Famous fighter pilots
military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air, and often air-to-ground, combat
178 people
William Stephenson
1897
– 1989
· Age 92
Deceased
Fritz Rumey
1891
– 1918
· Age 27
Deceased
Walter von Bülow-Bothkamp
1894
– 1918
· Age 23
Deceased
Ivan Vasilyevich Smirnov
1895
– 1956
· Age 61
Deceased
Julius Arigi
1895
– 1981
· Age 85
Deceased
Rudolf Berthold
1891
– 1920
· Age 28
Deceased
Wolfgang Falck
1910
– 2007
· Age 96
Deceased
Bud Anderson
1922
– 2024
· Age 102
Deceased
Karel Janoušek
1893
– 1971
· Age 77
Deceased
Caroline Aigle
1974
– 2007
· Age 32
Deceased
Frank Luke
1897
– 1918
· Age 21
Deceased
Hellmuth Hirth
1886
– 1938
· Age 52
Deceased
W
Walther Dahl
1916
– 1985
· Age 69
Deceased
Jean de Selys Longchamps
1912
– 1943
· Age 31
Deceased
Aleksandr Zelin
1953
· Age 72
Alive
Bjørn Kjos
1946
· Age 79
Alive
Egon Mayer
1917
– 1944
· Age 26
Deceased
José Julio Rodríguez Fernández
1948
· Age 77
Alive
M
Munir Redfa
1934
– 1998
· Age 64
Deceased
R
Rudolf Perešin
1958
– 1995
· Age 37
Deceased
M
Max-Hellmuth Ostermann
1917
– 1942
· Age 24
Deceased
Valeriya Khomyakova
1914
– 1942
· Age 28
Deceased
Hans-Joachim Buddecke
1890
– 1918
· Age 27
Deceased
Carl Menckhoff
1883
– 1948
· Age 64
Deceased
Dan Tolkovsky
1921
– 2025
· Age 104
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q618694