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A civil engineer (in English usage) is a person who practices civil engineering, one of the many professions of engineering. Originally a civil engineer worked on public works projects and was contrasted with the military engineer, who worked on armaments and defenses. Over time, various branches...
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Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (December 15, 1832 – December 27, 1923; French pronunciation: [efɛl], English: /ˈaɪfəl/), was a French structural engineer and entrepreneur and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower...
Date of birth:
- Dec 15, 1832
Date of death:
- Dec 27, 1923 (age 91 years)
George Stephenson
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives, and he is renowned as being the "Father of Railways". The...
Date of birth:
- Jun 9, 1781
Date of death:
- Aug 12, 1848 (age 67 years)
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933). Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren...
Date of birth:
- Aug 10, 1874
Date of death:
- Oct 20, 1964 (age 90 years)
Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse (pronounced [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 Berlin - 18 December 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1910
Date of death:
- Dec 18, 1995 (age 85 years)
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1452
Date of death:
- May 2, 1519 (age 67 years)
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (with numerous variations; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʾAwaḍ bin Lādin) (born 10 March 1957) is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founding leader of al...
Date of birth:
- Mar 10, 1957 (age 52 years)
Yasser Arafat
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, 24 August 1929–11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat (ياسر عرفات) or by his kunya Abu Ammar (أبو عمار), was a Palestinian...
Date of birth:
- Aug 24, 1929
Date of death:
- Nov 11, 2004 (age 75 years)
Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 - 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.
Telford was born in Glendinning, in the parish of Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. His father,...
Date of birth:
- Aug 9, 1757
Date of death:
- Sep 2, 1834 (age 77 years)
Othmar Ammann
Othmar Hermann Ammann (March 26, 1879 – September 22, 1965) was a Swiss-born American structural engineer whose designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. A residential building is named after him on...
Date of birth:
- Mar 26, 1879
Date of death:
- Sep 22, 1965 (age 86 years)
Fulgence Bienvenüe
Fulgence Bienvenüe (27 January 1852 – 3 August 1936) was a French civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro.
A native of Uzel in Brittany, he graduated as a civil engineer in 1872. His first assignment was the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 27, 1852
Date of death:
- Aug 3, 1936 (age 84 years)
Abida
Dr. Joseph Philip Colaco, USA, is a well known American structural engineer and author. Dr. Colaco, known as Joe, is noted for his contributions to the supertall skyscrapers in the United States and in Middle East. He received his PhD. in civil...
Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin (1548/49 – 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. He also translated various mathematical terms into Dutch, making it one of the...
Date of birth:
- 1548
Date of death:
- 1620 (age 72 years)
Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS (25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-born engineer who settled in the United Kingdom. He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1769
Date of death:
- Dec 12, 1849 (age 80 years)
William Barclay Parsons
William Barclay Parsons (April 15, 1859 - May 9, 1932) was an American civil engineer. He founded the firm that became Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the largest American civil engineering firms.
Parsons received a bachelor's degree from Columbia...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1859
Date of death:
- May 9, 1932 (age 73 years)
Samuel Morton Peto
Sir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet (4 August 1809 – 13 November 1889) was an English entrepreneur in the 19th century. Initially he constructed prestigious buildings in London before becoming one of the major contractors for the growing railways of...
Date of birth:
- Aug 4, 1809
Date of death:
- Nov 13, 1889 (age 80 years)
Benjamin Baker
Sir Benjamin Baker KCB KCMG FRS (31 March 1840 – 19 May 1907) was an eminent British civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era. He helped develop the early underground railways in London with Sir John Fowler, but he is best known for...
Date of birth:
- Mar 31, 1840
Date of death:
- May 19, 1907 (age 67 years)
Thomas Bouch
Sir Thomas Bouch (pronounced /ˈbaʊtʃ/) (25 February 1822 – 30 October 1880) was a British railway engineer in Victorian Britain.
He was born in Thursby, Cumberland, England and lived in Edinburgh. He helped develop the caisson and the roll-on/roll...
Date of birth:
- Feb 25, 1822
Date of death:
- Oct 30, 1880 (age 58 years)
David Stevenson
David Stevenson (1815–1886) was a lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, and helped found a great dynasty of lighthouse engineering.
The son of engineer Robert Stevenson, and brother of the lighthouse...
Date of birth:
- 1815
Date of death:
- 1886 (age 71 years)
John Rennie
John Rennie (7 June 1761 - 4 October 1821) was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, and docks.
Rennie, a farmer's younger son, was born at Phantassie, near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland, and showed a taste for mechanics...
Date of birth:
- Jun 7, 1761
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1821 (age 60 years)
John Smeaton
John Smeaton, FRS, (8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792) was an English civil engineer – often regarded as the "father of civil engineering" – responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a more than capable...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1724
Date of death:
- Oct 28, 1792 (age 68 years)
John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling, June 12, 1806 in Mühlhausen - July 22, 1869) was a German-born civil engineer famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Roebling was the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 12, 1806
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1869 (age 63 years)
Leffert L. Buck
Leffert L. Buck (1837-1909) was an American civil engineer and a pioneer in the use of steel arch bridge structures. Leffert graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 1868. Some of his projects include:
Before earning his civil...
