Celebrity Not Listed Yet?
StarTiger -
Browsing Category Home->Historical, Scientific & Military Figures , A-Z Filter: F
Browsing Category Home->Historical, Scientific & Military Figures , A-Z Filter: F
-
Vincent 'Little Vinny' Artuso - capo of a crew in Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach County, Boca Raton and Palm Beach Island. Artuso lives in South Palm Beach, Florida. On January 22, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Artuso was charged with racketeering
-
former NASA Astronaut
-
100 year old mobster. Born: 03/1910
-
WWII: PTO. Served on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); survived the Kamikaze attack on May 11, 1945 (Battle of Okinawa) when 390 sailors and airmen were killed and 264 wounded
-
WW2 Air Gunner manning a ball turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress/French President Francois Hollande had installed him as a chevalier, chevalier you know is a knight in that country's Legion of Honor
-
American engineer, designer, entrepreneur, and active investor. He is the inventor of the iPod and the iPhone
-
Mental health advocate, writer, motivational speaker, life coach, podcaster
-
Military, Coast Guard
-
Michael Fagan (4)
British man who broke into Buckingham Palace and entered the Queen's bedroom, talking to her for several minutes before he was arrested -
navy admiral
-
scientist invented space shuttle & lunar lander
-
invertor (co-inv. micoprocessor & computer chip)
-
#34 Oldest Person In The World Lives In France Born 1894
-
90-year-old Holocaust survivor, commemorates anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz with dance performance about her years in the concentration camp. Fahidi performed the dance, 'Sea Lavender or The Elation of Being,'. May live in Berlin
-
University Professor, claims to be the inventor of the Digital Smiley face :-) on September 19, 1982
-
Member of The Ritchie Boys was responsible for uncovering more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front during World War II. Holocaust survivor and now 97 years old
-
Secret Service agent that served 6 presidents; also in the greater Kennedy detail (Ambassador Joseph Kennedy Detail)
-
Sleepwalk killer
-
German ww2 pilot
-
Spanish Civil War flying ace
-
WWII: D-Day; Battle of the Bulge; 82nd Airborne Division (All-Americans), 505th paratrooper infantry (PIR), Company D; landed in the cemetery of St. Mere Eglise in France on D-Day
-
Former Soviet diplomat and politician, Ambassador of the Soviet Union to West Germany
-
WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
-
German ww2 pilot
-
Polish pilot who flew with the RAF 635, 639 and 303 squadrons during WWII. He lives in Canada
-
American physicist and inventor who specializes in the field of gravity. He conceived the Lunar Laser Ranging Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Faller
-
Commander US Pacific Command
-
Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces from 1977 to 1980
-
101st airborne. dday battle of the bulge
-
American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics jointly with Robert Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen
-
WWII - D-Day, 618th Ammunition Co., 74th Ordinance Bat., 6th Enginering Special Brigade
-
Civil Rights Activist, 1961 Freedom Rider
-
Police officer from Jan 6 attack on capitol
-
WWII: PTO. New Britain, Peleliu, Okinawa. USMC
-
U.S. Navy sailor serving as a radioman in the Coast Guard Flotilla 4/10, LCI-492 (landing craft infantry), that landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6th 1944
-
navy admiral
-
Puerto Rican lawyer, daughter of Junno Faria and Iris Chacon
-
WWII - Contemporary witness of the Port Chicago disaster (largest US mainland munitions explosion, July 17, 1944, Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, CA; 320 dead, 390 wounded, followed by mutiny that changed segregation in the Navy.)
