Talton Higbee Embry (May 17, 1897 – 1946) was an American aviation enthusiast who co-founded the company leading to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

[3] While Embry was trying to start a bus company in Cincinnati he met early aviator John Paul Riddle, who had landed at the local polo field.

Riddle offered him a plane ride, and from then on Embry was hooked on aviation.

[3] Two years after meeting, T. Higbee Embry and friend, John Paul Riddle, formed the Embry-Riddle Company on December 17, 1925 at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati, Ohio.

[8] The Embry-Riddle Company was merged with the Aviation Corporation (AVCO) of Delaware in 1929.