William Hewlett

William Redington Hewlett was the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company. He was born in Irving, Texas but moved to San Francisco at the age of 3 years. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father, Albion Walter Hewlett, who had died prematurely of a brain tumor in 1925.

Hewlett received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, an MS degree in EECS from MIT in 1936, and the degree of Electrical Engineer from Stanford in 1939. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity during his time at Stanford and MIT.