# List of civil engineers

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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* I
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* N
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## A

| Name | Notability |
| Duff Abrams | Early concrete researcher |
| Bahaedin Adab | Iranian Kurdish politician and engineer |
| Campbell W. Adams | New York State Engineer and Surveyor |
| Charles Adler Jr. | American inventor of traffic lights and railway engineer |
| Marcus Agrippa | Ancient Roman general |
| Povl Ahm | Danish former Ove Arup & Partners chairman |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | President of Iran |
| John Aird | English engineer from the late 19th century |
| Maurice L. Albertson | American water resources engineer and academic |
| Truman H. Aldrich | American civil and mining engineer |
| Thomas Aldwell | American engineer of the Elwha Dam |
| Ángela Alessio Robles | Mexican civil engineer and town planner |
| Archie Alexander | American bridge and road engineer |
| Don A. Allen | Member of the California State Assembly and of the Los Angeles City Council in the 1940s and 1950s |
| Renato de Albuquerque | Brazilian founder of Albuquerque & Takaoka |
| Horatio Allen | American railway engineer |
| Braden Allenby | American civil engineering professor |
| John Wolfe Ambrose | American engineer and namesake of the Ambrose Channel in New York |
| Othmar Ammann | Designed the George Washington Bridge, among others |
| David Anderson | Scottish civil engineer and lawyer |
| Apollodorus of Damascus | Ancient Greek engineer and architect |
| Yasser Arafat | Former Palestinian President |
| William George Armstrong | British engineer and 22nd president of the Institution of Civil Engineers |
| Ferdinand Arnodin | French bridge builder |
| Sir William Arrol | Scottish engineer involved with the construction of the Tay Rail Bridge, the Forth Bridge and Tower Bridge |
| Ove Arup | Founder of Arup |
| John Aspinall | British railway engineer |
| William Sydney Atkins | Founder of Atkins, one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering consultancies |
| Peter C. Assersen | Rear Admiral in the United States Navy |
| Gunvald Aus | Norwegian-American engineer, engineered the construction of the Woolworth Building in New York City |
| Bilal M. Ayyub | American engineering academic |

## B

| Name | Notability |
| Benjamin Baker | English engineer in late 19th century |
| William Baker | American structural engineer of the Burj Khalifa |
| Michel Bakhoum | Egyptian consultant engineer and academic |
| Nicol Hugh Baird | Canal engineer and surveyor |
| George Rumford Baldwin | American canal engineer |
| James Fowle Baldwin | American canal engineer |
| Loammi Baldwin | American engineer and soldier |
| Hannskarl Bandel | Madison Square Garden roof, Crystal Cathedral |
| Harvey Oren Banks | State Engineer of California |
| James Arthur Banks | British dam engineer |
| Robert Barker | English railway engineer who also played in the first ever football international game |
| Henry Barnes | Traffic engineer who worked in US cities during 20th century |
| Nora Stanton Blatch Barney | American civil engineer |
| 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 |
| Frank Baron | American academic |
| Alfred Barrett | American engineer of the Erie Canal |
| Javier Barros Sierra | Mexican engineer and teacher |
| Sir John Wolfe-Barry | English engineer in late 19th century; designed Tower Bridge |
| Lt Col Arthur John Barry | English engineer in late 19th and early 20th century; projects in China and India |
| John Vernon Bartlett | British civil and military engineer |
| Edward William Barton-Wright | British martial arts teacher |
| John Frederic La Trobe Bateman | British hydraulic engineer |
| Sir Joseph Bazalgette | English engineer in late 19th century; London sewerage system |
| Sir Thomas Hudson Beare | English engineer, academic |
| Nikolai Apollonovich Belelubsky | Russian bridge engineer |
| Bernard Forest de Belidor | Hydraulic engineer |
| Horace Bell | British railway engineer in India |
| William Bennet | English canal engineer |
| William Bennett | Irish-Australian bridge builder; Prince Alfred Bridge, Denison Bridge |
| Samuel Bentham | Designer of Vauxhall Bridge |
| Arthur Bergan | Canadian highways engineer |
| Sir George Berkley | British railway engineer |
| Henry Berry | Liverpool dock engineer |
| Charles Beyer | Anglo-German locomotive engineer |
| George Parker Bidder | British engineer; railways, telegraphs and hydraulics |
| Sir Alexander Binnie | English engineer in late 19th century; tunnels and bridges across the Thames |
| William Binnie | British waterworks engineer, son of the above |
| Geoffrey Binnie | Dam engineer, grandson and son of the above |
| Osama bin Laden | Founder of al-Qaeda, studied civil engineering at university |
| Alan W. Bishop | Developer of Bishop's method of analysing earth dams |
| Magnus Bjorndal | American engineer and inventor |
| John Blenkinsop | English engineer in mid-19th century; railways, locomotives and mining |
| Benjamin Blyth | Scottish railway engineer |
| Benjamin Blyth II | Scottish railway engineer, first practising Scottish engineer to become president of the Institution of Civil Engineers |
| Gudmundur S. (Bo) Bodvarsson | Icelandic civil engineer and researcher |
| Alfred P. Boller | American civil engineer |
| Sir Thomas Bouch | English engineer in late 19th century; first Tay Rail Bridge disaster |
| Guillaume Boutheroue | 17th-century French canal engineer |
| John Bradfield | Designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge |
| William Bragge | English engineer in the 19th century |
| Frederick Bramwell | British engineer |
| Jacob R. Brandt | American engineer in mid-19th century; covered bridge engineer |
| James Brindley | English engineer from mid-18th century; designed canals and watermills |
| John Alexander Brodie | City Engineer of Liverpool and inventor of the football goal net |
| Samuel Brown | British naval officer and bridge designer |
| William Brown | structural engineer |
| George Barclay Bruce | English railway engineer |
| Peter Bruff | British civil engineer |
| Henry 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 tunnel |
| James Brunlees | Scottish engineer notable for designing Southend Pier |
| Peter Bruff | English engineer in 19th century; notable for work in Clacton on Sea |
| Sir George Buchanan | British civil engineer associated with harbour works in Burma, Iraq and Bombay, during early 20th century |
| George W. Buck | British canal, bridge and railway engineer |
| Leffert L. Buck | American civil engineer |
| Alfred Burges | British civil engineer |
| John Burland | Professor of civil engineering |
| Godliver Businge | Ugandan civil engineer |

