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

Canal engineers include:

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2018)

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

• James Brindley
• James Dadford
• John Dadford
• Thomas Dadford
• Thomas Dadford, Jr.
• Hugh Henshall
• John Hore
• Josias Jessop
• William Jessop
• Benjamin Outram
• John Rennie the Elder
• Thomas Sheasby
• John Smeaton
• William Smith
• Thomas Telford

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

• List of civil engineers
• Lists of canals

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