Notable people with a connection to the Bournemouth area

Engineers

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This category highlights famous engineers or people from a career in technology or construction who have a connection to Bournemouth and the surrounding area.

These engineers may have been born in Bournemouth, lived there or died there.

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Sir Donald Coleman Bailey was an engineer, best known for being the inventor of the Bailey Bridge, without which Field Marshall Montgomery said “we could not have won the war”. He was born in Rotherham on 15th September 1901 and graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1923 with a […]