Category
page 1Firearm designers
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Soviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
Samuel Colt
19th-century American industrialist and inventor (1814–1862)
John Browning
firearms designer of the United States (1855-1926)
Eli Whitney
American inventor (1765-1825)

Hiram Stevens Maxim
American-born inventor (1840-1916)
Richard Jordan Gatling
American firearm designer (1818–1903)

Gaston Glock
Austrian engineer and CEO of firearms manufacturer Glock (1929–2023)
Vasily Degtyaryov
Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1880-1949)
Eugene Stoner
American firearms designer (1922–1997)
Fedor Tokarev
Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1871-1968)
Yevgeny Dragunov
Soviet inventor (1920–1991)
Joseph Whitworth
English engineer, entrepreneur (1804–1887)
Georg Luger
Austrian firearm designer (1849–1923)
Uziel Gal
Israeli firearm designer (1923-2002)
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
Russian Major General, designer of the famous Mosin-Nagant rifle (1849-1902)
Hugo Schmeisser
German firearm designer (1884–1953)
Aimo Lahti
Finnish weapons designer
Georgy Shpagin
Soviet weapons designer (1897-1952)
Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov
Russian and Soviet weapons designer (1874-1966)
Ferdinand Mannlicher
Austrian firearms designer (1848-1904)
Aleksei Sudaev
Soviet weapon designer (1912-1946)
Oliver Winchester
American businessman and politician (1810-1880)
Eliphalet Remington
American firearm designer (1793–1861)
Nikolay Makarov
Soviet firearms designer (1914–1988)
John Garand
Canadian firearm designer (1888–1974)
Karl Wilhelm Naundorff
German clock maker, who claimed to be Louis XVII of France (1785-1845)
Kijirō Nambu
military officer and firearms designer (1869-1949) of Japan
Paul Mauser
German weapon designer and manufacturer (1838-1914)
Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen
Danish general and politician (1844–1917)
John Taliaferro Thompson
United States Army officer (1860-1940)
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov
Soviet weapons designer (1894-1986)
Nagant
Belgian weapons and automobile manufacturing company
Louis Schmeisser
weapons designer in Europe in the early 1900s
Benjamin Tyler Henry
American gunsmith and manufacturer (1821-1898)
Claude-Étienne Minié
French Army officer (1804–1879)
Hugo Borchardt
German firearms designer (1844–1924)
Alexander John Forsyth
British clergyman and inventor (1769-1843)
Daniel B. Wesson
American gunsmith (1825–1906)
Antoine Alphonse Chassepot
French engineer (1833–1905)
Thorsten Nordenfelt
Swedish arms manufacturer (1842–1920)
Hiram Berdan
Union Army General (1824–1893)
Arisaka Nariakira
Japanese general (1852-1915)
Louis-Nicolas Flobert
Gunsmith, inventor (1819–1894)
Henri-Gustave Delvigne
19th-century French soldier and inventor
Honoré Blanc
French engineer
Yisrael Galili
Israeli firearm designer (1923–1995)
Alfred von Kropatschek
Austrian general (1838–1911)
Igor Stechkin
Russian designer (1922-2001)
Wilhelm Mauser
German weapon designer (1834–1882)
Henry Deringer
American gunsmith (1786-1868)
Heinrich Vollmer
German firearm designer (1885–1961)
Alexander Nudelman
Soviet engineer, aircraft guns designer (1912–1996)
Gordon Ingram
American firearm inventor and businessperson
Nicolas Lebel
French designer (1838–1891)

Victor Kalashnikov
Russian firearm designer (1942–2018)
Basile Gras
French military person and politician (1836-1901)
Kunitomo Ikkansai
gunsmith
Dieudonné Saive
Belgian firearm designer (1889-1973)
Cody Rutledge Wilson
American weapons developer (1988-)
Gennadiy Nikonov
Russian firearm designer (1950–2003)