Famous fighter pilots
military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air, and often air-to-ground, combat
188 people
Yuri Malenchenko
1961
· Age 64
Alive
Victor J. Glover
1976
· Age 49
Alive
Hans-Joachim Marseille
1919
– 1942
· Age 22
Deceased
Amet-khan Sultan
1920
– 1971
· Age 50
Deceased
Jean-Loup Chrétien
1938
· Age 87
Alive
Gregory Reid Wiseman
1975
· Age 50
Alive
Maksim Surayev
1972
· Age 53
Alive
Gerhard Barkhorn
1919
– 1983
· Age 63
Deceased
Fei Junlong
1965
· Age 60
Alive
Richard H. Truly
1937
– 2024
· Age 86
Deceased
Eddie Rickenbacker
1890
– 1973
· Age 82
Deceased
Ron Huldai
1944
· Age 81
Alive
Yekaterina Budanova
1916
– 1943
· Age 26
Deceased
Jing Haipeng
1966
· Age 59
Alive
Ronald J. Garan
1961
· Age 64
Alive
Liu Boming
1966
· Age 59
Alive
Charles O. Hobaugh
1961
· Age 64
Alive
Jon McBride
1943
– 2024
· Age 80
Deceased
Valentin Bondarenko
1937
– 1961
· Age 24
Deceased
Randolph Bresnik
1967
· Age 58
Alive
Jeremy Hansen
1976
· Age 50
Alive
Patrick Baudry
1946
· Age 79
Alive
Gotthard Handrick
1908
– 1978
· Age 69
Deceased
Heinrich Bär
1913
– 1957
· Age 44
Deceased
Viktor Talalikhin
1918
– 1941
· Age 23
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q618694