-
WWII: US Army. Fought at New Caladonia, Guadalcanal, Fiji Island and Bougainville
-
Muhammed Ahmed Faris is a Syrian military aviator. He was the first Syrian and the second Arab in space
-
Former cosmonaut from Hungary, first Hungarian in space, now president of Airlines Service & Trade Ltd. in Budapest
-
WWII: PTO. D-Day, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France; Battle of Zerf, and the Battle of the Bulge. 5th Ranger Batallion
-
American politician, business executive, & dignitary who served as head of the Democratic National Committee & as Postmaster General. Farley known as political 'kingmaker', & was responsible for FDR's rise to presidency
-
John Farley (2)
In 1963 Test Pilot on the RAE Aerodynamics Research Flight at Bedford. During this tour he flew all the UK research aircraft then flying. Flown over 80 different aircraft types, both fixed and rotary wing. 19 years of Harrier programme test flying. -
Former employee of ESL Incorporated, he stalked co-worker Laura Black. On February 16, 1988, he shot and killed seven people at ESL. He was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder. Portrayed by Richard Thomas in the movie I Can Make you Love Me
-
USS Indianapolis survivor
-
WWII Fighter Ace - 8 Kills - US Navy - Navy Cross
-
WWII: PTO. Battles of Guadalcanal, New Guinea & Peleliu. 1st Marine Division
-
US Navy vet, born 1926. Naval reserves at the end of WWII, and the end of the Korean War. 'Atomic veteran' witness to the Operation Crossroads first peacetime tests of atomic bombs at the Bikini Atoll in 1946
-
WWII: PRO. Guadalcanal. 1st Marine Division. 3 Purple Hearts, Silver Star, Bronze Star
-
African - American WWII Army WACS veteran, born 1922. Postwar career as a Chicago beautician
-
WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima, USMC
-
Antiques Road Show
-
Civil rights activist
-
WWII USMC - Battle of Corregidor (1942), awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. Spent over 3 years as a POW and was awarded a 2nd Purple Heart. Also, served in the Korean War
-
Wing Commander, RAF Pilot
-
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941
-
Member of french resistance WWII
-
WWII Tuskegee Airmen
-
Military
-
US Navy, First Female Commander of the USS Constitution
-
WII: B-17 tail-gunner in the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force. Flew 21 missions beginning in February 1945, incl. Berlin, Schweinfurt, the Ruhr Valley
-
USMC Ace during WWII-[5 victories] Member of VMF-312
-
Flight astronaut
-
Nurse stationed at triage desk at Parkland Hospital's emergency room when Pres. kennedy , Gov. Connolly and Oswald admitted
-
JFK - Dallas police officer. Was at Parkland Memorial Hospital when the motorcade arrived, and he saw President Kennedy?s body. On Saturday, he guarded the Homicide and Robbery Bureau doorway at Dallas police headquarters. Acquaintance of Jack Ruby
-
Legendary Marine; WWII (Guadalcanal, Guam, Bougainville, Iwo Jima), Korea (Pusan Perimeter, Inchon Landing, Seoul Recapture, 'Frozen Chosin' Reservoir). Knew Mike Mervosh, Chesty Puller, John Wayne
-
WWII: British Royal Marine in the Arctic convoys (Murmansk Run)
-
Fighter ace
-
US WWII vet, born 1914. Son of Italian immigrants, he worked in a clerical office in Italy in WWII, where he found his family's dialect left him unexpectedly not understanding the language there
-
WWII: B-17 waist gunner Flew 19 mission, the first on D-Day. B-17 Shack Rat. 390th Bomb Group, 568th Squadron, 8th Air Force
-
Governor Arkansas 55-67. 1957 stand against desegregation of Little Rock School District during Little Rock Crisis/Ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School
-
American immunologist who has made substantial contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/Saved millions of lifes
-
Civil rights leader Walter E. Fauntroy, who served 20 years in Congress as Washington, D.C.â-?s non-voting delegate and chaired the Congressional Black Caucus, after helping Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. plan the March on Washington
-
WWII. Was part of the French Commandos that copied the techniques of the British Commandos
-
signer of the Treaty of Rome. The Treaty of Rome, officially the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, was an international agreement that led to the founding of the European Economic Community on 1 January 1958
-
Businessman and CEO of Danfoss
-
First female President of Harvard University
-
WWII: D-Day, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge. 508th Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division
-
French astronaut
-
Inventor Nespresso-businessman
-
Descendant of Guy Fawkes, the leader of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up parliament.He is a retired headteacher and is a politician
-
Navy Friend and Presidential Aide to JFK
-
WWII: US Navy WAVE, broadcasting reports to the Northern Pacific Fleet
-
Holocaust Survivor/Public Speaker
-
WWII: US Navy Higgins Boat Coxswain (driver) on D-Day. His LCVP picked up 35 men of the 1st Infantry Division from the USS Henrico and brought them into the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach. It was the 5th boat in the 1st wave at Omaha on 6:30 AM
