List of canal engineers

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A canal engineer is a civil engineer responsible for planning (architectural and otherwise) related to the construction of a canal.

Canal engineers include:

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Yu the Great (c.2200BCE-c.2100BCE), first Dynast of China, founder of the first dynasty, who dedicated his life establishing flood control structures across the Chinese Hegemony, including canals, establishing the new hegemony in the process, across flood ruined competing kingdoms.
Ximen Bao
Li Bing (c. 3rd century BC), Dujiangyan

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Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds (1799-1883), Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894), Suez Canal and the failed first attempt at a canal in Panama

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István Türr (1825-1908), Corinth Canal

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United States edit

James Geddes, Ohio and Erie Canal
John B. Jervis, Delaware and Hudson Canal
Loammi Baldwin, Middlesex Canal to Boston
Orlando Metcalfe Poe, Poe Lock at Soo Locks
William Weston
Benjamin Wright, Erie Canal and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

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