List of Mechanical engineers

B
Joseph Cyril Bamford - Founder of the JCB company, manufacturing heavy plant, and especially backhoes
Keith Black - American high performance automobile engineer.


C
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[1]


F
Harry Ferguson -Three-point_hitch
Henry Ford - automobile
Yuan-Cheng Fung - biomechanics


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


H
James Harrison - pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration
Beulah Louise Henry - nicknamed lady Edison
Hero of Alexandria - ancient
August Horch - automobile


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J
Matthew Jacobs - Toolmaker and machinery maker.
Taylor Jones-Pioneer in recent engineering technologies


K
Alan Kulwicki - 1992 NASCAR Champion
Anil Kumble - Indian cricketer


L
Frederick Lanchester - automobile and aviation
Leonardo Da Vinci


M
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)


N
Bill Nye - (The Science Guy)


P
Charles Algernon Parsons - steam turbine inventor
Ferdinand Porsche - automobile and German tank designs


R
William John Macquorn Rankine - fatigue and one of the founders of the science of thermodynamics, particularly in reference to steam engine theory.
Richard Roberts - machine tool and machinery maker.
Alfred H. Rzeppa - constant-velocity joint
Osbourne Reynolds - prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics


S
Igor Sikorsky - Inventor of the single-rotor Helicopter
Javagal Srinath - former Indian cricketer and ICC match referee
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


T
Dr. Andy Thomas - Australian Astronaut
Nikola Tesla - Serbian Physicist, Electrical and Mechanical Engineer


U


V
Boris Vian - writer


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


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Y

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


Z

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