-
Author and historian
-
Kansas centenarian, born 1911. Survivor of the Kansas dustbowl storms and lost her older brother to the 1918 Flu epidemic
-
U.S. Army WW2 Veteran
-
US WWII Montford Marines vet, born 1925. Post-war entered the seminary and became a pastor
-
Irish-American gang leader, 'The Westies'
-
Captured by Red Chinese during CIA - sponsored C-47 flight over mainland China during Korean War. POW nearly 2 decade battle of wills between the U.S. & China/He was released in December 1971. CIA awarded him the Distinguished Intelligence Cross
-
Spanish Civil War Veteran. Pilot. Born: 02/10/1914
-
Spanish Civil War Veteran ,Red Army, Lives in Moscow Born: 02/10/1914
-
NASA test pilot - Gulfstream III, the DC-8 airborne science laboratory, C-17 and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), T-34 mission support aircraft and the remotely piloted X-56 multi-utility technology testbed
-
Scientist
-
Recognized for having dropped the first bomb of Operation Desert Storm, flying the F-117A
-
Gay activist
-
WWII - Fighter Ace, Pacific. 9 victories, 4 probable's, 9 more aircraft damaged. He flew with VF-5 (USS Yorktown) during the Battle of Midway; took part in many of the key battles in the Pacific, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima
-
Jewish Soviet WWII veteran, born April 3, 1926 in Sverdlovsk, probably living in Montreal, Canada
-
Austrian Holocaust survivor, lecturer, and community leader. Born: May 28, 1913)
-
Military
-
'Spanish Civil War' 'International Brigade' 'British' Lives in West Cliff...Bournemouth, England Born: 04/24/1909
-
BAMN and ANTIFA sctivist
-
WWII: PTO. USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76). Battles of Peleliu, Leyte Gulf, Luzon and the Battle off Samar
-
JFK - Honor Guard, casket team - one of Kennedy's pallbearers at the state funeral
-
Was the second head coach of the Oakland Raiders. He played College football for Stanford at the Offensive Guard position. He was elected to the Stanford Athletics Hall o Fame He is also a World War 2 veteran, served in the US Marines
-
'Spanish Civil War Veteran' 'International Brigade' 'German' Born: 04/14/1912
-
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941, USS Oglala
-
WWII: ETO. B Company, 275th Regiment, 70th Division. Battle of the Bulge. POW and slave laborer at Berga camp
-
A former National Security Agency analyst and whistleblower who revealed the existence of the NSA and its worldwide covert surveillance network in an interview
-
F-15 test pilot
-
inventor (portable computer)
-
Russian American historian. The Bolsheviks and the Left SRs (Paris, 1985), Towards a History of Our Isolation (London, 1988; Moscow, 1991)
-
Daughter of Mark Felt, 'Deepthroat.'
-
Former FBI Agent - Informed Woodward & Bernstein of Watergate Scandal (Deep Throat)
-
WWII: USS Navy. Crossed Atlantic from Boot Camp on The RMS Queen Mary; served on the HMS Ceres during D - Day, directing ships in and out at Omaha Beach
-
90 year old gay man whose coming out story went viral in 2020. Found out his one true love had died a few years earlier
-
Austrian naturalist
-
Was the head of the Communications section at NASA starting with Apollo 9. Fendell would use a camera mounted on the Lunar Rover to perfectly capture the lunar liftoff of the Apollo 17 Lunar Module Challenger
-
Nobel prize winner - Chemistry - 2002
-
Staff Assistant to President John F Kennedy: Dan H. Fenn Jr. Gave a 'Ted talk' in January 2018 on differences between JFK's White House and the one of today
-
Australian virologist12/21/1914
-
Nurse at Parkland Hospital , helped escort Pres. Kennedy's casket out of hospital
-
Political scientist, author
-
US Army 4 Star General
-
WWII: US Navy, cook on the USS Yorktown. Battle of Guadalcanal, Coral Sea and Midway
-
(7 February 1926 - 21 November 2009) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an eminent space engineer. Feoktistov also wrote several books on space technology and exploration. The Feoktistov crater on the Far Side of the Moon is named in his honor
-
Col. Vietnam War/US Air Force, pilot/Pow six years/John McCain's cellmate two years/ His Air Force career flying the B-47 Stratojet, RB-66 and EB-66 Destroyer, T-38 Talon, and F-111 Aardvark aircraft
-
WWII: PTO. Underwater Demolition Team
-
American Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; gained brief media notoriety in August 2012, when he wore an unusual mohawk hairstyle during the Curiosity landing on Mars
-
Bombardier 'Enola Gay'
-
Last surviving prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1945-46, at the Palace of Justice
-
Invented LCD technology; Inventor Hall of Fame Inductee
-
Operator on Parkland Memorial's switchboard , Anne was the first to hear that President Kennedy had been shot and was on his way to the hospital
-
Astronaut
-
Colin Ferguson (2)Serial killer
-
medal of honnor army vietnam
-
Historian, author. Professor of Political and Financial History. Presenter and author of 'Empire' on Channel 4.
