Allyson Lawless is stranger than it sounds.

Allyson Lawless Pr Eng, FREng, Hon.

Allyson Lawless Pr Eng, FREng, Hon. FSAICE, Hon. FIMESA, FSAAE, FIStructE, DEng (hc) is a South African structural engineer, businesswoman and an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In the year 2000, she was the first female in 97 years to become president of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE)