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 lists of engineers from other disciplines.
A
- A.P.J Abdul Kalam, (born October 15, 1931) – Ex-President of India
- Michael P. Anderson – died in Columbia disaster
- Neil Armstrong, (1930–2012) First man on the moon
- 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
- Charles Bolden - NASA Administrator
- Frank Borman, (born March 14, 1928) First man circled the moon
- Ludwig Bölkow Me 262
- Wernher von Braun, (1912–1977), German rocket pioneer
- Yvonne Brill, (1924–2013), Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster (EHT)
- Adolf Busemann Swept wing
C
- Sir Sydney Camm
- Sir George Cayley – notable for his research in aerodynamics
- Roy Chadwick
- Roger Chaffee – Apollo 1 fire victim
- Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003)- died in Columbia disaster
- Vladimir Chelomei
- Juan de la Cierva – Inventor of the autogyro
- 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
- Werner Dahm [1]
- Alberto Santos Dumont, (1873–1932) Inventor of the dirigible and aeronautics pioneer
- Marcel Dassault, (1892–1986)
- Serge Dassault (1925–)
- Leonardo da Vinci, (1452–1519)
- Satish Dhawan, (1920–2002)
- Paul Bernard Dilworth, (1915–2007)
- Heini Dittmar, (1911–1960) first man faster than 1000 km/h (Me163A and Me163B test pilot) and first sailplane world champion 1937.
- Claudius Dornier
- Iain Dowie
- Sir George Dowty
- Pedro Duque
E
F
- Charles Richard Fairey, founder of the Fairey Aviation company
- Roy Fedden, a British engine designer for Bristol Engine Company
- Anton Flettner
- Anthony Fokker, (1890–1939)
- Henry Folland
- Gerhard Fieseler German aircraft designer
G
- Valentin Glushko
- Robert Goddard
- Tadeusz Góra
- Jay Greene
- Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903–1987) – Italian aircraft designer
- Bartolomeu de Gusmão - Portuguese Priest aircraft designer
H
- B. J. Habibie
- Raoul Hafner
- Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882–1965)
- Harry Hawker
- Edward H. Heinemann
- Ernst Heinkel
- Homer Hickam
- Peter K. Homer
- Howard Hughes, aerospace engineer, cineast, entrepreneur
- François Hussenot, inventor of one of the early forms of the flight recorder
- Rick Husband – died in the Columbia disaster
- Wolfgang Haack
- Stanley Hooker
J
- Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (1910–1990)
- Robert T. Jones
K
- Theodore von Kármán, (1881–1963)
- Dietrich Küchemann
- Sergey Korolev
- Chris Kraft
- Ave K. Kludze, Jr.
- Eugene Kranz Aeronautical Engineer
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
- Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898–1978)
- R. J. Mitchell
- Montgolfier Brothers
- William C. McCool, died in Columbia disaster
N
- Gerhard Neumann General Electric J79
O
- Hermann Oberth (1894–1989)
- Hans von Ohain (1911–1998)
P
- Richard Pearse – Early New Zealand aircraft builder.
- W. E. W. (Teddy) Petter
- Percy Pilcher
- Herman Potočnik, (1892–1929)
- Ludwig Prandtl
- Henry Potez
R
- Judith Resnik
- Osborne Reynolds, (1842–1912)
- Ben Rich – Lockheed Martin Skunk Works; contributor to SR-71 and President during F-117 development
- John M. Riebe, (1921–2011)
- Wilfrid Thomas Reid (1887–1968)
- Les Frères Robert, Anne-Jean Robert (1758–1820), and Nicolas-Louis Robert. 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
- Igor Sikorsky
- Herbert Smith (engineer) – Designer of the Sopwith Triplane
- Sir Tom Sopwith – Sopwith Aeroplane company
- Victor Szebehely – Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics
- Nevil Shute – Aeronautical Engineer & Author
- Joe Sutter – Chief engineer for the Boeing 747
T
- Richard Truly – former Astronaut and head of NASA
- Andrei Tupolev – Founder of OKB Tupolev
- Theodore Theodorsen – Aerodynamicist at NACA
- Kurt Tank – Design Engineer for Focke-Wulf
V
- Aurel Vlaicu
- Traian Vuia – First flight with no other ground devices
W
- Sir Barnes Wallis (1887–1979)
- Ken Wallis MBE – autogyro
- Hellmuth Walter, (1900–1980) – rocket engines
- Edward Curtis Wells (1910-1986)
- Richard Whitcomb
- Sir Frank Whittle, (1907–1996)
- Stanisław Wigura, (1901–1932)
- The Wright Brothers
X
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)
- Robert Zubrin
- Henri Ziegler, father of the Airbus program