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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