Royal Flying Corps

:For the computer game, see Flying Corps

Some members of the RFC

Militarily prominent

• Billy Bishop, VC - highest scoring allied flying ace of WWI
• Hugh Dowding later commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain
• Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris ("Bomber" Harris) later commander of RAF Bomber Command
• Trafford Leigh-Mallory later head of Fighter Command
• John Moore-Brabazon 1st Lord Brabazon of Tara, later Minister of Aircraft Production under Winston Churchill
• Keith Park
• Sir Charles Portal the World War II advocate of strategic bombing
• Henry Tizard, British scientist and inventor, chairman of the Aeronautical Research Committee 1933-44.
• Hugh Trenchard - commander of RFC and later Chief of the Air Staff

Otherwise prominent

• O. G. S. Crawford later Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey
• Charles Galton Darwin F.R.S., grandson of Charles Darwin
• Jack Hobbs cricketer
• W. E. Johns, author of the Biggles books
• John Lennard-Jones - scientist
• Oswald Mosley - founder of the British Union of Fascists
• William Stephenson who later played a key role in the creation of the CIA and was the first non-U.S. citizen to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom

In fiction

• Biggles
• Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes, starring Jean Harlow
• The Dawn Patrol, starring Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and David Niven