List of World War I aces credited with 20 or more victories

DFM MC, DFC* MC MC* DFM* MC*
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Manfred von Richthofen†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 80
 * The Red Baron PLM plus 22 other awards
 * René Fonck
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 75
 * Top Allied and French ace CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG, BCdeG, MC, MM
 * Billy Bishop
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 72
 * Top Canadian and British Empire ace VC, DSO, MC, DFC, CdeLd'h, CdeG
 * Ernst Udet
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 62
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Edward Mannock†
 * style="text-align:left; white-space:nowrap;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 61
 * Top British ace VC, DSO**, MC*
 * Raymond Collishaw
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * style="white-space:nowrap;"| Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 60
 * Top Royal Naval Air Service ace DSO*, DSC, DFC, OSA, CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| James McCudden†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 57
 * VC, DSO*, MC*, MM, CdeG
 * Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 54
 * Top South African ace VC, DSO, MC*, DFC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Erich Löwenhardt†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 54
 * PLM, IC
 * Donald MacLaren
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 54
 * DSO, MC*, CdeLd'h, CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Georges Guynemer†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 53
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG, DSO, OLII
 * William George Barker
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 50
 * VC, DSO*, MC**, MMV*(Silver), CdeG
 * Josef Jacobs
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 48
 * PLM, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Werner Voss†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 48
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Robert A. Little†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 47
 * Top Australian ace DSO*, DSC*, CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| George McElroy†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 47
 * MC**, DFC*
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Roderic Dallas†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 45
 * DSO, DSC*
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Fritz Rumey†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 45
 * PLM, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Albert Ball†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 44
 * VC, DSO**, MC, OSG
 * Rudolph Berthold
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 44
 * PLM, MOSH, IC
 * Bruno Loerzer
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 44
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Paul Bäumer
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 43
 * PLM, MMC(P), IC, WB
 * Tom F. Hazell
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 43
 * DSO, MC, DFC*
 * Charles Nungesser
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 43
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG, DSC, MC, BCdeG, DSC(US)
 * Georges Madon
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 41
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Oswald Boelcke†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 40
 * PLM, IC
 * Franz Büchner
 * 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 40
 * PLM, MOSH, HOH, IC
 * Philip F. Fullard
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 40
 * DSO, MC*, AFC
 * Lothar von Richthofen
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 40
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Charles George Gass
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 39
 * Top scoring observer ace MC
 * John Inglis Gilmour
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 39
 * DSO, MC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Heinrich Gontermann†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 39
 * PLM, HOH, MOMJ, IC
 * William Lancelot Jordan
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 39
 * DSC*, DFC
 * Carl Menckhoff
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 39
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Alfred Atkey
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 38
 * Leading 2 seater pilot of war MC*
 * William Gordon Claxton
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 37
 * DSO, DFC*
 * Willy Coppens
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇧🇪 Belgium
 * Belgian Military Aviation
 * 37
 * Top Belgian ace, Leading balloon buster of war OL, OWE, OC, CdeG, BCdeG, CdeLd'H, DSO, MC
 * James Ira Thomas Jones
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 37
 * DSO*, MC, DFC*
 * Karl Bolle
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 36
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Julius Buckler
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 36
 * PLM, MMC(P), IC, sole award of Gold WB
 * Joseph Stewart Temple Fall
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 36
 * DFC**, AFC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Max Ritter von Müller†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 36
 * PLM, MOMJ, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Maurice Boyau†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 35
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG
 * Godwin Brumowski
 * style="text-align:left;"| Austria-Hungary
 * Luftfahrtruppen
 * 35
 * Top Austro-Hungarian ace. OIC, OL, MFB, MMM, IC
 * Gustav Dörr
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 35
 * MMC(P), IC
 * Otto Könnecke
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 35
 * PLM, MMC(P), HOH, IC
 * Frederick McCall
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 35
 * DSO, MC*, DFC
 * Eduard Ritter von Schleich
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 35
 * PLM, IC, MOMJ
 * Emil Thuy
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 35
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Josef Veltjens
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 35
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Henry Winslow Woollett
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 35
 * DSO, MC*, CdeLd'h
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Francesco Baracca†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇮🇹 Italy
 * Corpo Aeronautico Militare
 * 34
