Those of us involved in the development of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) in the late 1980’s could hardly envision the routine application of MRA in every MR facility everyday. In those years there was spectacular development of many new MR clinical pioneering researchers investigated various strategies exploiting the effects of blood flow on the MR signal to optimize clinical MRA. Remarkable successes were demonstrated in rapid succession. It is very alluring to attempt to catalogue the significant contributions in the founding of clinical MRA here, but that comprehensive effort is best relegated to the careful authors of history chapters in MRA books. The following are a few.