List of aerospace engineers
This is a list of notable aerospace engineers, people who were trained in or practiced aerospace engineering.
See also List of engineers for people from other disciplines.
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- Clément Ader (1841–1925) – French engineer and inventor
- Galaktion Alpaidze – Soviet lieutenant general, Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome
- Oleg Antonov (1906–1984) – Soviet aeroplane designer, founder of Antonov company
- Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) – first man on the Moon
- Lee Atwood – design engineer for the P-51 Mustang, and former CEO of North American Aviation and North American Rockwell
- Ron Ayers – designer of ThrustSSC, 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
- Jenny Body – former President of the Royal Aeronautical Society[1]
- William Boeing – founder of Boeing
- Charles Bolden – NASA Administrator
- Ludwig Bölkow – aerodynamicist for the Me 262
- Frank Borman (born 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 (1-27-67)
- Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003) – died in the 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 – first man to fly faster than twice the speed of sound in NAA's X-15
- Glenn Curtiss – founder of the US aircraft industry
D
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
- Werner Dahm[2]
- Marcel Dassault (1892–1986)
- Serge Dassault (1925-2018)
- 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
- Jurgis Dobkevičius (1900-1926) - Lithuanian aviation constructor, military pilot
- Claudius Dornier
- Donald W. Douglas – founder of the Douglas Aircraft Company
- Iain Dowie
- Sir George Dowty
- Alberto Santos Dumont (1873–1932) – inventor of the dirigible; aeronautics pioneer
- Pedro Duque
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
- John Glenn – first man to orbit the Earth in 1962
- Valentin Glushko
- Robert Goddard – scientist who developed the first liquid-fueled rocket 3-16-26
- Tadeusz Góra
- Jay Greene
- Gus Grissom – Apollo 1 fire victim (1-27-67)
- Bartolomeu de Gusmão – Portuguese priest; aircraft designer
- Antanas Gustaitis (1898-1941) - Lithuanian aircraft designer, Brigadier General, Commander-in-Chief of Lithuanian Air Force
H
- Wolfgang Haack
- B. J. Habibie
- Raoul Hafner
- Harry Hawker (1889–1921) – test pilot, formed Hawker Aircraft Company
- Edward H. Heinemann (1908–1991) – Chief Engineer for Douglas Aircraft, designed 20 military aircraft
- Ernst Heinkel (1888–1958) – German aircraft designer, developed first jet rocket aircraft
- Homer Hickam
- Peter K. Homer
- Stanley Hooker (1907–1984) – British engine engineer for Rolls Royce Aerospace
- Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982) – chief engineer for the Mitsubishi A6M
- Howard Hughes – aerospace engineer, owned RKO movie studio, entrepreneur in real estate
- 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) – formed Lockheed Skunk Works and design engineer of aircraft: SR-71, U-2, F-117A, F-104, C-130, T-33, P-38, and Constellations
- Katherine Johnson – mathematician who worked as an aerospace technologist at NASA
- Robert Thomas Jones – aeronautical engineer at NASA
- Hugo Junkers (1859–1935) – pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes
K
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) – former President of India; "Missile Man of India"
- Alexander Kartveli (1896–1974) – Chief Engineer at Republic Aviation, and contributor to first aerospace vehicle prototypes
- Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921-2003) - Soviet Armenian mechanical engineer who is best known for designing Lunokhod 1, the first ever lunar rover.
- Dutch Kindelberger (1895–1962) – Chief Engineer at Douglas Aircraft and head of North American Aviation
- Klapmeier brothers – founders of Cirrus
- Ave K. Kludze, Jr.
- Sergey Korolev
- Chris Kraft
- Eugene Kranz – aeronautical engineer
- Dietrich Küchemann
L
- Diane Lemaire (1923–2012) – first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a degree in engineering
- Samuel Pierpont Langley – aircraft
- Otto Lilienthal
- Charles Lindbergh – made first solo transatlantic airplane flight from NY to Paris in 1927 on Spirit of St. Louis
- Per Lindstrand – balloons and other aircraft
- Alexander Lippisch
- Glynn Lunney (born 1936)
- Arkhip Lyulka
M
- Paul MacCready
- Elsie MacGill (1905–1980)
- Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
- Frederick Marriott (1805–1884)
- Mark D. Maughmer
- Alan Mulally – Boeing executive and President of the Ford Motor Company
- William C. McCool – died in the Columbia disaster
- Sean McMahon – aeronautical engineer
- Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898–1978) – designed ME 109 and jet powered ME 262
- Arseny Mironov (1917–2019) – Russian scientist, aerospace engineer and aircraft pilot
- R. J. Mitchell – Englishman who designed the Spitfire aircraft
- Montgolfier brothers
- John J. Montgomery
- Albert Mooney
- Elon Musk – founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla
N
- Gerhard Neumann – engineer for General Electric; contributed to the design of the J79
- Jack Northrop (1895–1981) – founded Northrop Corporation in 1939 and later the Flying Wing
- Aleksandr Nadiradze (1914–1987) – Soviet Georgian ballistic missile and rocket engineer
O
- Hermann Oberth (1894–1989)
- Wendy Okolo
P
- Paul C. Paris (1930–2017) – known for introducing fracture mechanics to the aviation industry
- 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[3]
- 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
- Frank D. Robinson
- Sir Alliott Verdon Roe
- Jan Roskam
- Ludwig Roth
- Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960) – director of Project Blue Book
- Burt Rutan – airplane and spacecraft designer
- 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
- Joe Shea – NASA Administrator for the Apollo Program
- Nevil Shute – aeronautical engineer and author
- Igor Sikorsky – pioneered helicopters
- Ozires Silva – founder of Embraer
- Herbert Smith – designer of the Sopwith Triplane
- Sir Tom Sopwith – Sopwith Aviation Company
- Harrison Storms – directed North American Aviation's Apollo Program
- 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
- Max Taitz (1904–1980) – scientist in aerodynamics and flight testing of aircraft, one of the founders of the Gromov Flight Research Institute
- Clarence Gilbert Taylor – designer of the Piper Cub
- Moulton Taylor – experimental aircraft pioneer
- Theodore Theodorsen – aerodynamicist at NACA
- Richard Truly – former astronaut and head of NASA
- Andrei Tupolev – founder of OKB Tupolev
U
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[4]
- Sir Barnes Wallis (1887–1979)
- Ken Wallis MBE – autogyro
- Hellmuth Walter (1900–1980) – rocket engines
- Johanna Weber
- Günter Wendt (1924–2010) – McDonnell Aircraft and North American Aviation engineer; pad leader, prepared all crewed Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft and sealed all crewmembers in for launch.
- Fred Weick
- Daniel Weihs (born 1942)
- Edward Curtis Wells (1910–1986)
- Richard Whitcomb
- Ed White – Apollo 1 fire victim (1-27-67)
- Sir Frank Whittle (1907–1996) – pioneer of the jet engine
- Stanisław Wigura (1901–1932)
- Oswald S. Williams Jr. (1921–2005)
- Steve Wittman (1904–1995) – air-racer and aircraft designer
- Wright brothers – made first powered airplane flight on Dec 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, NC
Y
- Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev – founder of OKB Yakovlev
- Chuck Yeager (born 1923) – test pilot and first to break the sound barrier
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
References
- "Jenny Body". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-08-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/home/tech_life_brs.html
- https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/dwane-l-wallace/18320
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