The first racing pilots

This is an alphabetic list of the pilots that were officially entered and brought a reasonably flyable aircraft to one the meetings covered on this site. If you have researched any of the pilots and have material to share you are very welcome!

A red "on vole" pennant to the left of the name indicates that there is a link to a biography, either produced by us or by Wikipedia (in English, or if not available, in German, French or the native language of the pilot). We welcome further input to these biographies.

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Paul Acquaviva
János Adorján (Wikipedia HU)
Stefano (Étienne) Amerigo
Alessandro Anzani
Émile Aubrun (Wikipedia FR)
Edmond Audemars (Wikipedia FR)

Ferdinand de Baeder
Jacques Balsan (Wikipedia)
Marcel Baratoux
George Barnes (Wikipedia)
René Barrier
Léon Bathiat (Wikipedia FR)
Hillery Beachey
Adolf Behrend (Wikipedia DE)
Juan Bielovucic (Wikipedia)
Louis Blériot
Gustave Blondeau (Wikipedia)
Mór (Morris) Bokor
Albert Bonnet-Labranche
Wilhelm Booms
Charles van den Born (Wikipedia FR)
André Bouvier
Alan Boyle
Henri Brégi
Louis Breguet
Émile Bruneau de Laborie (Wikipedia FR)
Simon Brunnhuber (Wikipedia DE)
Walter Bulot
Étienne Bunau-Varilla
Médéric Burgeat ("de Chauveau")
Guillaume Busson (Wikipedia FR)

Umberto Cagno
Georges Cailler
Mario Calderara
Félix Camerman (Wikipedia FR)
Alphonse Carfagni
Pierre de Caters
Bartolomeo Cattaneo (Wikipedia ES)
Florentin Champel
Édouard Chateau
Jorge ("Géo") Chávez (Wikipedia)
Léon Cheuret (Wikipedia FR)
Joseph Christiaens (Wikipedia)
Mario Cobianchi
George Cockburn
Samuel Cody (Wikipedia)
Maurice Colliex (Wikipedia FR)
George Colmore (Wikipedia)
Noël Crahay
A. E. Creese
André Crochon
Maurice Croquet
Károly Csermely (Wikipedia HU)
Glenn Curtiss

Jean Daillens
George Dawes
Léon Delagrange
Fernand Deletang
René Demanest
Élise Deroche ("Raymonde de Laroche") (Wikipedia)
Bertram Dickson (Wikipedia)
Adolphe Didier
Hermann Dorner
John Armstrong Drexel (Wikipedia)
Léon Druet
Armand Dufaux (Wikipedia)
Henri Dufaux (Wikipedia)
Émile Dubonnet (Wikipedia)
Jean Dufour
Arthur Duray (Wikipedia)
Émile Duval

Constantin von Economo (Wikipedia)
Emilio Edwards
Michel Efimoff (Михаил Ефимов) (Wikipedia RU)
Paul Engelhard (Wikipedia DE)
August Euler

Ernest Failloubaz (Wikipedia)
Henry Farman
Albert Féquant (Wikipedia FR)
Ferdinand Ferber ("F. de Rue")
Antonio Fernandez (Wikipedia)
Paul Fiedler
Jules Fischer
Henry Fournier
Alfred Frey
André Frey (Wikipedia)

Louis Gaubert
Louis Gaudart
Launcelot Gibbs
Graham Gilmour (Wikipedia)
Jean Gobron
Ellery von Gorrissen (Wikipedia DE)
Cecil Grace (Wikipedia)
Hans Grade (Wikipedia)
Claude Grahame-White (Wikipedia)
René Grandjean (Wikipedia)
Jules Gronier
József Grusz
Maurice Guffroy

Charles Hamilton (Wikipedia)
Marcel Hanriot (Wikipedia FR)
Clifford Harmon (Wikipedia)
Howard Harding
Gabriel Hauvette ("Hauvette-Michelin")
Oskar Heim
Ernő Herczegh-Grünbaum
Paul Hesne
Joseph d'Hespel
Adolf Hirsch
Ernő Horváth (Wikipedia HU)