## C

| Name | Notability |
| Santiago Calatrava | Spanish architect: skyscrapers, bridges, train stations |
| Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo | Spanish Prime Minister |
| Ian McDonald Campbell | British civil engineer |
| Harold Camping | Civil engineer and end times prophecy maker |
| Frederick William Cappelen | American engineer, designed the Cappelen Memorial Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Albert Caquot | French civil engineer |
| Edgar Cardoso | Portuguese civil engineer and professor |
| Marie François Sadi Carnot | French civil engineer, then President of France |
| Arthur Casagrande | Civil engineer specialising in geotechnics |
| Giovanni Domenico Cassini | 17th- and 18th-century astronomer and engineer of papal fortifications |
| Heberto Castillo Martínez | Mexican engineer, writer, social leader and political activist. Inventor of the composite material tridilosa |
| Augustin Louis Cauchy | French mathematician |
| Louis-Alexandre de Cessart | French bridge builder |
| Octave Chanute | 19th-century American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer |
| Joseph Chaley | French suspension bridge designer |
| 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. |
| Lemuel Chenoweth | American covered bridge designer |
| Jamilur Reza Choudhury | Vice-Chancellor of University of Asia Pacific |
| Edwin Clark | Designer of the Anderton Boat Lift |
| William Tierney Clark | English engineer in mid-19th century; suspension bridges |
| Barry Clarke | British geotechnical engineer |
| G. Wayne Clough | Former president of the Georgia Institute of Technology; current secretary of the Smithsonian Institution |
| Reginald Coates | British civil engineer and academic |
| Alan Cockshaw | British civil engineer and ICE President |
| Clarence S. Coe | American railroad and span bridge designer and builder |
| Abraham Burton Cohen | American civil engineer |
| Joseph Colaco | American structural engineer |
| David Consunji | Filipino businessman and chairman of DMCI Holdings, Inc.; 2017 Forbes 6th richest Filipino |
| Henry Conybeare | English civil engineer and architect, responsible for creating a clean water supply to Mumbai |
| John Coode | English engineer, notable for work on Portland Harbour |
| Theodore Cooper | American civil engineer, supervisor of Quebec Bridge |
| Hugues Cosnier | 17th-century French canal engineer |
| Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | Physicist who also developed methods for retaining wall design |
| Peter Arthur Cox | British civil engineer |
| Henry Cronin | British civil engineer |
| Hardy Cross | American engineer in 20th century; notable for the developer of the moment distribution method |
| Edward Cruttwell | English civil engineer, particularly associated with Tower Bridge |
| Joseph Cubitt | Designer of Blackfriars Railway Bridge |
| William Cubitt | English engineer in 19th century |
| Carl Culmann | German engineer in mid-19th century; notable for graphical pioneering statical methods |

