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George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (died…
Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver and engineer (died 1993)
Yuri Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (died 1998)
Itamar Franco, Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd President of Brazil (died 2011)
Janice Lourie, American computer scientist and graphic artist
Stephen Smale, American mathematician and computer scientist
Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut, first man to walk on the Moon (died 2012)
Kanagaratnam Sriskandan, Sri Lankan engineer and civil servant (died 2010)
Liviu Librescu, Romanian-American engineer and academic (died 2007)
Yuan Longping, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in hybrid rice (died 2021)
Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player and engineer (died 2006)
Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (died 2014)
John W. Young, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (died 2018)
Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer (died 2003)
Ivan Silayev, Russian engineer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Russia (died 2023)
Godfrey Milton-Thompson, English admiral and surgeon (died 2012)
William James, Australian general and physician (died 2015)
Warren Rudman, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2012)