Military
1,405 famous people found
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Robert BADEN-POWELL
British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement
1857 - 1941
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Samuel DE CHAMPLAIN
French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler, founder of Quebec
1574 - 1635
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Francisco FRANCO
Spanish general who ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator
1892 - 1975
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Wolfram Freiherr VON RICHTHOFEN
German Generalfeldmarschall (General Field Marshal) of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) during the Second World War
1895 - 1945
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Colin POWELL
American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army
1937
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Douglas FAIRBANKS
American actor and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II
1909 - 2000
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George S. PATTON
United States Army officer
1885 - 1945
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Augusto PINOCHET
Chilean army general who was brought to power as president by a coup d'etat
1915 - 2006
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Napoléon BONAPARTE
Military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I
1769 - 1821
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Charles DE GAULLE
French army officer and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II
1890 - 1970
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Gilbert DU MOTIER DE LA FAYETTE
French aristocrat and military officer
1757 - 1834
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Bernard Law MONTGOMERY
British Army officer
1887 - 1976
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Jean Marie CAUJOLLE
First disabled war veteran in France
1889 - 1928
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Auguste Joseph RENAULT
Last French soldier killed during WWI
1897 - 1918
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Chris KYLE
United States Navy SEAL, and the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
1974 - 2013
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Francesco SFORZA
Italian condottiero, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan, Italy
1401 - 1466
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Ferdinand FOCH
French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War
1851 - 1929
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Jeanne D'ARC
Folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint
1412 - 1431
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George Washington Custis LEE
Confederate general in the American Civil War, president of Washington and Lee University
1832 - 1913
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Bertrand DU GUESCLIN
Breton knight and French military commander during the Hundred Years' War
1320 - 1380