## D

| Name | Notability |
| Leonardo da Vinci | |
| James Dadford | English canal engineer |
| John Dadford | English canal engineer |
| Thomas Dadford | English canal engineer |
| Thomas Dadford Jr. | English canal engineer |
| Gustaf Dalén | Sun valve, unmanned acetylene lighthouses |
| George Christian Darbyshire | Australian railway engineer |
| Henry Darcy | Hydraulics |
| William Dargan | Irish railway engineer |
| Jonathan Davidson | British civil engineer |
| Simon James Dawson | Red River road |
| Bruce Day | Australian bridge engineer |
| Fabrizio de Miranda | Italian bridge engineer |
| Mario de Miranda (bridge engineer) | Italian civil engineer and bridge designer |
| H. D. Deve Gowda | Ex-Prime Minister of India |
| Samuel Diescher | Hungarian railway engineer |
| Franz Dischinger | German civil and structural engineer |
| Sydney Donkin | British civil, mechanical and electrical engineer |
| Mulalo Doyoyo | South African engineer, inventor and professor |
| Francis Drake | |
| James Nicholas Douglass | English lighthouse engineer |
| Guillaume Henri Dufour | Swiss army officer, surveyor and engineer |
| Jules Dupuit | |
| Dick Dusseldorp | Dutch/Australian water engineer |
| Antonina Dvoryanets | Ukrainian hydraulic engineer |
| H. Kempton Dyson | British civil and structural engineer |

## E

| Name | Notability |
| James Buchanan Eads | American civil engineer |
| Elsie Eaves | American civil engineer |
| John S. Eastwood | American dam engineer |
| Marc Edwards | American professor |
| Alexandre Gustave Eiffel | Eiffel Tower |
| Hans Albert Einstein | Hydraulics |
| Clark Eldridge | Tacoma Narrows Bridge designer |
| Charles Ellet Jr. | American army officer and engineer |
| Robert Elliott-Cooper | British civil engineer |
| Edward B. Ellington | British hydraulic engineer |
| William Henry Ellis | British civil engineer and steel maker |
| Bill Emery | CEO of the Office of Rail Regulation |
| Jose Izquierdo Encarnacion | Puerto Rican Secretary of State |
| John Endres | Prussian-American railway engineer |
| John Ericsson | Propeller, USS Monitor |
| Edilberto Evangelista | Filipino engineer and soldier |
| John Breedon Everard | English civil engineer |

## F

| Name | Notability |
| William Fairhurst | Bridge builder and chess master |
| Hilario Fernández Long | Argentine engineer and university president |
| Joshua Field | Telegraph cables, sewerage |
| Albert Fink | German railway engineer |
| James Finley | American suspension bridge designer |
| Maurice Fitzmaurice | Irish bridge, dam and tunnel engineer |
| Ken Fleming | Northern Irish civil engineer and piling and foundations specialist |
| Sanford Fleming | Railroads, time zones |
| Dick Fosbury | Olympic high jumper, inventor of the Fosbury Flop |
| Sir John Fowler | Bridges |
| Sir Charles Fox | British railway engineer |
| Charles Douglas Fox | British railway engineer |
| Sir Francis Fox | British railway engineer |
| Sir William Francis | British engineer |
| Thomas Pierson Frank | British civil engineer |
| Ralph Freeman (1880–1950) | English structural engineer |
| Ralph Freeman (1911–1998) | English bridge and highways engineer |
| Eugène Freyssinet | French structural engineer |
| Buckminster Fuller | |
| Angus Fulton | British civil engineer |

