The Most Famous
ENGINEERS from Latvia
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Engineers of all time. This list of famous Latvian Engineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Mstislav Keldysh (1911 - 1978)
With an HPI of 60.98, Mstislav Keldysh is the most famous Latvian Engineer. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (Russian: Мстисла́в Все́володович Ке́лдыш; 10 February [O.S. 28 January] 1911 – 24 June 1978) was a Soviet mathematician who worked as an engineer in the Soviet space program. He was the academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1946), President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1961–1975), three-time Hero of Socialist Labour (1956, 1961, 1971), and fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1968). He was one of the key figures behind the Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of the USSR Keldysh was known by the epithet "the Chief Theoretician" in analogy with epithet "the Chief Designer" used for Sergei Korolev.
2. Eduard Totleben (1818 - 1884)
With an HPI of 59.69, Eduard Totleben is the 2nd most famous Latvian Engineer. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Franz Eduard Graf von Tottleben (Russian: Эдуа́рд Ива́нович Тотле́бен, tr. Eduárd Ivánovich Totlében; 20 May [O.S. 8 May] 1818 – 1 July [O.S. 19 June] 1884), better known as Eduard Totleben in English, was a Baltic German military engineer and Imperial Russian Army general. He was in charge of fortification and sapping work during a number of important Russian military campaigns.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Latvian engineers born between 1818 and 1911. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Latvian engineers include Mstislav Keldysh, and Eduard Totleben. As of April 2024, 2 new Latvian engineers have been added to Pantheon including Mstislav Keldysh, and Eduard Totleben.