 * Top Italian ace MMV(Gold), MMV**(Silver), MC, CdeG, OC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Michel Coiffard†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 34
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), MC
 * Heinrich Bongartz
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 33
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Heinrich Kroll
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 33
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Frank Granger Quigley†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 33
 * DSO, MC*
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Kurt Wolff†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 33
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Julius Arigi
 * style="text-align:left;"| Austria-Hungary
 * Luftfahrtruppen
 * 32
 * MFB (1 gold and 4 silver)
 * Geoffrey Hilton Bowman
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 32
 * DSO, MC*, DFC
 * Hermann Frommherz
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 32
 * MOSH, IC
 * Samuel Kinkead
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 32
 * DSO, DSC*, DFC*
 * Theodor Osterkamp
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Marinefliegerkorps
 * 32
 * Also World War II ace PLM, IC
 * Paul Billik
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 31
 * IC
 * Andrew Edward McKeever
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, Canadian Air Force
 * 31
 * Top two-seater ace for UK DSO, MC*, DFC
 * Gotthard Sachsenberg
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Marinefliegerkorps
 * 31
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Karl Allmenröder†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 30
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Harald Auffarth
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 30
 * HOH, IC, WB
 * Carl Degelow
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 30
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Josef Mai
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 30
 * IC
 * Ulrich Neckel
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 30
 * PLM, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Karl Emil Schäfer†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 30
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 30
 * MC, DFC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Charles Dawson Booker†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 29
 * DSC, CdeG
 * Percy Jack Clayson
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 29
 * MC, DFC
 * Harry Cobby
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Australian Flying Corps
 * 29
 * DSO, DFC**
 * Leonard Henry Rochford
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 29
 * DSC*, DFC*
 * Walter Blume
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 28
 * PLM, IC
 * Léon Bourjade
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 28
 * CdeLd'h, CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Walter von Bülow-Bothkamp†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 28
 * PLM, MOSH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Albert Desbrisay Carter†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 28
 * DSO*, CdeG
 * Benno Fiala Ritter von Fernbrugg
 * style="text-align:left;"| Austria-Hungary
 * Luftfahrtruppen
 * 28
 * OIC, OL, MMC(AH), MMM, MFB, IC
 * Robert Ritter von Greim
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 28
 * PLM, IC, MOMJ
 * John Everard Gurdon
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 28
 * DFC
 * Reginald Hoidge
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 28
 * MC*
 * Dennis Latimer
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 28
 * MC, DFC
 * Arthur Laumann
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 28
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Friedrich Ritter von Röth
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 28
 * PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ
 * Fritz Otto Bernert
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, IC
 * Otto Fruhner
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * MMC(P), IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Hans Kirschstein†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Frank Linke-Crawford†
 * style="text-align:left;"| Austria-Hungary
 * Luftfahrtruppen
 * 27
 * OIC
 * Clifford McEwen
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 27
 * MC, DFC*, MMV
 * Thomas Percy Middleton
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 27
 * DFC
 * Armand Pinsard
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 27
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG, MC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Arthur Rhys Davids†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 27
 * DSO, MC*
 * Frank Ormond Soden
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 27
 * DFC*
 * Karl Thom
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, MMC(P), HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Adolf Ritter von Tutschek†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ
 * Arthur Whealy
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 27
 * DSC*, DFC
 * Kurt Wüsthoff
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Oskar Freiherr von Boenigk
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 26
 * PLM, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Eduard Ritter von Dostler†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 26
 * PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ
 * Ronald Malcolm Fletcher
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 26
 * Observer ace
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Friedrich Ritter von Röth
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 28
 * PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ
 * Fritz Otto Bernert
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, IC
 * Otto Fruhner
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * MMC(P), IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Hans Kirschstein†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Frank Linke-Crawford†
 * style="text-align:left;"| Austria-Hungary
 * Luftfahrtruppen
 * 27
 * OIC
 * Clifford McEwen
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 27
 * MC, DFC*, MMV
 * Thomas Percy Middleton
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 27
 * DFC
 * Armand Pinsard
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 27
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG, MC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Arthur Rhys Davids†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 27