Karl Illner (Wikipedia DE)

Paul Jaritz
Emil Jeannin (Wikipedia DE)
Henri Jullerot

Fridolin Keidel (Wikipedia DE)
Daniel Kinet (Wikipedia NL)
Nicolas Kinet
Jacob Klassen
Max Klug
Johan Kluytmans
Jean-Paul Kœchlin
Louis Kuhling
Gijbertus ("Gijs") Küller (Wikipedia NL)

René Labouchère (Wikipedia FR)
Émile Ladougne
Felix Laitsch
Charles de Lambert
Alfred Lanser
Hubert Latham
Hubert Le Blon
Alfred Leblanc
Eugène Lefebvre
Georges Leforestier
Georges Legagneux
Eugène Lesire
Jacques de Lesseps (Wikipedia)
Paul de Lesseps
Otto Lindpaintner (Wikipedia DE)
Robert Loraine ("Jones") (Wikipedia)

Julien Mamet (Wikipedia FR)
Robert Martinet
Didier Masson (Wikipedia FR)
William McArdle
René Métrot
Robert Mignot
Edward Mines
Charles Miscarol
Élie Mollien
Léon Molon
Alfred Montigny
Léon Morane (Wikipedia FR)
Edmond Morelle ("Edmond")
Louis Moser
Louis Mouthier (Wikipedia FR)
Walther von Mumm (Walther de Mumm) (Wikipedia)

René de Nabat
John Neale
Alfred Nervø
Albert Niel
Édouard de Niéport ("Édouard Nieuport") (Wikipedia)
André Noël
Maurice Noguès (Wikipedia)

Alec Ogilvie (Wikipedia)
Jan Olieslagers (Wikipedia)

Marcel Paillette (Wikipedia FR)
Ernest Paul
Louis Paulhan
Henri Pequet (Wikipedia)
Stefan Petróczy von Petrócz (Wikipedia DE)
Alexander de Petrovsky (Wikipedia NL)
Alfred de Pischof (Alfred Ritter von Pischof) (Wikipedia)
Ernst Plochmann
Nicolas Popoff (Николай Попов) (Wikipedia RU)
Georges Prévoteau

James Radley (Wikipedia)
Clemente Ravetto (Wikipedia IT)
Alfred Rawlinson (Wikipedia)
Eugène Renaux (Wikipedia FR)
Alphonse de Ridder
Frederick van Riemsdijk (Wikipedia DE)
Victor Rigal (Wikipedia)
Alliott Verdon Roe (Wikipedia)
Charles Rolls (Wikipedia)
Henri Rougier

Luis de Salamanca
José Sánchez Besa
Hayden Sands
Georges Saunier
Theodor Schauenburg (Wikipedia DE)
Fritz Schlüter
Louis Schreck (Wikipedia FR)
Franz Sido
René Simon (Wikipedia)
Rudolf Simon
Adam Mortimer Singer (Wikipedia)
Roger Sommer
Henri Speckner (Wikipedia FR)
Robert Svendsen (Wikipedia DA)
Mihály Székely (Wikipedia HU)

Émile Taddéoli (Wikipedia)
Maurice Tétard
Robert Thelen (Wikipedia DE)
René Thomas (Wikipedia)
Knud Thorup
Maurice Tips
Paul Tissandier
Jules Tyck (Wikipedia NL)

Richard von Unruh

Raoul des Vallières
Léon Verstraeten
René Vidart (Wikipedia FR)

Charles Wachter (Wikipedia FR)
Louis Wagner (Wikipedia)
Adolf Warchalowski (Wikipedia DE)
Karl Warchalowski
Charles Weymann (Wikipedia)
Eugen Wiencziers (Wikipedia DE)
Jacques Wiesenbach
Vincent (Vinzenz) Wiesenbach (Wikipedia LB)
Paul Wilford
Charles Willard
Walter Windham (Wikipedia)

Leonino da Zara
Armand Zipfel

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