List of civil engineers
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This list of civil engineers is a list of notable people who have been trained in or have practiced civil engineering.
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
- James Abernethy - Scottish canal, marine and bridge engineer
- Duff Abrams - early concrete researcher
- Marcus Agrippa - Ancient Roman General
- 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
- William George Armstrong - British engineer and 22nd president of the Institution of Civil Engineers
- John Aspinall - British railway engineer
[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
- John Frederic La Trobe Bateman - British hydraulic engineer
- Sir Joseph Bazalgette - English engineer in late 19th century; London sewerage system
- Bernard Forest de Belidor - hydraulic engineer
- George Parker Bidder - British engineer; railways, telegraphs and hydraulics
- Sir Alexander Binnie - English engineer in late 19th century; tunnels and bridges across the Thames
- William Binnie - British waterworks engineer, son of the above
- John Blenkinsop - English engineer in mid 19th century; railways, locomotives and mining
- Benjamin Blyth - Scottish railway engineer
- Benjamin Blyth II - Scottish railway engineer, first practising Scottish engineer to become president of the Institution of Civil Engineers
- Sir Thomas Bouch - English engineer in late 19th century; first Tay Rail Bridge disaster
- William Bragge - English engineer in the 19th century
- Frederick Bramwell - British Engineer
- Jacob R. Brandt - American engineer in the mid 19th century; covered bridge engineer
- James Brindley - English engineer from mid 18th century - canals and watermills
- John Alexander Brodie - City Engineer of Liverpool and inventor of the football goal net
- George Barclay Bruce - English railway engineer
- 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.
- James Brunlees - Scottish engineer notable for designing Southend Pier
- Peter Bruff - English engineer in 19th century. Notable for work in Clacton on Sea
- Sir George Buchanan - 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
- Reginald Coates - British civil engineer and academic
- Joseph Colaco - American structural engineer.
- John Coode - English engineer, notable for work on Portland Harbour
- 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
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Gustaf Dalén - sun valve, unmanned acetylene lighthouses
- Henry Darcy
- Simon James Dawson - Red River road
- Süleyman Demirel - Ex-Prime Minister and President of Turkey
- Sydney Donkin - British civil, mechanical and electrical engineer
- Francis Drake
- Jules Dupuit
- Thomas Dadford Junior — canals
- H. D. Devegowda - Ex-Prime Minister of India
[edit] E
- James Buchanan Eads - American civil engineer
- 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
- Joshua Field - telegraph cables, sewerage
- Maurice Fitzmaurice - Irish bridge, dam and tunnel engineer
- Sanford Fleming - railroads, time zone
- Sir John Fowler - bridges
- Ralph Freeman - English bridge and highways engineer
- Eugène Freyssinet - structural engineer concrete
- Buckminster Fuller
[edit] G
- Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri
- William George Nicholson Geddes - Scottish engineer
- Alexander Gibb - Scottish railway and military engineer
- William Glanville - British highways engineer
- George Washington Goethals
- James Henry Greathead
- Charles Hutton Gregory - railways,
- William Grierson - British railway engineer
- John Griffith - Irish engineer
- Hans Ulrich Grubenmann
- Johannes Grubenmann
[edit] H
- Sir William Halcrow - tunnels
- Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover - Big Ben
- Björn Hamilton Swedish civil engineer and politician
- William Hammond Hall - American civil engineer noted for his work on Golden Gate Park and Californian water supplies
- Dr Edmund Hambly - British structural engineer
- Thomas Elliott Harrison - British railway and bridge engineer
- Arthur Hartley - British oil engineer
- Sir John Hawkshaw - British railway and harbour engineer
- Thomas Hawksley - English engineer noted for his work on water supplies
- Harrison Hayter - British railway and harbour engineer
- Brodie Henderson - British railway engineer
- Clement Hindley - British railway engineer
- James Hird
- Clifford Milburn Holland - Holland Tunnel
- Walter Hohmann - buildings,
- Herbert Hoover - mining engineer and 31st President of the United States
- Clarence Decatur Howe - grain elevators
- Hú Jǐntāo - President of China
- John Hotaling - American soldier and businessman
[edit] I
Charles Inglis, British engineer and academic
[edit] J
- William Jessop - canals
- Albert Mussey Johnson - helped design Scotty's Castle.
