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267 famous people found
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James CARTWRIGHT
Retired United States Marine Corps four-star general
1949 -
Alexander VANDEGRIFT
General in the United States Marine Corps
1887 - 1973 -
Charles W. ADAMS
Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War
1817 - 1878 -
Evan HOWELL
American politician and early telegraph operator
1839 - 1905 -
Edward Francis WINSLOW
Officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later railroad executive
1837 - 1914 -
William Kelly HARRISON
United States Army officer, head of the United Nations Command armistice delegation in the Korean War
1895 - 1987 -
John T. THOMPSON
United States Army officer best remembered as the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun
1860 - 1940 -
Albert Cushing READ
Aviator and Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
1887 - 1967 -
Desmond DOSS
United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic during World War II
1919 - 2006 -
Gene HAMBLETON
United States Air Force navigator and electronic warfare officer who was shot down over South Vietnam during the 1972 Easter Offensive
1918 - 2004 -
Israel PUTNAM
American army general and Freemason
1717 - 1790 -
Nathanael GREENE
Major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War
1742 - 1786 -
Ellsworth P. BERTHOLF
Congressional Gold Medal recipient who later served as the fourth Captain-Commandant of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
1866 - 1921 -
Joseph STILLWELL
United States Army four-star General known for service in the China Burma India Theater
1883 - 1946 -
Robert Powell Page WAINWRIGHT
U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate
1852 - 1902 -
Jonathan M. WAINWRIGHT
Career American army officer and the commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time of their surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II
1883 - 1953 -
James CLINTON
American Revolutionary War officer who obtained the rank of brevet major general
1736 - 1812 -
Stonewall JACKSON
Confederate general during the American Civil War, and one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee
1824 - 1863 -
William Peters HEPBURN
American Civil War officer and an eleven-term Republican congressman from Iowa's 8th district
1833 - 1916 -
Hylan B. LYON
American officer in the United States Army until the start of the American Civil War
1836 - 1907