List of aerospace engineers - Definition and Overview

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.

A

• Neil Armstrong, (born 1930)

B

• Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977), famous German rocket pioneer

C

• Sir Sydney Camm
• Sir George Cayley - inventor of the science of aerodynamics
• Roger Chaffee - Apollo 1 fire victim
• Philip Condit
• Henri Coanda
• Glenn Curtiss

D

• Leonardo Da Vinci, (1452-1519)
• Marcel Dassault, (1892-1986)
• Geoffrey de Havilland, (1882-1965)
• Claudius Dornier

E

F

• Anthony Fokker, (1890-1939)
• Stelio Frati Italian aircraft designer responsible for the Falco and SIAI Marchetti

G

• Robert Goddard

H

• Ernst Heinkel

I

J

• Clarence "Kelly" Johnson
• Hugo Junkers, (1859-1935)
• Joe Juneau, (NHL hockey player)

K

• Theodore von Kármán, (1881-1963)

L

• Samuel Pierpont Langley - aircraft
• Alexander Lippisch

M

• Ernst Mach, (1838-1916)
• Wilhelm Messerschmitt (1898-1978)
• R.J. Mitchell
• Montgolfier Brothers

N

O

• Hans von Ohain

P

• Richard Pearse - Early New Zealand aircraft builder who is reputed to have made the first powered aircraft flight on March 31, 1903
• Herman Potočnik, (1892-1929)
• Ludwig Prandtl

Q

R

• Judith Resnik
• Osborne Reynolds, (1842-1912)
• Ben Rich - Skunk Works engineer who helped design the engine inlet for the SR-71, winner of a Collier Trophy
• Burt Rutan

S

• Victor Szebehely - Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics
• Mikhail Simonov - Major contributor to the design of the Su-27 and its derivatives, in addition to the Su-47.
• Pavel Sukhoi - Founder of OKB Sukhoi.
• Mercedes Sanders-Aerospace Engineer & Electrical Engineer one of the first African American females to graduate from Georgia Tech University with a degree in Aerospace Engineering

T

• Kurt Tank, (1898-1983)
• Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, (1857-1935)
• Andrey Tupolev - Founder of OKB Tupolev.

U

V

W

• Hellmuth Walter, (1900-1980) - rocket engines
• Richard Whitcomb
• 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)