Sir William Willcocks was a British civil engineer during the high point of the British Empire. He was an irrigation engineer who proposed and built the first Aswan Dam, the scale of which had never been attempted previously. He later undertook other major irrigation projects in South Africa and the Ottoman Empire's Arabian territories.
- Occupation
- civil engineer, engineer, architect, hydrologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- September 27, 1852
- Died
- July 28, 1932
