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I have removed the following from the notables list because they lack proof of notability (either a Wikipedia article or sources). These individuals can be restored to the list if notability is confirmed. Rublamb (talk) 13:40, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rev. John Ireland Tucker - Musician, early Rensselaer Trustee, long-time rector at the Church of the Holy Cross in Troy, New York, and the first honorary member.
John Hampden Randolph - 1870 - professor of mechanical engineering at Louisiana State University and inventor of Randolph's Pea Vine Hay Rake, a popular machine with contemporary sugar planters.
Charles G. Roebling - 1871 - Designed and invented an 80-ton wire rope machine and founded the town of Roebling, New Jersey
John F. Alden - 1872 - Noted bridge designer known for the successful construction of the Driving Park Avenue Bridge in Rochester which others had twice attempted and failed. He also built the bridge over the Columbia River at Paseo, Washington, two large viaducts at Los Angeles, California, the upper suspension bridge at Niagara Falls, several bridges for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad, and other bridges throughout the country. The structural steelwork which he did for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 is also noteworthy.
Lyman E. Cooley - 1874 - Appointed by President Grover Cleveland to the Deep Waterways Commission to negotiate an agreement between the U.S. and Canada regarding the creation of a waterway to allow ocean-going traffic between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. Proposed the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
Souichiro Matsmoto - 1876 - Japanese student sent to Rensselaer after the Meiji Revolution for engineering education. Matsmoto later made significant contributions to civil engineering in Japan and later served as president of the Imperial Railways of Japan.
Kaname Haraguchi - 1878 - Japanese student sent to Rensselaer after the Meiji Revolution for an engineering education. After returning to Japan he became chief engineer in Tokyo and designed many iron bridges there.
Feramorz Little Young – 1879 – Son of Brigham Young and Lucy Decker. Railroad engineer and Mormon missionary to Mexico.
Wilberforce Beecher Hammnond – 1879 – Inventor of an improved automatic sprinkler head
Ernesto Joaquin Balbin - 1882 - Chief of the Cuban Lighthouse board and erection supervisor for the Colorados Reef Lighthouse on the Colorados Archipelago
Francis H. Bainbridge - 1884 - Railway engineer and designer of the Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam, the first large steel dam in the world, and one of only three ever built in the United States
John M. Lockhart - 1887 - Son of one of the founders of Standard Oil, Lockhart lived his life as a Pittsburgh financier, steel maker, and benefactor with a passion for anonymity.
Eduardo Justo Chibás - 1888 - Prominent Cuban engineer and father of Eduardo Chibás
Edwin S. Jarrett - 1889 - Founding officer of The Foundation Company, America's premier soils & foundation engineering firm of the early 20th Century. They designed and constructed the foundations for most of the tallest buildings in Manhattan (Trinity, Woolworth, Whitehall, Singer, Banker's Trust, and Municipal Buildings).
Albert H. Millet - 1867 - designed and built the southern railroad in Ecuador, the custom house and waterworks of Guayaquil, and constructions on the Isthmus of Panama.
Julio Larrinaga - 1869 - Noted Puerto Rican engineer and erecting engineer of the Arenas Bridge
Othniel Foster Nichols - 1868 - builder of the Manhattan Bridge
Lombard John Pozzi - 1967 - Renowned architect and preservationist of Rhode Island
Frank Batteas - 1977 - NASA Research Pilot
Don Nigbor - 1970 - Co-Founder of Benchmark Electronics
Shortridge Hardesty - (Honorary) designer of the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge and 1940 Recipient of the Norman Medal
Lester C. Higbee - 1912 - Brigadier General in the New York State National Guard
Henry G. Taylor - 1913 - Rear Admiral US Navy during World War II
Archibald D. Hunter - 1930 - Commodore in the Civil Engineer Corps, US Navy
Clayton O. Dohrenwend – 1931 – Former Rensselaer graduate school head and vice president and provost
Albert J. Fay - 1932 - Rear Admiral in the US Navy
Horace B. Jones - 1932 - Rear Admiral in the US Navy