Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame

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.

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

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
 * 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