- Thomas Telford
Thomas Telford (August 9, 1757 - September 2, 1834) was born in Westerkirk, Scotland. He was a stonemason, architect and civil engineer and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. - 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, … - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(born October 28, 1956) is the 6th and current president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He became president on 6 August 2005 after winning the 2005 presidential election. Ahmadinejad's current term will end in August, 2009, but he will be eligible to run for one more term in office in 2009 presidential elections. Before becoming president, he was the Mayor of Tehran. He is the highest directly elected official in the country, but, … - Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), was a British engineer. He is best known for the creation of the Great Western Railway, a series of famous steamships, and numerous important bridges. Though Brunel's projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems. - James Thomas
James Henry English Thomas was a civil engineer who was Director of Public Works in Western Australia from 1876 to 1884. Born in London, England on 2 March 1826, James Thomas was educated at University College School between 1835 and 1839, then attended University College. In 1879 he became a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and was then articled to Evans and Sons. For two years he was superintendent of gun machinery for the arsenal at Trubia, Spain. - John Smeaton
John Smeaton, <small>FRS</small>, (June 8, 1724 - October 28, 1792) was a 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 mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist. He was associated with the Lunar Society. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer. - Robert Stephenson
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 achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son. - George Stephenson
George Stephenson was an English mechanical engineer who designed the famous and historically important steam locomotive named "Rocket" and is known as the "Father of Railways". The Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements. His rail gauge of 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm), sometimes called "Stephenson gauge", is the world's standard gauge. - Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith was a Scottish businessman and early lighthouse engineer. Born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, his father drowned in Dundee harbour when he was young. His mother encouraged him into a career away from the sea, leading him into working in ironmongery. By his 30's, he was running his own business making lamps and designing street lighting for the burgeoning New Town, Edinburgh. - Kenneth Bigley
Kenneth John Bigley (1942 - October 7, 2004), was a civil engineer from Liverpool, England, who was kidnapped in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad, Iraq on September 16, 2004, along with Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, both U.S. citizens. The three men were civil engineers working for Gulf Supplies and Commercial Services, a company working on reconstruction projects in Iraq. - John Rennie
John Rennie (7 June 1761 at "Phantassie", near East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland - 4 October 1821), a farmer's younger son, was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, and docks. A tinkerer and model builder even as a child, he first worked as a millwright with noted mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle (inventor of the threshing machine). Rennie then attended the University of Edinburgh (1780-1783) and began work as an engineer, … - John Rennie
Sir John Rennie (b. August 30, 1794 in England - d. September 3, 1874) was a son of engineer John Rennie and brother of George Rennie. Although he was the younger of John Rennie's sons, he was chosen to carry out his father's design for London Bridge between 1824 and 1831. He and his brother George were involved in the construction of George Stephenson's Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830. He became President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1845. - Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 - January 27 1596) was an English privateer, navigator, slave trader, politician and civil engineer of the Elizabethan era. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died of dysentery after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1596. His exploits were semi-legendary and made him a hero to the English but to the Spaniards he was equated with the devil. - Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas (27 December, 1779 - 21 February, 1858) was a civil engineer. He produced a survey of the navigation of the River Severn, he also created a geological map of the mining district of Cornwall in 1819 which went through several editions. In 1815, Thomas produced the first "Falmouth Guide" containing "a concise account of the history, trade, port and public establishments of Falmouth; directions to the public offices, lodging-houses, inns, taverns, etc. - John A. Roebling
John Augustus Roebling was a German-born civil engineer famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge. - Joseph Bazalgette
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (28 March 1819 - 15 March 1891) was one of the great English civil engineers of the Victorian era. As the chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works, his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London, which helped relieve the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning the clean-up of the River Thames, which had reached a nadir with "The Great Stink" of 1858. - James Walker
James Walker, FRS, (September 14, 1781-October 8, 1862) was an influential Scottish civil engineer of the first half of the 19th century. Walker was born in Falkirk and was apprenticed to his uncle Ralph Walker in approximately 1800, with whom he gained experience working on the design and construction of the West India and East India Docks in London. Also in London, he worked on the Surrey Commercial Docks from about 1810 onwards, … - Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French structural engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887-1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France, and the armature for the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, USA. - John Jackson
Sir John Jackson (4 February 1851 - 14 December 1919) was a Unionist Member of Parliament for Devonport, from 1910-8. Trained as a civil engineer, Jackson was contracted for many major projects including canals and harbours in England, and the foundations for Tower Bridge. Overseas he worked in South Africa, Singapore, Bolivia and the Hindiya Barrage across the Euphrates River 1914. - Robert Jones
