The Most Famous
ENGINEERS from South Africa
This page contains a list of the greatest South African Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 323 Engineers, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 40th most number of Engineers behind Finland and Turkey.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Engineers of all time. This list of famous South African Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Rory Byrne (1944 - )
With an HPI of 52.25, Rory Byrne is the most famous South African Engineer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Rory Byrne (born 10 January 1944) is a South African semi-retired engineer and car designer, most famous for being the chief designer at the Benetton and Scuderia Ferrari teams of Formula One. Byrne-designed cars have won ninety-nine Grands Prix, seven constructors' titles and seven drivers' titles. This makes Byrne the third most successful Formula One designer, behind rival Adrian Newey and Colin Chapman.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as engineers born between 1944 and 1944. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living engineers include Rory Byrne.
