Engineer/designer Famous Names Starting with Letter S

A leading Japanese architect and professor at Kyoto University. Takamatsu's futuristic looking build

A leading Japanese architect and professor at Kyoto University. Takamatsu's futuristic looking buildings often use anthropomorphic or mechanical imagery.[1]

Sid Meier founded MicroProse together with Bill Stealey in 1982. At MicroProse, Meier developed the

Sid Meier founded MicroProse together with Bill Stealey in 1982. At MicroProse, Meier developed the game series for which he is most widely recognized, Civilization, although he designed only the first installment. Meier eventually left MicroProse and in 1996 founded Firaxis Games along with veteran designer and gaming executive Jeff Briggs. Today Firaxis makes strategy games, many of which are follow-ups to classic Meier titles, such as Civilization IV and Pirates!.

Was a Dutch architect, best known as the architect of the Bijlmermeer (officially known as Amsterdam

Was a Dutch architect, best known as the architect of the Bijlmermeer (officially known as Amsterdam Zuidoost).He attended the Delft University of Technology. After receiving his Engineer's degree Nassuth began working as an urban planner in the municipality of Amsterdam.

Is an Italian-born computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Is an Italian-born computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of computer science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since 1983. His research centers on the theory of cryptography and information security. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982.

Was a French architect. He became famous when he drew up the plans of the City hall of Lyon, built b

Was a French architect. He became famous when he drew up the plans of the City hall of Lyon, built between 1646 and 1651. It was presumed that he only executed a project made by Girard Desargues, but it seems he took his orders from the consular advice.

Is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional pro

Is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional languages. He is an honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow and supervises PhD Students at the University of Cambridge.

Was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World W

Was an Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer and Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals in an effort to bring them to justice. Following four and a half years in the German concentration camps of Janowska, Plaszow, and Mauthausen during World War II, Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Is the Chief Executive Officer of MTR Corporation. He was appointed this position on December 1, 200

Is the Chief Executive Officer of MTR Corporation. He was appointed this position on December 1, 2003.Mr. Chow is a chartered engineer. He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California respectively. He also holds a Master of Business Administration degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and was a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by the University of Bath.

Was an English civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge.ailey was knighted in 1946 for his brid

Was an English civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge.ailey was knighted in 1946 for his bridge design. By this time he was living quietly in Southbourne in Bournemouth, Dorothy Barnes, one of the girls at the Southbourne Crossroads bank, which he used regularly was surprised to learn that her unassuming customer had been knighted. Sir Donald died in Bournemouth in 1985. His 1940s home was demolished c 2004 and replaced by flats, however he also had other addresses in Bournemouth, being recorded in 1974 at 14 Viking Close, as Bailey, Sir Donald C. OBE, JP.

Is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and a JAXA astronaut. His first spaceflight was as a Mission Spe

Is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and a JAXA astronaut. His first spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA's first "return to flight" Space Shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster.

Was a Japanese engineer and industrialist, and founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.. Soichiro was born i

Was a Japanese engineer and industrialist, and founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.. Soichiro was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.Honda spent his early childhood helping his father, Gihei, a blacksmith, with his bicycle repair business. At the time his mother, Mika, was a weaver. At 15, without any formal education, Honda arrived in Tokyo to look for work. He obtained an apprenticeship at a garage in 1922, and after some vacillation over his employment, he stayed for six years, working as a car mechanic before returning home to start his own auto repair business in 1928 at the age of 22.

Is a well-known Greek fashion designer with her own label based in London. A graduate of London's Ce

Is a well-known Greek fashion designer with her own label based in London. A graduate of London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, she was chosen to design the opening and closing ceremonial outfits for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, which were staged in her home town of Athens

Was a Polish officer and architect.Student and assistant lecturer in architecture at the Warsaw Univ

Was a Polish officer and architect.Student and assistant lecturer in architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, Jankowski was mobilized as an officer during German invasion of Poland in 1939. He escaped after having been captured by the Soviet Union forces and joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West. He became a commando (Cichociemny) and in 1942 was parachuted into occupied Poland, where he became an expert document forger (codename "Agaton") for the Polish resistance. In 1944 he took part in the Warsaw Uprising (member of the Batalion Piesc in Zgrupowanie Radoslaw), taken prisoner by the Germans after its end, he became an aide-de-camp of the commander of the also interned Armia Krajowa leader, general Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.

Was a Polish architect and poet. He is notable as a father to Kazimierz Staszewski and author of man

Was a Polish architect and poet. He is notable as a father to Kazimierz Staszewski and author of many songs and ballads, sung both by his son and by Jacek Kaczmarski.Stanislaw Staszewski was born December 18, 1925 in Warsaw to an impoverished szlachta family of a gymnasium headmaster. During World War II young Stanislaw was a member of the Armia Krajowa. In its ranks he took part in the failed episode of the Warsaw Uprising in the borough of Praga. Taken prisoner by the Germans he faced the risk of being executed and instead managed to convince the German soldiers of his German ancestry and willingness to join the Wehrmacht. Along with several of his colleagues he was allowed to join the German army - and defected the following day. However, he was again caught by the Germans and sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. There, in March 1945, he narrowly escaped death when he became a Muselmann and was placed on a pile of corpses bound for cremation. However, he was discovered by the inmates running the camp and managed to survive until liberation.

