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147 famous people found

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  George Washington Goethals

  American military officer and civil engineer

  1858 - 1928
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  Joseph M. Reeves

  Admiral in the United States Navy

  1872 - 1948
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  Richard Halsey Best

  Dive bomber pilot and squadron commander in the United States Navy during World War II

  1910 - 2001
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  John H. Bankhead

  American politician and Confederate Army soldier

  1842 - 1920
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  Lawrence Tyson

  American brigadier general, politician, lawyer and textile manufacturer

  1861 - 1929
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  Billy Mitchell

  United States Army officer

  1879 - 1936
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  Newton Knight

  American farmer, soldier, and Southern Unionist

  1829 - 1922
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  Louis Zamperini

  American World War II veteran, an Olympic distance runner and a Christian evangelist

  1917 - 2014
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  Nelson A. Miles

  United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War (1861-1865), the later American Indian Wars (1840-1890), and the Spanish–American War, (1898)

  1839 - 1925
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  Frank Luke

  American fighter ace credited with 19 aerial victories, ranking him second among United States Army Air Service (USAAS) pilots during World War I

  1897 - 1918
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  Devil Anse Hatfield

  American timber merchant and Civil War veteran who led the West Virginian Hatfield family during the Hatfield–McCoy feud

  1839 - 1921
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  Randolph McCoy

  Patriarch of the McCoy clan involved in the infamous American Hatfield–McCoy feud

  1825 - 1914
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  Simon Bolivar Buckner

  American soldier, Confederate soldier, and politician

  1823 - 1914
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  Bud Anderson

  Officer in the United States Air Force and a triple ace of World War II

  1922 - 2024
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  Kenneth Nichols

  Officer in the United States Army, and civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project

  1907 - 2000
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  Edward E. Bradley

  American Adjutant General

  1845 - 1917
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  Thomas J. Hudner Jr.

  United States Navy officer and naval aviator

  1924 - 2017
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  John Taylor Wood

  Officer in the United States Navy and the Confederate Navy

  1830 - 1904
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  Oliver Otis Howard

  United States Army officer and a Union general in the Civil War

  1830 - 1909
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  Elizabeth P. Hoisington

  United States Army officer who was one of the first two women to attain the rank of brigadier general

  1918 - 2007