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This is a list of notable civil engineers, people who were trained in or practiced civil engineering, who are notable enough for a Wikipedia article.

See also architect, landscape architect, urban planner, and list of engineers.

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 - Former Palestinian President

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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
• William Cubitt - English Engineer from the 19th Century.
• Carl Culmann - German Engineer from the mid 19th Century. Notable for graphical pioneering statical methods.

[edit] 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

[edit] E

• John S. Eastwood
• Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
• Hans Albert Einstein - hydraulics
• John Ericsson - propeller, USS Monitor

[edit] F

• Sanford Fleming - railroads, time zone
• Sir John Fowler - bridges
• Eugène Freyssinet - structural engineer concrete
• Buckminster Fuller

[edit] G

• Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri
• George Washington Goethals
• James Henry Greathead
• Hans Ulrich Grubenmann
• Johannes Grubenmann

[edit] 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
• John Hotaling - American soldier and businessman

[edit] I

[edit] J

• William Jessop - canals
• Theodore Judah - railroads
• Edward Judge - bridges

[edit] K

• Maurice Koechlin - structural designer to Gustave Eiffel
• Kumaraswamy, Poondi - Indian civil engineer

[edit] L

• Rashid Latif - Former Pakistani cricket team wicketkeeper and captain
• Curtis LeMay
• William LeMessurier
• Ferdinand de Lesseps
• Tung-Yen Lin - bridges, the pioneer of prestressed concrete
• William Lindley - water and sewerage works
• Joseph Locke - railways
• Ian Lloyd - railways, bridges

[edit] 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
• 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

[edit] N

[edit] O

• Benjamin Outram - canals

[edit] P

• William N. Page - railways, mining
• William Barclay Parsons
• Samuel Morton Peto - railways, harbours
• Henry Petroski - failure analysis
• Henry Pleasants - Civil War general

[edit] Q

[edit] R

• James Meadows Rendel - bridges, harbours
• John Rennie - 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

[edit] S

• Herbert Saffir - codeveloper of Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
• 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 Stevenson - lighthouses
• Simon Stevin
• Sukarno
• Santiago Calatrava - Spanish architect: skyscrapers, bridges, train stations, and several more things
• Michael Scofield - (fictional) character from TV series Prison Break

[edit] T

• Thomas Telford - roads and bridges
• Karl von Terzaghi - soil mechanics
• Stephen Timoshenko - engineering mechanics
• Pierre Emanuel Tirard
• Fritz Todt

[edit] U

[edit] V

• Leonardo da Vinci

[edit] W

• James Walker
• John Wolfe-Barry
• A. Baldwin Wood - pumps
• Edward Leader Williams - canals, bridges
• Norman D. Wilson - mass transit

[edit] X

[edit] Y

• Boris Yeltsin - Ex President of Russia
• Nabih Youssef- Structural Engineer

[edit] Z

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