With 325 biographies, Engineers are the 39th most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Inventors, Historians, and Coaches.
Pantheon has 324 people classified as engineers born between 600 BC and 1993. Of these 324, 53 (16.36%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living engineers include Bjarne Stroustrup, Marcello Gandini, and Viktor Belenko. The most famous deceased engineers include Gustave Eiffel, Gottlieb Daimler, and Zhuge Liang. As of October 2020, 38 new engineers have been added to Pantheon including Alexander Wienerberger, Pedro Navarro, Count of Oliveto, and Flaminio Bertoni.
1950 - Present
HPI: 69.19
1938 - Present
HPI: 67.93
1947 - Present
HPI: 67.81
1954 - Present
HPI: 67.14
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.86
1958 - Present
HPI: 64.69
1940 - Present
HPI: 63.78
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.76
1966 - Present
HPI: 62.56
1933 - Present
HPI: 62.38
1952 - Present
HPI: 60.19
1975 - Present
HPI: 60.07
1832 - 1923
HPI: 84.06
1834 - 1900
HPI: 81.30
181 - 234
HPI: 80.75
1919 - 2013
HPI: 79.92
1912 - 1977
HPI: 79.67
1796 - 1832
HPI: 79.22
1856 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
1906 - 1966
HPI: 77.47
1857 - 1935
HPI: 77.36
1633 - 1707
HPI: 76.91
1931 - 1995
HPI: 76.01
1848 - 1896
HPI: 75.98
1891 - 1955
HPI: 69.17
1460 - 1528
HPI: 66.65
1903 - 1964
HPI: 65.86
1838 - 1914
HPI: 62.92
1806 - 1879
HPI: 62.88
1758 - 1824
HPI: 62.69
1898 - 1940
HPI: 62.62
1905 - 1964
HPI: 62.42
1848 - 1930
HPI: 62.38
1882 - 1957
HPI: 62.23
1917 - 2005
HPI: 61.73
1903 - 1972
HPI: 61.70
Most engineers were born in France (48), United Kingdom (46), and United States (43). By city, the most common birth places were Paris (9), Saint Petersburg (3), and London (3).The most common death places of engineers were United States (49), Russia (43), and France (42). By city, these were Moscow (30), Paris (24), and Saint Petersburg (7).
The earliest biographies classified as engineers in Pantheon are Li Kui, Lu Ban, and Eupalinos. The concentration of engineers was largest during the Newspaper Era, which lasted from 1700 to 1899. Some birth or death locations for earlier engineers are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Which Engineers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Engineers since 1700.
Engineers are found within the Science & Technology domain which also includes Biologists, Mathematicians, Physicists, Astronomers, and Chemists.