- male, deceased (1967)
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Комаров; March 16, 1927 – April 24, 1967) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was the first...
- male
- Captain Albert Berry is one of two people credited as the first person to make a successful parachute jump from a powered aeroplane. The other...
- male, deceased (1823)
- Andre-Jacques Garnerin (January 31 1769 - August 18 1823) was the inventor of the frameless parachute. He was born in Paris. His early experiments...
- male
- Leslie Leroy Irvin (10 September 1895 - 9 October 1966) made the first free-fall parachute jump in 1919. Irvin was born in Los Angeles. He became a...
- male
- Stephen Hilder was a 20-year-old officer cadet at the defence academy at Shrivenham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom who on 2003-06-04 fell 4,000 metres...
- male, deceased (2002)
- James Jarrett Miller also known as Fan Man (October 28, 1963-2002) was a parachutist and paraglider pilot from Henderson, Nevada, known for his...
- female, deceased (1978)
- Tiny Broadwick (April 8th 1893, Oxford, North Carolina - 1978), or Georgia Broadwick, was a pioneering parachutist. She was nick-named 'Tiny' as...
- male, deceased (887)
- 'Abbas Ibn Firnas, or 'Abbas Qasim Ibn Firnas was a Berber polymath: a chemist, humanitarian, inventor, musician, physician, poet, and...
- male, 51 years old
- Gennady Ivanovich Padalka is a Russian cosmonaut. He is married to Irina Anatolievna Padalka (Ponomareva). They have three daughters: Yulia,...
- male
- Brian Walker is a toy inventor who is famous for having built his own rocket. Walker has come to be known as the Rocket Guy in the media for this...
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