Aviator

:The Aviator is a 2004 movie biography of aircraft industry mogul Howard Hughes, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Well-known aviators

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People largely known for their contributions to the history of aviation:

While all of these people were pilots, many are also noted for contributions in areas such as aircraft design and manufacturing, navigation, or popularization.

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• John Alcock
• Richard Bach
• Italo Balbo
• Bernt Balchen
• Elly Beinhorn
• Louis Bleriot
• Bill Boeing
• Arthur Whitten Brown
• Milo Burcham
• George Cayley
• Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi
• Bessie Coleman
• Glenn Curtiss
• Claudius Dornier
• Donald Douglas
• Amelia Earhart
• Eugene Ely
• Anthony Fokker
• Steve Fossett

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• Ernie Gann
• Geoffrey de Havilland
• Ernst Heinkel
• Bert Hinkler
• Elrey Jeppesen
• Amy Johnson
• Tex Johnston
• Hubert Julian
• Hugo Junkers
• Charles Kingsford Smith
• Otto Lilienthal
• Charles Lindbergh
• Ormer Locklear
• Beryl Markham
• Wop May
• Mike Melvill
• Jean Mermoz
• Russel Merrill

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• Billy Mitchell
• Montgolfier Brothers
• Richard Pearse
• Albert Plesman
• Wiley Post
• Hanna Reitsch
• Burt Rutan
• Dick Rutan
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Alberto Santos-Dumont
• Igor Sikorsky
• Kurt Tank
• Louise Thaden
• Patty Wagstaff
• Frank Whittle
• Orville and Wilbur Wright
• Chuck Yeager

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Other famous military pilots:

• Douglas Bader
• Billy Bishop
• A. Roy Brown
• Pierre Clostermann
• Roland Garros
• Edward O'Hare
• Manfred von Richthofen
• Eddie Rickenbacker
• Hans-Ulrich Rudel
• Fred Zinn
• Erich Hartmann

People from other walks of life with aviation in their history:

• Richard Branson
• George H. W. Bush
• George W. Bush
• Tom Cruise
• John Denver
• Bruce Dickinson
• Morgan Freeman
• Harrison Ford
• Howard Hughes
• John F. Kennedy, Jr.
• John Kerry
• Dean Paul Martin
• Dennis Quaid
• Charles Stewart Rolls
• Chuck Scarborough
• Nevil Shute
• John Travolta
• Gore Vidal