| Name |
Notability |
References |
| James Abernethy |
Scottish canal, marine and bridge engineer |
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| Duff Abrams |
early concrete researcher |
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| Bahaedin Adab |
Iranian Kurdish politician and engineer |
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| Campbell W. Adams |
New York State Engineer and Surveyor |
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| Charles Adler, Jr. |
American inventor of traffic lights and railway engineer |
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| Marcus Agrippa |
Ancient Roman General |
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| Raúl Aguilar Batres |
Guatemalan civil engineer |
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| Povl Ahm |
Danish former Ove Arup & Partners chairman |
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| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
President of Iran |
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| John Aird |
English engineer from the late 19th century |
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| Maurice L. Albertson |
American water resources engineer and academic |
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| Truman H. Aldrich |
American civil and mining engineer |
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| Thomas Aldwell |
American engineer of the Elwha Dam |
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| Archie Alexander |
American bridge and road engineer |
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| Anwar al-Awlaki |
Muslim lecturer and Al-Qaeda member |
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| Abu Hamza al-Masri |
Egyptian Muslim jailed in the UK on racial hatred and terrorism charges |
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| Don A. Allen |
member of the California State Assembly and of the Los Angeles City Council in the 1940s and 1950s |
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| Renato de Albuquerque |
Brazilian founder of Albuquerque & Takaoka |
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| Horatio Allen |
American railway engineer |
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| Braden Allenby |
American civil engineering professor |
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| John Wolfe Ambrose |
American engineer and namesake of the Ambrose Channel in New York |
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| Othmar Ammann |
Designed the George Washington Bridge, among others |
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| David Anderson |
Scottish civil engineer and lawyer |
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| Apollodorus of Damascus |
Ancient Greek engineer and architect |
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| Yasser Arafat |
Former Palestinian President |
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| William George Armstrong |
British engineer and 22nd president of the Institution of Civil Engineers |
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| Ferdinand Arnodin |
French bridge builder |
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| Sir William Arrol |
Scottish engineer involved with the construction of the Tay Rail Bridge, Forth Railway Bridge and Tower Bridge |
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| Sir Ove Arup |
Founder of Arup |
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| John Aspinall |
British railway engineer |
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| Sir William Sydney Atkins CBE |
the founder of Atkins, one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering consultancies. |
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| Peter C. Assersen |
Rear Admiral in the United States Navy |
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| Nolan B. Aughenbaugh |
American engineering academic and Antarctic explorer |
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| Gunvald Aus |
Norwegian-American engineer, engineered the construction of the Woolworth Building in New York City. |
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| Bilal M. Ayyub |
American engineering academic |
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| Anand Swarup |
Indian civil engineer |
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