A canal engineer is a

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

responsible for planning (architectural and otherwise) related to the construction of a

canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface ...

. Canal engineers include:

China

Yu the Great Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer was a legendary king in ancient China who was credited with "the first successful state efforts at flood control", his establishment of the Xia dynasty, which inaugurated Dynasties in Chinese history, dynastic ru ...

(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 * Philippe Bertrand, Canal du Rhône au Rhin * Guy Bouessel, Canal de Nantes à Brest * Pierre du Buat, Philippe Bertrand.Canal de Neufossé * Joseph Cachin, Canal de Caen à la mer *

Jean-Antoine Chaptal Jean-Antoine Chaptal, comte de Chanteloup (; 5 June 1756 – 29 July 1832) was a French chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator and philanthropist. Chaptal was involved in early industrialization in France under Napole ...

, Canal des Ardennes * Charles-Étienne Collignon, Canal de la Marne au Rhin * Pierre-Simon Girard, Canal Saint-Martin * Louis Didier Jousselin, Grand Canal du Nord,

Canal latéral à la Loire The Canal latéral à la Loire (, "canal parallel to the Loire") was constructed between 1827 and 1838 to connect the Canal de Briare at Briare and the Canal du Centre (France), Canal du Centre at Digoin, a distance of . It replaced the use of th ...

* Anne Pierre Nicolas de Lapisse, Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise * Joseph Liard, Canal du Rhône au Rhin * Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894),

Suez Canal The Suez Canal (; , ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, Indo-Mediterranean, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest ...

and the failed first attempt at a canal in Panama * Louis de Règemortes, Canal de l'Ourcq, Canal de Saint-Quentin * Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609-1680),

Canal du Midi The Canal du Midi (; ) is a long canal in Southern France (). Originally named the ''Canal Royal en Languedoc'' (Royal Canal in Languedoc) and renamed by French revolutionaries to ''Canal du Midi'' in 1789, the canal is considered one of the g ...

, Canal de l'Ourcq * Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Canal de Bourbourg See also,

List of canals in france This is a list of the navigable canals and rivers in France. For reference purposes, all waterways are listed, including many that have been abandoned for navigation, mostly in the period 1925-1955, but some in later years. Although several source ...

Hungary

* István Türr (1825-1908),

Corinth Canal The Corinth Canal () is a canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. Completed in 1893, it cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and "separates" the Peloponnese peninsula fro ...

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 John Rennie (7 June 1761 – 4 October 1821) was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, docks and warehouses, and a pioneer in the use of structural cast-iron. Early years John Rennie was born near Phantassie in Haddin ...

* Thomas Sheasby *

John Smeaton John Smeaton (8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792) was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent scholar, who introduced various ...

* William Smith *

Thomas Telford Thomas Telford (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well ...

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 The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigability, navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, ...

and the

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the Grand Old Ditch, operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and Cumberland, Maryland. It replaced the Patowmack Canal ...

George Washington George Washington (, 1799) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot (American Revoluti ...

, Potomac Canal * Canvass White,

* Sylvanus Thayer,

West Point The United States Military Academy (USMA), commonly known as West Point, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York that educates cadets for service as Officer_(armed_forces)#United_States, comm ...

Horatio Allen Horatio Allen (May 10, 1802 – December 31, 1889) was an American civil engineer and inventor, and President of Erie Railroad in the year 1843–1844. Biography Born in Schenectady, New York, he graduated from Columbia University in 1823, a ...

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