Famous Authorsby Profession - Inventor (Total: 71 authors, 733 quotes)
| Alan Cox 4 | Inventor | Welsh |
| Alexander Graham Bell 19 | Inventor | Scottish |
| Amar Bose 15 | Inventor | American |
| Andy Hertzfeld 22 | Inventor | American |
| Bernard Palissy 1 | Inventor | French |
| Bill Lear 1 | Inventor | American |
| Brian Walker 2 | Inventor | American |
| Charles Goodyear 3 | Inventor | American |
| Charles Kettering 39 | Inventor | American |
| Colin Chapman 1 | Inventor | English |
| David Sarnoff 16 | Inventor | American |
| Dean Kamen 27 | Inventor | American |
| Douglas Engelbart 3 | Inventor | American |
| Edwin Armstrong 1 | Inventor | American |
| Edwin Land 10 | Inventor | American |
| Eli Whitney 6 | Inventor | American |
| Elisha Gray 2 | Inventor | American |
| Erno Rubik 24 | Inventor | Hungarian |
| Frank Hornby 1 | Inventor | English |
| Frank Whittle 4 | Inventor | English |
| Gary Gygax 16 | Inventor | American |
| George Eastman 3 | Inventor | American |
| George Stephenson 4 | Inventor | English |
| George Westinghouse 1 | Inventor | American |
| Harold Stephen Black 2 | Inventor | American |
| Henri Coanda 3 | Inventor | Romanian |
| Hugo Gernsback 2 | Inventor | American |
| Isaac Pitman 2 | Inventor | English |
| Isambard K. Brunel 2 | Inventor | British |
| Jacque Fresco 4 | Inventor | American |
| James Chalmers 1 | Inventor | Scottish |
| James Naismith 3 | Inventor | Canadian |
| James Nasmyth 10 | Inventor | Scottish |
| Jeff Hawkins 8 | Inventor | American |
| John Ambrose Fleming 3 | Inventor | English |
| John Ericsson 2 | Inventor | Swedish |
| John Harrison 8 | Inventor | English |
| John Robert Gregg 2 | Inventor | American |
| John Romero 10 | Inventor | American |
| Josiah Warren 9 | Inventor | American |
| Konrad Zuse 1 | Inventor | German |
| Lee De Forest 3 | Inventor | American |
| Leo Baekeland 5 | Inventor | Belgian |
| Leon Foucault 2 | Inventor | French |
| Leon Theremin 2 | Inventor | Russian |
| Leonard Bailey 2 | Inventor | American |
| Lori Greiner 13 | Inventor | American |
| Melvil Dewey 4 | Inventor | American |
| Mikhail Kalashnikov 15 | Inventor | Russian |
| Nikola Tesla 25 | Inventor | – |
| Oliver Evans 2 | Inventor | American |
| Orville Wright 28 | Inventor | American |
| Paul Moody 1 | Inventor | American |
| Peter Cooper 3 | Inventor | American |
| Pierre Beaumarchais 15 | Inventor | French |
| R. Buckminster Fuller 81 | Inventor | American |
| Ray Dolby 2 | Inventor | American |
| Ray Kurzweil 12 | Inventor | American |
| Rick Baker 36 | Inventor | American |
| Robert Jarvik 1 | Inventor | American |
| Robert Moog 8 | Inventor | American |
| Rowland Hill 2 | Inventor | English |
| Rudolf Diesel 1 | Inventor | German |
| Samuel Morse 5 | Inventor | American |
| Thomas A. Edison 77 | Inventor | American |
| Tim Berners Lee 38 | Inventor | English |
| Tim Bray 5 | Inventor | Canadian |
| Vinton Cerf 30 | Inventor | American |
| Walter Chrysler 2 | Inventor | American |
| William Thomas Green Morton 2 | Inventor | American |
| Wilson Greatbatch 14 | Inventor | – |