Hugh Lincoln Cooper (April 28, 1865^[1]–June 24, 1937^[2]) was an American colonel and civil engineer, known for construction supervision of a number of hydroelectric power plants.

Born in Houston County in Sheldon, Minnesota, Cooper moved to Rushford Minnesota and graduated from Rushford High School.^[3] Cooper was a self-educated civil engineer. He worked throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Egypt, and Soviet Union. During World War I he served as a supervising engineer in the US Army Corps of Engineers.^[4]

Cooper died in Stamford, Connecticut in 1937.^[2]

• Toronto Power Generating Station, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (1906)
• Keokuk Dam, Hamilton, Illinois and Keokuk, Iowa (1910-1913)
• Wilson Dam, Shoals Shore, Alabama (1918-1924)
• Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant, Mazeppa, Minnesota (1919)
• Dniprohes, Soviet Union (now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) (1927-1932) — upon completion of the project, Hugh Cooper was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour

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• Hugh Lincoln Cooper Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine at the American Society of Civil Engineers website.
• M. Bourke-White, Image of Col. Hugh L. Cooper supervising the building of the great dam across the Dineper River Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine. Life Magazine, 1931.
• Hugh L. Cooper speaks to MIT civil engineers Archived 2015-07-15 at the Wayback Machine, January 1915.
• H. Dorn (1979). "Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Détente". Technology and Culture. 20 (2): 322–347. doi:10.2307/3103869.