List of Systems Engineers - K

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• Rudolf Emil Kalman (1930) is an American-Hungarian mathematical system theorist, who is an electrical engineer by training.

• George Klir (1932) is a Czech-American computer scientist and professor of systems sciences at the Center for Intelligent Systems at the Binghamton University in New York. Author of several texts on systems, including Architecture of Systems Problem Solving.

• Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the Russian rocket and space systems designer beating the Americans during the Cold War times "space race" by Sputnik and putting the first man in space (Gagarin). His rocket and capsule designs are in principle still in use for supplying the International Space Station (Proton, Soyuz).