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