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
- Barnabé Brisson, Canal de la Marne au Rhin
- Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds (1799-1883), Suez Canal
- , Canal du Rhône au Rhin
- Guy Bouessel, Canal de Nantes ÃÂ Brest
- Pierre du Buat, Philippe Bertrand.Canal de Neufossé
- Joseph Cachin,Canal de Caen ÃÂ la mer
- Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Canal des Ardennes
- , Canal de la Marne au Rhin
- Pierre-Simon Girard, Canal Saint-Martin
- Louis Didier Jousselin, , Canal latéral àla Loire
- , Canal de la Sambre ÃÂ l'Oise
- , Canal du Rhône au Rhin
- Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894), Suez Canal and the failed first attempt at a canal in Panama
- , Canal de l'Ourcq, Canal de Saint-Quentin
- Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609-1680), Canal du Midi, Canal de l'Ourcq
- Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Canal de Bourbourg
See also, List of canals in france
Hungary
United Kingdom
United States
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