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Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
Theodore von Kármán
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)
Nikolay Zhukovsky
Russian scientist in mechanics and aerohydrodinamics
George Cayley
British aeronautics engineer (1773-1857)
Qian Xuesen
Chinese rocket scientist (1911-2009)
Adrian Newey
British Formula One engineer
Ludwig Prandtl
German physicist (1875-1953)
Richard von Mises
Austrian physicist and mathematician (1883-1953)
Henri Coandă
romanian inventor (1886-1972)
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975)
Martin Wilhelm Kutta
German mathematician (1867–1944)
Kelly Johnson
American aerospace engineer (1910–1990)
Gerald Bull
Canadian artillery engineer, entrepreneur (1928–1990)
Alexander Lippisch
German pioneer of aerodynamics (1894-1976)
Frederick W. Lanchester
British polymath (1868–1946)
Octave Chanute
French-American aviation pioneer (1832–1910)
Nikolas Tombazis
Greek racing car designer
Leonid Sedov
Russian physicist (1907-1999)
Bob Bell
British Formula One technical director
Hugh Latimer Dryden
American aeronautical scientist and civil servant (1898–1965)
George Constantinescu
Romanian engineer (1881-1965)
Geoff Willis
Formula One designer
Jakob Ackeret
Swiss aerodynamics engineer (1898-1981)
Loïc Bigois
French Formula One aerodynamicist
Edvard Rusjan
Slovene aviation pioneer (1886–1911)
Gaetano Crocco
Italian scientist (1877-1968)
John Joseph Montgomery
American aviation pioneer, inventor, scientist (1858-1911)
Elie Carafoli
Romanian aircraft designer (1901–1983)
Richard T. Whitcomb
US aerospace engineer
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz
German mathematician (1903–1974)
Adolf Busemann
German engineer (1901–1986)
Vladimir Vetchinkin
Russian aeronautical engineer, scientist (1888–1950)
John D. Anderson
curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution
Ben Agathangelou
British automotive engineer
Charles Deutsch
French racing driver (1911-1980)
Johanna Weber
German mathematician
Filippo Zappata
Italian aerospace engineer (1894-1994)
Yuri Ryzhov
Soviet scientist and Russian diplomat (1930-2017)
Michael Max Munk
German aerospace engineer (1890–1986)
Herbert A. Wagner
Austrian aerodynamicist (1900–1982)
Georges Abrial
French aerodynamicist (1898–1970)
Wolfgang Haack
German mathematician (1902-1994)
Ernst R. G. Eckert
American aerospace engineer
Antonia Terzi
Italian aerodynamicist (1971–2021)
Hermann Glauert
British aerodynamicist (1892–1934)
Hino Kumazo
Japanese general
Anatol Roshko
Canadian-born American physicist and engineer
Robert Thomas Jones
American aerospace engineer
Reinhard von Koenig-Fachsenfeld
German designer (1899–1992)
Dmitry Ryabushinsky
Russian physicist (1882–1962)
Mike Elliott
British aerodynamicist (born 1974)
John Iley
British motor racing aerodynamicist
Simon Lacey
British motorsport designer
Pavel Beneš
Czech aircraft engineer (1894-1956)
Stanisław Rogalski
Polish aircraft designer (1904–1976)
Erich Trefftz
German mathematician (1888–1937)
Milton Van Dyke
American fluid dynamicist
Erik Bratt
Swedish civil engineer and pilot
Shih-Ying Lee
American engineer and physicist (1918–2018)
Robert H. Scanlan
American civil engineer (1914–2001)