DNB - Electrical Engineers

A search in the 2012 on-line Oxford Dictionary of National Biography lists very few electrical engineers. Its primary focus would appear to be on the titled classes and other non-productive sectors.

Also see DNB - Mechanical Engineers, DNB - Industrialists

Those found were:

• Allibone, Thomas Edward (1903–2003), physicist and electrical engineer
  
• Angwin, Sir (Arthur) Stanley (1883–1959), electrical engineer
  
• Ayrton, (Phoebe) Sarah Hertha (née Marks) (1854–1923), electrical engineer and suffragist
  
• Ayrton, William Edward (1847–1908), electrical engineer and physicist
  
• Bacon, Francis Thomas (1904–1992), engineer and developer of the fuel cell
  
• Bailey, Sir George Edwin (1879–1965), electrical engineer and industrialist
  
• Barlow, Harold Everard Monteagle (1899–1989), electrical engineer
  
• Belling, Charles Reginald (1884–1965), electrical engineer and manufacturer
  
• Bennett, Alfred Rosling (1850–1928), electrical engineer
  
• Biggs, Charles Henry Walker (1845–1923), technical journalist and editor of Electrical Engineer
  
• Binyon, Basil (1885–1977), electrical engineer
  
• Bright, Sir Charles Tilston (1832–1888), telegraph engineer
  
• Blyth, James (1839–1906), electrical engineer and university teacher
  
• Bolton, Sir Francis John (1831–1887), army officer and electrical engineer
  
• Bray, (William) John (1911–2004), telecommunications engineer
  
• Brown, Sidney George (1873–1948), electrical engineer and inventor
  
• Callender, Sir Thomas Octavius (1855–1938), electrical engineer
  
• Canning, Sir Samuel (1823–1908), civil and electrical engineer
  
• Cardew, Philip (1851–1910), army officer and electrical engineer
  
• Cole, Eric Kirkham (1901–1966), radio engineer
  
• Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie (1860–1935), electrical engineer and film-maker
  
• Drysdale, Charles Vickery (1874–1961), electrical engineer and social philosopher
  
• Duddell, William Du Bois (1872–1917), electrical engineer
  
• Eastwood, Sir Eric (1910–1981), physicist and electrical engineer
  
• Eccles, Sir Josiah (1897–1967), engineer and industrialist
  
• Eccles, William Henry (1875–1966), physicist and engineer
  
• Eckersley, Peter Pendleton (1892–1963), broadcasting engineer
  
• Elphinstone, Sir (George) Keith Buller (1865–1941), electrical engineer
  
• Ewing, Sir (James) Alfred (1855–1935), engineer and cryptographer
  
• Fairburn, Charles Edward (1887–1945), railway engineer
  
• de Ferranti, Sebastian Ziani (1864–1930), electrical engineer and inventor
  
• Fleming, Sir (John) Ambrose (1849–1945), electrical engineer and university teacher
  
• Fleming, Sir Arthur Percy Morris (1881–1960), electrical engineer
  
• Flowers, Thomas Harold (1905–1998), engineer
  
• Forbes, George (1849–1936), electrical engineer and inventor
  
• Frame, Sir Alexander Gilchrist (1929–1993), engineer and businessman
  
• Gordon, James Edward Henry (1852–1893), electrical engineer
  
• Hacking, Sir John (1888–1969), electrical engineer
  
• Hague, Bernard (1893–1960), electrical engineer
  
• Hammond, Robert (1850–1915), electrical engineer
  
• Haslett, Dame Caroline Harriet (1895–1957), electrical engineer and electricity industry administrator
  
• Hearder, Jonathan Nash (1809–1876), electrical engineer
  
• Heaviside, Oliver (1850–1925), physicist and electrical engineer
  
• Henley, William Thomas (1813?–1882), electrical engineer and manufacturer
  
• Hirst, Baron Hugo (1863–1943), electrical engineer and company manager
  
• Hopkinson, John (1849–1898), electrical engineer
  
• Hunter, Philip Vassar (1883–1956), electrical engineer
  
• Jackson, Willis , Baron Jackson of Burnley (1904–1970), electrical engineer and educationist
  
• Jenkin, (Henry Charles) Fleeming (1833–1885), electrical engineer and university teacher
  
• Kapp, Gilbert John Edward (1852–1922), electrical engineer and university teacher
  
• Kempe, Harry Robert (1852–1935), electrical engineer and journal editor
  
• Kennedy, Sir Alexander Blackie William (1847–1928), mechanical and electrical engineer
  
• Kennelly, Arthur Edwin (1861–1939), electrical engineer
  
• Kipping, Sir Norman Victor (1901–1979), electrical engineer and industrialist
  
• Merz, Charles Hesterman (1874–1940), electrical engineer
  
• Morrison, Sir (William) Murray (1873–1948), metallurgist and electrical engineer
  
• Moullin, Eric Balliol (1893–1963), electrical engineer and university teacher
  
• Muirhead, Alexander (1848–1920), electrical engineer
  
• Nelson, George Horatio, first Baron Nelson of Stafford (1887–1962), electrical engineer and company manager
  
• Oatley, Sir Charles William (1904–1996), electrical engineer
  
• Parkinson, Frank (1887–1946), electrical engineer and philanthropist
  
• Pearce, Sir (Standen) Leonard (1873–1947), electrical engineer
  
• Perry, John (1850–1920), electrical engineer and mathematician
  
• Petrie, William (1821–1908), electrical engineer
  
• Preece, Sir William Henry (1834–1913), electrical engineer and administrator
  
• Rawcliffe, Gordon Hindle (1910–1979), electrical engineer and university teacher
  
• Sargrove, John Adolph (1906–1975), electrical engineer
  
• Satchwell, Leonard (1888–1963), electrical engineer
  
• Siemens, Alexander (1847–1928), electrical engineer
  
• Siemens, Sir (Charles) William (1823–1883), electrical engineer and metallurgist
  
• Snell, Sir John Francis Cleverton (1869–1938), electrical engineer and administrator
  
• Swinburne, Sir James (1858–1958), industrial chemist and electrical engineer
  
• Swinton, Alan Archibald Campbell (1863–1930), electrical engineer
  
• Thompson, Silvanus Phillips (1851–1916), physicist and electrical engineer
  
• Trotter, Alexander Pelham (1857–1947), electrical engineer
  
• Varley, Frederick Henry (1842–1916), electrical engineer
  
• Volk, Magnus (1851–1937), electrical engineer
  
• Walker, Charles Vincent (1812–1882), technical editor and electrical engineer
  
• Webber, Charles Edmund (1838–1904), army officer and electrical engineer
  
• Wilde, Henry (1833–1919), electrical engineer and inventor
  
• Williams, Sir Frederic Calland (1911–1977), electrical engineer and university teacher
  
• Wimshurt, James (1832–1903), electrical engineer and shipwright
  
• Young, Arthur Primrose (1885–1977), electrical engineer and management adviser
  
• Zepler, Eric Ernest (1898–1980), electrical engineer and university teacher
  

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