List of aerospace engineers
This is a list of notable aerospace engineers, people who were trained in or practiced aerospace engineering and design.
A
- Buzz Aldrin (born 1930) – astronaut, mechanical engineer and second person to walk on the moon
- Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) – astronaut, aeronautical engineer and first person to walk on the moon
B
- V. P. Barmin (1909–1993) – designer of the rocket launch complex
- Frank Barnwell (1880–1938) – chief engineer, Bristol Aeroplane Company
- Jim Bede (April 17, 1933 – July 9, 2015)
- Thomas W. Benoist (1874–1917) – early airline entrepreneur
- Jenny Body – former President of the Royal Aeronautical Society[1]
- William Boeing (1881–1956) – founder of Boeing
- Charles Bolden (born 1946) – NASA Administrator
- Ludwig Bölkow (1912–2003) – aerodynamicist for the Me 262
- Frank Borman (born 1928) – first man to circle the Moon
- Yvonne Brill (1924–2013) – electrothermal hydrazine thruster
- Adolf Busemann (1901–1986) – swept wing
C
- Sir Sydney Camm (1893–1966)
- Giovanni Caproni (1886–1957)
- Sir George Cayley (1773–1857) – notable for his research in aerodynamics
- Clyde Cessna (1879–1954) – early aircraft designer and founder of Cessna
- Roy Chadwick (1893–1947)
- Roger Chaffee (1935–1967) – Apollo 1 fire victim on January 27, 1967
- Kalpana Chawla (1961–2003) – died in the Columbia disaster
- Vladimir Chelomei (1914–1984)
- Henri Coandă (1886–1972) – inventor of the jet engine
- Nicholas Comper (1897–1939) – designer of the Comper Swift
- Philip M. Condit (born 1941) – former CEO of Boeing
- Scott Crossfield (1921–2006) – first man to fly faster than twice the speed of sound in NAA's X-15
- Glenn Curtiss (1878–1930) – founder of the US aircraft industry
D
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
- Werner Dahm (1917–2008)[2]
- Marcel Dassault (1892–1986)
- Serge Dassault (1925–2018)
- Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965)
- Juan de la Cierva (1895–1936) – 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 (1884–1969)
- Donald W. Douglas (1892–1981) – founder of the Douglas Aircraft Company
- Iain Dowie (born 1965)
- Sir George Dowty (1901–1975)
- Alberto Santos Dumont (1873–1932) – inventor of the dirigible; aeronautics pioneer
- Pedro Duque (born 1963)
E
- Joe Engle (born 1932)
- Walter Extra (born 1954)
F
- Maxime Faget (1921–2004) – designer of the Project Mercury spacecraft
- Charles Richard Fairey (1857–1956) – founder of the Fairey Aviation Company
- Roy Fedden (1885–1973) – British engine designer for Bristol Engine Company
- Gerhard Fieseler (1896–1987) – German aircraft designer
- Anton Flettner (1885–1961)
- Anthony Fokker (1890–1939)
- Henry Folland (1889–1954)
G
- Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903–1987) – Italian aircraft designer
- John Glenn (1921–2016) – first American man to orbit the Earth in 1962
- Valentin Glushko (1908–1989)
- Robert Goddard (1882–1945) – scientist who developed the first liquid-fueled rocket 3-16-26
- Tadeusz Góra (1918–2010)
- Jay Greene (1942–2017)
- Gus Grissom (1926–1967) – Apollo 1 fire victim on January 27, 1967
- Bartolomeu de Gusmão (1685–1724) – Portuguese priest; aircraft designer
- Antanas Gustaitis (1898–1941) – Lithuanian aircraft designer, Brigadier General, Commander-in-Chief of Lithuanian Air Force
H
- Wolfgang Haack (1902–1994)
- B. J. Habibie (1936–2019)
- Raoul Hafner (1905–1980)
- 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
- Chris Heintz (aeronautical engineer) – French/Canadian aircraft designer
- Homer Hickam (born 1943)
- Peter K. Homer (born 1961)
- Stanley Hooker (1907–1984) – British engine engineer for Rolls Royce Aerospace
- Jiro Horikoshi (1903–1982) – chief engineer for the Mitsubishi A6M
- Howard Hughes (1905–1976) – aerospace engineer, owned RKO movie studio
- Rick Husband (1957–2003) – died in the Columbia disaster
- François Hussenot (1912–1951) – inventor of one of the early forms of the flight recorder
J
- Clarence "Kelly" Johnson (1910–1990) – formed Lockheed's Skunk Works and led the design of the SR-71, U-2, F-117A, F-104, C-130, T-33, P-38, and Constellations
- Katherine Johnson (1918–2020) – mathematician who worked as an aerospace technologist at NASA
- Robert Thomas Jones (1910–1999) – 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 (born 1958) (born 1961) – founders of Cirrus
- Ave K. Kludze, Jr.
