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314 famous people found

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  Howard HUGHES

  American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist

  1905 - 1976
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  John GLENN

  United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician

  1921 - 2016
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  Daniel BOONE

  American pioneer and hunter

  1734 - 1820
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  Jacques-Yves COUSTEAU

  French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher

  1910 - 1997
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  Jean-François de LA PEROUSE

  French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania

  1741 - 1788
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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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  René-Robert CAVELIER DE LA SALLE

  French explorer and fur trader in North America

  1643 - 1697
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  Jean-Baptiste GAULTIER DE LA VERENDRYE

  French explorer, founder of Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods and of Fort Maurepas on the Red River

  1713 - 1736
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  Louis JOLLIET

  French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America

  1645 - 1700
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  Pierre LE MOYNE D'IBERVILLE

  French soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer, trader, member of Compagnies Franches de la Marine and founder of the French colony of Louisiana in New France

  1661 - 1706
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  Jacques MARQUETTE

  French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement

  1637 - 1675
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  Juan DE OÑATE

  Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México

  1550 - 1626
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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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  Roger FRISON-ROCHE

  French explorer

  1906 - 1999
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  Jeanne MANCE

  French nurse and settler of New France, founder of Montreal

  1606 - 1673