Biographies: Selected Astronauts and Aviators

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Selected Astronauts and Aviators

Amelia Earhardt

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Biographies by Category

• Aldrin, Buzz, astronaut
• Armstrong, Neil, astronaut
• Blériot, Louis, aviator and inventor
• Boeing, William Edward, aircraft manufacturer
• Boyington, Gregory 'Pappy', aviator, world war II figure
• Bullard, Eugene Jacques, aviator
• Carpenter, Malcolm Scott, astronaut
• Cayley, Sir George, founder of aerodynamics
• Cessna, Clyde Vernon, airplane manufacturer
• Chang-Dí¬az, Franklin, astronaut, scientist
• Chawla, Kalpana, astronaut
• Chimp, Ham the, astronaut
• Cochran, Jacqueline, pilot
• Coleman, Bessie, aviator
• Collins, Eileen, astronaut
• Collins, Michael, astronaut
• Cooper, Gordon, astronaut
• Corrigan, Wrong Way, aviator
• Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, inventor and aviation pioneer
• Doolittle, James, aviator, military leader, world war II figure
• Earhart, Amelia, aviator
• Fokker, Anthony, aviator
• Fossett, Steve, adventurer, business personality
• Gagarin, Yuri, astronaut
• Glenn, John Herschel, Jr., astronaut
• Goddard, Robert Hutchings, physicist and rocket expert
• Grissom, Virgil Ivan Gus, astronaut
• Hughes, Howard, business personality, aviator
• Jemison, Mae C., astronaut, physician
• Karman, Theodor von, aeronautical engineer
• Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich, rocket designer
• Leonov, Aleksei Arkhipovich, cosmonaut
• Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, aviator
• Lowe, Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt, aeronaut and inventor
• Lucid, Shannon, astronaut and biochemist
• Markham, Beryl, aviator
• McAuliffe, Christa, astronaut, educator
• Mitchell, William Billy, aviator, soldier
• Montgolfier, Joseph Michel and Jacques 탉tienne Montgolfier, inventors
• Ochoa, Ellen, astronaut
• Piper, William, airplane manufacturer
• Post, Wiley, aviator
• Quimby, Harriet, aviator
• Ride, Sally, astronaut
• Rutan, Burt, aerospace engineer
• Santos-Dumont, Alberto, aviator
• Selfridge, Thomas E., aviator
• Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr., astronaut
• Sikorsky, Igor Ivanovich, aeronautical engineer
• Slayton, Donald K. Deke, aviator, astronaut
• Tereshkova, Valentina, astronaut
• Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich, inventor and rocket expert
• Tupolev, Andrei Nikolayevich, aeronautical engineer
• von Braun, Wernher, rocket expert
• White, Edward Higgins, 2d, astronaut
• Whittle, Sir Frank, aeronautical engineer
• Williams, O. S. Ozzie, aeronautical engineer
• Wright brothers, airplane inventors
• Yeager, Chuck, aviator
• Young, John Watts, astronaut
• Zeppelin, Ferdinand, Graf von, army officer and airship inventor and builder