Samuel Lynn (1920-2000) was a military pilot who served with the famed Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military who fought in World War II. He also flew fighter jets in the Korean War and, for his service, he received the Bronze Star. He later retired from the Air Force after a 24-year career, having achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

The youngest of seven siblings, Lynn was born in Lynbrook, Long Island, to Nellie and Joseph Lynn. His father ran a landscaping business. When his parents died while he was still in grade school, he moved in with an aunt in Far Rockaway.

Lynn was drafted into the service in World War II, and he joined the 99th Pursuit Squadron, the first unit of the Tuskegee Airmen, where he volunteered to fly. He finished in the top of his class in the Tuskegee Training Program, going on to fly both bombers and fighters in the Army Air Forces.

Following the war, he left the service in 1947. He married Elaine Pollard on August 12, 1948, and re-enlisted soon after, serving in the U.S. Air Force as a fighter jet pilot during the Korean War. In 1960, he moved to Lakeview, Long Island, and worked at Mitchel Air Force Base near Garden City, both as a pilot and later as an air traffic controller. Ultimately in his military career, he worked as a base commander at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, being named Commander of the Year in 1965.

Lynn retired from the Air Force in 1966 and then worked for a period at the Department of Labor in Manhattan as a regional director for anti-discrimination contract compliance. On October 17, 2000, he died of respiratory failure in Denver, Colorado, and he was survived at the time by his wife and two daughters. The northwest corner of Tuskegee Airmen Way and 148th Street in Jamaica was named in his honor as 2nd Lt. Samuel Lynn Corner.