Athanasius Kircher (c. 1601–1680)

Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695)

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (1801–1883)

Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875)

Franz F. von Uchatius (1811–1881)

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851)

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877)

Pierre-Jules-César Janssen (1824–1907)

Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904)

Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)

Georges Demenÿ (1850–1917)

Charles-Émile Reynaud (1884–1918)

Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince (1842–1890?)

Ottomar Anschütz (1886—1907)

William Friese-Greene (1855–1921)

Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931)

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860–1935)

George Eastman (1852–1932)

Charles Francis Jenkins (1867–1934)

August (1862–1954) and Louis (1864–1948) Lumière

Oskar Messter (1886–1943)

Robert William Paul (1869–1943)

Max Skladanowsky (1863–1939)

Woodville Latham (1837–1911)

Edwin Simpson Porter (1870–1941)

Billy (Johann Gottlob Wilhelm) Bitzer (1872–1944)

David Wark Griffith (1875—1948)

Frederic Eugene Ives (1856–1937)

Charles Urban (1867–1942)

George Albert Smith (1864–1959)

William Van Doren Kelley (1876–1934)

Léon-Ernest Gaumont (1864–1946)

Thomas Wilfred, né Richard Edgar Løvstrøm (1889–1968)

Charles Morand Pathé (1863—1957)

John George (Cappy) Capstaff (1879–1960)

Leopold Damrosch Mannes (1899–1964), Leopold Godowsky, Jr. (1900–1983)

Edward John Wall (1860–1928)

John Ickeringill Crabtree (1891–1979)

Herbert John Yates (1880–1966)

Eugène Augustin Lauste (1857–1935)

Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner (1867–1969)

Theodore Willard Case (1888–1944)

Earl Iru Sponable (1895–1977)

Lee de Forest (1873–1961)

William Fox (1879–1955)

Samuel Warner (1887—1927)

Douglas Graham Shearer (1899—1971)

Erich Kästner (1911–2005)

Edwin Herbert Land (1909—1999)

Frederic Waller, Jr. (1886–1954)

Hazard (Buzz) Earle Reeves (1906–1986)

Lowell Jackson Thomas (1892–1981)

Henri Jacques Chrétien (1879–1956)

Spyros Panagiotis Skouras (1893–1971)

Brian O’Brien (1898–1992)

Mike Todd (1909–1958)

Stanley Kubrick (1928—1999), Garrett Brown (1942)

Robert Edward Gottschalk (1918–1982)

Takuo (Tak) Miyagishima (1928–2011)

Graeme Ferguson (1929)

François Dussaud (1870–1953)

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow (1860–1940)

John Logie Baird (1888–1946)

Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson (1878–1975)

Philo Farnsworth

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1889–1982)

David Sarnoff (1891–1971)

Isaac Shoenberg (1880–1963)

Jerry Lewis (1926–2017)

Larry J. Hornbeck (1943)