The Most Famous

Engineers from United States

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This page contains a list of the greatest Americans Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 389 Engineers, 57 of which were born in United States. This makes United States the birth place of the 3rd most number of Engineers behind France and United Kingdom.

Top 10 American Engineers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Americans Engineers of all time. This list of famous Americans Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Americans Engineers.

  1. #1
    Photo of Frederick Winslow Taylor

    Frederick Winslow Taylor

    1856 - 1915

    HPI 75.3250 langs
    Frederick Winslow Taylor is most famous for his "scientific management" approach to the workplace. He is credited with inventing...Read moreShow less

    Frederick Winslow Taylor is most famous for his "scientific management" approach to the workplace. He is credited with inventing time-and-motion studies, which study the best way to complete a task in the most efficient way possible.

  2. #2
    Photo of Jack Kilby

    Jack Kilby

    1923 - 2005

    HPI 71.9676 langs

    Jack Kilby is most famous for inventing the integrated circuit.

  3. #4
    Photo of Howard H. Aiken

    Howard H. Aiken

    1900 - 1973

    HPI 68.1841 langs

    Howard H. Aiken is most famous for his work on the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944.

  4. #5
    Photo of Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr.

    Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr.

    1868 - 1924

    HPI 67.4329 langs

    American industrial engineer (1868-1924)

  5. #6
    Photo of Henry Gantt

    Henry Gantt

    1861 - 1919

    HPI 66.4230 langs

    Henry Gantt was a management consultant and engineer. He is most famous for his invention of the Gantt chart.

  6. #7
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    Jack Parsons

    1914 - 1952

    HPI 66.1717 langs

    American rocket engineer (1914–1952)

  7. #8
    Photo of Jack Swigert

    Jack Swigert

    1931 - 1982

    HPI 64.6038 langs
    Jack Swigert was an astronaut who flew on the Apollo 13 mission. He was the one who famously said "Houston, we have a problem" when the crew...Read moreShow less

    Jack Swigert was an astronaut who flew on the Apollo 13 mission. He was the one who famously said "Houston, we have a problem" when the crew found out that an oxygen tank had exploded.

  8. #9
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    Vannevar Bush

    1890 - 1974

    HPI 64.5544 langs

    American electrical engineer and science administrator

People by Birth Decade

Browse notable Americans Engineers grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.

Overlapping Lives

Which Engineers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Engineers since 1700.

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