ENGINEERS from Türkiye

Top 2

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

1. Philo of Byzantium (-280 - -220)

With an HPI of 69.35, Philo of Byzantium is the most famous Turkish Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.

Philo of Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Φίλων ὁ Βυζάντιος, Phílōn ho Byzántios, c. 280 BC – c. 220 BC), also known as Philo Mechanicus (Latin for "Philo the Engineer"), was a Greek engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics, who lived during the latter half of the 3rd century BC. Although he was from Byzantium he lived most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. He was probably younger than Ctesibius, though some place him a century earlier.

2. Alec Issigonis (1906 - 1988)

With an HPI of 60.78, Alec Issigonis is the 2nd most famous Turkish Engineer.  His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (Greek: σερ Άλεκ, Αλέξανδρος Αρνόλδος Κωνσταντίνος Ισηγόνης) (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of the 20th century in 1999.