World Wars & Contemporary Wars

374 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 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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  Hubert GERMAIN

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

  1920 - 2021
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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