Date of birth:
- 1837
Date of death:
- Jul 17, 1909 (age 72 years)
Süleyman Demirel
Sami Süleyman Gündoğdu Demirel, better known as Süleyman Demirel (born 1 November 1924), is a Turkish politician who served as prime minister seven times and was the 9th President of Turkey. When he won the 1965 general elections in Turkey, he...
Date of birth:
- Nov 1, 1924 (age 85 years)
John Loudon McAdam
John Loudon McAdam (September 21, 1756 – November 26, 1836) was a Scottish engineer and road-builder. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface that would be more durable and less muddy than soil...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1756
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1836 (age 80 years)
Sextus Julius Frontinus
Sextus Julius Frontinus (ca. 40-103 AD) was one of the most distinguished Roman aristocrats of the late first century AD, but is best known to the post-Classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially one dealing with the aqueducts of...
Date of birth:
- 40 C.E.
Date of death:
- 103 C.E. (age 63 years)
Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover PC (8 November 1802 – 27 April 1867), known as Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt, between 1838 and 1859, was a British civil engineer and politician.
Hall was the son of an industrialist Benjamin Hall.
He was elected Member of...
Date of birth:
- Nov 8, 1802
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1867 (age 64 years)
Fritz Todt
Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash during World War II.
Todt was born in Pforzheim, to a father who owned a small factory. He...
Date of birth:
- Sep 4, 1891
Date of death:
- Feb 8, 1942 (age 50 years)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (14 June 1736 – 23 August 1806) was a French physicist. He is best known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. The SI unit of charge, the coulomb, was named...
Date of birth:
- Jun 14, 1736
Date of death:
- Aug 23, 1806 (age 70 years)
Jules Dupuit
Jules Dupuit (18 May 1804 – 5 September 1866) was a French civil engineer and economist.
He was born in Fossano, Italy then under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. At the age of ten he emigrated to France with his family where he studied in Versailles...
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1804
Date of death:
- Sep 5, 1866 (age 62 years)
José Echegaray
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19, 1832 Madrid, Spain—September 14, 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and the one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century.
Along with the Provençal...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1832
Date of death:
- Sep 14, 1916 (age 84 years)
George Grove
Sir George Grove (13 August 1820 – 28 May 1900) was an English writer on music, immortalised in the title of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
He was born in Clapham, and studied to be a civil engineer, working for two years in a factory...
Date of birth:
- Aug 13, 1820
Date of death:
- May 28, 1900 (age 79 years)
Robert Stephenson
For the light house engineer see Robert Stevenson
Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 16, 1803
Date of death:
- Oct 12, 1859 (age 56 years)
William John Macquorn Rankine
William John Macquorn Rankine FRS (5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish engineer and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (1st Baron Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics. Rankine developed...
Date of birth:
- Jul 5, 1820
Date of death:
- Dec 24, 1872 (age 52 years)
George Washington Goethals
George Washington Goethals [gō-thülz] (June 29, 1858 - January 21, 1928) was a United States Army officer and civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and the opening of the Panama Canal. The Goethals Bridge between Staten...
Date of birth:
- Jun 29, 1858
Date of death:
- Jan 21, 1928 (age 69 years)
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (born June 24, 1942) is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He is currently Senator for Los Ríos and was President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He is...
Date of birth:
- Jun 24, 1942 (age 67 years)
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (February 14, 1859 - November 22, 1896) was an American inventor. He invented the Ferris wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in an attempt to create something as impressive as the Eiffel Tower...
Date of birth:
- Feb 14, 1859
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1896 (age 37 years)
Joseph Bazalgette
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB (28 March 1819 – 15 March 1891) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation in response to "The Great Stink" of...
Date of birth:
- Mar 28, 1819
Date of death:
- Mar 15, 1891 (age 72 years)
James Henry Greathead
James Henry Greathead (6 August 1844 - 21 October 1896) was an engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway.
Greathead was born in Grahamstown, South Africa; of English descent, Greathead's grandfather had emigrated to South...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1844
Date of death:
- Oct 21, 1896 (age 52 years)
Charles Meik
Charles Meik (born? - 1923) was an English engineer and part of a minor engineering dynasty. His father Thomas Meik was also an engineer, as was Charles' brother Patrick Meik; collectively, they established a company which is now one of the UK's...
Date of death:
- 1923
Patrick Meik
Patrick Meik (born? - died 1910) was an English engineer and part of a minor engineering dynasty. His father Thomas Meik was also an engineer, as was Patrick's brother Charles Meik.
Both boys were born in Crowtree Road, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland....
Date of death:
- 1910
Thomas Meik
Thomas Meik (January 20, 1812(1812-01-20) - April 22, 1896) was a British engineer, born in Duddingston, Midlothian. He was particularly associated with ports and railways in Scotland and northern England, and fathered two prominent engineering sons...
