List of civil engineers
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This is a list of civil engineers, people who were trained in or practiced civil engineering.
See also architect, landscape architect, urban planner, and list of engineers.
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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
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A
- 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 - Ex-Palestinian President
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B
- Benjamin Baker - English Engineer from the late 19th Century
- Henry Barnes - Traffic Engineer who worked in US cities during the 20th Century
- Peter W. Barlow - English Engineer from the late 19th Century. Notable for Lambeth Bridge (old) and tunnelling shield
- William Henry Barlow -English Engineer from the late 19th Century. Notable for railway Engineering
- Sir John Wolfe-Barry - English Engineer from the late 19th Century. Notable for constructing Tower Bridge
- Sir Joseph Bazalgette - English Engineer from the late 19th Century. Notable for the London sewerage system
- Bernard Forest de Belidor - hydraulic engineer
- Sir Alexander Binnie -English Engineer from the late 19th Century. Notable for tunnels and bridges across the Thames
- John Blenkinsop - English Engineer from the mid 19th Century. Notable for railways, locomotives and mining
- Sir Thomas Bouch - English Engineer from the late 19th Century. Notable for first Tay Rail Bridge disaster
- James Brindley - English Engineer from the mid 18th Century. Notable for canals and watermills
- Henri Marc Brunel - English Engineer from the late 19th Century.
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel - English Engineer from the mid 19th Century. Notable for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and important bridges.
- Marc Isambard Brunel - French Engineer from the early 19th Century. Notable for the Thames foot tunnel.
- Peter Bruff - English Engineer from the 19th Century. Notable for his work in Clacton on Sea
- Sir George Buchanan (engineer) - British civil engineer particularly associated with harbour works in Burma, Iraq and Bombay, during the early years of the 20th century.
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C
- Joseph Cabalbag- Instructor
- 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 from the mid 19th Century. Notable for designing suspension bridges
- Hardy Cross - American Engineer from the 20th Century. Notable for the developer of the moment distribution method
- Francis T. Crowe
- William Cubitt - English Engineer from the 19th Century.
- Carl Culmann - German Engineer from the mid 19th Century. Notable for graphical pioneering statical methods
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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
- Diosdado B. Dimalanta - Structural Engineering
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E
- John S. Eastwood
- Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
- Hans Albert Einstein - hydraulics
- John Ericsson - propeller, USS Monitor
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F
- Sanford Fleming - railroads, time zone
- Sir John Fowler - bridges
- Milton H. Freeman - Holland Tunnel
- Eugène Freyssinet - structural engineer concrete
- Buckminster Fuller
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G
- Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri
- George Washington Goethals
- James Henry Greathead
- Hans Ulrich Grubenmann
- Johannes Grubenmann
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H
- John Haiste- Water Engineer and Expert Witness
- 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
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J
- William Jessop - canals
- Theodore Judah - railroads
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K
- Maurice Koechlin - structural designer to Gustave Eiffel
- Kumaraswamy, Poondi - Indian civil engineer
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L
- Osama bin Laden - infamous terrorist
- Curtis LeMay
- William LeMessurier
- Ferdinand de Lesseps
- Tung-Yen Lin - bridges, the pioneer of prestressed concrete
- William Lindley - water and sewerage works
- Jair Lynch
- Joseph Locke - railways
- Ian Lloyd - Railways, Bridges
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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)
- Conde McCullough - bridges
- James R. McDonald - failure analysis, wind and impact engineering, mitigation (codeveloper of Enhanced Fujita Scale)
- 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
- James Morgan - Regent's Canal
- Basil Mott - mines, tunnels, bridges
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O
Osman Ahmed Osman
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P
- William N. Page - railways, mining
- Ralph M. Parsons
- William Barclay Parsons
- Samuel Morton Peto - railways, harbours
- Henry Petroski - failure analysis
- Henry Pleasants - Civil War general
- Giovanni Poleni - structural analysis of St. Peter's cupola
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Q
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R
- James Meadows Rendel - bridges, harbours
- John Rennie - canals, bridges, docks
- Peter Rice - 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
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S
- Herbert Saffir - codeveloper of Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
- Johann Jacob Schuebler - mathematician, painter: published engineering roof construction treatise in 1731/36
- Hermann Schussler - dams, waterworks
- Marc Séguin - railways, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge
- Ole Singstad - Holland Tunnel tunnel ventilation system
- John Smeaton - canals, bridges, Eddystone Lighthouse
- George Stephenson - railways
- Robert Stephenson - railways
- Robert Louis Stevenson - lighthouses
- Simon Stevin
- Sukarno
- Ernesto Salem
- Santiago Calatrava - Spanish architect: skyscrapers, bridges, train stations, and several more things
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T
- Thomas Telford - roads and bridges
- Karl von Terzaghi - soil mechanics
- Stephen Timoshenko - engineering mechanics
- Pierre Emanuel Tirard
- Fritz Todt
- Eduardo Torroja - structural engineer
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W
- James Walker
- John Wolfe-Barry
- A. Baldwin Wood - pumps
- Edward Leader Williams - canals, bridges
- Clay W. Willis - civil structural
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Y
- Boris Yeltsin - Ex President of Russia
- Nabih Youssef
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