-
WWII Black Widow Airplane Pilot
-
A synthetic organic chemist. He received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage, 'for the design and synthesis of molecular machines'
-
Historian, author, State University of West Georgia - professor emeritus
-
Spy/also known as Anya Fermanov, is a Latvian-American television personality and alleged smuggler. While living in Texas, Fermanova allegedly smuggled night-vision equipment to her husband in Russia
-
Survivor of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centers
-
Spanish Civil War veteran who served in the International Brigades (Born: 1918) Age: 97. Lives in Mexico
-
Supercentenarian born 1895 lives in Spain
-
Usmc sniper vietnam 41 confirmed kills
-
Presidential historian and author mainly on FDR and Harry Truman
-
Courtoom Judge
-
WWII - Pearl Harbor survivor, 7 December 1941; USS Vestal
-
Brought invention to alaska to save some whales as featured in The Big Miracle
-
Radioman/Gunner on TBF Avenger, Torpedo Squadron 8, (VT-8). Battle of Midway, WWII, 4 June 1942. Of the six Avengers, Ferrier's was the only one to return. Ferrier was wounded along with his pilot, the top gunner was killed. He was awarded DFC & PH
-
Flight scientist
-
WWII Navy Cross recipient and pilot, helped sink japanese battleship yamato
-
French physicist , Nobel Prize 2007
-
WWII: PTO. Battles of Okinawa, the Philippines and Iwo Jima. USS Sarasota
-
Author and founder and President of the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation. The foundation's goal is totell the story of the greatest generation of National Baseball Hall of Fame players that served in WWII led by Bob Feller, etc
-
Mover/shaker civil rights movement
-
Holocaust Survivor
-
JFK/Cold War: Member of Light Photographic Squadron 62 (VFP-62) that took the low-level pictures of the Russian missiles in Cuba during the 'Cuban Missile Crisis' in October 1962. Aviation electrician responsible
-
WWII: ETO. US Air Force. 305th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. POW:
-
Jason Fettig is a United States Marine Corps colonel who is the music adviser to the President of the United States and the 28th director of the United States Marine Band 'The President's Own'
-
Astronaut
-
WWII: 32nd Infantry Regiment. 7th Infantry Division, Aleutian Islands. Battle of Attu. Purple Heart
-
Adolph Hitler's Jewish Neighbor/Wrote,'When Hitler Was Our Neighbor'/Lives in Britain
-
Author historian
-
Astronaut
-
Founding member of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Company and witness to 'The Great Smog', that affected London, England, during December 1952. She was 21 at the time and is now 85
-
US Air Force Vietnam War Veteran. Served with the Jolly Green Giants in Vietnam. Recipient of 5 Distinguished Flying Crosses
-
Son of Richard Feynman
-
Daughter of Richard Feynman
-
97 Year old WW 2 Air Force Gunner He now lives in Edison, New Jersey
-
Dr. Wernher Von Braun Rocket Scientest Team Member
-
WWII: Pearl Harbor survivor
-
WWII: D-Day. Captain of a minesweeper (YMS-305) who had to clear of Omaha and Utah Beach from German mines
-
P-51 Mustang Ace during WWII-[8 victories] Member of the 325th Fighter Group
-
B-1 test pilot
-
high-profile defense attorney/commentator - most known for defending Jack 'Dr. Death' Kevorkian
-
Scientist
-
Co Inventor of Bubble Wrap
-
Civilian imprisoned for more than three years by the Japanese during WW2 as a child/Was living on the island of Java in what was then the Dutch East Indies during World War II when the Japanese invaded in 1942