## G

| Name | Notability |
| David du Bose Gaillard | American engineer of the Panama Canal |
| Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie | French bridge engineer |
| James Anthony Gaffney | British engineer in West Yorkshire |
| Thomas Galloway | |
| Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri | |
| George Gandy | Builder of the Gandy Bridge |
| Oleksandr Garmash | Ukrainian researcher |
| Émiland Gauthey | French engineer and architect |
| Hubert Gautier | French bridge engineer |
| Robert A. Gearheart | American civil and environmental engineering professor |
| William George Nicholson Geddes | Scottish engineer |
| Alexander Gibb | Scottish railway and military engineer |
| John Gilbert | Engineer of the Bridgewater Canal |
| Alfred Giles | British civil engineer |
| Francis Giles | British canal and railway engineer |
| Mark Girolami | Statistician and engineer affiliated with the University of Cambridge |
| William Glanville | British highways engineer |
| George Washington Goethals | Panama Canal, Goethals Bridge |
| William Grant | Australian civil engineer and military commander |
| James Henry Greathead | |
| Samuel Arnold Greeley | American civil engineer, textbook author |
| James Green | British canal engineer |
| Charles Hutton Gregory | Railways |
| William Grierson | British railway engineer |
| John Griffith | Irish engineer |
| Hans Ulrich Grubenmann | |
| Johannes Grubenmann | |
| Sarah Guppy | Inventor and bridge engineer |
| John Gwynn | English architect and civil engineer |

## H

| Name | Notability |
| Sir William Halcrow | Tunnels |
| Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover | Big Ben |
| Archibald Milne Hamilton | Callender-Hamilton bridge and Hamilton Road in Kurdistan |
| Björn Hamilton | Swedish civil engineer and politician |
| William Hammond Hall | American civil engineer noted for his work on Golden Gate Park and Californian water supplies |
| Dr Edmund Hambly | British structural engineer |
| Peter Hansford | British civil engineer, ICE President, and (from November 2012) UK chief construction adviser |
| Louis Harper | Scottish bridge engineer |
| Sir William Gordon Harris | British docks and roads engineer |
| Thomas Harrison | British architect and engineer |
| Thomas Elliott Harrison | British railway and bridge engineer |
| Arthur Hartley | British oil engineer |
| Sir John Hawkshaw | British railway and harbour engineer |
| John Clarke Hawkshaw | British engineer, son of John Hawkshaw |
| Charles Hawksley | Water engineer, son of Thomas Hawksley |
| Thomas Hawksley | English engineer noted for his work on water supplies |
| David Hay | British railway, bridge and tunnel engineer |
| Harrison Hayter | British railway and harbour engineer |
| William Hazledine | Ironfounder and bridge engineer |
| Max Hecker | Austrian-born Israeli President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Brodie Henderson | British railway engineer |
| Hugh Henshall | British canal engineer and student of James Brindley |
| Roger Hetherington | British civil engineer |
| Roger Gaskell Hetherington | British Ministry of Health civil engineer |
| Clement Hindley | British railway engineer |
| Charles DeLano Hine | American railway engineer and management pioneer |
| Edward N. Hines | American highway engineer |
| James Hird | Australian rules footballer |
| George Andrew Hobson | British railway and bridge engineer; designed Victoria Falls Bridge |
| Joseph Hobson | Canadian railway engineer |
| Raymond Ho | Hong King functional constituency representative for engineering |
| Walter Hohmann | Buildings |
| Karen Holford | Welsh acoustic engineer and academic |
| Clifford Milburn Holland | Holland Tunnel |
| Xavier Hommaire de Hell | 19th-century French engineer active in Turkey, southern Russia and Persia |
| Herbert Hoover | Mining engineer and 31st President of the United States |
| John Hore | English canal engineer and surveyor |
| Manuel Hornibrook | Engineer of the Hornibrook Bridge |
| John Hotaling | American soldier and businessman |
| Clarence Decatur Howe | Grain elevators |
| John Howell & Son | Engineers of main drainage system in Hastings, East Sussex |
| Hu Jintao | General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of the People's Republic of China |
| George Humphreys | British civil engineer |
| 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 |

## I

| Name | Notability |
| Imhotep | Pharaonic engineer who built the first Egyptian pyramid, the Step Pyrmanid of Djoser |
| Charles Inglis | British engineer and academic |
| James Charles Inglis | British engineer |
| Laura Irasuegi Otal | Soviet trained Spanish engineer, Niños de Rusia (Children of Russia) |