Was a Polish graphic artist, poster artist, scenographer and architect. Zamecznik was a professor of

Was a Polish graphic artist, poster artist, scenographer and architect. Zamecznik was a professor of State Higher School of Fine Arts, Poznan (now Academy of Fine Arts). He was a brother of Wojciech Zamecznik, a graphic artist, interior decorator and photographer.Zamecznik was an author of innovative composition Wegiel at the exhibition in Wroclaw (with brother, Wojciech; 1948). He designed numerous of international exhibitions, Wojciech Fangor painting exhibition in an environmental style in the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw (1958), Henry Moore sculpture exhibitions in Warsaw (1959), exhibitions in the National Museum in Warsaw and permanent exhibitions in the Historical Museum in Warsaw. Zamecznik co-designed enlargement of the Zacheta edifice.

Was a Polish architect and monument conservator. He was a conservator of Warsaw Old Town.Zaryn, Stan

Was a Polish architect and monument conservator. He was a conservator of Warsaw Old Town.Zaryn, Stanislaw (1972) (in Polish). Trzynascie Kamienic Staromiejskich. Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.

Was a Polish architect, representative of late-baroque and classicism, inclined towards Palladian ar

Was a Polish architect, representative of late-baroque and classicism, inclined towards Palladian architecture and precursor of the empire style in Polish architecture.Author of palaces in Smielów (1797), Dobrzyca (1799), Lubostron (1800), defensive buildings, military buildings in Kamieniec Podolski and Warsaw.Zawadzki was born in 1743 in Warsaw. He graduated in St. Luke Academy in Rome. In 1769 he became a professor and in 1776 an honorable member of the academy.

Was a Danish architect and town-planner, professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a p

Was a Danish architect and town-planner, professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry. Like his compatriots Hans Christian Andersen and Johannes Vilhelm Jensen he traveled extensively, and his observations often became basis for his writings. His bibliography (1973) lists 536 items.

Was a Polish architect and artist, as well as a noted art conservator and restorer.He was born in Gr

Was a Polish architect and artist, as well as a noted art conservator and restorer.He was born in Grozny, then in Imperial Russia, where his father had followed a career of a physician. Early in Narebski's childhood the family moved to Vilnius, where he graduated from one of the local schools and continued his education at the Institute for Civilian Engineers in St. Petersburg and then at the Warsaw University of Technology. Between 1927 and 1928 he was appointed the municipal architect of the town of Wloclawek. In the following years he held the same post in the city of Vilnius, where - among his other projects - he restored the Archbishop's Palace. He was also a professor at the Stefan Batory University. After the war he was expelled to Poland, where he settled in Torun. There he helped creating the Fine Arts Division of the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Since 1946 he served as its dean.

Was a Polish engineer who was during his lifetime promoted as one of Europe's best-known psychics.[1

Was a Polish engineer who was during his lifetime promoted as one of Europe's best-known psychics.[1] Two notable persons who credited his claims were pioneering French parapsychologist Gustave Geley and Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet, who called Ossowiecki "the most positive of psychics."

Is a German architect. Braunfels' first competition success along with his plans and critiques on ur

Is a German architect. Braunfels' first competition success along with his plans and critiques on urban design concepts for Munich formed the basis for the exhibition "Designs for Munich" shown in 1987 at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Museum for

Is a noted computer scientist.Cook formalised the notion of NP-completeness in a famous 1971 paper "

Is a noted computer scientist.Cook formalised the notion of NP-completeness in a famous 1971 paper "The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures", which also contained Cook's theorem, a proof that the boolean satisfiability problem is NP-complete.

Stephen Sprouse's initial Day-Glo bright, sixties-inspired, graffiti-printed fashion collections for

Stephen Sprouse's initial Day-Glo bright, sixties-inspired, graffiti-printed fashion collections for men and women wowed fashion editors, store buyers, and fashionistas alike, but he always had mixed business success.

Is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Swanson is married and has 3 children. Steven has rece

Is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. Swanson is married and has 3 children. Steven has received numerous awards and honors. These include the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the JSC Certificate of Accommodation and many others. Prior to be

Was a renowned Polish-German classicist architect and designer of gardens. Born in Merseburg in Saxo

Was a renowned Polish-German classicist architect and designer of gardens. Born in Merseburg in Saxony, he spent most of his life in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where in 1768, he was ennobled.One of the most versatile and prolific architects of his epoch, Zug was the author of several dozen projects of palaces and churches. As a garden designer, he represented an early romanticist style. Among the most notable buildings designed by Zug are: