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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.
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| Benjamin Baker |
English engineer in late 19th century |
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| William Baker |
American structural engineer of the Burj Khalifa |
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| Michel Bakhoum |
Egyptian consultant engineer and academic |
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| Nicol Hugh Baird |
Canal engineer and surveyor |
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| George Rumford Baldwin |
American canal engineer |
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| James Fowle Baldwin |
American canal engineer |
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| Loammi Baldwin |
American engineer and soldier |
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| Hannskarl Bandel |
Madison Square Garden roof, Crystal Cathedral |
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| Harvey Oren Banks |
State Engineer of California |
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| James Arthur Banks |
British dam engineer |
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| Robert Barker |
English railway engineer who also played in the first ever football international game |
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| Henry Barnes |
Traffic engineer who worked in US cities during 20th century |
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| Nora Stanton Blatch Barney |
American civil engineer |
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| Peter W. Barlow |
English engineer in late 19th century; notable for Lambeth Bridge (old) and tunnelling shield |
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| William Henry Barlow |
English engineer in late 19th century; railway engineering |
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| Frank Baron |
American academic |
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| Alfred Barrett |
American engineer of the Erie Canal |
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| Javier Barros Sierra |
Mexican engineer and teacher |
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| Sir John Wolfe-Barry |
English engineer in late 19th century; designed Tower Bridge |
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| Lt Col Arthur John Barry |
English engineer in late 19th and early 20th century; projects in China and India |
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| John Vernon Bartlett |
British civil and military engineer |
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| Edward William Barton-Wright |
British martial arts teacher |
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| John Frederic La Trobe Bateman |
British hydraulic engineer |
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| Sir Joseph Bazalgette |
English engineer in late 19th century; London sewerage system |
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| Sir Thomas Hudson Beare |
English engineer, academic |
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| Nikolai Apollonovich Belelubsky |
Russian bridge engineer |
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| Bernard Forest de Belidor |
Hydraulic engineer |
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| Horace Bell |
British railway engineer in India |
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| William Bennet |
English canal engineer |
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| William Bennett |
Irish-Australian bridge builder; Prince Alfred Bridge, Denison Bridge |
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| Samuel Bentham |
Designer of Vauxhall Bridge |
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| Arthur Bergan |
Canadian highways engineer |
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| Sir George Berkley |
British railway engineer |
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| Henry Berry |
Liverpool dock engineer |
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| Charles Beyer |
Anglo-German locomotive engineer |
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| George Parker Bidder |
British engineer; railways, telegraphs and hydraulics |
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| Sir Alexander Binnie |
English engineer in late 19th century; tunnels and bridges across the Thames |
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| William Binnie |
British waterworks engineer, son of the above |
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| Geoffrey Binnie |
Dam engineer, grandson and son of the above |
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| Osama bin Laden |
Founder of al-Qaeda, studied civil engineering at university |
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| Alan W. Bishop |
Developer of Bishop's method of analysing earth dams |
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| Magnus Bjorndal |
American engineer and inventor |
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| John Blenkinsop |
English engineer in mid-19th century; railways, locomotives and mining |
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| Benjamin Blyth |
Scottish railway engineer |
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| Benjamin Blyth II |
Scottish railway engineer, first practising Scottish engineer to become president of the Institution of Civil Engineers |
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| Gudmundur S. (Bo) Bodvarsson |
Icelandic civil engineer and researcher |
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| Alfred P. Boller |
American civil engineer |
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| Sir Thomas Bouch |
English engineer in late 19th century; first Tay Rail Bridge disaster |
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| Guillaume Boutheroue |
17th-century French canal engineer |
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| John Bradfield |
Designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge |
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| William Bragge |
English engineer in the 19th century |
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| Frederick Bramwell |
British engineer |
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| Jacob R. Brandt |
American engineer in mid-19th century; covered bridge engineer |
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| James Brindley |
English engineer from mid-18th century; designed canals and watermills |
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| John Alexander Brodie |
City Engineer of Liverpool and inventor of the football goal net |
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| Samuel Brown |
British naval officer and bridge designer |
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| William Brown |
structural engineer |
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| George Barclay Bruce |
English railway engineer |
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| Peter Bruff |
British civil engineer |
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| Henry Marc Brunel |
English engineer in late 19th century |
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| Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
English engineer in mid-19th century; designed Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and important bridges |
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| Marc Isambard Brunel |
French engineer in early 19th century; notable for the Thames tunnel |
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| James Brunlees |
Scottish engineer notable for designing Southend Pier |
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| Peter Bruff |
English engineer in 19th century; notable for work in Clacton on Sea |
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| Dorothy Donaldson Buchanan |
First woman to be admitted as a member to the Institute of Civil Engineers |
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| Sir George Buchanan |
British civil engineer associated with harbour works in Burma, Iraq and Bombay, during early 20th century |
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| George W. Buck |
British canal, bridge and railway engineer |
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| Leffert L. Buck |
American civil engineer |
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| Alfred Burges |
British civil engineer |
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| John Burland |
Professor of civil engineering |
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| Godliver Businge |
Ugandan civil engineer |
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| Santiago Calatrava |
Spanish architect: skyscrapers, bridges, train stations |
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| Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo |
Spanish Prime Minister |
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| Ian McDonald Campbell |
British civil engineer |
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| Harold Camping |
Civil engineer and end times prophecy maker |
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| Frederick William Cappelen |
American engineer, designed the Cappelen Memorial Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| Albert Caquot |
French civil engineer |
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| Edgar Cardoso |
Portuguese civil engineer and professor |
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| Marie François Sadi Carnot |
French civil engineer, then President of France |
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| Arthur Casagrande |
Civil engineer specialising in geotechnics |
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| Giovanni Domenico Cassini |
17th- and 18th-century astronomer and engineer of papal fortifications |
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| Heberto Castillo Martínez |
Mexican engineer, writer, social leader and political activist. Inventor of the composite material tridilosa |
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| Augustin Louis Cauchy |
French mathematician |
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| Louis-Alexandre de Cessart |
French bridge builder |
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| Octave Chanute |
19th-century American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer |
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| Joseph Chaley |
French suspension bridge designer |
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| Maria Amélia Chaves |
First female civil engineer to graduate from Instituto Superior Técnico at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Considered first Portuguese woman to graduate and then work in civil engineering, and the first Portuguese female engineer to work in the field. |
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| Lemuel Chenoweth |
American covered bridge designer |
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| Jamilur Reza Choudhury |
Vice-Chancellor of University of Asia Pacific |
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| Edwin Clark |
Designer of the Anderton Boat Lift |
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| William Tierney Clark |
English engineer in mid-19th century; suspension bridges |
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| Barry Clarke |
British geotechnical engineer |
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| G. Wayne Clough |
Former president of the Georgia Institute of Technology; current secretary of the Smithsonian Institution |
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| Reginald Coates |
British civil engineer and academic |
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| Alan Cockshaw |
British civil engineer and ICE President |
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| Clarence S. Coe |
American railroad and span bridge designer and builder |
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| Abraham Burton Cohen |
American civil engineer |
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| Joseph Colaco |
American structural engineer |
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| David Consunji |
Filipino businessman and chairman of DMCI Holdings, Inc.; 2017 Forbes 6th richest Filipino |
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| Henry Conybeare |
English civil engineer and architect, responsible for creating a clean water supply to Mumbai |
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| John Coode |
English engineer, notable for work on Portland Harbour |
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| Theodore Cooper |
American civil engineer, supervisor of Quebec Bridge |
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| Hugues Cosnier |
17th-century French canal engineer |
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| Charles-Augustin de Coulomb |
Physicist who also developed methods for retaining wall design |
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| Peter Chalmers Cowan |
British civil engineer |
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| Peter Arthur Cox |
British civil engineer |
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| Henry Cronin |
British civil engineer |
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| Hardy Cross |
American engineer in 20th century; notable for the developer of the moment distribution method |
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| Edward Cruttwell |
English civil engineer, particularly associated with Tower Bridge |
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| Joseph Cubitt |
Designer of Blackfriars Railway Bridge |
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| William Cubitt |
English engineer in 19th century |
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| Carl Culmann |
German engineer in mid-19th century; notable for graphical pioneering statical methods |
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Notability |
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| Sir William Halcrow |
Tunnels |
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| Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover |
Big Ben |
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| Archibald Milne Hamilton |
Callender-Hamilton bridge and Hamilton Road in Kurdistan |
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| Björn Hamilton |
Swedish civil engineer and politician |
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| William Hammond Hall |
American civil engineer noted for his work on Golden Gate Park and Californian water supplies |
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| Dr Edmund Hambly |
British structural engineer |
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| Peter Hansford |
British civil engineer, ICE President, and (from November 2012) UK chief construction adviser |
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| Louis Harper |
Scottish bridge engineer |
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| Sir William Gordon Harris |
British docks and roads engineer |
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| Thomas Harrison |
British architect and engineer |
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| Thomas Elliott Harrison |
British railway and bridge engineer |
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| Arthur Hartley |
British oil engineer |
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| Sir John Hawkshaw |
British railway and harbour engineer |
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| John Clarke Hawkshaw |
British engineer, son of John Hawkshaw |
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| Charles Hawksley |
Water engineer, son of Thomas Hawksley |
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| Thomas Hawksley |
English engineer noted for his work on water supplies |
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| David Hay |
British railway, bridge and tunnel engineer |
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| Harrison Hayter |
British railway and harbour engineer |
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| William Hazledine |
Ironfounder and bridge engineer |
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| Max Hecker |
Austrian-born Israeli President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
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| Brodie Henderson |
British railway engineer |
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| Hugh Henshall |
British canal engineer and student of James Brindley |
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| Roger Hetherington |
British civil engineer |
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| Roger Gaskell Hetherington |
British Ministry of Health civil engineer |
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| Clement Hindley |
British railway engineer |
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| Charles DeLano Hine |
American railway engineer and management pioneer |
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| Edward N. Hines |
American highway engineer |
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| James Hird |
Australian rules footballer |
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| George Andrew Hobson |
British railway and bridge engineer; designed Victoria Falls Bridge |
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| Raymond Ho |
Hong King functional constituency representative for engineering |
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| Walter Hohmann |
Buildings |
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| Karen Holford |
Welsh acoustic engineer and academic |
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| Clifford Milburn Holland |
Holland Tunnel |
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| Xavier Hommaire de Hell |
19th-century French engineer active in Turkey, southern Russia and Persia |
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| Herbert Hoover |
Mining engineer and 31st President of the United States |
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| John Hore |
English canal engineer and surveyor |
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| Manuel Hornibrook |
Engineer of the Hornibrook Bridge |
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| John Hotaling |
American soldier and businessman |
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| Clarence Decatur Howe |
Grain elevators |
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| John Howell & Son |
Engineers of main drainage system in Hastings, East Sussex |
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| Hu Jintao |
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of China |
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| George Humphreys |
British civil engineer |
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| Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston |
American civil engineer involved in the reconstruction of Cuba after the Spanish–American War, co-owner of the New York Yankees |
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Notability |
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| John MacAdam |
Roads |
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| Luke Livingston Macassey |
Irish water engineer |
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| Thomas Harris MacDonald |
Highway engineer |
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| Sir John Benjamin Macneill |
Railways |
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| William Mahone |
Plank road, railways |
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| Hélène Mallebrancke |
Second World War Allied telecommunications networks, first female Belgian civil engineer to graduate from the University of Ghent |
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| Robert Maillart |
Swiss, concrete bridges |
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| Charles Manby |
Steamship navigation |
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| Fred Mannering |
Statistical analysis of highway safety data, Highway engineering |
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| Robert Manning |
Open channel flow |
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| James Mansergh |
English railway, water supply and sewage engineer |
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| Javier Manterola |
Spanish bridge engineer |
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| Mao Yisheng |
Chinese structural engineer; expert on bridge construction |
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| William Marriott |