- Theodore Judah - railroads
- Edward Judge - bridges
[edit] K
- Remi Kaler - Civil Engineer who worked with Punjab Government
- Alexander Kennedy - British maritime and electrical engineer and academic
- Fazlur Rahman Khan - Bangladeshi Structural engineer and skyscraper specialist
[edit] L
- Osama bin Laden - Civil engineering student and 9-11 perpetrator
- Rashid Latif - Former Pakistani cricket team wicketkeeper and captain
- Robert Legget - Canadian non-fiction writer
- Curtis LeMay - U.S. Air Force general and Vice-Presidential candidate
- William LeMessurier - American structural engineer
- Ferdinand de Lesseps - Engineer for the Suez Canal
- Tung-Yen Lin - bridges, the pioneer of prestressed concrete
- William Lindley - water and sewerage works
- Joseph Locke - railways
- Ian Lloyd - railways, bridges
- Anthony George Lyster - British docks engineer
[edit] M
- John MacAdam - roads
- Sir John MacNeill - railways
- William Mahone - plank road, railways
- Robert Maillart - Swiss, concrete bridges
- Robert Manning - Open channel flow
- James Mansergh - English railway, water supply and sewage engineer
- Mao Yisheng - a Chinese structural engineer who expert on bridge construction
- William Marriott - English railway engineer
- Timothy P. Marshall - failure analysis, wind and impact engineering, meteorologist (codeveloper of Enhanced Fujita Scale)
- William Matthews - British harbour engineer
- Jorge Matute Remus - Mexican, known for moving a 1700 ton building in 1950
- William Maw - British railway engineer
- Sir Henry Maybury - British railway and highways engineer
- John Robinson McClean - British engineer, railways, water supply
- Conde McCullough - bridges
- Carl Friedrich Meerwein - German, aviation
- 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
- Guilford Lindsey Molesworth - English railway engineer
- General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD - bridges and precast concrete (also Commander of the Australian Corps in World War I)
- Riccardo Morandi - bridges
- James Morgan - Regent's Canal
- Basil Mott - mines, tunnels, bridges
[edit] N
- Pier Luigi Nervi - Italian architect/engineer, thin shell concrete.
- Nitish Kumar - Railway Minister of India
[edit] O
- C. Y. O'Connor CMG - Fremantle Harbour and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, Western Australia
- Benjamin Outram - canals
- Turgut Ozal - Ex-president of Turkey built Ataturk Bent
[edit] P
- William N. Page - railways, mining
- William Barclay Parsons
- Florentino Pérez - president of Grupo ACS, ex-president of Real Madrid
- Samuel Morton Peto - railways, harbours
- Rafael del Pino - President of Ferrovial, billionaire
- Henry Petroski - failure analysis
- Peyman Askari Nejad - structural engineer
- Henry Pleasants - Civil War general
- William Henry Preece - telegraphic engineer
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Robert Rawlinson - English canal engineer and sanitarian
- Richard Redmayne - British mining and civil engineer
- Markus Reiner studied deformation, strain and flow, coined rheology
- James Meadows Rendel - bridges, harbours
- John Rennie the Elder - canals, bridges, docks
- John Rennie the Younger - son of the above, railways and bridges
- 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
- Joseph Strauss - Structural Engineer Golden Gate Bridge,San Francisco
- Marc Séguin - railways, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge
- Shen Kuo - irrigation canal system
- Vladimir Shukhov - Russia, pioneer of hyperboloid structures, shell structures and pipelines
- James Simpson - hydraulic engineer
- Ole Singstad - Holland Tunnel tunnel ventilation system
- Sir Alec Skempton - Founding father of soil mechanics
- Otto Skorzeny - SS commando
- Carlos Slim - Mexican tycoon, owner of Grupo Carso & Telmex
- John Smeaton - canals, bridges, Eddystone Lighthouse
- George F. Sowers - geotechnical engineer
- George Stephenson - railways
- George Robert Stephenson - British railway engineer
- Robert Stephenson - railways
- Robert Stevenson - lighthouses
- Simon Stevin
- Sukarno - former President of Indonesia
[edit] T
- Thomas Telford - canals, roads and bridges
- Karl von Terzaghi - soil mechanics
- Mat Roy Thompson - American landscape and defense engineer, overseer of construction at Scotty's Castle.
- Stephen Timoshenko - engineering mechanics
- Pierre Emanuel Tirard - 19th century Prime Minister of France
- Fritz Todt - Reichsminister for Armaments and Munitions during World War 2.
- Ernest Crosbie Trench - British railway engineer
[edit] U
- William Unwin - British civil and materials engineer
[edit] V
- Charles Blacker Vignoles - British railway engineer
- 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
- William Kelly Wallace - Irish railway engineer
- André Waterkeyn designed the Atomium
- William Henry White - British engineer and chief constructor of the Admiralty
- Edward Leader Williams - canals, bridges
- Norman D. Wilson - mass transit
- Frank E. Winsor chief engineer for Quabbin Reservoir project
- John Wolfe-Barry
- A. Baldwin Wood - pumps
- Edward Woods - British railway engineer
- William Barton Worthington - British railway engineer
[edit] X
[edit] Y
- Boris Yeltsin - Ex President of Russia
- T. Leslie Youd - Geotechnical engineer, liquefaction research
[edit] Z
- Konrad Zuse - early pioneer in computers