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267 famous people found
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Michael Collins
American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface
1930 - 2021 -
Colin Powell
American politician, diplomat and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005
1937 - 2021 -
Douglas FAIRBANKS
American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II
1909 - 2000 -
George S. PATTON
United States Army officer
1885 - 1945 -
Lewis Strauss
American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer
1896 - 1974 -
Chris KYLE
United States Navy SEAL, and the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
1974 - 2013 -
George Washington Custis LEE
Confederate general in the American Civil War, president of Washington and Lee University
1832 - 1913 -
George Armstrong CUSTER
United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars
1839 - 1876 -
Douglas MacARTHUR
American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army
1880 - 1964 -
Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881 -
Ollie NORTH
American political commentator and television host, military historian, New York Times best-selling author, and retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel
1943 -
Alexander Haig Jr.
59th United States Secretary of State
1924 - 2010 -
David PETRAEUS
American former military officer and Director of the CIA
1952 -
Lewis POWELL
American Confederate soldier who attempted to assassinate William Henry Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot
1844 - 1865 -
Chuck YEAGER
United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot
1923 - 2020 -
Grace HOPPER
American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral
1906 - 1992 -
Martha MCSALLY
American politician and former military pilot
1966 -
John Brown GORDON
American attorney, planter, and general in the Confederate States Army
1832 - 1904 -
Leo SHARP
American World War II veteran, world-renowned horticulturist, and drug courier for a branch of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel
1924 - 2016 -
John A. LOGAN
American soldier and political leader
1826 - 1886