- Sergey Korolev (1907–1966)
- Chris Kraft (1924–2019)
- Eugene Kranz (born 1933) – aeronautical engineer
- Dietrich Küchemann (1911–1976)
L
- Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834–1906) – aircraft
- Diane Lemaire (1923–2012) – first woman to graduate from the University of Melbourne with a degree in engineering
- Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896)
- Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) – made first solo transatlantic airplane flight from NY to Paris in 1927 on Spirit of St. Louis
- Per Lindstrand (born 1948) – balloons and other aircraft
- Alexander Lippisch (1894–1976)
- Glynn Lunney (1936–2021)
- Arkhip Lyulka (1908–1984)
M
- Paul MacCready (1925–2007)
- Elsie MacGill (1905–1980)
- Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
- Frederick Marriott (1805–1884)
- Mark D. Maughmer (born 1950)
- William C. McCool (1961–2003) – died in the Columbia disaster
- Sean McMahon (born 1994) – aeronautical engineer
- Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898–1978) – designed Bf 109 and jet powered Me 262
- Arseny Mironov (1917–2019) – Russian scientist, aerospace engineer and aircraft pilot
- R. J. Mitchell (1895–1937) – Englishman who designed the Spitfire aircraft
- Montgolfier brothers (1740–1810) (1745–1799)
- John J. Montgomery (1858–1911)
- Albert Mooney (1906–1986)
- Alan Mulally (born 1945) – Boeing executive and President of Ford
- Elon Musk (born 1971) – founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla
N
- Aleksandr Nadiradze (1914–1987) – Soviet Georgian ballistic missile and rocket engineer
- Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997) – 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
O
- Hermann Oberth (1894–1989)
- Wendy Okolo
P
- Paul C. Paris (1930–2017) – known for introducing fracture mechanics to the aviation industry
- Richard Pearse (1877–1953) – early New Zealand aircraft builder
- W. E. W. (Teddy) Petter (1908–1968)
- Percy Pilcher (1867–1899)
- 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 (1891–1981)
- Herman Potočnik (1892–1929)
- Ludwig Prandtl (1875–1953)
R
- Wilfrid Thomas Reid (1887–1968)
- Judith Resnik (1949–1986)
- Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912)
- Ben Rich (1925–1995) – director of Lockheed's Skunk Works; contributed to SR-71 and F-117 development
- John M. Riebe (1921–2011)
- Robert brothers (1758–1820) (1760–1820) – balloonists
- Frank D. Robinson (born 1930)
- Sir Alliott Verdon Roe (1877–1956)
- Jan Roskam (born 1930)
- Ludwig Roth (1909–1967)
- Edward J. Ruppelt (1923–1960) – director of Project Blue Book
- Burt Rutan (born 1943) – airplane and spacecraft designer
- Tubal Claude Ryan (1898–1982) – founder of the Ryan Aeronautical Company
S
- Edgar Schmued (1899–1985) – lead engineer on the P-51, F-86, F-100, F-5, T-38
- Yonas Segid (born 1991) – NASA Administrator for the Apollo TV Stand Program
- Joe Shea (1947–2016) – NASA Administrator for the Apollo Program
- Nevil Shute (1899–1960) – aeronautical engineer and author
- Igor Sikorsky (1889–1972) – pioneered helicopters
- Ozires Silva (born 1931) – founder of Embraer
- Herbert Smith (1889–1977) – designer of the Sopwith Triplane
- Sir Tom Sopwith (1888–1989) – Sopwith Aviation Company
- Harrison Storms (1915–1992) – directed North American Aviation's Apollo Program
- Joe Sutter (1921–2016) – chief engineer for the Boeing 747
- Victor Szebehely (1921–1977) – aerospace engineering and celestial mechanics
T
- Max Taitz (1904–1980) – scientist in aerodynamics and flight testing of aircraft, one of the founders of Gromov Flight Research Institute
- Kurt Tank (1898–1983) – designer of the Focke-Wulf
- Clarence Gilbert Taylor (1898–1988) – designer of the Piper Cub
- Moulton Taylor (1912–1965) – experimental aircraft pioneer
- Theodore Theodorsen (1897–1978) – aerodynamicist at NACA estate
- Richard Truly (born 1937) – former astronaut and head of NASA
- Andrei Tupolev (1888–1972) – founder of OKB Tupolev
V
- Richard VanGrunsven (born 1939) – prolific kit aircraft engineer
- Aurel Vlaicu (1882–1913)
- Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) – German rocket pioneer
- Theodore von Kármán (1881–1963)
- Hans von Ohain (1911–1998)
- Traian Vuia (1872–1950) – 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 (1916–2013) MBE – autogyro
- Hellmuth Walter (1900–1980) – rocket engines
- Johanna Weber (1910–2014)
- Günter Wendt (1924–2010) – McDonnell Aircraft and North American Aviation engineer; pad leader, prepared all crewed Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft
- Fred Weick (1899–1993)
- Daniel Weihs (born 1942)
- Edward Curtis Wells (1910–1986)
- Richard Whitcomb (1921–2009)
- Ed White (1930–1967) – Apollo 1 fire victim on January 27, 1967
- 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 (1871–1948) (1867–1912) – made first powered airplane flight on Dec 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, NC
X
- Qian Xuesen (1911–2009)
Y
- Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (1906–1989) – founder of OKB Yakovlev
- Chuck Yeager (1923–2020) – 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 (1906–1998) – father of the Airbus program
- Robert Zubrin (born 1952)
References
- "Jenny Body". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
- "American Institute of Physics". Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
- "NASA - Parachutes—For Entire Airplanes".
- "Dwane L. Wallace - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society".
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