Manfred Lennings (* 23 February 1934; † 1 March 2008) was a German industry manager.

Werner Breitschwerdt (* 23 September 1927; † 20 December 2021) was a German manager and engineer.

Eduard Pestel (* 29 May 1914; † 19 September 1988) was a German engineer and economist, professor of mechanics and control engineering, and politician.

Werner H. Dieter (* 23 September 1929) is a mechanical engineer and company manager.

Manfred Thoma (* 24 February 1929; † 10 November 2014) was a German engineer and professor for control engineering at the Technical University of Hanover.

Bernhard Ilschner (* 13 December 1928; † 4 January 2006) was a German physicist and pioneer in materials science.

Ulrich Middelmann (* 20 January 1945; † 2 July 2013) was Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG and a member of the RUB University Council.

Haël Mughrabi (* 2 June 1937) is Professor Emeritus of Materials Science at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen.

Michael J. Mills (* 19 October 1958) is the head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Ohio State University.