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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.
Alphabetical list
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A
- Nicholas Agnoli - American civil and environmental engineer
- 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
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.
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
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
E
- John S. Eastwood
- Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
- Hans Albert Einstein - hydraulics
- John Ericsson - propeller, USS Monitor
F
- Sanford Fleming - railroads, time zone
- Sir John Fowler - bridges
- Milton H. Freeman - Holland Tunnel
- Eugène Freyssinet - structural engineer concrete
- Buckminster Fuller
G
- Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri
- George Washington Goethals
- James Henry Greathead
- Hans Ulrich Grubenmann
- Johannes Grubenmann
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
I
J
- William Jessop - canals
- Theodore Judah - railroads
- Edward Judge - bridges
K
- Maurice Koechlin - structural designer to Gustave Eiffel
- Kumaraswamy, Poondi - Indian civil engineer
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
- 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
- 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
N
- Carlos Nemer - university professor and business consultant
O
Osman Ahmed Osman
P
- William N. Page - railways, mining
- 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
Q
R
- James Meadows Rendel - bridges, harbours
- John Rennie - canals, bridges, docks
- Peter Rice - structural engineer
- 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
- 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 Stevenson - lighthouses
- Simon Stevin
- Sukarno
- Santiago Calatrava - Spanish architect: skyscrapers, bridges, train stations, and several more things
T
- Thomas Telford - roads and bridges
- Karl von Terzaghi - soil mechanics
- Stephen Timoshenko - engineering mechanics
- Pierre Emanuel Tirard
- Fritz Todt
- Eduardo Torroja - structural engineer
U
V
W
- James Walker
- John Wolfe-Barry
- A. Baldwin Wood - pumps
- Edward Leader Williams - canals, bridges
- Clay W. Willis - civil structural
X
Y
- Boris Yeltsin - Ex President of Russia
- Nabih Youssef- Structural Engineer
Z
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