-
Civil rights activist (b. 1930), one of the last living organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Named recording secretary of the boycott's MIA group, to Martin Luther King's presidency of the group. Pastor of one of the churches bombed during the boycot
-
army general
-
Explorer
-
WWII: ETO. B-17 pilot of the 100th Bomb Group (Bloody 100th)
-
Belgian molecular biologist who was the first to establish the complete nucleotide sequence of a viral RNA-genome
-
developed napalm
-
Renowned physicist and optical engineer, winner of the Kingslake medal
-
One of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, born 1909
-
Leader of Ican organization who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2017
-
JFK assasination suspect
-
Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent (Born: 1928) He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. After leaving the space programme in 1982 he became the Deputy Director of the OKB in Kharkiv
-
(Born 1925) US Marine Corps WW2 Veteran. 6th Marine Division. He was the 2nd wave at Okinawa. Recipient of a Bronze Star and 3 Purple Hearts
-
Wrote a diary during the siege of Sarajevo- Often Called 'The Anne Frank Of Sarajevo'(Author Zlata's Diary)- well known peace and human rights activist
-
WWII: PTO. US Army. Expert marksman with E Company, 160th Infantry Regiment, 40th Infantry Division
-
WW2 USMC Sergeant Iwo Jima I Company 3rd Battalion 24th Marine Regiment 4th Marine Division and a Purple Heart recipient
-
13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House
-
US WWII army vet (ETO, 287th Combat Engineers) and NASA engineer, born 1924. Project chief scientist and manager for Pioneer planetary missions 6-13. Pioneer 10 and 11 the first spacecrafts to Jupiter and Saturn, and the first to leave the solar system
-
Floyd Finberg, Maj fighter ace-Flying tiger
-
Military
-
NASA/Apollo 11: Engineer who invented the 'barbecue roll' for rotating the flight capsule that balanced temperature while in flight, a maneuver that later saved Apollo 13
-
Vietnam veteran, author
-
pilot retraced amellia earhart's route
-
vietnam war air force hero
-
Autopsy on John F Kennedy
-
Astronaut, Guest appearance Star Trek ENT
-
Air Force General
-
WWII: PTO. Battle of Iwo Jima. 26th Marines, 5th Marine Division
-
'Tuskegee Airmen'
-
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory - The longest-serving woman in NASA
-
Firefighter - 9/11
-
Oldest Living Medal of Honor (Navy WW 2) Born: 07/23/1909.Lieutenant John William Finn (born July 23, 1909) is a retired officer of the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor in recognition of heroism and distinguished service during the Japan
-
WWII: PTO. Battle of Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu. Company G, 2md Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division
-
navy admiral
-
Pearl Harbor Survivor
-
British soldier of the 'Blues and Royals'm awarded the George Cross for bravery under friendly fire during the 2003 invasion of Iraq
-
Is a centenarian, a British statistician, Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, and former President of the Royal Statistical Society and of the Biometric Society
-
Former Bonnano 'acting capo' of Gerard Chilli's South Florida crew. He is based in Palm Beach County, city of Boynton Beach. On October 14, 2009 his crew in South Florida was charged under the RICO law.
