List of aerospace engineers

A

• Talbert Abrams – aerial photography and plexiglas pioneer, designer of the Abrams P-1 Explorer
• Gerd Achgelis – helicopter pioneer
• Jakob Ackeret
• Clément Ader – early aviation pioneer
• Bruce Aikenhead – Avro Canada, NASA
• Buzz Aldrin – astronaut, mechanical engineer and second person to walk on the Moon
• Rostislav Alexeyev – ground effect vehicle designer
• Edmund T. Allen – engineer, test pilot
• Harry Julian Allen – NASA, inventor of blunt body re-entry vehicles
• Gwen Alston – aerodynamicist
• Oleg Antonov – founder of the OKB-153 Antonov design bureau
• Neil Armstrong – astronaut, aeronautical engineer and first person to walk on the Moon
• Yuri Artsutanov – space elevator pioneer
• Holt Ashley – researched aeroelasticity
• Lee Atwood – North American Aviation engineer

  B

• Brunolf Baade – lead designer of the Baade 152
• Erich Bachem – designer of the Bachem Ba 349 Natter rocket plane
• Leonard Bairstow – National Physical Laboratory researcher
• Herman Barkey – led the design team for the McDonnell Aircraft F-4 Phantom
• V. P. Barmin – designer of the rocket launch complex
• Frank Barnwell – chief engineer Bristol Aeroplane Company
• Robert Ludvigovich Bartini – designer of the Bartini Beriev VVA-14 and other experimental projects, founder of the OKB-86 design bureau
• Yaakov Bar-Shalom – researcher of target tracking
• L. E. Baynes – designer of the Baynes Bat tank glider
• Jim Bede
• Hermann Behrbohm – aerodynamicist at Messerschmidt and Saab
• Rex Beisel – lead engineer at Curtiss and Vought
• Giuseppe Mario Bellanca – aircraft pioneer, blended wing designer
• Viktor Nikolayevich Belyaev – strength engineer, designer of the Belyayev DB-LK
• Dwight Henry Bennett – developed Fly-by-wire technology, helped design the F2Y, F-102, F-4 Phantom, F/A-18
• Thomas W. Benoist – early airline entrepreneur
• Igor Bensen – autogyro designer
• Max Bentele – jet engine pioneer
• Aleksandr Bereznyak – designer of the BI-1 rocket plane
• Georgy Beriev – founder of the OKB-49 Beriev design bureau
• J. D. Bernal – invented the Bernal sphere for space habitation
• Albert Betz – designer and researcher
• Paul Bevilaqua – lift fan inventor
• Ronald Eric Bishop - chief designer of the de Havilland Mosquito
• Matus Bisnovat – missile designer
• Robert Blackburn – aviation pioneer
• Louis Blériot – aviation pioneer
• George Eugene Bockrath – researched fracture mechanics
• Hendrik Wade Bode – NASA advisor
• Jenny Body – former President of the Royal Aeronautical Society
• William Boeing – founder of Boeing
• Charles Bolden – NASA Administrator
• Viktor Bolkhovitinov – lead designer of the Bolkhovitinov DB-A bomber, founder of the OKB-293 design bureau
• Ludwig Bölkow – aerodynamicist for the Me 262
• Alan Bond – designed spaceplanes and an SST
• Philip Bono – space launcher developer
• Frank Borman – commanded first mission to circle the Moon
• Karel Bossart – lead designer of the Atlas ICBM
• Enea Bossi Sr. – aviation pioneer
• William Hawley Bowlus – glider designer
• John Boyd – created the energy–maneuverability theory
• Frances Bradfield – wind tunnel researcher
• Ferdinand Brandner – aircraft engine designer
• Erik Bratt – lead designer at Saab AB
• Vance Breese – engineer and test pilot
• Louis Charles Breguet – aviation pioneer, founder of Bréguet Aviation
• Maurice Brennan – designer of flying boats, helicopters, transports, rockets, hovercraft
• Yvonne Brill – electrothermal hydrazine thruster
• Arthur E. Bryson – "father of modern optimal control theory"
• Isabelle Buret – engineer specializing in telecommunications and astronautics
• Vincent Burnelli – blended wing and lifting body designer
• Anne Burns – wind shear expert
• Adolf Busemann – swept wing
• Robert W. Bussard – designer of nuclear thermal rocket engines
• Fedor Ivanovich Bylinkin – aviation pioneer