 * DSO, MC*
 * Frank Ormond Soden
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 27
 * DFC*
 * Karl Thom
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, MMC(P), HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Adolf Ritter von Tutschek†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ
 * Arthur Whealy
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 27
 * DSC*, DFC
 * Kurt Wüsthoff
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 27
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Oskar Freiherr von Boenigk
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 26
 * PLM, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Eduard Ritter von Dostler†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 26
 * PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ
 * Ronald Malcolm Fletcher
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 26
 * Observer ace
 * Oskar Freiherr von Boenigk
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 26
 * PLM, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Eduard Ritter von Dostler†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 26
 * PLM, HOH, IC, MOMJ
 * Ronald Malcolm Fletcher
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 26
 * Observer ace
 * 26
 * Observer ace
 * William Frederick James Harvey
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 26
 * MC, DFC*
 * Elwyn King
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Australian Flying Corps
 * 26
 * DSO, DFC
 * Gerald Joseph Constable Maxwell
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 26
 * DFC, MC, AFC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Max Näther†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 26
 * HOH, IC
 * Eddie Rickenbacker
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇺🇸 United States
 * US Army Air Service
 * 26
 * Top US ace MOH, DSC(US), CdeLd'h, CdeG
 * Silvio Scaroni
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇮🇹 Italy
 * Corpo Aeronautico Militare
 * 26
 * MMV(Gold), MMV*(Silver)
 * William Ernest Staton
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 26
 * DSO*, MC, DFC*
 * William McKenzie Thomson
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 26
 * MC, DFC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 25
 * PLM, IC
 * Keith Caldwell
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇳🇿 New Zealand
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 25
 * Top New Zealander ace
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 25
 * PLM, IC
 * Keith Caldwell
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇳🇿 New Zealand
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 25
 * Top New Zealander ace
 * Top New Zealander ace
 * Robert J. O. Compston
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 25
 * DSC**, DFC
 * Georg von Hantelmann
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 25
 * HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Fritz Pütter†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 25
 * PLM, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Stanley Wallace Rosevear†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 25
 * DSC*
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Erwin Böhme†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 24
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Peter Carpenter
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 24
 * DSO, MC*, MMV
 * George S. L. Hayward
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 24
 * Observer ace
 * DSO, MC*, MMV
 * George S. L. Hayward
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 24
 * Observer ace
 * Observer ace
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Harry G. E. Luchford†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 24
 * MC*
 * Georg Meyer
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 24
 * IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Tom Cecil Noel†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 24
 * Observer ace
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 24
 * Observer ace
 * Pier Ruggero Piccio
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇮🇹 Italy
 * Corpo Aeronautico Militare
 * 24
 * MMV**(Silver)
 * William Ernest Shields
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 24
 * DFC*
 * James Anderson Slater
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 24
 * MC*, DFC
 * William Melville Alexander
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 23
 * DSC
 * Hermann Becker
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 23
 * HOH, IC
 * William Charles Campbell
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 23
 * DSO, MC*
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| René Dorme†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 23
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG
 * Matthew Brown Frew
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 23
 * DSO, MC*, AFC, MMV
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Gabriel Guerin†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 23
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG
 * Howard Percy Lale
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 23
 * DSO, DFC*
 * Alexander Pentland
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 23
 * MC, DFC
 * Harold Whistler
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 23
 * DSO, DFC*
 * Hermann Göring
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 22
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Thomas Sinclair Harrison
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 22
 * DFC*, BCdeG
 * Marcel Haegelen
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 22
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Louis Fleeming Jenkin†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 22
 * MC*
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Cecil Frederick King†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 22
 * MC, DFC, CdeG
 * Hans Klein
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 22
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * John Leacroft
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 22
 * MC*
 * Arthur Ernest Newland
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Air Force
 * 22
 * Observer ace
 * 22
 * MC, DFC, CdeG
 * Hans Klein
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 22
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * John Leacroft
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 22
 * MC*
 * Arthur Ernest Newland
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Air Force
 * 22
 * Observer ace
 * Royal Air Force
 * 22
 * Observer ace
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Hans Martin Pippart†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 22
 * IC
 * Werner Preuss
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 22
 * HOH, IC
 * Benjamin Roxburgh-Smith
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 22
 * DFC*, BCdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Karl Schlegel†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 22
 * IC
 * Joseph Leonard Maries White
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 22
 * DFC*, BCdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Rudolf Windisch†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 22
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Hans von Adam†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 21
 * HOH
 * Friedrich Altemeier
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 21
 * MMC(P), IC, WB
 * Flavio Baracchini
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇮🇹 Italy
 * Corpo Aeronautico Militare
 * 21
 * MMV(Gold)
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Francis Cubbon†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 21
 * Observer ace
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇮🇹 Italy
 * Corpo Aeronautico Militare
 * 21
 * MMV(Gold)
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Francis Cubbon†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 21
 * Observer ace
 * Observer ace
 * Harold Leslie Edwards
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Air Force
 * 21
 * DFC, MM
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Friedrich Friedrichs†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 21
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Alfred Heurtaux
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 21
 * CdeLd'h, CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Charles Hickey†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force
 * 21
 * DFC*
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Fritz Höhn†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 21
 * HOH, IC
 * William John Charles Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 21
 * DSO, MC*
 * Petar Marinovich
 * style="text-align:left;"| Kingdom of Serbia
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 21
 * CdeLd'h, MM(Fr), CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Richard Maybery†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 21
 * MC
 * Edgar McCloughry
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Australian Flying Corps
 * 21
 * DSO, DFC*
 * Richard Minifie
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Royal Naval Air Service
 * 21
 * DSC**
 * Friedrich T. Noltenius
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 21
 * HOH, IC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| George Edwin Thomson†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 21
 * DSO, MC, DFC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Leonard Monteagle Barlow†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 20
 * MC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Douglas John Bell†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 20
 * MC*
 * Hans Bethge
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * HOH, IC
 * Kenneth Burns Conn
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 20
 * DFC
 * Albert Deullin
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇫🇷 France
 * Aéronautique Militaire
 * 20
 * CdeLd'h, CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Rudolph von Eschwege†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * HOH, IC, Bulgarian Order for Bravery in War
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Wilhelm Frankl†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Hans von Freden
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * IC
 * Francis W. Gillet
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇺🇸 United States
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 20
 * DFC*, BCdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Walter Göttsch†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * HOH, IC
 * Oskar Hennrich
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * MMC, IC
 * Edgar Johnston
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇦🇺 Australia
 * Australian Flying Corps
 * 20
 * DFC
 * Alexander Kazakov
 * style="text-align:left;"| Russian Empire
 * Imperial Army Air Service
 * 20
 * Top Russian ace OSG, OSV, OSS, OSA, DSO, MC, DFC, CdeLd'h, CdeG
 * Otto Kissenberth
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * PLM, HOH, IC
 * Camille Lagesse
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇨🇦 Canada
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 20
 * DFC*
 * Ian Donald Roy McDonald
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 20
 * MC, DFC
 * Keith Park
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇳🇿 New Zealand
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force
 * 20
 * MC*, DFC, CdeG
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Wilhelm Reinhard†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * HOH, IC
 * Charles G. Ross
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, South African Air Force
 * 20
 * CBE, DFC*, BCdeG
 * Fulco Ruffo di Calabria
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇮🇹 Italy
 * Corpo Aeronautico Militare
 * 20
 * MMV(Gold), MMV*(Silver), MMV***(Bronze)
 * Otto Schmidt
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * HOH, IC
 * Walter Southey
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 20
 * DFC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Frederick Thayre†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 20
 * MC*
 * }
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * HOH, IC
 * Charles G. Ross
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, South African Air Force
 * 20
 * CBE, DFC*, BCdeG
 * Fulco Ruffo di Calabria
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇮🇹 Italy
 * Corpo Aeronautico Militare
 * 20
 * MMV(Gold), MMV*(Silver), MMV***(Bronze)
 * Otto Schmidt
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇩🇪 Germany
 * Luftstreitkräfte
 * 20
 * HOH, IC
 * Walter Southey
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇿🇦 South Africa
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 20
 * DFC
 * style="background:#e3d9ff;"| Frederick Thayre†
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 20
 * MC*
 * }
 * style="text-align:left;"| 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Royal Flying Corps
 * 20
 * MC*
 * }
 * }