-
Now 90 years old (2021) grew up in northern New Mexico during the Manhattan Project. Her ancestors were Hispano homesteaders who built the Romero Cabin, an important pre-Manhattan Project structure at Los Alamos
-
Nobel prize winner - Medicine - 2006
-
1Lt, USAAF, 835th Squadron, 486th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force B-17 Pilot/Lead Crew Distinguished Flying Cross 25 Missions over Europe
-
nobel medicine 1992
-
nobel chemistry 1973
-
Awarded the Knight's Cross during WW2
-
American Korean War Fighter Ace - 10 Victories
-
Astronaut
-
Alaskan politician, activist, born 1924. Last living delegate to Alaska's Constitutional Convention upon Statehood in the1950s
-
German WWII Veteran, Tiger Tank
-
WWII: Fighter Ace; 5 victories
-
Broadcaster for NHL Hockey for the MSG Network. Hockey Historian and author
-
Member Early Birds of Aviation/devoted to history of early pilots. Started 1928 & membership totaled 598/Membership limited to the pilots of glider, gas balloon, or airplane, pre-12/17/1916. Time of Wright Bro's 1st flight-1916 when many trained 4 WW1
-
air force general
-
WWII: MTO/ETO. Africa, Italy, France, and Germany. D-Day. 39th Infantry
-
astronaut first mother in space
-
real life person from the movie based on his life
-
Medal of honor air force vietnam
-
Mr. Fisher served on board the USS Arkansas BB BB 33 during the D Day invasion and Iwo Jima
-
Charles Fisher (3) Art Director at KRLD-TV in '63 , Charles processed film all over the world the weekend of the assassination . In '64 he was a sketch artist for the Jack Ruby trial
-
WWII: Battle of Midway; USS Hornet (CV-8)
-
WWII - WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
-
WWII: PTO. Battle of Okinawa. Navy corpsman
-
Jeremy Fisher (3)Cosplayer. Made a 200+ pound suit that was featured in Popular Science magizine for engineering
-
Along with Cousin Kaiden Madsen discovered a Full Size Baby T-REX
-
The only full-time Tarrant County Deputy Sheriff on horseback in '63 , Fisher was stationed outside Hotel Texas Nov.22 1963 . He met Pres. Kennedy who was photographed petting Fisher's horse
-
Flight astronaut sts-51L
-
Centenarian (1897-2003). US WWI veteran, one of the last of the Navy's female 'yeomanettes'
-
First Pilot of WW2 B-17 'Mission Belle' and author of 'The Lucky Bastard Club'
-
WWII Veteran born 1915 in Moldov, moved to Canada
-
WWII: Atlantic. Served on the USS Block Island (CVE-21)
-
Pearl Harbor survivor
-
Former Special Prosecutor who investigated the Clinton Whitewater scandal, before Kenneth Starr
-
RAF ace from WW2, living in New Zealand
-
air force general
-
Racecar driver, decorated World War II fighter and bomber pilot, ex-POW
-
Nobel prize for physics 1980, worked on Manhattan Project
-
WWII: PTO. Navy. USS Antietam. Battles of Midway, Saipan, Okinawa
-
American political activist and author
-
WWII -Turret Gunner in the Torpedo Squadron of Carrier Air Group 11 (VT-11, sister quadron to the famous Sundowners VF-11) in the Pacific Theater; served on the USS Hornet (CV-12)
-
American Army officer for thirty years He was awarded the Soldierâ-?s Medal for heroism and the Bronze Star for valor before retiring as a Col in 1993. Author of The Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle
-
Government Whistle Blower
-
Navy admiral
-
Medal of honor army vietnam
-
3rd wife of the Duke of Grafton. Famous socialite
-
WWII/ETO: B-17 pilot of the 'Bloody 100th' (100th Bomb Group)
-
WWII: Survivor of the failed Operation Jubilee ('Dieppe Raid') on 19 August 1942, when 60% of the mostly Canadian landing force were either killed, wounded or captured
-
German cosmonaut
-
WWII: Navy veteran of World War II, serving as a chief pharmacist's mate. He took part in the Normandy Invasion and the occupation of Japan
-
1960's Activist.. Was one of 'The Weatherman'. (S.D.S)
-
WWII - Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941; USS Arizona survivor
-
'Tuskegee Airmen', Communication Tech., WWII
-
Retired USN Admiral
-
Ret. WW2 Lt. General
-
USN Admiral
-
Inventor
-
flew many missions during WWII, was at Guadacanal, born September 17th 1919
-
Test pilot
-
WWII: PTO. Pearl Harbor survivor, Schofield Barracks. Later fought at Guadalcanal where he was wounded. 89th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division
-