## J

| Name | Notability |
| William Jackson | Boston city engineer |
| Elin Jacobsson | Civil and architectural engineer |
| George Robert Jebb | Railway and canal engineer |
| John Holmes Jellett | Docks and harbours |
| John B. Jervis | Canals and railroads |
| Josias Jessop | Engineer; son of William Jessop |
| William Jessop | Canals |
| Harry Edward Jones | British gasworks engineer |
| Paul Jowitt | ICE President; sustainable engineering |
| Theodore Judah | Railroads |
| Edward Judge | Bridges |

## K

| Name | Notability |
| Vistasp Karbhari | Eighth president of the University of Texas at Arlington |
| William Keay | English civil engineer and architect |
| Alexander Kennedy | British maritime and electrical engineer and academic |
| Joanna Kennedy | English civil engineer and project manager |
| Oleg Kerensky | Russian engineer with Freeman Fox & Partners |
| Boris Kerner | Developer of three-phase traffic theory |
| Fazlur Rahman Khan | Bangladeshi structural engineer and skyscraper specialist |
| Zenas King | American engineer of the King Bridge Company |
| Ivica Kirin | Croatian politician with a degree in geotechnical engineering |
| Hermann Knoflacher | Austrian academic |
| Georg Knorr | Railway engineer |

## L

| Name | Notability |
| Charles Labelye | Swiss engineer of the Westminster Bridge |
| Kirby Laing | Former chairman of John Laing Group |
| George Thomas Landmann | Military engineer and designer of first elevated suburban passenger railway |
| Tulio Larrínaga | Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner |
| Rashid Latif | Former Pakistani cricket team wicketkeeper and captain |
| J. J. Leeming | British county surveyor and road engineer |
| Robert Legget | Canadian non-fiction writer |
| Thomas Leiper | Designer of a canal and railway |
| Cornelis Lely | Dutch civil engineer and statesman, realised the Zuiderzee works as designer and Minister of Transport and Water Management |
| Curtis LeMay | U.S. Air Force general and Vice-Presidential candidate |
| William LeMessurier | American structural engineer |
| David Lennox | Scottish mason and bridge engineer |
| Fritz Leonhardt | German structural engineer |
| Ferdinand de Lesseps | Engineer for the Suez Canal |
| Tung-Yen Lin | Bridges, the pioneer of pre-stressed concrete |
| Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds | Chief Engineer of the Suez Canal |
| Gustav Lindenthal | Czech bridge engineer |
| William Lindley | Water and sewerage works |
| Joseph Locke | Railways |
| Joseph Lstiburek | Canadian forensic engineer |
| Anthony George Lyster | British docks engineer |

## M

| Name | Notability |
| John MacAdam | Roads |
| Luke Livingston Macassey | Irish water engineer |
| Thomas Harris MacDonald | Highway engineer |
| Sir John Benjamin Macneill | Railways |
| William Mahone | Plank road, railways |
| Hélène Mallebrancke | Second World War Allied telecommunications networks, first female Belgian civil engineer to graduate from the University of Ghent |
| Robert Maillart | Swiss, concrete bridges |
| Charles Manby | Steamship navigation |
| Fred Mannering | Statistical analysis of highway safety data, Highway engineering |
| Robert Manning | Open channel flow |
| James Mansergh | English railway, water supply and sewage engineer |
| Javier Manterola | Spanish bridge engineer |
| Mao Yisheng | Chinese structural engineer; expert on bridge construction |
| William Marriott | English railway engineer |
| James Barney Marsh | American concrete bridge engineer |
| Timothy P. Marshall | Failure analysis, wind and impact engineering, meteorologist; co-developer of Enhanced Fujita Scale |
| William Matthews | British harbour engineer |
| Jorge Matute Remus | Mexican, known for moving a 1700-ton building in 1950 |
| Guy Maunsell | British, pre-stressed concrete in bridges, Maunsell Forts |
| William Maw | British railway engineer |
| Sir Henry Maybury | British railway and highways engineer |
| John Robinson McClean | British engineer, railways, water supply |
| Conde McCullough | Bridges |
| Scott McMorrow | Playwright, poet, and engineer |
| George Matthew McNaughton | British hydraulic engineer |
| Carl Friedrich Meerwein | German, aviation |
| Montgomery C. Meigs Jr. | Waterways (American; 1847–1931) |
| Charles Meik | Ports, railways, hydroelectric schemes |
| Patrick Meik | Ports, railways |
| Thomas Meik | Ports, railways |
| Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza | First woman in Mexico to earn a civil engineering degree |
| Christian Menn | Swiss, known for bridges, including the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, part of the Big Dig in Boston |
| John Miller | 19th-century Edinburgh-based railway engineer (Grainger & Miller) |
| Charles Joseph Minard | French civil engineer noted for his inventions in the field of information graphics |
| Ralph Modjeski | Polish-American bridge designer |
| Otto Mohr | Bridges, railways |
| Leon Moisseiff | American suspension bridge engineer |
| Guilford Lindsey Molesworth | English railway engineer |
| John Monash | Bridges and precast concrete; also Commander of the Australian Corps in World War I |
| Riccardo Morandi | Bridges |
| Ben Moreell | Four-star Admiral and father of the US Navy Seabees |
| Charles Langbridge Morgan | British civil engineer |
| James Morgan | Regent's Canal |
| Trudy Morgan | Sierra Leone engineer, first woman president of Sierra Leone Institution of Engineers |
| George S. Morison | American railway bridge engineer |
| Thomas William Moseley | American engineer |
| Basil Mott | Mines, tunnels, bridges |
| Reginald Mountain | British hydroelectric engineer |
| Sir Alan Muir Wood | British tunnelling engineer |
| Jean M. Muller | French bridge engineer |

