ENGINEERS from Latvia

Top 2

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

1. Eduard Totleben (1818 - 1884)

With an HPI of 54.04, Eduard Totleben is the most famous Latvian Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Franz Eduard Graf von Tottleben (Russian: Эдуа́рд Ива́нович Тотле́бен, tr. Eduárd Ivánovich Totlében; 20 May [O.S. 8 May] 1818 – 1 July [O.S. 19 June] 1884), better known as Eduard Totleben in English, was a Baltic German military engineer and Imperial Russian Army general. He was in charge of fortification and sapping work during a number of important Russian military campaigns.

2. Mstislav Keldysh (1911 - 1978)

With an HPI of 53.32, Mstislav Keldysh is the 2nd most famous Latvian Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 31 different languages.

Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (Russian: Мстисла́в Все́володович Ке́лдыш; 10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1911 – 24 June 1978) was a Soviet mathematician who worked as an engineer in the Soviet space program. He was the academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1946), President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1961–1975), three-time Hero of Socialist Labour (1956, 1961, 1971), and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1968). He was one of the key figures behind the Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of the USSR Keldysh was known by the epithet "the Chief Theoretician" in analogy with epithet "the Chief Designer" used for Sergei Korolev.