  C

• Sydney Camm – Hawker Hurricane designer
• Secondo Campini – jet engine pioneer
• Giovanni Caproni – founder of Caproni
• Albert Caquot – aviation pioneer
• Mario Castoldi – chief designer at Aeronautica Macchi
• Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave – undertook pioneering work in the mathematics of aeronautics
• George Cayley – notable for his research in aerodynamics
• Clyde Cessna – early aircraft designer and founder of Cessna
• Roy Chadwick – design engineer for the Avro Company
• Roger Chaffee – Apollo 1 fire victim on January 27, 1967
• George Henry Challenger – engineer with the Bristol Aeroplane Company and later with Vickers
• Jim Chamberlin – Avro Canada, NASA
• Roy Chaplin – Hawker Aircraft
• George Chapline Jr. – proposer of a fission-fragment rocket
• Kalpana Chawla – died in the Columbia disaster
• Vladimir Chelomey – founder of the OKB-52 rocket design bureau
• Boris Ivanovich Cheranovsky – flying wing designer
• Boris Chertok – space program control systems designer
• Chu Chia-Jen
• Thomas P. Christie – mathematician, co-creator of the Energy–maneuverability theory with John Boyd
• Zbysław Ciołkosz – introduced the use of shaft turbine power for helicopters
• John Drury Clark – developer of jet and rocket fuel
• Val Cleaver – rocket engineer
• Henri Coandă – inventor of the jet engine
• Richard Coar – RJ10 rocket engine designer
• Christopher Cockerell – hovercraft inventor
• Dandridge MacFarlan Cole – Titan II designer
• Franklin R. Collbohm – Douglas test pilot, engineer, and executive, co-founder of the RAND Corporation
• Giuseppe Colombo – developed the gravitational assist profile used in the Mariner 10 mission to Mercury, invented the space tether
• Nicholas Comper – designer of the Comper Swift
• Philip M. Condit – former CEO of Boeing
• René Couzinet – invented retractable landing gear
• Eugene E. Covert – wind tunnel designer
• Ray Creasey aerodynamicist, helped design the BAC Lightning
• Gaetano Crocco – rocketry pioneer
• Scott Crossfield – first man to fly faster than twice the speed of sound in NAA's X-15
• Alwyn Crow – rocket designer
• Irv Culver – P-38 designer
• Glenn Curtiss – founder of the US aircraft industry
• Kazimierz Czarnecki – NACA and NASA engineer

  D

• Werner Dahm
• Frederick Dallenbach – Auxiliary power unit designer
• Corradino D'Ascanio – helicopter pioneer
• Marcel Dassault
• Serge Dassault
• Arthur Davenport – Westland Aircraft
• Fred David – designer at Heinkel, Mitsubishi, Aichi Kokuki and Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
• Stuart Davies – designed the Avro Lancaster and Vulcan
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Geoffrey de Havilland
• Louis de Monge – blended wing inventor
• Juan de la Cierva – inventor of the autogyro
• Satish Dhawan
• Walter Stuart Diehl – created US Navy test facilities, authored Engineering Aerodynamics
• Bertil Dillner – engineer at Saab and Boeing
• Paul Bernard Dilworth
• Heini Dittmar – record-breaking pilot
• Jurgis Dobkevičius – Lithuanian aviation constructor, military pilot
• Takeo Doi – designer for Kawasaki Aircraft Industries
• Tom Dolan – developed the lunar orbit rendezvous concept for the Apollo program
• Roy Dommett – the United Kingdom's Chief Missile Scientist
• Charles J. Donlan – NASA manager
• Allen F. Donovan WW2 aircraft, Atlas and Titan missiles, nuclear rockets
• Jimmy Doolittle – instrument flying developer
• Étienne Dormoy – airplane and autogyro designer
• Claude Dornier
• Anatoly Dorodnitsyn – researched meteorology, vortex wing theory, boundary layer theory in a compressible gas, and supersonic gas dynamics
• Donald W. Douglas – founder of the Douglas Aircraft Company
• George Dowty – designer of aircraft components
• Charles Stark Draper – developed inertial navigation
• Hugh Latimer Dryden – researcher and NASA administrator
• Guy du Merle – engineer, test flew captured Bf 109 and He 111 in Spain
• Alberto Santos Dumont – inventor of the dirigible; aeronautics pioneer
• J. W. Dunne – invented the first delta wing
• Pedro Duque – engineer and astronaut
• William F. Durand – propeller designer, NACA chair
• Ludwig Dürr – airship designer
• Leonid Dushkin – rocket engine designer

  E

• George Edwards – designer at Vickers-Armstrongs and BAC
• Alfred J. Eggers – NACA / NASA researcher, developed re-entry bodies and compression lift, managed Pioneer program
• Joe Engle – astronaut
• Robert Esnault-Pelterie – aviation and rocketry pioneer, invented the center stick
• Walter Extra – aerobatic aircraft designer

  F

• Maxime Faget – designer of the Project Mercury spacecraft
• Ole Fahlin – propeller and prototype airplane developer
• Sherman Fairchild – founded Fairchild Aircraft
• Charles Richard Fairey – founder of the Fairey Aviation Company
• Farman Brothers
• Robert W. Farquhar – NASA engineer, inventor of the halo orbit
• Roy Fedden – British engine designer for Bristol Engine Company
• Bobak Ferdowsi – JPL flight engineer
• Antonio Ferri – created the Ferri scoop used on the jet intakes of the XF-103, F-105, XF8U-3, and SSM-N-9 Regulus II cruise missile, and the diverterless supersonic inlet used on the F-35
• Gerhard Fieseler – German aircraft designer
• Harold Finger – Project NERVA lead engineer
• Gary Flandro – NASA researcher, conceived the Planetary Grand Tour fulfilled by the Voyager program
• Alexander H. Flax – developer of tandem helicopters and reconnaissance satellites
• Anton Flettner – helicopter pioneer
• Nicolas Florine – helicopter pioneer
• James C. Floyd – Avro Canada designer
• Henrich Focke – helicopter pioneer
• Anthony Fokker
• Henry Folland – chief designer at Nieuport, Gloster, and Folland Aircraft
• Edward Forman – co-founder of JPL, Aerojet
• Robert L. Forward – designer of solar sails and space tethers
• Harlan D. Fowler – Fowler flap inventor
• John Fozard – Hawker Siddeley Harrier designer
• Anselm Franz – jet engine pioneer
• Stelio Frati – designer of several aircraft inc the SIAI-Marchetti SF.260
• Leslie Frise – designed the Type 156 Bristol Beaufighter
• John Carver Meadows Frost – chief designer of the Avro Canada CF-100 and several VTOL projects
• Michimasa Fujino – Hondajet designer