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Inventors, engineers and architects who built the machines, networks and skylines.
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Engineer 49
Inventor 46
Founder 38
Computer Scientist 29
Executive 24
Architect 17
Physicist 10
Author 6
Industrialist 6
Investor 6
Educator 5
Designer 4
Mathematician 4
Philanthropist 4
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Jane Jacobs 1916–2006Engineering & ArchitectureWriter and activist whose defense of mixed, walkable neighborhoods transformed urban planning.
Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856–1915Engineering & ArchitectureMechanical engineer who pioneered scientific management, reshaping industrial efficiency worldwide.
Ray Kurzweil b. 1948Technology & InventionBuilt the first machine that read print aloud to the blind, then spent decades predicting when machines would surpass us.
Sheryl Sandberg b. 1969Technology & InventionFormer COO of Meta who wrote Lean In and became a prominent voice on women in leadership.
Robert Venturi 1925–2018Engineering & ArchitectureArchitect and author of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Donald Knuth b. 1938Technology & InventionWrote The Art of Computer Programming and created the TeX typesetting system.