| Name |
Notability |
References |
| Fidel V. Ramos |
Former President of the Philippines, civil engineer |
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| William John Macquorn Rankine |
physicist who was also a civil engineering professor and developed structural engineering and lateral earth pressure theories |
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| Kanuri Lakshmana Rao |
Water Resource Engineer, Architect of Nagarajuna Sagar Dam, India |
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| Latif Rashid |
Iraqi Minister of Water Resources |
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| Robert Rawlinson |
English canal engineer and sanitarian |
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| Richard Redmayne |
British mining and civil engineer |
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| Donald Reeve |
British hydraulic engineer |
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| Markus Reiner |
studied deformation, strain and flow, coined rheology |
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| James Meadows Rendel |
bridges, harbours |
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| John Rennie the Elder |
canals, bridges, docks |
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| John Rennie the Younger |
son of the above, railways and bridges |
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| Louis-Jean Résal |
French bridge engineer |
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| Osborne Reynolds |
Fluid dynamics theories and worked as a practising engineer |
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| Peter Rice |
structural engineer |
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| Benjamin S. Roberts |
railways, United States and Russia |
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| David Gwilym Morris Roberts |
British civil engineer |
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| Leslie E. Robertson |
structural engineer |
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| Vernon Robertson |
British civil engineer |
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| John August Roebling |
Brooklyn Bridge, Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge |
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| Washington Roebling (son of John August Roebling) |
Brooklyn Bridge |
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| Richard Birdsall Rogers |
designer of the Peterborough Lift Lock, Ontario, Canada |
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| Alexander Ross |
Scottish railway engineer |
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| Norman Rowntree |
British water engineer |
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| Toni Rüttimann |
Swiss bridge builder |
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