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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