People associated with the finite element method

Franco Brezzi (born 29 April 1945 in Vimercate) is an Italian mathematician.

Eugenio Oñate Ibañez de Navarra (Valencia, 28 March 1953), often referred as Eugenio Onãte, is a Spanish engineer who works in computational mechanics.

Michael Anthony Crisfield (Wimbledon, London, 26 July 1942 – 19 February 2002) was a British mathematician and structural analyst who became a leading figure in non-linear computational mechanics.

Ray William Clough, (born July 23, 1920 in Seattle), was Byron L.

Bruce Irons (1924 - 5 December 1983) was an engineer and mathematician, known for his fundamental contribution to the finite element method, including the patch test, the frontal solver and, along with Ian C.

John E. Osborn (July 12, 1936 – May 30, 2011) was an American mathematician.

Endre Süli (also, Endre Suli) is Professor of Numerical Analysis in the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at Worcester College, Oxford and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.

William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934), usually known as simply Gilbert Strang or Gil Strang, is an American mathematician, with contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra.

Ivo M. Babuška (born March 22, 1926 in Prague) is a Czech-American mathematician, noted for his studies of the finite element method and the proof of the Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem in partial differential equations.

Edward L. Wilson (born September 5, 1931 in Ferndale, California) is an American civil engineer and academic who is known for his contributions to the development of finite element method.

Philippe G. Ciarlet (born October 14, 1938, Paris) is a French mathematician, known particularly for his work on mathematical analysis of the finite element method especially applied to elasticity.

Alexander Hrennikoff (Russian: Александр Хренников; 1896 — December 31, 1984) was a Russian-Canadian Structural Engineer, a founder of the Finite Element Method.

Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes (born 1943) is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair III in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin.

J. Tinsley Oden (born December 25, 1936 in Alexandria, Louisiana) is the Associate Vice President for Research, the Director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, the Cockrell Family Regents' Chair in Engineering #2, the Peter O'Donnell, Jr.

Junuthula N. Reddy (born 12 August 1945) is a Distinguished Professor, Regents' Professor and inaugural holder of the Oscar S.

George J. Fix (10 May 1939 – 10 March 2002) was an American mathematician who collaborated on several seminal papers and books in the field of finite element method.

Peter Peet Silvester (January 25, 1935 – October 11, 1996) was an electrical engineer who contributed to understanding of numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields and authored a standard textbook on the subject.

Klaus-Jürgen Bathe is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founder of ADINA R & D, who specializes in computational mechanics.

Max D. Gunzburger, Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University, is an American mathematician and computational scientist affiliated with the Florida State interdisciplinary Department of Scientific Computing.

Andrei (Andrew) Knyazev (Russian: Андрей Владимирович Князев) is a Russian-American mathematician.

Andrew Ronald Mitchell (22 June 1921 – 22 November 2007), popularly known as Ron Mitchell, was a British applied mathematician and numerical analyst.

Carlos A. Felippa is a professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado.

Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, CBE, FREng, FRS (18 May 1921 – 2 January 2009) was a British academic of Polish descent, mathematician, and civil engineer.