. Shull |
Physicist |
23-Sep-1915 |
31-Mar-2001 |
Neutron scattering |
| Joseph Skeen |
Politician |
30-Jun-1927 |
7-Dec-2003 |
Congressman from New Mexico, 1981-2003 |
| Philip Sporn |
Engineer |
25-Nov-1896 |
23-Jan-1978 |
American Electric Power Company |
| Robert G. Sproul |
Educator |
22-May-1891 |
10-Sep-1975 |
President, University of California, 1930-58 |
| H. Guyford Stever |
Educator |
24-Oct-1916 |
9-Apr-2010 |
President of CMU, 1965-72 |
| Ronald D. Sugar |
Business |
1948 |
|
CEO of Northrop Grumman |
| John H. Sununu |
Government |
2-Jul-1939 |
|
George H.W. Bush's Chief of Staff |
| William H. Swanson |
Business |
1949 |
|
CEO of Raytheon |
| Samuel C. C. Ting |
Physicist |
27-Jan-1936 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
| James Van Allen |
Astronomer |
7-Sep-1914 |
9-Aug-2006 |
Discovered the Van Allen Belt |
| Charles Vest |
Educator |
9-Sep-1941 |
12-Dec-2013 |
President of MIT, 1990-2004 |
| John A. Volpe |
Politician |
8-Dec-1908 |
11-Sep-1994 |
Twice Governor of Massachusetts |
| Wernher von Braun |
Scientist |
23-Mar-1912 |
16-Jun-1977 |
German-American rocket scientist |
| Jack Welch |
Business |
19-Nov-1935 |
|
CEO of GE, 1981-2001 |
| Ed White |
Astronaut |
14-Nov-1930 |
27-Jan-1967 |
First American to walk in space |
| John A. White |
Business |
c. 1940 |
|
Chancellor, University of Arkansas |
| Charles E. Wilson |
Government |
18-Jul-1890 |
26-Sep-1961 |
US Secretary of Defense, 1953-57 |
| J. Lawrence Wilson |
Business |
2-Mar-1936 |
|
CEO of Rohm and Haas, 1988-99 |
| Rosalyn Sussman Yalow |
Physicist |
19-Jul-1921 |
30-May-2011 |
Developed radioimmunoassay technique |
| Jerry Yang |
Business |
6-Nov-1968 |
|
Co-Founder of Yahoo |
| John Young |
Astronaut |
24-Sep-1930 |
|
9th to walk on the Moon |
