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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