List of aerospace engineers
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This is a list of aerospace engineers, people who were trained in or practiced aerospace engineering.
See also List of engineers - for lists of engineers from other disciplines.
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A
- Neil Armstrong, (born 1930)
B
- Frank Barnwell
- Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977), famous German rocket pioneer
C
- Sir Sidney Camm
- Sir George Cayley - inventor of the science of aerodynamics
- Roy Chadwick
- Roger Chaffee - Apollo 1 fire victim
- Henri Coandă
- Philip Condit
- Glenn Curtiss
D
- Jeremy Davis
- Marcel Dassault, (1892-1986)
- Leonardo Da Vinci, (1452-1519)
- Claudius Dornier
- Sir George Dowty
E
- Joe Engle
- Richard Eppler
F
- Anton Flettner
- Anthony Fokker, (1890-1939)
- Henry Folland
- Stelio Furner Italian aircraft designer responsible for the Falco and SIAI Marchetti
G
- Robert Goddard
- Sir Arthur Gouge
- Alfred Gessow
H
- Raoul Hafner
- Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882-1965)
- Harry Hawker
- Ernst Heinkel
- Homer Hickam
- Patrick Augustus Hill, famous Tuskegee University and Stanford University trained aerospace engineer
I
K
- Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam
- Theodore von Kármán, (1881-1963)
- Dr. Thomas A Kashangaki
L
- Samuel Pierpont Langley - aircraft
- Otto Lilienthal
- Alexander Lippisch
- Per Lindstrand - balloons (and other aircraft)
M
- Paul MacCready
- Ernst Mach, (1838-1916)
- Frederick Marriott, (1805-1884)
- Mark D. Maughmer
- Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898-1978)
- R.J. Mitchell
- Montgolfier Brothers
N
- Prof. A. Nagarajan, (born 1944)
- R. Nissotti
- Nevil Shute Norway
O
- Hermann Oberth
- Hans von Ohain
- Denys Overholser
P
- Richard Pearse - Early New Zealand aircraft builder who is reputed to have made the first powered aircraft flight on March 31, 1903
- W. E. W. (Teddy) Petter
- Percy Pilcher
- John Porte
- Herman Potočnik, (1892-1929)
- Ludwig Prandtl
Q
R
- Judith Resnik
- Osborne Reynolds, (1842-1912)
- Raymond Rice
- Ben Rich - Skunk Works engineer who helped design the engine inlet for the SR-71, winner of a Collier Trophy
- Sir Alliott Verdon Roe
- Jan Roskam
- Burt Rutan
S
- Mercedes Sanders-Aerospace Engineer & Electrical Engineer, one of the first African American females to graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Aerospace Engineering
- Mikhail Simonov - Major contributor to the design of the Su-27 and its derivatives, in addition to the Su-47.
- Herbert Smith
- Sir Tom Sopwith
- Klaus von Storch
- Raymond Valdes
- Pavel Sukhoi - Founder of OKB Sukhoi.
- Victor Szebehely - Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics
T
- Richard Truly
- Andrei Tupolev - Founder of OKB Tupolev
U
V
W
- Sir Barnes Wallis (1887-1979)
- Ken Wallis MBE - autogyro
- Hellmuth Walter, (1900-1980) - rocket engines
- Richard Whitcomb
- Sir Frank Whittle, (1907-1996)
- Wright Brothers - inventors of the wind tunnel; designed and constructed the first practical powered airplane
X
Y
- Alexander Yakovlev - Founder of OKB Yakovlev.
Z
- Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917)
- Robert Zubrin
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