Chapelle, Dickey (born Georgette Louis Meyer) (1918–1965)

US pioneer pilot, adventuress, and journalist. She was an expert pilot and worked as a war correspondent in World War II. In 1956–57, while photographing Hungarian refugees, she was imprisoned for seven weeks in Hungary, but she continued to visit war zones – in Algeria, Lebanon, Korea – and photographed Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba.

She was born in Shorewood, Wisconsin. She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year. She spent a year as an editor of Seventeen 1946–47. She and her husband, photographer Tony Chapelle, spent six years documenting damage from World War II. She won a George Polk Award (1962) for her war reporting and was killed by a mine explosion while covering the war in Vietnam.