English railway engineer |
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| James Barney Marsh |
American concrete bridge engineer |
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| Timothy P. Marshall |
Failure analysis, wind and impact engineering, meteorologist; co-developer of Enhanced Fujita Scale |
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| William Matthews |
British harbour engineer |
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| Jorge Matute Remus |
Mexican, known for moving a 1700-ton building in 1950 |
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| Guy Maunsell |
British, pre-stressed concrete in bridges, Maunsell Forts |
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| William Maw |
British railway engineer |
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| Sir Henry Maybury |
British railway and highways engineer |
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| John Robinson McClean |
British engineer, railways, water supply |
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| Conde McCullough |
Bridges |
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| Scott McMorrow |
Playwright, poet, and engineer |
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| George Matthew McNaughton |
British hydraulic engineer |
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| Carl Friedrich Meerwein |
German, aviation |
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| Montgomery C. Meigs Jr. |
Waterways (American; 1847–1931) |
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| Charles Meik |
Ports, railways, hydroelectric schemes |
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| Patrick Meik |
Ports, railways |
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| Thomas Meik |
Ports, railways |
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| Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza |
First woman in Mexico to earn a civil engineering degree |
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| Christian Menn |
Swiss, known for bridges, including the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, part of the Big Dig in Boston |
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| John Miller |
19th-century Edinburgh-based railway engineer (Grainger & Miller) |
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| Charles Joseph Minard |
French civil engineer noted for his inventions in the field of information graphics |
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| Ralph Modjeski |
Polish-American bridge designer |
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| Otto Mohr |
Bridges, railways |
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| Leon Moisseiff |
American suspension bridge engineer |
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| Guilford Lindsey Molesworth |
English railway engineer |
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| John Monash |
Bridges and precast concrete; also Commander of the Australian Corps in World War I |
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| Riccardo Morandi |
Bridges |
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| Ben Moreell |
Four-star Admiral and father of the US Navy Seabees |
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| Charles Langbridge Morgan |
British civil engineer |
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| James Morgan |
Regent's Canal |
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| Trudy Morgan |
Sierra Leone engineer, first woman president of Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers |
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| George S. Morison |
American railway bridge engineer |
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| Thomas William Moseley |
American engineer |
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| Basil Mott |
Mines, tunnels, bridges |
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| Reginald Mountain |
British hydroelectric engineer |
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| Sir Alan Muir Wood |
British tunnelling engineer |
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| Jean M. Muller |
French bridge engineer |
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| Thomas Webster Rammell |
Inventor, promoter and constructor of the pneumatic system of railway propulsion |
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| Fidel V. Ramos |
Former President of the Philippines, civil engineer |
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| William John Macquorn Rankine |
Physicist; civil engineering professor; developed structural engineering and lateral earth pressure theories |
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| Kanuri Lakshmana Rao |
Water resource engineer, architect of Nagarajuna Sagar Dam, India |
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| Latif Rashid |
Iraqi Minister of Water Resources |
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| Robert Rawlinson |
English canal engineer and sanitarian |
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| Mike Reader |
English civil engineer and MP |
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| Richard Redmayne |
British mining and civil engineer |
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| Donald Reeve |
British hydraulic engineer |
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| Markus Reiner |
Studied deformation, strain and flow, coined "rheology" |
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| James Meadows Rendel |
Bridges, harbours |
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| John Rennie the Elder |
Canals, bridges, docks |
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| John Rennie the Younger |
Railways and bridges, son of John Rennie the Elder |
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| Louis-Jean Résal |
French bridge engineer |
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| Osborne Reynolds |
Fluid dynamics theories; worked as a practising engineer |
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| Peter Rice |
Structural engineer |
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| Pierre-Paul Riquet |
Engineer of the Canal du Midi |
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| Benjamin S. Roberts |
Railways, United States and Russia |
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| David Gwilym Morris Roberts |
British civil engineer |
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| Donald Van Norman Roberts |
Civil and geotechnical engineer, advocate and pioneer in sustainable developments in engineering |
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| Leslie E. Robertson |
Structural engineer |
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| Vernon Robertson |
British civil engineer |
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| John August Roebling |