Date of birth:
- Jan 20, 1812
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1896 (age 84 years)
George Buchanan
Sir George Cunningham Buchanan (20 April 1865 – 14 April 1940) was a British civil engineer particularly associated with harbour works in Burma, Iraq and Bombay, during the early years of the 20th century.
Buchanan first came to prominence in 1905...
Date of birth:
- Apr 20, 1865
Date of death:
- Apr 14, 1940 (age 75 years)
Peter W. Barlow
Peter William Barlow (1 February 1809 – 19 May 1885) was an English civil engineer, born at Woolwich, particularly associated with bridges (he designed the first Lambeth Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London), the design of tunnels and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1809
Date of death:
- May 19, 1885 (age 76 years)
James Mansergh
James Mansergh (1824 – 1905) was an English civil engineer.
Mansergh was born in Lancaster. He started his career in railway work and then designed many sewage schemes and fresh water schemes.
His most famous projects were:
He was the President of...
Date of birth:
- 1824
Date of death:
- 1905 (age 81 years)
Anton Mussert
Anton Adriaan Mussert (May 11, 1894 in Werkendam – May 7, 1946 in The Hague) was one of the founders of the National Socialist Movement (NSB) in the Netherlands and its de jure leader. As such he was the most prominent national socialist in the...
Date of birth:
- May 11, 1894
Date of death:
- May 7, 1946 (age 52 years)
Joseph Locke
Joseph Locke (9 August 1805 - 18 September 1860) was a notable English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway projects. Locke ranked alongside Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel as one of the major...
Date of birth:
- Aug 9, 1805
Date of death:
- Sep 18, 1860 (age 55 years)
William Tierney Clark
William Tierney Clark (23 August 1783 – 22 September 1852) was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges.
Born in Bristol, he was...
Date of birth:
- Aug 23, 1783
Date of death:
- Sep 22, 1852 (age 69 years)
John Wolfe-Barry
Sir John Wolfe-Barry (7 December 1836 – 22 January 1918) was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century. His most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London.
Wolfe-Barry, the youngest...
Date of birth:
- Dec 7, 1836
Date of death:
- Jan 22, 1918 (age 81 years)
Ithiel Town
Ithiel Town (October 3, 1784 – June 13, 1844) was a prominent American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional architects in the United States, Town made significant contributions to American architecture in the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 3, 1784
Date of death:
- Jun 13, 1844 (age 59 years)
Thomas Hawksley
Thomas Hawksley (12 July 1807(1807-07-12) – 15 September 1893) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with water engineering projects.
The son of John Hawksley and Mary Whittle, and born in Arnold, near Nottingham...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1807
Date of death:
- Sep 15, 1893 (age 86 years)
William Henry Barlow
William Henry Barlow (1812–1902) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects.
Born in Charlton in south-east London, the son of an engineer and mathematician (Professor Peter Barlow,...
Date of birth:
- 1812
Date of death:
- 1902 (age 90 years)
William Halcrow
Sir William Halcrow (July 1883 - 1958) was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the 20th century, particularly renowned for his expertise in the design of tunnels and for projects during the Second World War.
Halcrow was born in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1883
Date of death:
- 1958 (age 74 years)
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson (8 June 1772–12 July 1850) was a Scottish civil engineer and famed designer and builder of lighthouses.
Stevenson was born in Glasgow; his father was Alan Stevenson, a partner in a West India trading house in the city. He died of an...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1772
Date of death:
- Jul 12, 1850 (age 78 years)
Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928), also known as FVR, was the 12th President of the Philippines. He succeeded Corazon Aquino and governed until 1998, when he was succeeded by Joseph Estrada. He was the first, and to date the only, non-Roman...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1928 (age 81 years)
T. Y. Lin
Tung-Yen Lin (林同炎, pinyin: Lín Tóngyán) (November 14, 1912 – November 15, 2003) was a structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete.
Born in Fuzhou, China as the fourth of eleven children, he was raised in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1912
Date of death:
- Nov 15, 2003 (age 91 years)
John C. Walton
John Calloway “Jack” Walton (March 6, 1881 – November 25, 1949) was an American politician and the fifth Governor of Oklahoma. Walton would serve the shortest term of any Governor of Oklahoma, being the first Governor in the state’s history to be...
Date of birth:
- Mar 6, 1881
Date of death:
- Nov 25, 1949 (age 68 years)
David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey
(George William) David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey (born 9 July 1942, Basingstoke) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. A former Member of Parliament (MP), he now sits in the House of Lords.
He went to Brune Park County High School ...
Date of birth:
- Jul 9, 1942 (age 67 years)
William Mulholland
William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was the head of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles in Southern California, United States. He was responsible for building the water aqueducts that allowed the city to grow...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1855
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1935 (age 79 years)
C. D. Howe
Clarence Decatur "C. D." Howe, PC (15 January 1886 – 31 December 1960) was a leading Canadian politician. In the 1940s and 1950s, he was known as the "Minister of Everything."
Howe was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. By his own words,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 15, 1886
Date of death:
- Dec 31, 1960 (age 75 years)
