- Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. The illegitimate son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, … - Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban, commonly referred to as Vauban, was a Marshal of France and the foremost military engineer of his age, famed for his skill in both designing fortifications and in breaking through them. He also advised Louis XIV on how to consolidate France's borders, to make them more defensible. - Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant (2 August 1754, Paris, France - 14 June 1825, Prince George's County, Maryland) was a French-born American architect and urban planner. L'Enfant designed the first street plan for the Federal City in the United States, now known as Washington, D.C. - Menno van Coehoorn
Menno, baron van Coehoorn (1641 - March 17, 1704), Dutch soldier and military engineer, of Swedish extraction. He made a number of weaponry innovations in siege warfare and fortification techniques. He was born at Leeuwarden in Friesland. He received an excellent military and general education, and at the age of sixteen became a captain in the Dutch army. In Anglo-Dutch Wars he took part in the defence of Maastricht in 1673 and in the siege of Grave in 1674, … - Marc René marquis de Montalembert
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert was a French military engineer and writer, known for his work on fortifications. - Lazare Carnot
Comte Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot (May 13, 1753-August 2, 1823), the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars was a French politician, engineer, and mathematician. - Bernard de Gomme
Sir Bernard de Gomme was a military engineer. - Henri Alexis Brialmont
Henri Alexis Brialmont (May 25, 1821 - June 21, 1903) was a Belgian military engineer. He was one of the leading fortifications engineers in the 19th century. He was son of General Laurent Mathieu Brialmont (d. 1885) and was born in Venlo, Limburg. Brialmont was educated at the Brussels military school, he entered the army as sub-lieutenant of engineers in 1843, and became lieutenant in 1847. From 1847 to 1850 he was private secretary to the war minister, … - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot was a French physicist and military engineer who gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics. Technically, he is the world's first thermodynamicist, being responsible for such concepts as Carnot efficiency, Carnot theorem, Carnot heat engine, and others. - Abram Petrovich Gannibal
Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal, (1696 - 14 May 1781) was an African slave who was brought to Russia by Peter the Great and became major-general, military engineer and governor of Reval. He is perhaps best known today as the great-grandfather of Aleksandr Pushkin, who wrote an unfinished novel about him, "The Moor of Peter the Great". - Kazimierz Siemienowicz
Kazimierz Siemienowicz was a Polish-Lithuanian szlachcic, he referred himself as Lithuanian nobleman, from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, then part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, General of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, artillery specialist and pioneer of rocketry. His coat of arms was Ostoja. No portrait or detailed biography of him have survived. - Giuliano da Sangallo
Giuliano da Sangallo (c.1443 - 1516) was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance. - César Cui
César Antonovich Cui (January 6, 1835 (Old Style)-March 13, 1918) was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a member of The Five, … - John Montresor
John Montresor (22 April 1736 - 26 June 1799) was a British military engineer in North America. - Diades Of Pella
Diades of Pella, Greek inventor of many siege engines. He lived in 4th century BC. Diades accompanied Alexander the Great in his warfare on East. He constructed (or improved) movable towers, battering rams, scaling engines used to scale walls and battering crane used for the destruction of city walls. - Lennart Torstenson
Count Lennart Torstenson (August 17, 1603 - April 7, 1651) was a Swedish soldier and military engineer. - Zhuge Liang
Zhuge Liang was one of the greatest Chinese strategists of the Three Kingdoms period, as well as a statesman, engineer, scholar, and inventor. Zhuge is an uncommon two-character compound family name. His name (or even just his surname) has become synonymous with intelligence and tactics in Chinese culture. - Percy Hobart
Major-General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart (14 June 1885-19 February 1957), also known as "Hobo", was a British military engineer, noted for his command of the 79th Armoured Division during World War II. He was responsible for many of the specialised armoured vehicles ('Hobart's Funnies') that took part in the invasion of Normandy and later actions. - Jean-Charles de Borda
Jean-Charles Chevalier de Borda, was a French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor. Born in the city of Dax, in 1756 Borda wrote "Mémoire sur le mouvement des projectiles", a product of his work as a military engineer. For that, he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1764. Borda was a mariner and a scientist, spending time in the Caribbean testing out advances in chronometers. - Charles Warren
General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS (7 February 1840-21 January 1927) was an officer in the British Royal Engineers, and in later life was Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, the head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1886 to 1888, during the period of the Jack the Ripper murders. - Eduard Totleben
Eduard Ivanovich Totleben (or Todleben) (May 20, 1818 - July 1, 1884) was a famous Russian military engineer and general. He was in charge of fortification and sapper works of a number of important Russian military campaigns. - Ivan Vyrodkov
Ivan Grigoryevich Vyrodkov was a Russian military engineer, inventor, and diak. Ivan Vyrodkov's name was first mentioned in 1538. It is known that he participated in Ivan the Terrible's military campaigns against Kazan, during the Russo-Kazan Wars. In 1551, Ivan Vyrodkov was in charge of the construction of Sviyazhsk - a wooden fortress near Kazan that he would build in 28 days. This would serve as a strong point for the capture of the city by the Muscovite army. - John Rosworm
John Rosworm or Rosworme ("fl." 1630 - 1660) was a Dutch or German soldier and military engineer who served the Parliamentarian cause during the English Civil War. After serving throughout Europe, Rosworm settled in Manchester in 1642 where the town engaged him on a GBP30, six-month contract to lead their defence against the Royalist Lord Strange. Despite an approach from Strange to defect to the Royalists, … - Conrad Haas
