The Most Famous

Engineers from Spain

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This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 389 Engineers, 4 of which were born in Spain. This makes Spain the birth place of the 16th most number of Engineers behind Switzerland and India.

Top 4 Engineers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Spanish Engineers of all time. This list of famous Spanish Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #1
    Photo of José Echegaray

    José Echegaray

    1832 - 1916

    HPI 73.6181 langs

    José Echegaray was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. He is most famous for his novel La Sombra de la Iglesia.

  2. #2
    Photo of Ildefons Cerdà

    Ildefons Cerdà

    1815 - 1876

    HPI 68.7335 langs

    Ildefons Cerdà is most famous for his work on the Eixample, a grid-like expansion of Barcelona.

Overlapping Lives

Which Engineers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Engineers since 1700.

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