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156 famous people found

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  Elisa DEROCHE

  French pilot, world's first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910

  1882 - 1919
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  René FONCK

  French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Allied fighter ace

  1894 - 1953
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  Kit CARSON

  American frontiersman

  1809 - 1868
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  Amelia EARHART

  American aviation pioneer and author

  1897 - 1939
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  Antoine DE SAINT-EXUPERY

  French writer and aviator

  1900 - 1944
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  Orville WRIGHT

  American inventor of the airplane

  1871 - 1948
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  Wilbur WRIGHT

  American inventor of the airplane

  1867 - 1912
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  Jules VEDRINES

  French aviator

  1881 - 1919
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  Edward SMITH

  British naval officer, he was the captain of the RMS Titanic, and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage

  1850 - 1912
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  Dieudonné COSTES

  French aviator

  1892 - 1973
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  Maurice BELLONTE

  French aviator

  1896 - 1983
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  Eugène François VIDOCQ

  French criminalist

  1775 - 1857
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  Roland GARROS

  French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I

  1888 - 1918
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  Ernest SHACKLETON

  Anglo-Irish explorer

  1874 - 1922
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  Louis BLERIOT

  French aviator, inventor and engineer

  1872 - 1936
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  Louis BREGUET

  French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers

  1880 - 1955
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  Auguste de Saint-Hilaire

  French botanist and traveler

  1779 - 1853
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  Adrienne BOLLAND

  French test pilot and the first woman to fly over the Andes between Chile and Argentina

  1895 - 1975
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  Henri PEQUET

  French pilot in the first official airmail flight on February 18, 1911

  1888 - 1974
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  Wild Bill HICKOK

  Folk hero of the American Old West

  1837 - 1876