Robert Brannock Jones (26 September 1950 - 16 April 2007) was a British Conservative politician. He was MP for West Hertfordshire for its 14-year existence, from its creation in 1983 until it was abolished in 1997. He served as a junior minister in the Department of the Environment from 1994 to 1997. Jones was born in Bedford. His father was a civil engineer. He was educated at St Martin's School in Northwood and the Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood. - 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 epidemic fever on the island of St. Christopher when Stevenson was an infant; at much the same time, Stevenson's uncle died of the same disease, leaving his widow, Jane Lillie, in straightened financial circumstances. - Thomas Brown
Thomas Brown was an English surveyor, civil engineer, businessman and landowner. Born at Disley in Cheshire, he had interests in coal-mining, particularly in the Haughton and Hyde areas of Greater Manchester, as well as lime burning and mineral extraction interests. He owned land at Disley, Manchester and Heaton Norris and he lived at Ardwick Green, Manchester. - William Jessop
William Jessop was a noted English civil engineer, particularly famed for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Jessop was born in Devonport, Devon in 1745, the son of a shipwright known to leading civil engineer John Smeaton through his work on the Eddystone Lighthouse. When his father died, William Jessop was taken on as a pupil by Smeaton (who also acted as Jessop’s guardian), … - Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski (born 1942) is an American civil engineering professor at Duke University where he specializes in failure analysis. He is a prolific author, having written a dozen books - most notably "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design" (1985) - including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, and silverware. - John Armstrong
John Armstrong (October 13, 1717 - March 9, 1795) was an American civil engineer and soldier who served as a major general in the Revolutionary War. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Pennsylvania. - William Mahone
William Mahone (December 1, 1826 - October 8, 1895), of Southampton County, Virginia, was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress. Small of stature, he was nicknamed "Little Billy". As a civil engineer, he helped build Virginia's roads and railroads in the antebellum and postbellum (Reconstruction) periods of the 19th century. - Benjamin Baker
Sir Benjamin Baker (March 31, 1840 - May 19, 1907), English engineer, was born near Bath in 1840, and, after receiving his early training in a South Wales ironworks, became associated with Sir John Fowler in London. He took part in the construction of the Metropolitan railway (London), and in designing the cylindrical vessel in which Cleopatra's Needle, now standing on the Thames Embankment, London, was brought over from Egypt to England in 1877-1878. - David Phillips
David Phillips, also called The Pudding Guy, is an American civil engineer best known for receiving a huge number of frequent flyer miles by taking advantage of a promotion by Healthy Choice Foods in 1999. Phillips, who teaches at the University of California, Davis, calculated while grocery shopping that a mail-in promotion for frequent flyer points exceeded the cost of the entree on which it is offered. - 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 Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The younger son of a farmer in Normandy, initially he was set to train for the priesthood, but had a more practical mind, and became a naval officer cadet instead. - 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 was born in Attercliffe, near Sheffield in Yorkshire, moving to nearby Barnsley when he was five. At the age of 18, in 1823, he was apprenticed to George Stephenson and worked on the building of both the Stockton and Darlington and Liverpool and Manchester Railways. - Ghazi Mashal Ajil Al-Yawer
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer a member of the Shammar tribe (born March 11 1958 in Mosul, Iraq) was a Vice President of Iraq under the Iraqi Transitional Government of 2005-2006, and was President of Iraq under the Iraqi Interim Government from 2004 to 2005. He was originally a member of the Iraqi Governing Council created following the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. - Donald Bailey
Sir Donald Coleman Bailey (b. 15 September 1901 in Rotherham, Yorkshire - d. 5 May 1985 in Bournemouth, Dorset) was an English civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge. - William Arrol
William Arrol (1839 - 1913) was a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Party politician. The son of a spinner, he was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, and started work in a cotton mill at only 9 years of age. He started training as a blacksmith by age 13, and went on to learn mechanics and hydraulics at night school. In 1863 he joined a company of bridge manufacturers in Glasgow, but by 1872 had established his own business, the Dalmarnock Iron Works, … - Thomas Harrison
Thomas Harrison (1744-1829) was an English provincial architect and civil engineer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is particularly remembered for his work in various locations of north-west England and north Wales, most notably in Lancaster and Chester. He received his early training in Rome 1769-1776. Harrison designed Skerton Bridge, over the River Lune in Lancaster. - John By
Lieutenant-Colonel John By (probably 7 August 1779 - 1 February 1836) was an English military engineer, best remembered for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal and, in the process, founding what would become the city of Ottawa. Born in Lambeth in London, England in 1779, By studied at the Royal Military Academy. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery on 1 August 1799 but transferred to the Royal Engineers on 20 December the same year. - Charles Fox
Sir Charles Fox (1810-1874) was a civil engineer in Derby, England, in the nineteenth century. His work focused on railways, railway stations and bridges. - Sir Charles Fox
Sir Charles Fox (March 11 1810 - June 14 1874) was an English civil engineer and contractor. His work focused on railways, railway stations and bridges. - Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 - September 27, 1876) was a career U.S. Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army, a principal commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. - Thomas Stevenson
Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a pioneering lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology. His designs, celebrated as ground breaking, ushered in a new era of lighthouse creation - Charles Ellet Jr.
Charles Ellet, Jr. was a civil engineer and a colonel during the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Memphis. Ellet was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, brother of Alfred W. Ellet, also a civil engineer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the war. Charles studied civil engineering at École Polytechnique in Paris, France, and in 1832 submitted proposals for a suspension bridge across the Potomac River.. In 1842, …
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