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The people behind transport: engineers, inventors, pilots, entrepreneurs and officials whose work built or reshaped a mode, a vehicle, a route or the business of moving people and goods. Belongs here: any historical or contemporary figure whose transport contribution is the reason for the entry, grouped below by the domain they are chiefly known for. Does not belong here: named vehicles, engines, routes, companies or built infrastructure themselves, each tracked as its own entity type; a figure entity links to those through facts and edges rather than absorbing them.

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A.P. Moller

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Abbas ibn Firnas

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Alberto Santos-Dumont

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Alec Issigonis

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Alex Moulton

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Alexander de Seversky

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Alexander Graham Bell

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Alexander Pfitzner

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Alexander Winton

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Alfred E. Kahn

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Alfred P. Sloan

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Alice Huyler Ramsey

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Andre Citroen

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Andrew Smith Hallidie

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

Anthony Fokker

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Aristotle Onassis

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Arturo Merino Benítez

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Bartolomeu de Gusmão

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Béla Barényi

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Benjamin Baker

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

Beverley Bass

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Byron Carter

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

C. Donald Bateman

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Charles Collett

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Charles F. Kettering

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Charles Frederick Page

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Charles Lindbergh

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Charles Momsen

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Charles Stewart Mott

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Charles Terres Weymann

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Clessie Cummins

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Clifford Milburn Holland

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

Clive Sinclair

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

Colin Chapman

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Cornelis Drebbel

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Corradino D'Ascanio

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

David Bushnell (inventor)

Maritime and Shipping Figures

David Dunbar Buick

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Dean Kamen

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

Donald Appleyard

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Donald Douglas

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Donald Healey

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Donald McKay

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Dorothy Levitt

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Durba Banerjee

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Earle S. MacPherson

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Ed Cole

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Eddie Rickenbacker

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Edsel Ford

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Edvard Rusjan

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Edward Forman

Space and Rocketry Engineers

Elisha Otis

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Ellen Church

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Elwood Haynes

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Emil Jellinek

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Enrique Peñalosa

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Enzo Ferrari

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Felix Wankel

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Feng Ru

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Ferdinand Porsche

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Ferry Porsche

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Frank Halford

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Frank Whittle

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Franz Josef Popp

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Frederick W. Lanchester

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Frederick Walker Baldwin

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Gago Coutinho

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

George B. Selden

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

George de Bothezat

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

George Pullman

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

George Stephenson

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

George W. Romney

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

George Westinghouse

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Giovanni Agnelli

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Gordon Murray

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Gottlieb Daimler

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Gustave Whitehead

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Hanna Reitsch

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Hans Ledwinka

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Hans von Ohain

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Harvey S. Firestone

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Hélène Dutrieu

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Henri Dupuy de Lôme

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Henry Ford

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Henry M. Leland

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Herberts Cukurs

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Hermann Oberth

Space and Rocketry Engineers

Hideo Shima

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Horace Elgin Dodge

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Horace Lawson Hunley

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Horatio Nelson Jackson

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Hugo Eckener

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Hugo Junkers

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Igor Sikorsky

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Isaac Peral

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Railway Pioneers and Engineers
Sources
1. Wikipedia: George Stephenson
WikipediaGeorge Stephenson, first locomotive Blucher, Figures category
Quote, George Stephenson, first locomotive Blucher, Figures category
Stephenson designed his first locomotive in 1814, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway named Blucher
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