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344 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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  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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  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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  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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  George Washington Custis LEE

  Confederate general in the American Civil War, president of Washington and Lee University

  1832 - 1913
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  Philippe LECLERC de HAUTECLOCQUE

  French general during World War II

  1902 - 1947
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  Alfred DREYFUS

  French artillery officer who was convicted in 1894 on charges of treason

  1859 - 1935
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  Robert NIVELLE

  French artillery officer who served in the Boxer Rebellion, and the First World War

  1856 - 1924
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  Ollie NORTH

  American political commentator and television host, military historian, New York Times best-selling author, and retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel

  1943
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  Philippe RONDOT

  French general

  1936 - 2017
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  François DARLAN

  French Admiral and political figure

  1881 - 1942
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  Gaston DE GALLIFFET

  French general

  1830 - 1909
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  Charles SURUGUE

  Oldest French soldier to enlist in WWI

  1839 - 1921
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  Joseph DARNAND

  French soldier, leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany and a Waffen-SS officer

  1897 - 1945