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282 famous people found
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Jean Marie CAUJOLLE
First disabled war veteran in France
1889 - 1928 -
Auguste Joseph RENAULT
Last French soldier killed during WWI
1897 - 1918 -
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 -
Philippe LECLERC de HAUTECLOCQUE
French general during World War II
1902 - 1947 -
Alfred DREYFUS
French artillery officer who was convicted in 1894 on charges of treason
1859 - 1935 -
Jean-Louis GEORGELIN
French Army general
1948 - 2023 -
Hubert GERMAIN
French politician who was a member of the French Resistance during World War II
1920 - 2021 -
Robert NIVELLE
French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War
1856 - 1924 -
Philippe RONDOT
French general
1936 - 2017 -
François DARLAN
French Admiral and political figure
1881 - 1942 -
Gaston DE GALLIFFET
French general
1830 - 1909 -
Charles SURUGUE
Oldest French soldier to enlist in WWI
1839 - 1921 -
Joseph DARNAND
French soldier, leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany and a Waffen-SS officer
1897 - 1945 -
Honoré d'ESTIENNE d'ORVES
French Navy officer, reputed "first martyr of Free France" and one of the major heroes of the French Resistance
1901 - 1941 -
Roland GARROS
French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I
1888 - 1918 -
Antonin BROCARD
French general
1885 - 1950 -
Ferdinand WALSIN-ESTERHAZY
Officer in the French Army
1847 - 1923 -
Henri Mathias BERTHELOT
French general during World War I
1861 - 1931 -
Gérard DE CATHELINEAU
French military officer
1921 - 1957 -
Joseph Simon GALLIENI
French soldier, most active as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies
1849 - 1916