World Wars & Contemporary Wars
291 famous people found
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Charles de GAULLE
French army officer and statesman
1890 - 1970 -
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 -
Philippe Pétain
French general who commanded the French Army in World War I and became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II
1856 - 1951 -
Jean-Louis GEORGELIN
French Army general
1948 - 2023 -
Sophie ADENOT
French engineer, helicopter pilot, and astronaut
1982 -
Maxime Weygand
French military commander in World War I and World War II
1867 - 1965 -
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 -
Arnaud BELTRAME
Lieutenant colonel in the French Gendarmerie nationale
1973 - 2018 -
Philippe RONDOT
French general
1936 - 2017 -
François DARLAN
French Admiral and political figure
1881 - 1942 -
François LECOINTRE
French army general serving as Chief of the Defence Staff of the French Army
1962 -
Charles SURUGUE
Oldest French soldier to enlist in WWI
1839 - 1921 -
Pierre DE VILLIERS
French army general
1956 -
Joseph DARNAND
French soldier, leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany and a Waffen-SS officer
1897 - 1945 -
Roland GARROS
French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I
1888 - 1918 -
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