Category

Aviation pioneers

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Alexander Graham Bell

Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)

American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Brazilian aviation pioneer (1873-1932)

Abbas Ibn Firnas

9th century astronomer and physician

Sabiha Gökçen

first Turkish female combat pilot (1913–2001)

Nikolay Zhukovsky

Russian scientist in mechanics and aerohydrodinamics

Indian industrialist, philanthropist and aviator (1904–1993)

Hiram Stevens Maxim

American-born inventor (1840-1916)

romanian inventor (1886-1972)

Herberts Cukurs

Latvian aviator, Holocaust perpetrator (1900–1965)

Romanian aviation pioneer (1872–1950)

Charles Kingsford Smith

Australian aviator (1897-1935)

Hezârfen Ahmet Çelebi

purported Ottoman aviator of legend

Bartolomeu de Gusmão

Portuguese scientist

Lagâri Hasan Çelebi

Ottoman aviator

Romanian aviation pioneer (1882–1913)

Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen

Norwegian explorer (1890–1965)

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala

Croatian engineer and inventor (1871–1922)

Jacob Ellehammer

Danish aviator (1871–1946)

Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho

Portuguese aviator (1869-1959)

Norwegian flying ace, polar explorer and author (1888–1980)

Ahmet Ali Çelikten

Turkish aviator (1883–1969)

Alexander P. de Seversky

Russian-American aviation pioneer

Biathlete and modern pentathlete (1899–1964)

Bedriye Tahir Gökmen

Turkish aircraft pilot (1896–1969)

Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation (1888–1976)

Lilly Steinschneider

Austro-Hungarian aviator

Slovene aviation pioneer (1886–1911)

Romanian aviator (1901–1988)

Swiss aviation pioneer, photographer and entrepreneur (1894–1937)

Korean aviator (1901–1933)

Edmond Thieffry

Belgian aviator (1892-1929)

Vecihi Hürkuş

Turkish aviator (1896–1969)

Najla Ben Abdallah

Tunisian actress

Artur de Sacadura Cabral

Portuguese aviation pioneer

aviation pioneer (1879–1967)

Mariam al-Mansouri

First Emirati female fighter pilot

Sergei Utochkin

Russian aviator (1876-1916)

Silvio Pettirossi

Paraguayan aviator (1887-1916)

first Indian woman commercial pilot

Eduard Spelterini

Swiss aerial balloon captain, aviation pioneer and photographer (1852-1931)

Swiss photographer (1895-1965)

Croatian aircraft designer (1891-1960)

Finn Lützow-Holm

Norwegian military officer (1890-1950)

Czesław Zbierański

Polish aviator (1885–1982)

Carl Richard Nyberg

Swedish aviation pioneer (1858–1939)

Swiss aviation pioneer (1891–1919)

Božena Laglerová

pioneer aviator (1886–1941)

Chūhachi Ninomiya

Japanese aviation pioneer (1866–1936)

Brazilian aviation pioneer (1874–1915)

Japanese general

George de Bothezat

Romanian American engineer, businessman and aviation pioneer (1882-1940)

C. Donald Bateman

Canadian-born US electronics engineer, inventor

George Valentin Bibescu

Romanian aviation pioneer (1880–1941)

Aviation pioneer (1876-1966)

Charles Terres Weymann

Haitian aeroplane racing pilot and businessman (1889–1976)

Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão

Brazilian journalist

Chinese lawyer and pilot

Dmitry Ryabushinsky

Russian physicist (1882–1962)