## N

| Name | Notability |
| Gabriel Narutowicz | Polish engineer, hydroelectrician, a professor at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, the first president of the Second Polish Republic |
| Tiff Needell | British racing driver and television presenter |
| Pier Luigi Nervi | Italian architect and engineer; thin shell concrete |
| James Newlands | first Borough Engineer for Liverpool Corporation, the first in the United Kingdom |
| Olaf Nordhagen | Norwegian engineer, designed the Bergen Public Library in Jugendstil |
| Émile Nouguier | Co-designer of the Eiffel Tower |

## O

| Name | Notability |
| Thomas Oakes | Chief Engineer of the Schuylkill Canal |
| Charles Yelverton O'Connor | Fremantle Harbour and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, Western Australia |
| Tinius Olsen | Norwegian American engineer and inventor, founder of the Tinius Olsen Engineering Testing Machine Company |
| Rowland Mason Ordish | Designer of the St Pancras railway station arch roof |
| Ou Chin-der | Taiwanese railway engineer and public official |
| Benjamin Outram | Canals |

## P

| Name | Notability |
| William N. Page | Railways, mining |
| Alberto Palacio | Spanish architect and engineer |
| Frederick Palmer | Dockyards |
| F.W.J. Palmer | British civil engineer, structural engineer, surveyor and architect |
| William Barclay Parsons | |
| Alastair Craig Paterson | Mechanical engineer, later President of IStructE and ICE |
| Evgeny Paton | Ukrainian welding engineer |
| Sir Angus Paton | British dam engineer |
| Ralph Brazelton Peck | Civil and geotechnical engineer |
| Manuel Pellegrini | Manager of Manchester City Football Club |
| Thomas Penson | Scottish engineer and surveyor |
| Florentino Pérez | President of Grupo ACS, president of Real Madrid CF |
| Jean-Rodolphe Perronet | French architect and engineer |
| Samuel Morton Peto | Railways, harbours |
| Henry Petroski | Failure analysis |
| George F. Pinder | American environmental and civil engineer, and mathematician |
| Rafael del Pino | President of Ferrovial, billionaire |
| Henry Pleasants | Civil War general |
| James Madison Porter III | Engineer of the Northampton Street Bridge |
| William Henry Preece | Telegraphic engineer |
| Lavr Proskuryakov | Russian bridge engineer |

## Q

| Name | Notability | References |
| Allan Quartermaine | British civil engineer | |
| Valentina Quiroga | Former Undersecretary of Education, Chilean civil engineer | |

