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This 'list of civil engineers' is a list of '' people who have been trained in or have practiced civil engineering.
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★ 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

★ 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.

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★ 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.

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

E

★ John S. Eastwood

★ Alexandre Gustave Eiffel

★ Hans Albert Einstein - hydraulics

★ John Ericsson - propeller, USS Monitor

F

★ Hilario Fernández Long - Argentine engineer and university president

★ Sanford Fleming - railroads, time zone

★ Sir John Fowler - bridges

★ Eugène Freyssinet - structural engineer concrete

★ Buckminster Fuller

G

★ Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri

★ George Washington Goethals

★ James Henry Greathead

★ Hans Ulrich Grubenmann

★ Johannes Grubenmann

H

★ Sir William Halcrow - tunnels

★ Benjamin Hall - Big Ben

★ Björn Hamilton Swedish civil engineer and politician

★ William Hammond Hall

★ Thomas Hawksley

★ 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

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J

★ William Jessop - canals

★ Theodore Judah - railroads

★ Edward Judge - bridges

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 - 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 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

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

O

★ C. Y. O'Connor - Fremantle Harbour and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, Western Australia

★ Benjamin Outram - canals

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

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R

★ Markus Reiner studied deformation, strain and flow, coined rheology

★ 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

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★ Herbert Saffir - codeveloper of Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale

★ Marc Séguin - railways, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge

★ Shen Kuo - irrigation canal system

★ Vladimir Shukhov - Russia, pioneer of hyperboloid structures, shell structures and pipelines

★ Ole Singstad - Holland Tunnel tunnel ventilation system

★ 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

★ Robert Stephenson - railways

★ Robert Stevenson - lighthouses

★ Simon Stevin

★ Sukarno - former President of Indonesia

★ Michael Scofield - (fictional) character from TV series Prison Break

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★ 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.

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★ 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.

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★ James Walker

★ André Waterkeyn designed the Atomium

★ 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

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★ Boris Yeltsin - Ex President of Russia

★ T. Leslie Youd - Geotechnical engineer, liquefaction research

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★ Konrad Zuse - early pioneer in computers