List of civil engineers
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This is a list of notable civil engineers, people who were trained in or practiced civil engineering, who are notable enough for a Wikipedia article.
See also architect, landscape architect, urban planner, and list of engineers.
[edit] Alphabetical list
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[edit] A
- Marcus Agrippa - Ancient Roman General
- Jose María Aguirre González Spanish bank president (Banco Guipuzcoano)
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - President of Iran
- John Aird - English engineer from the late 19th century
- Othmar Ammann - Designed the George Washington Bridge, among others
- Yasser Arafat - Former Palestinian President
[edit] B
- Benjamin Baker - English engineer in late 19th century
- Hannskarl Bandel - Madison Square Garden roof, Crystal Cathedral
- Henry Barnes - traffic Engineer who worked in US cities during 20th century
- Peter W. Barlow - English engineer in late 19th century. Notable for Lambeth Bridge (old) and tunnelling shield
- William Henry Barlow - English engineer in late 19th century; railway engineering
- Sir John Wolfe-Barry - English engineer in late 19th century; designed Tower Bridge
- Sir Joseph Bazalgette - English engineer in late 19th century; London sewerage system
- Bernard Forest de Belidor - hydraulic engineer
- Sir Alexander Binnie - English engineer in late 19th century; tunnels and bridges across the Thames
- John Blenkinsop - English engineer in mid 19th century; railways, locomotives and mining
- Sir Thomas Bouch - English engineer in late 19th century; first Tay Rail Bridge disaster
- James Brindley - English engineer from mid 18th century - canals and watermills
- Henri Marc Brunel - English engineer in late 19th century.
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel - English engineer in mid 19th century - designed Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and important bridges.
- Marc Isambard Brunel - French engineer in early 19th century. Notable for the Thames foot tunnel.
- Peter Bruff - English engineer in 19th century. Notable for work in Clacton on Sea
- Sir George Buchanan (engineer) - British civil engineer associated with harbour works in Burma, Iraq and Bombay, during early 20th century.
[edit] C
- Santiago Calatrava - Spanish architect: skyscrapers, bridges, train stations
- Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo - Spanish Prime Minister
- Augustin Louis Cauchy - French mathematician
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini - 17th and 18th century astronomer and engineer of papal fortifications
- Octave Chanute - 19th century American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer
- William Tierney Clark - English engineer in mid 19th century; suspension bridges
- Hardy Cross - American engineer in 20th century. Notable for the developer of the moment distribution method
- William Cubitt - English engineer in 19th century.
- Carl Culmann - German Engineer in mid 19th century. Notable for graphical pioneering statical methods.
[edit] D
- Gustaf Dalén - sun valve, unmanned acetylene lighthouses
- Henry Darcy
- Simon James Dawson - Red River road
- Luis Fernando Del Rivero Asensio - Millionaire Spanish business man.President of Sacyr-Vallehermoso
- Süleyman Demirel - Ex-Prime Minister and President of Turkey
- Francis Drake
- Jules Dupuit
- Thomas Dadford Junior — canals
[edit] E
- John S. Eastwood
- Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
- Hans Albert Einstein - hydraulics
- John Ericsson - propeller, USS Monitor
[edit] F
- Hilario Fernández Long - Argentine engineer and university president
- Sanford Fleming - railroads, time zone
- Sir John Fowler - bridges
- Eugène Freyssinet - structural engineer concrete
- Buckminster Fuller
[edit] G
- Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri
- George Washington Goethals
- James Henry Greathead
- Hans Ulrich Grubenmann
- Johannes Grubenmann
[edit] H
