Joseph Strauss
Engineer
American structural engineer who was the Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge.
He served as class president at the University of Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1892.
There is a large statue of him on the San Francisco side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
His mother was a pianist and his father was a writer and painter.
He named a bridge that he designed, which spans the Columbia River, after Meriwether Lewis and his partner William Clark.