The Most Famous

Engineers from Czechia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Czechs Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 389 Engineers, 6 of which were born in Czechia. This makes Czechia the birth place of the 13th most number of Engineers behind Japan and China.

Top 6 Czech Engineers

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

  1. #1
    Photo of Emil Škoda

    Emil Škoda

    1839 - 1900

    HPI 68.7826 langs
    Emil Škoda was a Czech engineer and the founder of the Škoda Works, a large industrial company that was one of the largest arms...Read moreShow less

    Emil Škoda was a Czech engineer and the founder of the Škoda Works, a large industrial company that was one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world during World War I. He is most famous for his work in engineering and manufacturing.

  2. #2
    Photo of Karl von Terzaghi

    Karl von Terzaghi

    1883 - 1963

    HPI 64.4130 langs

    Austrian geotechnical engineer known as the "father of soil mechanics" (1883–1963)

  3. #3
    Photo of Eugen Sänger

    Eugen Sänger

    1905 - 1964

    HPI 58.8119 langs

    Austrian aerospace engineer (1905-1964)

  4. #4
    Photo of Alfred Neubauer

    Alfred Neubauer

    1891 - 1980

    HPI 58.0915 langs

    Austrian motor racing team manager (1891–1980)

  5. #6
    Photo of Pavel Pavel

    Pavel Pavel

    b. 1957

    HPI 51.2316 langs

    Czech archeologist and local politician

Overlapping Lives

Which Engineers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Engineers since 1700.

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