List of mechanical engineers

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This is a list of mechanical engineers, notable people who were trained in or practiced mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, etc. This is not a list of engineers practicing that profession.

See also List of engineers for links to other engineering professions.

C

• Andrew Conru Founder of Adult FriendFinder , an entrepreneur with a doctorate in mechanical engineering design
• André Citroën - Automobile

D

• Rudolf Diesel - inventor of the Diesel engine
• Keith Duckworth - designer of the Cosworth DFV

E

• John Ericsson - Inventor of Ship Propeller

F

• Henry Ford - automobiles
• Yuan-Cheng Fung - Biomechanics

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• Emile Gagnan - underwater apparatus
• Henry Laurence Gantt - Gantt chart
• John Josiah Guest - iron production

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• Beulah Louise Henry - nicknamed lady Edison
• Hero of Alexandria - ancient
• Alfred Hitchcock - filmmaker
• August Horch - automobiles

I

J

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• Alan Kulwicki - 1992 NASCAR Champion
• Çağla Kubat - Turkish actress / model
• Anil Kumble - Indian cricketer

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• Frederick Lanchester - automobiles and aviation
• Leonardo Da Vinci

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• Ma Jun - 3rd century China, invented the South Pointing Chariot, mechanical puppet theaters, chain pumps, improved silk looms, etc.
• Elijah McCoy
• Andrew Meikle - threshing machine and windmill sails
• James Morgan - Applied Materials CEO
• Thomas Midgley, Jr. - He developed tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

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• Bill Nye - (The Science Guy)

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• Charles Algernon Parsons - steam turbine inventor
• Ferdinand Porsche - automobile

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• William John Macquorn Rankine - Steam engine, fatigue
• Richard Roberts - machine tool and machinery maker.
• Alfred H. Rzeppa - constant-velocity joint

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• Igor Sikorsky - Inventor of the single-rotor Helicopter
• George Stephenson - Railway Engineer and Founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Robert Stephenson - Railway Engineer
• Su Song - 11th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism (see Yi Xing below) and chain drive to operate his astronomical clock tower
• John H. Sununu - Presidential Chief of Staff
• Dr. Victor Szebehely- Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics

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• Dr. Andy Thomas - Australian Astronaut

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• Boris Vian - writer

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• James Watt - Scottish inventor of the Watt steam engine that fundamentaly changed the Industrial Revolution and considered by many in the discipline as the father of mechanical engineering.
• Samuel T. Wellman - various inventions used in the steel industry
• Eli Whitney - cotton gin, interchangeable parts
• Joseph Whitworth - mechanical
• Ludwig Wittgenstein - aerospace engineer turned philosopher
• Nathaniel C. Wyeth - inventor, chemical engineer

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Yi Xing - 8th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism in operating a water-powered armillary sphere

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Zhang Heng - 1st century-2nd century China, invented the first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere, and the first seismometer device to detect the direction of earthquakes

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