## R

| Name | Notability |
| Thomas Webster Rammell | Inventor, promoter and constructor of the pneumatic system of railway propulsion |
| Fidel V. Ramos | Former President of the Philippines, civil engineer |
| William John Macquorn Rankine | Physicist; civil engineering professor; developed structural engineering and lateral earth pressure theories |
| Kanuri Lakshmana Rao | Water resource engineer, architect of Nagarajuna Sagar Dam, India |
| Latif Rashid | Iraqi Minister of Water Resources |
| Robert Rawlinson | English canal engineer and sanitarian |
| Mike Reader | English civil engineer and MP |
| Richard Redmayne | British mining and civil engineer |
| Donald Reeve | British hydraulic engineer |
| Markus Reiner | Studied deformation, strain and flow, coined "rheology" |
| James Meadows Rendel | Bridges, harbours |
| John Rennie the Elder | Canals, bridges, docks |
| John Rennie the Younger | Railways and bridges, son of John Rennie the Elder |
| Louis-Jean Résal | French bridge engineer |
| Osborne Reynolds | Fluid dynamics theories; worked as a practising engineer |
| Peter Rice | Structural engineer |
| Pierre-Paul Riquet | Engineer of the Canal du Midi |
| Benjamin S. Roberts | Railways, United States and Russia |
| David Gwilym Morris Roberts | British civil engineer |
| Donald Van Norman Roberts | Civil and geotechnical engineer, advocate and pioneer in sustainable developments in engineering |
| Leslie E. Robertson | Structural engineer |
| Vernon Robertson | British civil engineer |
| John August Roebling | Brooklyn Bridge, Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge |
| Washington Roebling | Brooklyn Bridge, son of John August Roebling |
| Richard Birdsall Rogers | Designer of the Peterborough Lift Lock, Ontario, Canada |
| Alexander Ross | Scottish railway engineer |
| Norman Rowntree | British water engineer |
| Toni Rüttimann | Swiss bridge builder |
| Oleksandr Ivanovych Rzhepishevsky | Ukrainian civil engineer and architect, author of over 20 buildings in Kharkiv |

## S

| Name | Notability |
| Herbert Saffir | Co-developer of Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale |
| Anghel Saligny | Designer of the Anghel Saligny Bridge |
| Araceli Sánchez Urquijo | first Spanish female civil engineer and Niños de Rusia (Children of Russia) |
| John L. Savage | Dams, canals and hydroelectricity power plants |
| Leopold Halliday Savile | British reservoir engineer |
| Jörg Schlaich | German structural engineer |
| Charles Conrad Schneider | American engineer |
| Marc Seguin | Railways, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge |
| Kanwar Sen | Indian canal engineer |
| Francisco J. Serrano | Mexican civil engineer and professor |
| Edward S. Shaw | American civil engineer in New England |
| Frank H. Shaw | American engineer from Pennsylvania |
| Shen Kuo | Irrigation canal system |
| Hubert Shirley-Smith | Bridges |
| Douglas Harlow Shoemaker | American railway engineer |
| Vladimir Shukhov | Russian pioneer of hyperboloid structures, shell structures and pipelines |
| James Simpson | Hydraulic engineer |
| Ole Singstad | Holland Tunnel tunnel ventilation system |
| Sir Alec Skempton | A founding father of soil mechanics |
| Otto Skorzeny | SS commando |
| Carlos Slim | Mexican tycoon, owner of Grupo Carso and Telmex |
| John Smeaton | Canals, bridges, Eddystone Lighthouse |
| William Smith | Canals, water engineer and publisher of first geological map |
| José Sócrates | Former Prime Minister of Portugal |
| 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. |
| George F. Sowers | Geotechnical engineer |
| E. Sreedharan | Indian civil engineer, CMD of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and Chief of Konkan Railway Project |
| Olaf Stang | Norwegian suspension bridge engineer |
| Thomas Steers | Early 18th-century British canal engineer |
| David B. Steinman | American structural engineer |
| George Stephenson | Railways |
| George Robert Stephenson | British railway engineer |
| Henry Palfrey Stephenson | British bridge, railway and gas lighting engineer |
| Robert Stephenson | Railways |
| John Frank Stevens | Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal |
| Alan Stevenson | lighthouses |
| David Stevenson | Lighthouses |
| Robert Stevenson | Lighthouses |
| Thomas Stevenson | Lighthouses |
| Simon Stevin | Flemish public works engineer |
| Joseph Strauss | Structural engineer, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco |
| Emil Strub | Swiss railway engineer |
| Sukarno | Former President of Indonesia |

