Military

1,528 famous people found

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  Michael Collins

  American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface

  1930 - 2021
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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 politician, diplomat and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005

  1937 - 2021
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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