List of canal engineers

A canal engineer is a civil engineer responsible for planning (architectural and otherwise) related to the construction of a canal.

Canal engineers include:

China

Yu the Great (c.2200BCE-c.2100BCE), first Dynast of China, founder of the first dynasty, who dedicated his life establishing flood control structures across the Chinese Hegemony, including canals, establishing the new hegemony in the process, across flood ruined competing kingdoms.
Ximen Bao
Li Bing (c. 3rd century BC), Dujiangyan

France

Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds (1799-1883), Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894), Suez Canal and the failed first attempt at a canal in Panama

Hungary

István Türr (1825-1908), Corinth Canal

United Kingdom

United States

James Geddes, Ohio and Erie Canal
John B. Jervis, Delaware and Hudson Canal
Loammi Baldwin, Middlesex Canal to Boston
Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Poe Lock at Soo Locks
William Weston
Benjamin Wright, Erie Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

See also

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