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The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame, founded by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), honors leaders whose creativity, persistence, determination and personal charisma helped to shape the industry and made the consumer electronics marketplace what it is today. According to the CEA, the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame inductees have made a significant contribution to the world, and without these people, people's lives would not be the same. The CEA announced the first 50 inductees into the Hall of Fame at the 2000 International
Consumer Electronics Show CES (; formerly an initialism for Consumer Electronics Show) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Held in January at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada, United States, the event typi ...
. The first class of inductees was in 2000. Each year another group of inventors, engineers, business leaders, retailers and journalists are inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame.


Inductees


2000

* Benjamin Abrams * Robert Adler *
Edwin Armstrong Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous aw ...
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John Logie Baird John Logie Baird (; 13 August 188814 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical Mechanical television, television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the fi ...
* William Balderston *
John Bardeen John Bardeen (; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American solid-state physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Houser Brattain for their inventio ...
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Alexander Graham Bell Alexander Graham Bell (; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian Americans, Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He als ...
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Andre Blay Andre Blay (July 27, 1937 – August 24, 2018) was an American businessman, film producer, and studio executive. Early life and education Blay was born July 27, 1937, in Mount Clemens, Michigan, to homemaker Agnes and factory manager Robert. He g ...
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Walter Brattain Walter Houser Brattain (; February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American solid-state physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Bratt ...
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Karl Ferdinand Braun Karl Ferdinand Braun (; ; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor. Braun contributed significantly to the development of radio with his 2 circuit system, which made long range radio transmiss ...
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Nolan Bushnell Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American businessman and electrical engineer. He established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre chain. He has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consu ...
* Powel Crosley Jr. *
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* Ray Dolby * Allen DuMont *
Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February11, 1847October18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, ...
* Carl Eilers * Philo T. Farnsworth *
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-American electrical engineer and inventor who received hundreds of patents in fields related to radio and sonar between 1891 and 1936 (seven of them after his death). F ...
* Avery Fisher * Frank Freimann * Paul Galvin *
Charles Ginsburg Charles Paulson Ginsburg (July 27, 1920 – April 9, 1992) was an American engineer and the leader of a research team at Ampex which developed one of the first practical videotape recorders. Biography Ginsburg was born on July 27, 1920, in San ...
* Peter Goldmark * Dr. Sidney Harman *
Heinrich Hertz Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (; ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. Biography Heinri ...
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Masaru Ibuka Masaru Ibuka (井深 大 ''Ibuka Masaru''; April 11, 1908 – December 19, 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita.Kirkup, James"Obituary: Masaru Ibuka," ''Independent'' (London). December ...
* Eldridge Johnson *
Jack Kilby Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instrumen ...
* Henry Kloss * John Koss Sr. * David Lachenbruch * James B. Lansing * Saul Marantz *
Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi ( ; ; 25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based Wireless telegraphy, wireless tel ...
* Konosuke Matsushita * Cmdr. Eugene McDonald Jr. *
Akio Morita was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka. Early life Akio Morita was born in Nagoya. Morita's family was involved in sake, miso and soy sauce production in the village of Kosugaya (currently a part of Toko ...
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Robert Noyce Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited w ...
* Alexander M. Poniatoff * Ed Roberts *
David Sarnoff David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) was a Russian and American businessman who played an important role in the American history of radio and television. He led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for most of his career in ...
* Hermon Hosmer Scott * Yuma Shiraishi *
William Shockley William Bradford Shockley ( ; February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American solid-state physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brat ...
* Ross Siragusa Sr. * Shizuo Takano *
Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla (;"Tesla"
. ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. ; 10 July 1856 – 7 ...
* Jack Wayman *
Vladimir Zworykin Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1888/1889July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. He played a role in t ...


2001

* Emil Berliner * Sir John Ambrose Fleming *
Hugo Gernsback Hugo Gernsback (; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, ''Amazing Stories''. His contributions to ...
* Peter Laurits Jensen * Earl Muntz *
Valdemar Poulsen Valdemar Poulsen (23 November 1869 – 23 July 1942) was a Danish engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder called the telegraphone in 1898. He also made significant contributions to early radio technology, including the first continuous w ...
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George Westinghouse George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was a prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his creation of the railway air brake and for bei ...


2002

* Ernst F.W. Alexanderson * Bernard Appel * W.G.B. Baker * William E. Boss * Richard Ekstract * Walter Fisher * Raymond Gates * William Powell Lear * Sol Polk * Jack K. Sauter


2003

* Herbert Borchardt * Leonard Feldman * Kees A. Schouhamer Immink * William Kasuga *
Atwater Kent Arthur Atwater Kent Sr. (December 3, 1873 – March 4, 1949) was an American inventor and prominent radio manufacturer based in Philadelphia. In 1905, he invented the Unisparker which combined ignition points, condenser, centrifugal advance m ...
* Jules Steinberg * Kenjiro Takayanagi * Joseph Tushinsky * Alan Wurtzel


2004

* Alan Dower Blumlein * Henry Brief * Robert E. Gerson * Ken Kai * Jerry Kalov * Paul Klipsch * Norio Ohga * Dr. Woo Paik * Steven Wozniak * Wireless Team: Richard Frenkiel and Joel S. Engel


2005

* Ken Crane * Joseph Donahue * Harry Elias * George Fezell * Saul Gold * Art Levis * Jack Luskin * Masaharu Matsushita * John Winegard * Engineering Team: William Hewlett and David Packard


2006

* Dr. Donald Bitzer * John F. Doyle * Robert Galvin * Andrew S. Grove * George Heilmeier * Dr. Nicholas Holonyak * Howard Ladd *
Gordon Moore Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law which makes the observation that the number of transistors i ...
* A.J. Richard * John Roach * H. Gene Slottow * Robert Willson


2007

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Paul Allen Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, and investor. He co-founded Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the ...
* Dr. Amar Bose * Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg * William G. Crutchfield, Jr. * James Edward Day * Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser * John McDonald *
Steven Sasson Steve J. Sasson is an American electrical engineer and the inventor of the self-contained (portable) digital camera. He joined Kodak shortly after his graduation from engineering school and retired from Kodak in 2001. Early life and education S ...
* Richard Schulze * Dr. Dieter Seitzer * Art Weinberg


2008

* Ken Kutaragi * Dean Dunlavey * Joe Clayton * Warren Lieberfarb * Richard Sharp * Dr. Fritz Sennheiser * Engineering Team: Martin Cooper and Donald Linder * Eddy Hartenstein * Retailing Team: Jewel Abt and David Abt * Hans Fantel


2009

* Maurice Cohen * Norman Cohen * Philip Cohen * Joseph Flaherty * Karl Hassel * Irwin M. Jacobs *
Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder o ...
* Ralph Mathews * Aaron Neretin * John Shalam * Walton Stinson * Neil Terk * Richard E. Wiley


2010

* Dr. Lauren Christopher * Dr. Ivan Getting * Richard Kraft * Frank McCann * David Mondry * Eugene Mondry * Dr. Bradford Parkinson * Frederik Philips * Al Sotoloff * Cynthia Upson * Dr. Larry Weber


References


External links


List of inductees
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