World Wars & Contemporary Wars

323 famous people found

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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 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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  Charles DE GAULLE

  French army officer and statesman who led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II

  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 PETAIN

  French general, Marshal of France, and Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944

  1856 - 1951
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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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  Arnaud BELTRAME

  Lieutenant colonel in the French Gendarmerie nationale

  1973 - 2018
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  Philippe RONDOT

  French general

  1936 - 2017
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  François DARLAN

  French Admiral and political figure

  1881 - 1942