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. 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
John Logie Baird
William Balderston
John Bardeen
Alexander Graham Bell
Andre Blay
Walter Brattain
Karl Ferdinand Braun
Nolan Bushnell
Powel Crosley Jr. Lee DeForest Ray Dolby Allen DuMont Thomas Edison Carl Eilers Philo T. Farnsworth Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Avery Fisher Frank Freimann Paul Galvin Charles Ginsburg Peter Goldmark Dr. Sidney Harman Heinrich Hertz Masaru Ibuka Eldridge Johnson Jack Kilby Henry Kloss John Koss Sr. David Lachenbruch James B. Lansing Saul Marantz Guglielmo Marconi Konosuke Matsushita Cmdr. Eugene McDonald Jr. Akio Morita Robert Noyce Alexander M. Poniatoff Ed Roberts David Sarnoff Hermon Hosmer Scott Yuma Shiraishi William Shockley Ross Siragusa Sr. Shizuo Takano Nikola Tesla Jack Wayman Vladimir Zworykin
2001
Emil Berliner
Sir John Ambrose Fleming
Hugo Gernsback
Peter Laurits Jensen
Earl Muntz
Valdemar Poulsen
George Westinghouse
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
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
A.J. Richard
John Roach
H. Gene Slottow
Robert Willson
2007
Paul Allen
Dr. Amar Bose
Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg
William G. Crutchfield, Jr. James Edward Day Dr. Heinz Gerhäuser John McDonald Steven Sasson Richard Schulze Dr. Dieter Seitzer Art Weinberg