Brooklyn Bridge, Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge |
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| Washington Roebling |
Brooklyn Bridge, son of John August Roebling |
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| Richard Birdsall Rogers |
Designer of the Peterborough Lift Lock, Ontario, Canada |
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| Albert Francis Ronalds |
Australian civil engineer |
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| Alexander Ross |
Scottish railway engineer |
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| Norman Rowntree |
British water engineer |
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| Toni Rüttimann |
Swiss bridge builder |
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| Oleksandr Ivanovych Rzhepishevsky |
Ukrainian civil engineer and architect, author of over 20 buildings in Kharkiv |
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| Herbert Saffir |
Co-developer of Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale |
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| Anghel Saligny |
Designer of the Anghel Saligny Bridge |
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| Araceli Sánchez Urquijo |
first Spanish female civil engineer and Niños de Rusia (Children of Russia) |
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| John L. Savage |
Dams, canals and hydroelectricity power plants |
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| Leopold Halliday Savile |
British reservoir engineer |
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| Jörg Schlaich |
German structural engineer |
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| Charles Conrad Schneider |
American engineer |
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| Marc Seguin |
Railways, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge |
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| Kanwar Sen |
Indian canal engineer |
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| Francisco J. Serrano |
Mexican civil engineer and professor |
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| Edward S. Shaw |
American civil engineer in New England |
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| Frank H. Shaw |
American engineer from Pennsylvania |
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| Shen Kuo |
Irrigation canal system |
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| Hubert Shirley-Smith |
Bridges |
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| Douglas Harlow Shoemaker |
American railway engineer |
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| Vladimir Shukhov |
Russian pioneer of hyperboloid structures, shell structures and pipelines |
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| James Simpson |
Hydraulic engineer |
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| Ole Singstad |
Holland Tunnel tunnel ventilation system |
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| Sir Alec Skempton |
A founding father of soil mechanics |
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| Otto Skorzeny |
SS commando |
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| Carlos Slim |
Mexican tycoon, owner of Grupo Carso and Telmex |
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| John Smeaton |
Canals, bridges, Eddystone Lighthouse |
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| William Smith |
Canals, water engineer and publisher of first geological map |
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| José Sócrates |
Former Prime Minister of Portugal |
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| Evelyna Bloem Souto |
Brazilian engineer and academic, only woman in the first class of the civil engineering course at the University of São Paulo in São Carlos. |
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| George F. Sowers |
Geotechnical engineer |
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| E. Sreedharan |
Indian civil engineer, CMD of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and Chief of Konkan Railway Project |
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| Olaf Stang |
Norwegian suspension bridge engineer |
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| Thomas Steers |
Early 18th-century British canal engineer |
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| David B. Steinman |
American structural engineer |
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| George Stephenson |
Railways |
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| George Robert Stephenson |
British railway engineer |
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| Henry Palfrey Stephenson |
British bridge, railway and gas lighting engineer |
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| Robert Stephenson |
Railways |
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| John Frank Stevens |
Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal |
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| Alan Stevenson |
lighthouses |
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| David Stevenson |
Lighthouses |
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| Robert Stevenson |
Lighthouses |
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| Thomas Stevenson |
Lighthouses |
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| Simon Stevin |
Flemish public works engineer |
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| Joseph Strauss |
Structural engineer, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco |
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| Emil Strub |
Swiss railway engineer |
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| Sukarno |
Former President of Indonesia |
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| Ximen Bao |
Ancient Chinese canal engineer |
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Notability |
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Yu the Great
大禹 |
First Dynast of China, founder of the first dynasty, who dedicated his life establishing flood control structures across the Chinese Hegemony, establishing the new hegemony in the process, across flood ruined competing kingdoms. |
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| Andrew Yarranton |
English navigation engineer |
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| Boris Yeltsin |
Former President of Russia |
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| Thomas Yeoman |
First President of Society of Civil Engineers |
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| T. Leslie Youd |
Geotechnical engineer, liquefaction research |
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- ↑ "Obituary: John Wykeham Jacomb-Hood, 1859–1914". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 199 (1915): 452–453. 1915. doi:10.1680/imotp.1915.16234. ISSN 1753-7843 – via Emerald Publishing.
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