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.

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
• David Anderson - Scottish civil engineer and lawyer
• Yasser Arafat - Former Palestinian President
• William George Armstrong - British engineer and 22nd president of the Institution of Civil Engineers
• John Aspinall - British railway engineer

B

• Benjamin Baker - English engineer in late 19th century
• Hannskarl Bandel - Madison Square Garden roof, Crystal Cathedral
• James Arthur Banks - British Dam engineer
• 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.

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.

D

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Gustaf Dalén - sun valve, unmanned acetylene lighthouses
• Henry Darcy
• Fabrizio de Miranda - Italian bridge engineer
• 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

E

• James Buchanan Eads - American civil engineer
• John S. Eastwood
• Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
• Hans Albert Einstein - hydraulics
• John Ericsson - propeller, USS Monitor

F

• Hilario Fernández Long - Argentine engineer and university president
• Joshua Field - telegraph cables, sewerage
• Maurice Fitzmaurice - Irish bridge, dam and tunnel engineer
• Ken Fleming - Northern Irish civil engineer and piling and foundations specialist
• Sanford Fleming - railroads, time zone
• Sir John Fowler - bridges
• Ralph Freeman - English bridge and highways engineer
• Eugène Freyssinet - structural engineer concrete
• Buckminster Fuller
• Angus Fulton - British civil engineer

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

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

I

Charles Inglis, British engineer and academic

J

• John Holmes Jellett - docks and harbours
• William Jessop - canals
• Albert Mussey Johnson - helped design Scotty's Castle.
• Theodore Judah - railroads
• Edward Judge - bridges

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
• Nitish Kumar -former Railway Minister of India
• Hiran Kariyawasam -Geotechnical engineer who closely worked with Meyerhoff

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

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

N

• Pier Luigi Nervi - Italian architect/engineer, thin shell concrete.

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 Atatürk Bent

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

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

S

• Herbert Saffir - codeveloper of Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
• Leopold Halliday Savile - British reservoir engineer
• Joseph Strauss - Structural Engineer Golden Gate Bridge,San Francisco
• Marc Séguin - railways, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge
• Shen Kuo - irrigation canal system
• Hubert Shirley-Smith - bridges
• 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

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

U

• William Unwin - British civil and materials engineer

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.

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
• Robert Wynne-Edwards - British tunnel and pipeline engineer

Y

• Boris Yeltsin - Ex President of Russia
• T. Leslie Youd - Geotechnical engineer, liquefaction research

Z

• Konrad Zuse - early pioneer in computers