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This is a list of notable aerospace engineers, people who were trained in or practiced aerospace engineering.

Contents

See also List of engineers for people from other disciplines.

A

  • Clément Ader
  • Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) - first man on the moon
  • A.P.J Abdul Kalam (1930–2015) - Missile Man of India
  • Ron Ayers - designer of ThrustSSC, the first land-based vehicle to break the sound barrier

    • B

  • V. P. Barmin - designer of the rocket launch complex
  • Frank Barnwell (1880–1938) - chief engineer, Bristol Aeroplane Company
  • Thomas W. Benoist (1874–1917) - early airline entrepreneur
  • Charles Bolden - NASA Administrator
  • Ludwig Bölkow - aerodynamicist for the Me 262
  • Frank Borman (born March 14, 1928) - first man to circle the moon
  • Yvonne Brill (1924–2013) - electrothermal hydrazine thruster
  • Adolf Busemann - swept wing

    • C

  • Sir Sydney Camm
  • Giovanni Caproni (1886–1957)
  • Sir George Cayley - notable for his research in aerodynamics
  • Clyde Cessna (1879–1954) - early aircraft designer
  • Roy Chadwick
  • Roger Chaffee - Apollo 1 fire victim
  • Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003) - died in Columbia disaster
  • Vladimir Chelomei
  • Henri Coandă - inventor of the jet engine
  • Nicholas Comper (1897–1939) - designer of the Comper Swift
  • Philip M. Condit - former CEO of Boeing
  • Scott Crossfield
  • Glenn Curtiss

    • D

  • Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
  • Werner Dahm
  • Marcel Dassault (1892–1986)
  • Serge Dassault (1925–)
  • Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965)
  • Juan de la Cierva - inventor of the autogyro
  • Satish Dhawan (1920–2002)
  • Paul Bernard Dilworth (1915–2007)
  • Heini Dittmar (1911–1960) - record-breaking pilot
  • Claudius Dornier
  • Donald W. Douglas
  • Iain Dowie
  • Sir George Dowty
  • Alberto Santos Dumont (1873–1932) - inventor of the dirigible; aeronautics pioneer
  • Pedro Duque

    • E

  • Joe Engle
  • Walter Extra

    • F

  • Maxime Faget (1921–2004) - designer of the Project Mercury spacecraft
  • Charles Richard Fairey - founder of the Fairey Aviation company
  • Roy Fedden - British engine designer for Bristol Engine Company
  • Gerhard Fieseler - German aircraft designer
  • Anton Flettner
  • Anthony Fokker (1890–1939)
  • Henry Folland

    • G

  • Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903–1987) - Italian aircraft designer
  • Valentin Glushko
  • Robert Goddard
  • Tadeusz Góra
  • Jay Greene
  • Bartolomeu de Gusmão - Portuguese priest; aircraft designer

    • H

  • Wolfgang Haack
  • B. J. Habibie
  • Raoul Hafner
  • Harry Hawker
  • Edward H. Heinemann
  • Ernst Heinkel
  • Homer Hickam
  • Peter K. Homer
  • Stanley Hooker
  • Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982) - chief engineer for the Mitsubishi A6M
  • Howard Hughes - aerospace engineer, cineast, entrepreneur
  • Rick Husband - died in the Columbia disaster
  • François Hussenot - inventor of one of the early forms of the flight recorder

    • J

  • Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (1910–1990)
  • Robert T. Jones
  • Hugo Junkers (1859–1935) - pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes

    • K

  • A.P.J Abdul Kalam (born October 15, 1931) - former President of India
  • Dutch Kindelberger
  • Klapmeier brothers
  • Ave K. Kludze, Jr.
  • Sergey Korolev
  • Chris Kraft
  • Eugene Kranz - aeronautical engineer
  • Dietrich Küchemann

    • L

  • Samuel Pierpont Langley - aircraft
  • Otto Lilienthal
  • Alexander Lippisch
  • Per Lindstrand - balloons and other aircraft
  • Glynn Lunney (1936– )

    • M

  • Paul MacCready
  • Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
  • Elsie MacGill (1905–1980)
  • Frederick Marriott (1805–1884)
  • Mark D. Maughmer
  • William C. McCool - died in Columbia disaster
  • Sean McMahon - aeronautical engineer
  • Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898–1978)
  • R. J. Mitchell
  • Montgolfier brothers
  • John J. Montgomery
  • Albert Mooney

    • N

  • Gerhard Neumann - engineer for General Electric; contributed to the design of the J79

    • O

  • Hermann Oberth (1894–1989)

    • P

  • Richard Pearse - early New Zealand aircraft builder
  • W. E. W. (Teddy) Petter
  • Percy Pilcher
  • Curtis Pitts (1915–2005)
  • Paul Poberezny (1921–2013) - founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association
  • Boris Popov - invented one of the first successful aircraft ballistic parachute systems
  • Henry Potez
  • Herman Potočnik (1892–1929)
  • Ludwig Prandtl

    • R

  • Wilfrid Thomas Reid (1887–1968)
  • Judith Resnik
  • Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912)
  • Ben Rich - director of Lockheed's Skunk Works; contributed to SR-71 and F-117 development
  • John M. Riebe (1921–2011)
  • Robert brothers - balloonists
  • Sir Alliott Verdon Roe
  • Jan Roskam
  • Ludwig Roth
  • Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960) - director of Project Blue Book
  • Burt Rutan
  • Tubal Claude Ryan (1898–1982) - founder of the Ryan Aeronautical Company

    • S

  • Edgar Schmued - Lead engineer on the: P-51, F-86, F-100, F-5, T-38
  • Nevil Shute - aeronautical engineer and author
  • Igor Sikorsky - pioneered helicopters
  • Ozires Silva - Brazilian founder of Embraer
  • Herbert Smith - designer of the Sopwith Triplane
  • Sir Tom Sopwith - Sopwith Aviation Company
  • Joe Sutter (1921-2016) - chief engineer for the Boeing 747
  • Victor Szebehely - aerospace engineering and celestial mechanics

    • T

  • Kurt Tank - design engineer for Focke-Wulf
  • Moulton Taylor - experimental aircraft pioneer
  • Theodore Theodorsen - aerodynamicist at NACA
  • Richard Truly - former astronaut and head of NASA
  • Andrei Tupolev - founder of OKB Tupolev

    • V

  • Richard VanGrunsven - prolific kit aircraft engineer
  • Aurel Vlaicu
  • Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) - German rocket pioneer
  • Theodore von Kármán (1881–1963)
  • Hans von Ohain (1911–1998)
  • Traian Vuia - first flight with no other ground devices

    • W

  • Dwane L. Wallace (1911–1989) - early Cessna CEO and designer
  • Sir Barnes Wallis (1887–1979)
  • Ken Wallis MBE - autogyro
  • Hellmuth Walter (1900–1980) - rocket engines
  • Johanna Weber
  • Fred Weick
  • Edward Curtis Wells (1910–1986)
  • Richard Whitcomb
  • Sir Frank Whittle (1907–1996) - pioneer of the jet engine
  • Stanisław Wigura (1901–1932)
  • Steve Wittman (1904–1995) - air-racer and aircraft designer
  • Wright brothers

    • X

  • Qian Xuesen

    • Y

  • Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev - founder of OKB Yakovlev

    • Z

  • Engelbert Zaschka (1895–1955) - one of the first German helicopter pioneers
  • Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917)
  • Henri Ziegler - father of the Airbus program
  • Robert Zubrin

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