Armstrong, Neil Alden (1930–2012)

Beachey, Lincoln (1887–1915)
Blanchard, Jean Pierre François (1783–1809)
Blériot, Louis (1872–1936)

Cayley, George (1773–1857)
Cierva, Juan de la (1895–1936)
Cobb, Geraldyn ("Jerrie") (1931–2019)
Crossfield, Albert Scott (1921–2006)
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond (1878–1930)

DeFrance, Smith J. (1896–1985)
Doolittle, James (1896–1993)
Dornier, Claude (1884–1969)
Dryden, Hugh Latimer (1898–1965)

Earhart, Amelia (1897–1937)
Esnault-Pelterie, Robert (1881–1957)

Glenn, John Herschel (1921–2016)

Hatry, Julius (1906–2000)

Johnson, Clarence L. (Kelly) (1910–1990)

Kármán, Theodore von (1881–1963)
Kittinger, Joseph W. (1928–2022)

Langley, Samuel Pierpoint (1834–1906)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
Lilienthal, Otto (1848–1896)
Lindbergh, Charles (1902–1974)
Low, Archibald Montgomery (1888–1956)
Lundin, Bruce T. (1919–2006)

Messerschmitt, Wilhelm (1898–1978)
Montgolfier brothers

Piccard, Auguste (1884–1962) and Jean Félix (1884–1963)
Pilâtre de Rozier, Jean François (1756–85)

Quimby, Harriet (1875–1912)

Rutan, Elbert L. ("Burt") (1943–)

Tupolev, Andrei (1888–1972)

Von Ohain, Hans Joachim Pabst (1911–1998)

Walker, Joseph Albert (1921–1966)
Whittle, Frank (1907–1996)
Williams, Walter C. (1919–1995)
Wright brothers and the dawn of powered flight

Yeager, Charles ("Chuck") E. (1923–2020)