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