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Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and, as of 2016, controlled five companies.
Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer (born 1958)
Mike Oldfield
English musician (born 1953)

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English novelist (1938–2025)
Amy Johnson
pioneering English aviator (1903–1941)

Keith Emerson
British recording artist; keyboard player and composer (1944–2016)

Frank Whittle
British Royal Air Force engineer air officer (1907–1996)

George Cayley
British aeronautics engineer (1773-1857)
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Royal Air Force air marshal and writer (1892-1984)

Douglas Bader
British World flying ace (1910-1982)
Zara Rutherford
Belgian-British pilot
John Alcock
British captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (1892-1919)

George Abecassis
racecar driver
Martin Shaw
British actor
Albert Ball
British aviator killed in WWI
Lilian Bland
English aviator (1878-1971)
Hamish Harding
British businessman, astronaut, and pilot
Reginald Denny
British actor, aviator and businessman (1891–1967)
Thomas Sopwith
English aviation pioneer and yachtsman (1888-1989)
Will Hay
English comedian, actor, film director & astronomer (1888-1949)
Percy Pilcher
British aviator (1866–1899)
Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet
British intelligence officer and sportsman (1867–1934)
Paul Bonhomme
British air racer
James McCudden
recipient of the Victoria Cross (1895–1918)
Lewis Collins
English actor (1946-2013)
Diana Barnato Walker
British aviator (1918–2008)

Lanoe Hawker
British World War I fighter pilot, recipient of the Victoria Cross. (1890–1916)
Charles Eaton
RAAF officer (1895–1979)
Nigel Lamb
British air racer
Maureen Dunlop de Popp
Argentine-British pilot (1920-2012)

Bernard Rubin
Australian racing driver (1896–1936)
John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
British politician (1884-1964)
Frank Halford
British aerospace engineer
Maurice Wilson
British mountain climber (1898-1934)
Ronald Adam
British RAF officer, actor and theatre manager (1896-1979)
Sheila Scott
British aviator (1922–1988)
Sir John Carden, 6th Baronet
English aviator, inventor, automotive engineer (1892–1935)
John Stuart Hindmarsh
English racecar driver and aviator (1907–1938)
Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth
British racing driver (1909–1940)
Bill Gunston
author
Glen Kidston
English racing driver (1899–1931)
Princess Anne, Princess Ludwig of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg
English socialite and aviation patron and enthusiast (1864–1927)
Richard Waghorn
English aviator (1904-1931)
Hilda Hewlett
Aviator and business entrepreneur (1864–1943)
Richard Tomlinson
British Secret Intelligence Service officer
Joan Hughes
English pilot (1918-1993)
Cecil Arthur Lewis
British fighter pilot (1898–1997)
Robert Loraine
British stage actor, actor, manager and soldier (1876-1935)
Walter G. R. Hinchliffe
British WWI flying ace

Lettice Curtis
English aviator; Air Transport Auxiliary pilot
Robert Stanford Tuck
British fighter pilot and test pilot (1916–1987)
Alan Cobham
British aviation pioneer (1894–1973)
Francis Howard Bickerton
British explorer (1889-1954)
Jennifer Murray
First female pilot to circumnavigate the globe by helicopter
Bertram Hopkinson
British lawyer, engineer and academic (1874-1918)
Howard Pixton
British air racer (1885-1972)
Arthur Rhys-Davids
British flying ace
Christopher Draper
British WWI flying ace (1892-1979)

Cyril Lovesey
British aerospace engineer
Brian Edmund Baker
British Royal Air Force air marshal (1896-1979)