List of glider pilots
This list of notable glider pilots contains the names of those who have achieved fame in gliding and in other fields: == Notable in gliding == Ruth Alexander - female altitude record breaker, first woman glider instructor in the U.S. Sergei Anokhin - test pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union, glider instructor, recordsman and gliding promoter in the USSR and Turkey, on October 2, 1934, carried out a flutter test with deliberate in-flight destruction of RotFront-1 glider and safe parachute escape after the glider disintegration. Bill Bedford test pilot - first to fly Hawker P.1127 and Harrier.