World Wars & Contemporary Wars

408 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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  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 politician, diplomat and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005

  1937 - 2021
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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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  Charles de Gaulle

  French army officer and statesman

  1890 - 1970
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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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  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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  Philippe LECLERC de HAUTECLOCQUE

  French general during World War II

  1902 - 1947
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  Douglas MacARTHUR

  American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army

  1880 - 1964
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  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
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  Jean-Louis GEORGELIN

  French Army general

  1948 - 2023
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  Sophie ADENOT

  French engineer, helicopter pilot, and astronaut

  1982
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  Maxime Weygand

  French military commander in World War I and World War II

  1867 - 1965
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  Hubert GERMAIN

  French politician who was a member of the French Resistance during World War II

  1920 - 2021