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326 famous people found
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Jeanne MANCE
French nurse and settler of New France, founder of Montreal
1606 - 1673 -
Maurice HERZOG
French mountaineer and administrator
1919 - 2012 -
Buzz ALDRIN
American astronaut who was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 11
1930 -
James COOK
English explorer, navigator and cartographer
1728 - 1779 -
Eugène François VIDOCQ
French criminalist
1775 - 1857 -
Claudie HAIGNERE
French doctor, politician, and former spationaut
1957 -
Louis BLERIOT
French aviator, inventor and engineer
1872 - 1936 -
Alain BOMBARD
French biologist, physician and politician
1924 - 2005 -
Louis BREGUET
French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers
1880 - 1955 -
Roland GARROS
French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I
1888 - 1918 -
Jean MERMOZ
French aviator
1901 - 1936 -
Ernest SHACKLETON
Anglo-Irish explorer
1874 - 1922 -
Adrienne BOLLAND
French test pilot and the first woman to fly over the Andes between Chile and Argentina
1895 - 1975 -
Vance RODRIGUEZ
American hiker whose body was found on July 23, 2018 in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida
1976 - 2018 -
Chuck YEAGER
United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot
1923 - 2020 -
Sally RIDE
American astronaut and physicist
1951 - 2012 -
Michel TOGNINI
French test pilot, engineer, Brigadier General in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut
1949 -
Yves LODAY
French sailor
1955 -
Thomas DESTAILLEUR
French Adventurer
1989 - 2019 -
Henri PEQUET
French pilot in the first official airmail flight on February 18, 1911
1888 - 1974