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Michael Ralph Paine (born June 25, 1928) is a retired engineer who worked for Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas in 1963. He became notable after the assassination of John F. Kennedy because of his and his wife’s acquaintance with purported assassi
Oleksandr Vyacheslavovych Slobodian (Ukrainian: Олександр В’ячеславович Слободян: born February 21, 1956 in Ternopil, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian millionaire businessman and politician. He is the original CEO and current hono
Gregory Bruce Jarvis (August 24, 1944 – January 28, 1986) was an American engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist.
Kevin Neil Whitrick (17 August 1964 – 21 March 2007) was a British citizen and an electrical engineer. Whitrick’s death was highly publicized for his live, online webcasted suicide.
Lev Sergeyevich Termen (Russian: Ле́в Серге́евич Терме́н) (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896 – 3 November 1993), or Léon Theremin in the United States, was a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the th
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Ferdinand Philippe Edouard Carré (1824–1900) was a French engineer, born at Moislains (Somme) on 11 March 1824. Carré is best known as the inventor of refrigeration equipment used to produce ice. He died on 11 January 1900 at Pommeuse (Seine-et-M
Paul Sean Hill (born June 23, 1962) was the Director of Mission Operations at the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He was formerly a Flight Director in the Mission Control Center for Space Shuttle and International Space Station
Ecaterina Andronescu (born 7 April 1948) is a Romanian engineer, professor and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), she sat in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 2008, representing Bucharest, and has been a Senator si
Patricia Lynne “Trish” White (born 7 September 1964) is a company director and former Australian politician, who represented Taylor in the South Australian House of Assembly for the Australian Labor Party. She first won the seat at a state by-electio
John James Hughes (1814 – June 1889) was a Welsh engineer, businessman and founder of the city of Donetsk. The city was originally named Yuzovka or Hughesovka (Юзовка) after Hughes, (“Yuz” being a Russian and Ukrainian approximation of Hughes