Conrad Haas (1509-1576) was an Austrian military engineer who is believed to be the first person to describe a multistage rocket in writing. Haas was born in Dornbach (now part of Vienna). As the "Zeugwart" (equipment manager) and arsenal master of the Austrian army under emperor Ferdinand I, he went to Hermannstadt, Transylvania (now Sibiu, Romania) in 1551, where he oversaw operation of the arsenal. - Emilio Herrera Linares
Emilio Herrera Linares (Granada, 1879 - Geneve, 1967) was a Spanish military engineer. He graduated from the military academy of Guadalajara in 1902; he subsequently researched/studied aeronautics, including a brief period at the University of Santander. During the Spanish Civil War he remained loyal to the republican government. In 1937, he was promoted to general. He was a minister in several governments of the Republic in exile, and president between 1960 and 1962. - Charles George Gordon
Major-General Charles George Gordon, CB (28 January 1833 - 26 January 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his campaigns in China and northern Africa. - Girolamo Maggi
Girolamo Maggi (abt. 1523-March 27, 1572), or Hieronymus Magius was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who studied at Bologna under Francis Robortello. He authored several works, including a collection of poems on the Flemish wars, ("Cinque primi canti della guerra di Fiandra", 1551), … - Charles Pasley
Sir Charles William Pasley (1780-1861) was a British soldier and military engineer who wrote the defining text on the role of the post-American revolution British Empire: "An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire", published in 1810. This text changed how Britons thought their empire should relate to the rest of the world. He warned that Britain could not keep its Empire by its "splendid isolation". - James Gabriel Montresor
James Gabriel Montresor was a British military engineer. Montresor was born on Broad Street or St. James's, Westminster, 19 November 1704, the son of James Gabriel le Trésor and Nanon de Hauteville. His father, who belonged to a Huguenot refugee family, joined the British service and was naturalized, taking the name of Montresor. He would become Lieutenant Governor of Fort William where he died 22 January 1723/4. - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval
Lieutenant General Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (15 September, 1715 - 9 May, 1789) was a French artillery officer and engineer who introduced various technical improvements to French cannon, providing them with a range advantage during the early years of the Napoleonic wars at a cost of weight. Jean-Baptiste was born in Amiens, the son of a magistrate. He entered the French royal artillery in 1732 as a volunteer, and became an officer in 1735. - Philo Of Byzantium
Philo of Byzantium, a Greek writer on mechanics, (born about 280 BCE) flourished during the latter half of the 2nd century B.C. He was probably younger than Ctesibius, though some place him a century earlier. - Charles François de Mondion
Charles Francois de Mondion (1681-1733) was a French military engineer who first arrived in Malta in 1715 during the principate of Grand Master Ramon Perellos y Roccaful of the Knights of Malta. His early work was as deputy to the Military Engineer Rene Jacob de Tigne. Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena’s accession in June 1722 created a significant opportunity for Mondion, as the new Prince of Malta decided to unleash an ambitious building programme. - Mozi
Mozi (Lat. as Micius, ca. 470 BCE-ca. 390 BCE), was a philosopher who lived in China during the Hundred Schools of Thought period (early Warring States Period). He founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism and Taoism. During the Warring States Period, Mohism was actively developed and practiced in many states, but fell out of favour when the legalist Qin Dynasty came to power. - Pavel Yablochkov
Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov ( was a Russian electrical engineer, the inventor of the Yablochkov candle (a type of electric carbon arc lamp) and businessman. In 1866, he graduated from Nikolayevsky Engineering Institute as a military engineer, and then in 1869, from Technical Galvanic School in Petersburg. After serving in the army, Yablochkov retired to Moscow in 1873, where he was appointed Head of Telegraph Office at the Moscow-Kursk railroad. - Konrad Kyeser
Konrad Kyeser war a military engineer, author of "Bellifortis" (ca. 1405), a book on siege engines popular throughout the 15th century. Originally conceived for king Wenceslaus, Konrad dedicated the finished work to Rupert of Germany. Kyeser, a native of Eichstätt, was trained as a physician and lived at the court in Padua before he joined the crusade against the Turks which ended in disaster at the Battle of Nicopolis of 1396. - Engineer Officer Basic Course
The U.S. Army Engineer School, or Engineer Officer Basic Course (EOBC), or Engineer Basic Officer Leader Course (Engineer BOLC) is located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and is approximately fourteen weeks long. Once an Army Officer has been Commissioned and selected for the Engineer Branch, he or she is sent to Engineer School to learn military construction, combat engineering, and topography. The EOBC is comprised of almost all Second Lieutenants. - Enrique Mosconi
Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi was an Argentine military engineer, who is best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum surveyance and exploitation in Argentina. Mosconi was born in Buenos Aires to Enrico Mosconi, an Italian engineer hired to build railroads, and María Juana Canavery, an Argentinian of Irish ascent. The father wanted a medical doctor son; the mother, a military son, to follow the family tradition of Ángel Canavery, his uncle, … - Biagio Rossetti
Biagio Rossetti, (circa 1447 - 1516), was an Italian architect and urbanist from Ferrara. A military engineer since 1483, and the ducal architect of Ercole I d'Este, in 1492 Rossetti was assigned the project of enlarging the city of Ferrara. Rossetti is considered the first architect in the history of urbanistics to make use of the advantages of the modern methods: balancing the humanistic principles in architecture, the real needs of the city, and local traditions. - Teodor Narbutt
Teodor Narbutt was a Polish-Lithuanian writer, Romanticist historian and military engineer. He is notable as one of the first authors of a consice history of Lithuania from early Middle Ages to the times of the Union of Lublin. Although his works are of little historical value, mostly due to forging sources and documents he used, his works were a milestone in formation of modern Lithuanian national identity in 19th century. - Erik Dahlberg
Count Erik Jönsson Dahlbergh (usually cited as Erik Dahlberg was a Swedish engineer, soldier, and field marshall, called the "Vauban of Sweden".
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