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

A

• Marcus Agrippa
• Othmar Ammann
• Yasser Arafat

B

• Benjamin Baker
• Henry Barnes - traffic
• Peter W. Barlow - Lambeth Bridge (old), tunnelling shield
• William Henry Barlow - railways
• John Wolfe-Barry
• Sir Joseph Bazalgette - London sewers and bridges
• Bernard Forest de Belidor - hydraulic engineer
• Osama bin Laden
• Sir Alexander Binnie - tunnels, bridges
• Thomas Bouch - railways
• James Brindley - canals, watermills
• Henri Marc Brunel
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel
• Marc Isambard Brunel
• Sir George Buchanan (engineer) - harbours

C

• Giovanni Domenico Cassini - astronomer and engineer of papal fortifications
• Octave Chanute - railroad engineer and aviation pioneer
• William Tierney Clark - bridges
• Hardy Cross - moment distribution method
• William Cubitt
• Carl Culmann

D

• Henry Darcy
• Simon James Dawson - Red River road
• Francis Drake
• Jules Dupuit
• Thomas Dadford Junior — canals

E

• Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
• John S. Eastwood

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

• Sir William Halcrow - tunnels
• Thomas Hawksley
• Benjamin Hall - Big Ben
• Clifford Milburn Holland - Holland Tunnel
• Herbert Hoover - mining
• Clarence Decatur Howe - grain elevators

I

J

• William Jessop - canals
• Theodore Judah - railroads

K

• Maurice Koechlin, structural designer to Gustave Eiffel

L

• Osama bin Laden
• Curtis LeMay
• William LeMessurier
• Ferdinand de Lesseps
• Tung-Yen Lin - bridges, the pioneer of prestressed concrete
• William Lindley - water and sewerage works
• Jair Lynch
• Joseph Locke - railways

M

• John MacAdam - roads
• Sir John MacNeill - railways
• William Mahone - plank road, railways
• Conde McCullough - bridges
• Robert Maillart - Swiss, concrete bridges
• 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
• James Morgan - Regent's Canal

N

O

P

• William N. Page- railways, mining
• Ralph M. Parsons
• William Barclay Parsons
• Samuel Morton Peto - railways, harbours
• Henry Petroski - failure analysis
• Giovanni Poleni - structural analysis of St. Peter's cupola

Q

R

• John Rennie - canals, bridges, docks
• Peter Rice - structural engineer
• John August Roebling - Brooklyn Bridge, Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge , John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
• Washington Roebling

S

• Johann Jacob Schuebler - mathematician, painter: published engineering roof construction treatise in 1731/36
• Ole Singstad - Holland Tunnel tunnel ventilation system
• John Smeaton - canals, bridges, Eddystone Lighthouse
• George Stephenson - railways
• Robert Stephenson - railways
• Robert Louis Stevenson - lighthouses
• Simon Stevin
• Sukarno

T

• Thomas Telford - roads and bridges
• Stephen Timoshenko - engineering mechanics
• Pierre Emanuel Tirard
• Fritz Todt
• Eduardo Torroja - structural engineer

U

V

• Leonardo da Vinci

W

• James Walker
• John Wolfe-Barry
• A. Baldwin Wood - pumps
• Edward Leader Williams - canals, bridges
• Clay W. Willis - civil structural

X

Y

• Boris Yeltsin

Z