Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor of the telephone

Armand Bombardier: Manufacturer of the first successful snowmobile

Ray Dolby: Audio system innovator and founder of Dolby Laboratories. His technical expertise has won him both an Academy Award and a Grammy!

Bonnie Dunbar: Shuttle astronaut

Sir Sanford Fleming: Civil engineer and scientist who played a key role in developing the Canadian railway system and created the worldwide system of Standard Time

William Hewlett and Dave Packard: Co-founders of Hewlett-Packard

Arati Prabhakar: Former director of the National Institute of Standards and Practices, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology Administration.

Famous people who are also engineers or have an engineering background:

Scott Adams: Cartoonist and creator of "Dilbert"

Yasser Arafat: Palestinian leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Neil Armstrong: Astronaut and first person to set foot on the moon

Leonid Brezhnev: Leader of the former Soviet Union

Alexander Calder: Sculptor/artist renowned for his mobiles; winner of United Nations Peace Medal

Jimmy Carter: 39th President of the United States

Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance innovator: scientist: and artist

Thomas Edison: Inventor of the light bulb: phonograph: and more than 1:000 other devices

Roberto C. Goizueta: Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola

Herbie Hancock: Jazz musician

Alfred Hitchcock: Film director best known for suspense classics: such as Psycho and The Birds

Herbert Hoover: 31st President of the United States

Lee Iacocca: Former chairman and CEO of Chrysler Corp.

Bill Koch: Yachtsman and captain of America's Cup team

Tom Landry: Former Dallas Cowboys coach

Hedy Lamarr: Actress and inventor

Jair Lynch: 1992 and 1996 Olympic gymnast

Arthur Nielsen: Developer of Nielsen rating system

John Sununu: Former White House Chief of Staff for President George Bush: former governor of New Hampshire: current CNN commentator on "Crossfire."

Boris Yeltsin: Former president of Russia

John F. Welch: Jr.: Chairman and chief executive of General Electric

Montel Williams: Author and syndicated talk show host