- Sir William Halcrow - tunnels
- Benjamin Hall - Big Ben
- William Hammond Hall
- Thomas Hawksley
- James Hird
- Clifford Milburn Holland - Holland Tunnel
- Herbert Hoover - mining
- Clarence Decatur Howe - grain elevators
- Hú Jǐntāo - President of China
- John Hotaling - American soldier and businessman
[edit] I
[edit] J
- William Jessop - canals
- Theodore Judah - railroads
- Edward Judge - bridges
[edit] K
- Fazlur Khan - structural engineer for John Hancock Center and Sears Tower
- Maurice Koechlin - structural designer to Gustave Eiffel
- Poondi Kumaraswamy - Indian civil engineer
[edit] L
- Rashid Latif - Former Pakistani cricket team wicketkeeper and captain
- Robert Legget - Canadian non-fiction writer
- Curtis LeMay
- William LeMessurier
- Ferdinand de Lesseps
- Tung-Yen Lin - bridges, the pioneer of prestressed concrete
- William Lindley - water and sewerage works
- Joseph Locke - railways
- Ian Lloyd - railways, bridges
[edit] M
- John MacAdam - roads
- Sir John MacNeill - railways
- William Mahone - plank road, railways
- Robert Maillart - Swiss, concrete bridges
- Timothy P. Marshall - failure analysis, wind and impact engineering, meteorologist (codeveloper of Enhanced Fujita Scale)
- Jorge Matute Remus - Mexican, known for moving a 1700 ton building in 1950
- Conde McCullough - bridges
- Charles Meik - ports, railways, hydroelectric schemes
- Patrick Meik - ports, railways
- Thomas Meik - ports, railways
- Christian Menn - Swiss, known for bridges, including the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, part of the Big Dig in Boston.
- Otto Mohr - bridges, railways
- Sir John Monash - bridges
- Riccardo Morandi - bridges
- James Morgan - Regent's Canal
- Basil Mott - mines, tunnels, bridges
[edit] N
- Pier Luigi Nervi - Italian architect/engineer, thin shell concrete.
- Chewang Norphel, artificial glaciers.
[edit] O
- Benjamin Outram - canals
[edit] P
- William N. Page - railways, mining
- William Barclay Parsons
- Florentino Pérez Millionaire Spanish business man,president of ACS,ex-president of Real Madrid
- Samuel Morton Peto - railways, harbours
- Rafael del Pino - President of Ferrovial, billionaire
- Henry Petroski - failure analysis
- Henry Pleasants - Civil War general
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- James Meadows Rendel - bridges, harbours
- John Rennie - canals, bridges, docks
- Peter Rice - structural engineer
- Benjamin S. Roberts - railways, United States and Russia
- Leslie E. Robertson - structural engineer
- John August Roebling - Brooklyn Bridge, Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
- Washington Roebling
- Richard Birdsall Rogers - designer of the Peterborough Lift Lock, Ontario, Canada
[edit] S
- Herbert Saffir - codeveloper of Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
- Marc Séguin - railways, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge
- Vladimir Shukhov - Russia, pioneer of hyperboloid structures, shell structures and pipelines
- Ole Singstad - Holland Tunnel tunnel ventilation system
- Otto Skorzeny - SS commando
- John Smeaton - canals, bridges, Eddystone Lighthouse
- George Stephenson - railways
- Robert Stephenson - railways
- Robert Stevenson - lighthouses
- Simon Stevin
- Sukarno
- Michael Scofield - (fictional) character from TV series Prison Break
[edit] T
- Thomas Telford - roads and bridges
- Karl von Terzaghi - soil mechanics
- Stephen Timoshenko - engineering mechanics
- Pierre Emanuel Tirard
- Fritz Todt
[edit] U
[edit] V
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michel Virlogeux - France. Second Tagus crossing and Millau viaduct.
- Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya- "Father of Indian Civil Engineering". Dams in India, many projects in Mysore state.
[edit] W
- James Walker
- André Waterkeyn designed the Atomium
- Edward Leader Williams - canals, bridges
- Norman D. Wilson - mass transit
- John Wolfe-Barry
- A. Baldwin Wood - pumps
[edit] X
[edit] Y
- Boris Yeltsin - Ex President of Russia