STEM – Aviators
Emmett John Rice (1919-2011)
Economist, academic scholar, and bank executive Emmett John Rice was born on December 21, 1919, in Florence, South Carolina to...
Thérèse Sita-Bella (1933-2006)
Thérèse Sita-Bella, born Thérèse Bella Mbida in 1933, was a Cameroonian film director who is widely acknowledged as the first...
Sibongile Sambo (1974- )
Aviation pioneer Sibongile Sambo, who was born in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, South Africa, in 1974, holds the distinction of being the...
Theresa M. Claiborne (1959- )
Captain Theresa Mae Claiborne was the first African American woman to become a U.S. Air Force pilot. Capt. Claiborne referenced...
Emory Conrad Malick (1881-1959)
Emory Conrad Malick was an aviation pioneer from the state of Pennsylvania. He was an early graduate of the Curtiss...
William Robinson Clarke (1895-1981)
William Robinson Clarke was a famous World War I airman. He was the first Black pilot to fly for the...
Sian Proctor (1970- )
Sian Hayley Proctor is a geology professor, motivational speaker, pilot, artist, author, and spaceflight participant most noted for her flight...
Brenda E. Robinson (1956- )
Lt. Commander Brenda Evette Robinson, the first African American female pilot in the United States Navy, understood at an early...
Ernest Talbert (1950- )
Two-star Major General Ernest George Talbert Jr. was born April 23, 1950 to Dorothy Georgie Burkett Talbert (1926-2020), Deputy Director...
