John Gillespie Magee Jr. was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.
- Occupation
- poet, writer, aircraft pilot
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United States
- Born
- June 9, 1922
- Died
- December 11, 1941
