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This
list of civil engineers is a list of
Wikipedia:Notability people who have been trained in or have practiced civil engineering.
A
- Duff Abrams - early concrete researcher
- Marcus Agrippa - Ancient Roman General
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - President of Iran
- John Aird (engineer) - English engineer from the late 19th century
- Othmar Ammann - Designed the George Washington Bridge, among others
- Yasser Arafat - Former Palestinian President
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
- Jacob R. Brandt - American engineer in the mid 19th century; covered bridge engineer
- 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.
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
- Joseph Colaco - American structural engineer.
- 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.
- Jean-Marie Crémer - Belgian Engineer. International award of Merit in Structural Engineering (IABSE 2005).
D
E
F
- Hilario Fernández Long - Argentine engineer and university president
- Sanford Fleming - railroads, time zone
- Sir John Fowler (engineer) - bridges
- Eugène Freyssinet - structural engineer concrete
- Buckminster Fuller
G
- Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri
- George Washington Goethals
- James Henry Greathead
- Hans Ulrich Grubenmann
- Johannes Grubenmann
H
I
J
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
M
- John MacAdam - roads
- Sir John MacNeill - railways
- William Mahone - plank road, railways
- Robert Maillart - Swiss, concrete bridges
- Robert Manning (engineer) - Open channel flow
- 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
- 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 (Boston, Massachusetts) in Boston.
- Otto Mohr - bridges, railways
- 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
N
- Pier Luigi Nervi - Italian architect/engineer, thin shell concrete.
- Nitish Kumar - Railway Minister of India
O
P
Q
R
- Markus Reiner studied deformation, strain and flow, coined rheology
- James Meadows Rendel - bridges, harbours
- John Rennie (engineer) - 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
S
T
U
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.
W
X
Y
- Boris Yeltsin - Ex President of Russia
- T. Leslie Youd - Geotechnical engineer, liquefaction research
Z
- Konrad Zuse - early pioneer in computers
This
list of civil engineers is a list of
Wikipedia:Notability people who have been trained in or have practiced civil engineering.
A
- Duff Abrams - early concrete researcher
- Marcus Agrippa - Ancient Roman General
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - President of Iran
- John Aird (engineer) - English engineer from the late 19th century
- Othmar Ammann - Designed the George Washington Bridge, among others
- Yasser Arafat - Former Palestinian President
B
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
- Joseph Colaco - American structural engineer.
- 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.
- Jean-Marie Crémer - Belgian Engineer. International award of Merit in Structural Engineering (IABSE 2005).
D
- Gustaf Dalén - sun valve, unmanned acetylene lighthouses
- Henry Darcy
- Simon James Dawson - Red River road
- Süleyman Demirel - Ex-Prime Minister and President of Turkey
- Francis Drake
- Jules Dupuit
- Thomas Dadford Junior — canals
- H. D. Devegowda - Ex-Prime Minister of India
E
F
G
H
I
J
L
M
- John MacAdam - roads
- Sir John MacNeill - railways
- William Mahone - plank road, railways
- Robert Maillart - Swiss, concrete bridges
- Robert Manning (engineer) - Open channel flow
- 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
- 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 (Boston, Massachusetts) in Boston.
- Otto Mohr - bridges, railways
- 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
N
O
- C. Y. O'Connor - Fremantle Harbour and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, Western Australia
- Benjamin Outram - canals
P
Q
R
- Markus Reiner studied deformation, strain and flow, coined rheology
- James Meadows Rendel - bridges, harbours
- John Rennie (engineer) - 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
S
T
- Thomas Telford - canals, roads and bridges
- Karl von Terzaghi - soil mechanics
- Stephen Timoshenko - engineering mechanics
- Pierre Emanuel Tirard - 19th century Prime Minister of France
- Fritz Todt - Reichsminister for Armaments and Munitions during World War 2.
U
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.
W
X
Y
Z