## T

| Name | Notability |
| Ratan Tata | Chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata Group |
| Thomas Telford | Canals, roads and bridges |
| Karl von Terzaghi | Soil mechanics |
| Tidjane Thiam | Chief Financial Officer of Prudential plc, civil engineering graduate of l'École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris |
| Mat Roy Thompson | American landscape and defense engineer, overseer of construction at Scotty's Castle |
| John Edward Thornycroft | British ship builder and president of the Institution of Civil Engineers |
| Stephen Timoshenko | Engineering mechanics |
| Pierre Emanuel Tirard | 19th-century Prime Minister of France |
| Fritz Todt | Reichsminister for Armaments and Munitions during World War II |
| Eduardo Torroja | Spanish concrete-shell engineer |
| Joseph Treffry | Harbour and bridge engineer |
| Ernest Crosbie Trench | British railway engineer |
| James Trubshaw | British architect and engineer |
| Alexis Tsipras | Prime Minister of Greece |
| George Turnbull | British railway engineer, Chief engineer 1850s 600 miles Indian railways |
| C.A.P. Turner | American structural engineer |

## U

| Name | Notability |
| Kim Ung-yong | Korean former child prodigy, specialized in hydraulics |
| Raymond Unwin | British urban planner |
| William Unwin | President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers |

## V

| Name | Notability |
| Jean Venables | Flooding engineer; first woman President of ICE |
| Charles Blacker Vignoles | British railway engineer |
| Michel Virlogeux | French; second Tagus crossing and Millau viaduct |
| Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya | "Father of Indian civil engineering"; dams in India, many projects in Mysore state |
| Jean-Baptiste de Voglie | Italian road and bridge engineer |
| Alan Voorhees | American transport engineer and urban planner |

## W

| Name | Notability |
| John Waddell | Scottish railway engineer |
| John Alexander Low Waddell | American bridge designer |
| James Walker | Scottish coastal engineer |
| Ralph Walker | Scottish-born harbour engineer |
| William Kelly Wallace | Irish railway engineer |
| Kaichi Watanabe | Japanese bridge engineer |
| Juan Carlos Wasmosy | President of Paraguay |
| André Waterkeyn | Designed the Atomium |
| John Duncan Watson | British sewage treatment engineer |
| David Mowat Watson | British civil engineer |
| Ray Wedgwood | Australian civil engineer and bridge designer |
| Francis Wentworth-Shields | British civil engineer |
| William Weston | British bridge engineer |
| Thomas Johnson Westropp | Irish harbour engineer and antiquarian |
| William Henry Wheeler | English harbour engineer and antiquarian |
| Squire Whipple | American civil engineer |
| Frederick Arthur Whitaker | British Admiralty engineer |
| Canvass White | American canal engineer |
| William Henry White | British engineer and chief constructor of the Admiralty |
| John Richardson Wigham | Irish lighthouse engineer |
| Clement Wilks | Australian road and bridge engineer |
| William Willcocks | British irrigation engineer; served in India and Egypt |
| Edward Leader Williams | Canals, bridges |
| George Ambler Wilson | British port engineer |
| J. W. Wilson | British designer of piers; founded Crystal Palace School of Engineering |
| Norman D. Wilson | Mass transit |
| Frank E. Winsor | Chief engineer for Quabbin Reservoir project |
| John Wolfe-Barry | English civil engineer, constructor of London's Tower Bridge |
| A. Baldwin Wood | Pumps |
| Edward Woods | British railway engineer |
| William Barton Worthington | British railway engineer |
| Robert Wynne-Edwards | British tunnel and pipeline engineer |

## X

| Name | Notability | References |
| Ximen Bao | Ancient Chinese canal engineer | |

## Y

| Name | Notability |
| 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. |
| Andrew Yarranton | English navigation engineer |
| Boris Yeltsin | Former President of Russia |
| Thomas Yeoman | First President of Society of Civil Engineers |
| T. Leslie Youd | Geotechnical engineer, liquefaction research |

## Z

| Name | Notability |
| Olgierd Zienkiewicz | Academic, noted author and pioneer of finite element analysis |
| William V. Zinn | Responsible for the Merrion Centre, Leeds, and author of works of Buddhist philosophy |
| Konrad Zuse | Early pioneer in computers |