José Echegaray
1832 - 1916
HPI 73.6181 languages
José Echegaray was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. He is most famous for his novel La Sombra de la Iglesia.
The Most Famous
Engineers from Spain
4 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Engineers. The pantheon dataset contains 409 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 Spanish 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 #2 
Ildefons Cerdà
1815 - 1876
HPI 68.7335 languagesIldefons Cerdà is most famous for his work on the Eixample, a grid-like expansion of Barcelona.
#3 
Álvaro del Portillo
1914 - 1994
HPI 63.3427 languagesCatholic bishop
#4 
Agustín de Betancourt
1758 - 1824
HPI 59.8015 languagesSpanish-Canarian engineer and architect (1758-1824)
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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