| Thurston | | Established Compagnie Des Messageries Avienne, now named Air France |
| Rand | | Autogyros |
| Northrop | | In 1925 founded with Walter Beech, the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in Wichita KS |
| MacCready | | Created innovations such as the flying platform, the Coleopter |
| Jamouneau | | Developed a special wingtip "winglet", |
| DeHavilland | | British designer more than fifty aircraft like the Mosquito |
| Zeppelin | | MB-1 twin engined bomber of 1918, B-10 bomber and China Clippers, Marauder bombers |
| Langley | | First to fly an aircraft across the English Channel |
| Focke | | The Father of Human-Powered Flight |
| Rutan | | Original name was Marcel Bloch he changed his last name became a major part in the revival of the French aircraft industry |
| Sikorsky | | On October 7, 1963, his vision of a high speed, high luxury, corporate jet became a reality |
| Cierva | | his American civil engineer is considered one of the early pioneers of flight |
| Lear | | First to fly |
| Martin | | Invented the trubojet engine in 1930 |
| Taylor | | DR-1 tri-plane |
| Whitcomb | | Birth of Strategic Bombing in October 1915 with squadron-size raids by numerous ships |
| Johnson | | Cirrus Design Corporation is an aircraft manufacturer that was founded in 1984 |
| Klapmeier | | His light attack design resulted in the production of 2,960 Skyhawks |
| Tupolev | | Originally founded as the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Manufacturing Company |
| Mitchell | | Aeronautical engineer who invented the autogiro |
| Chanute | | Originally Loughead Aircraft Manufacturing Company |
| Cessna | | In 1920 in California he formed his own aircraft company in Santa Monica |
| Dassault | | Designer of Zenith Aircraft Company's line of kit aircraft |
| Dyke | | Most known for his work with gliders, influenced Wright Brothers airfoil design |
| Moss | | Among his notable achievements were the production of the U.S. Navy’s first carrier based jet fighter |
| Messerschmitt | | Designed and successfully demonstrated in 1940 the rocket powered ME 163 interceptor at speeds in excess of 600 MPH a world record |
| Lockheed | | German inventor, designed and developed many of the German helicopters |
| Fokker | | Aircraft included the FW-190 a fighter and attack aircraft |
| Bensen | | In 1928 an aircraft of his design, the Bremen, completed the first nonstop East-West transatlantic flight |
| Douglas | | Designed the Piper J-3 Cub |
| Weick | | Brothers Albert and Arthur with Charles "Pappy" Yankey build a small single-seater |
| Heinemann | | Project Manager of Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects Division |
| Caproni | | The father of the world famous Soviet ‘MIG’ series of combat aircraft |
| Piper | | Invented the Bell helicopter |
| Junkers | | Aerocar |
| Bleriot | | Scaled Composites |
| Beech | | American aircraft designer noted for his work on small amphibious aircraft |
| Mooney | | In 1916 he established an aircraft company called "Pacific Aero Products" |
| Mikoyan | | One of the Soviet Union’s foremost aircraft designers including the world’s first supersonic passenger plane |
| Wright | | He developed the world’s first true rocket plane and the first operational jet plane |
| Heinkel | | Co-founded aircraft company with his wife Olive Ann |
| Heintz | | He competed with the Wright Brothers to build the first manned airplane that could fly under its own power |
| Boeing | | He develops an exhaust gas-driven turbo-supercharger |
| Whittle | | His passion was to build a flying wing |
| McDonnell | | His company produced the world’s first operational jet fighter, sewing machines and motor scooters |
| Young | | Designed and developed the Spitfire |
| Hiller | | His first successful aircraft was the S-2 |
| Breguet | | Ercoupe aircraft was designed by |
| Lippisch | | Created unusual homebuilt delta-wing aircraft in the 1960s |
| Flettner | | During World War II he was in charge of all aircraft production in Italy |
| Lilienthal | | Pioneered a state-of-the-art foam-and-fiberglass composite construction method in homebuilts. |
