# List of World War I aces credited with 10 victories

The term ace (now commonly flying ace) was first used by French newspapers during World War I, describing Adolphe Pégoud as l'as ('the ace'), after he downed five German aircraft. When aircraft began to shoot or force down other aircraft, systems to count "air victories" were subsequently developed. The American qualification of five victories eventually became the standard, even though other air services had previously used differing figures.
While "ace" status was most often won by fighter pilots, bomber and reconnaissance crews, and observers in two-seater aircraft such as the Bristol F.2b ("Bristol Fighter"), also destroyed enemy aircraft. If a two-seater aircraft destroyed an aircraft, both crew members were credited with a victory. Because pilots usually teamed with differing observer/gunners in two-seater aircraft, an observer might be an ace when his pilot was not, and vice versa. The few aces among combat aviators have historically accounted for the majority of air-to-air victories in military history.
Loss of records by mischance and the passage of time complicates reconstructing the actual count for given aces. The scores presented in the list cannot be definitive, but are based on itemized lists that are the best available sources of information. Aces are listed after verifying the date and location of combat, and the foe vanquished, for every victory accredited by an aviator's home air service using their own aerial victory standards. Those victories for which the evidence is unavailable or fragmentary have been excluded from the victory count.

## List of World War I aces by victory count:

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* 10
* 11–14
* 15–19
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## Aces

This list is complete. Notable aces are linked to their biographies.
cell coloured along with the symbolic dagger †, indicates that the pilot was known to be either killed in action, missing in action, died of wounds, or killed in a flying accident during World War I.
| Name | Country | Air service(s) | Victories |
| Laurence W. Allen | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Edgar O. Amm | South Africa | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Leopold Anslinger | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Gordon Apps | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Edward Dawson Atkinson | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Paul Aue | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Dietrich Averes | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Herbert H. Beddow | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Hilliard Brooke Bell | Canada | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Hans Berr† | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Robert A. Birkbeck | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Maurice Bizot | France | Aéronautique Militaire | 10 |
| Franz Brandt | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Otto Brauneck† | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Lloyd S. Breadner | Canada | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force | 10 |
| Arthur Roy Brown | Canada | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Frederick Elliott Brown | Canada | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Sydney Carlin | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Robert L. Chidlaw-Roberts | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Cecil Clark | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Adrian Cole | Australia | Australian Flying Corps, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force | 10 |
| Valentine Collins† | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Jack Armand Cunningham | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Douglas Arthur Davies | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Edgar G. Davies | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Martin Dehmisch† | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Pruett Dennett† | United Kingdom | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Robert Dodds | Canada | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Aubrey Ellwood | United Kingdom | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| William H. Farrow | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Karl Gallwitz | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Cecil Gardner† | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Lucien Gasser | France | Aéronautique Militaire | 10 |
| Thomas Gerrard | United Kingdom | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Gerald Gibbs | Australia | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Stanley Goble | Australia | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Justus Grassmann | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Lloyd Hamilton† | United States | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, US Army Air Service | 10 |
| George Stacey Hodson | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Will Hubbard | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force | 10 |
| William Edward Jenkins† | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps | 10 |
| Duerson Knight | United States | US Army Air Service | 10 |
| Alfred Michael Koch | Canada | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Auguste Lahoulle | France | Aéronautique Militaire | 10 |
| Patrick Anthony Langan-Byrne† | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps | 10 |
| Oliver Colin LeBoutillier | United States | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Paul Lotz† | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| John Joseph Malone† | Canada | Royal Naval Air Service | 10 |
| Rudolf Matthaei† | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Alfred E. McKay† | Canada | Royal Flying Corps | 10 |
| Guy Borthwick Moore† | Canada | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Max Ritter von Mulzer† | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Alfons Nagler | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Miroslav Navratil alias Friedrich Navratil | Austria-Hungary | Luftfahrtruppen | 10 |
| Gordon Olley | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| John Paynter† | United Kingdom | Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Jean Andre Pezon | France | Aéronautique Militaire | 10 |
| Croye Pithey | South Africa | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Charles Quette† | France | Aéronautique Militaire | 10 |
| Arthur Randall | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Harold Redler† | South Africa | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Harry Robinson | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Indra Lal Roy† | India | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Laurent B. Ruamps | France | Aéronautique Militaire | 10 |
| John Rudkin | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Reginald H. Rusby | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Hans Schuez | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Alfred Shepherd† | Australia | Royal Flying Corps | 10 |
| Werner Steinhäuser† | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Raoul Stojsavljevic | Austria-Hungary | Luftfahrtruppen | 10 |
| Jacques Swaab | United States | US Army Air Service | 10 |
| Saint Cyprian Tayler† | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Frank Harold Taylor | Canada | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Edmond Thieffry | Belgium | Aviation Militaire Belge | 10 |
| Erich Thomas | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| John Henry Tudhope | South Africa | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force | 10 |
| Paul Turck | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Stanley Wallage | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| William Lewis Wells† | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force | 10 |
| Paul Wenzel | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |
| Russell Winnicott† | United Kingdom | Royal Flying Corps | 10 |
| Hans Wolff† | German Empire | Luftstreitkräfte | 10 |