# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elsie-macgill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:26:30.022Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elsie-macgill"
name: "Elsie MacGill"
slug: "elsie-macgill"
description: "Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill, known as the \"Queen of the Hurricanes\", was a Canadian engineer. She was chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William, Ontario during the Second World War. There she oversaw manufacturing of 1,451 Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force and the British Royal Air Force, then 835 Curtiss Helldivers for the U.S. Navy, which contributed greatly to the war effort and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft manufacturing. After her work at CC&F, she ran a successful aeronautical engineering consulting business. Between 1967 and 1970, she was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, which published a report in 1970."
tagline: "The first female aircraft designer (1905–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elsie_macgill.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1905-03-27"
deathDate: "1980-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7672634271099744
  historical:           10.12603066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "إلسي ماكغيل"
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    title: "Elsie MacGill"
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    title: "Elsie MacGill"
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    title: "Elsie MacGill"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_MacGill"
    title: "Elsie MacGill"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump