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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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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

Herbert Osbaldeston Duncan

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Herberts Cukurs

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Hermann Oberth

Space and Rocketry Engineers

Hideo Shima

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Hilda Hewlett

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Horace Elgin Dodge

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Horace Jones

Road, Bridge and Cycling 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

Ivan Hirst

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

J. Frank Duryea

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Jacob Ellehammer

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Jacqueline Auriol

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Jacqueline Cochran

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

James Brindley

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

James Fitzmaurice

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

James Sidney Drewry

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

James Starley

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

James Ward Packard

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Jan Gehl

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Jan Nagórski

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Janette Sadik-Khan

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Jean Batten

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Jeannette Piccard

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Jeronimo de Ayanz y Beaumont

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Jerrie Mock

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Joe Sutter

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

John Augustus Roebling

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

John Blenkinsop

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

John Bradfield

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

John D. Hertz

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

John DeLorean

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

John Francis Dodge

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

John Henry Knight (inventor)

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

John Kemp Starley

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

John Loudon McAdam

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

John Philip Holland

Maritime and Shipping Figures

John Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

John Stapp

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

John Wolfe Barry

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

Joseph Day (inventor)

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Joseph Strauss

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

JRD Tata

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Juan Trippe

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Karl Benz

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Karl Drais

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

Kelly Johnson

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Kiichiro Toyoda

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Kirkpatrick Macmillan

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Space and Rocketry Engineers

Kwon Ki-ok

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Lagâri Hasan Çelebi

Space and Rocketry Engineers

Larry Shinoda

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Leland Stanford

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Louis Bleriot

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Louis Coatalen

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Louis Renault

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Malcom McLean

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Mariam al-Mansouri

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Mark Gorton

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Mary Anderson (inventor)

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Matthias Baldwin

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Max Friz

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Mikael Colville-Andersen

Transport Business, Logistics and Policy Figures

Moritz Immisch

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Murray Sueter

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Nadine Hwang

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Narcís Monturiol

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Nigel Gresley

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Nikolay Zhukovsky (scientist)

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Nils Bohlin

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Nils Ericson

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Orville Wright

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Othmar Ammann

Road, Bridge and Cycling Engineers

Paul Jaray

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Prince Henry the Navigator

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Princess Basmah Hamzah

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Ransom E. Olds

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Raymonde de Laroche

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Richard Beeching

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Richard Pearse

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Richard Trevithick

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Robert Davidson (inventor)

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Robert Esnault-Pelterie

Aviation Industrialists and Engineers

Robert Fulton

Maritime and Shipping Figures

Robert H. Goddard

Space and Rocketry Engineers

Robert Stephenson

Railway Pioneers and Engineers

Rudolf Diesel

Automotive Pioneers and Engineers

Sabiha Gökçen

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators

Sacadura Cabral

Aviation Pioneers and Aviators
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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