(March 6, 1887 - October 29, 1975) WW1 American aviation pioneer, industrialist and army officer. Fleet founded and led several corporations, including Consolidated Aircraft/Acting commanding officer of the 18th Aero Squadron, Training WW1
-
Hitlers Nurse (Germany Red Cross)
-
Born 1883 American Animator known for Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor Man, and Superman. Also the inventor of the Rotoscope in 1915 and founder of Fleischer Studios Inc
-
WWII - Fighter Ace, 6 victories; flew the P-47; 348th Fighter Group, Pacific Theater
-
WWII Nurse, born 1923. First African American nurse to teach at Rhode Island College. Honored by Rhode Island Senate for lifetime work with children of Providence
-
Paranormal Investigator, Sensitive on Dead Famous
-
Medal of Honor Recipent 'Air Force' Vietnam
-
John Fleming (4)SSgt, USA, 271st Regt., 69th Div., 2nd Army. Combat Infantryman, Mechanic. Awarded Two Bronze Stars Battle of the Bulge, Siegfried Line and Leipzig European Theater of Operations
-
United States Air Aces
-
Stephen 'The Rifleman' Flemmi - American gangster and close associate of Winter Hill Gang boss Whitey Bulger
-
In 1963 he was at the time of the JFK assassination, one of Lee Harvey Oswald's Pallbearers/Texas writer
-
Criminal
-
Black Mafia Family
-
(Born 1932) US Air Force Vietnam Veteran. POW from 1966 to 1973. Recipient of 2 Silver Stars, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 3 Bronze Stars, and 2 Purple Hearts
-
Rough Rider with T. Roosevelt, Diplomat under 6 Presidents (1873-1959) Roosevelt chose him as a diplomat to Cuba, other posts under Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. Republican Party Nat'l Chair (1934-36)
-
Administrator of NASA/National Aeronautics and Space Administration who gained the approval of the Nixon Administration on January 5, 1972, to develop the Space Shuttle as the follow-on human space flight effort of the agency
-
American WWII - Pilot, USAAF, co-pilot of 'The Peacemaker'
-
Egyptologist
-
(Born 1922) African American US Army WW2 Veteran. Got injured in 1944 at Normandy but did not get the Purple Heart until 2021 due to racist push back
-
Survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre born 1914
-
Co-founder of the Center for Labor Renewal, columnist and long-time activist. Served as President of TransAfrica Forum and was formerly the Education Director and later Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO
-
The only female employee for Transocean on rig Deepwater Horizon which sank in Gulf on April 22 causing largest oil spill in history of oil exploration/One of last people off of rig as her crew was responsible for trying to maintain the rig
-
NASA - Director of the Armstrong Flight Research Center
-
Swede who spent 20 years in Texas prisons for killing a man who had raped his daughter, now lives in sweden on his parole and works as a youth counsler and motivational speaker, wrote the biographical book 'Iskallt och stenhårt'
-
WWII: Radio man in the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, the 'Ghost Army'. The Ghost Army deceived enemies into thinking that there were unaccounted divisions out there
-
First woman to pilot a B-52 Bomber and author or the book Charged
-
Supercentenarian (1894-2006). France's oldest living man ever documented, and one of it's last living WWI veterans
-
African American WWII veteran. Montford Marines, served in Guam during WWII
-
Nephew of Venezuelan First Lady Cilia Flores; arrested in Haiti by the BLTS, extradited and charged with conspiring to import and distribute cocaine in the United States
-
Manuel Flores (2) WWII: PTO. USMC, 3rd Marine Air Wing. Driver for Brig.General Schilt. After the war, he trained recruits. At one point he was a stand-in for then actor Ronald Reagan in a WWII-themed movie when it came time for Reagan to jump out of a plane
-
Born in 1898, claims to have fought in the Mexican Revolution. He lives in Ecatepec City, in the State of Mexico
-
Wwii: wasp
-
Newsmaker/Actress/Author/Singer-Affair With Bill Clinton,Penthouse December 1992
-
Tuskegee airmen ww2
-
Democrat candidate running against Marjorie Taylor Greene in GA-14 (2022)
-
Canadian aerospace engineer (Born: 1914) He was involved in the design and development of the Avro Jetliner and CF-100 aircraft designs, over a period which is viewed by many as the 'Golden Age' of the Canadian aviation industry
-
USN Admiral
-
Medal of Honor, US Navy, WWII: commanded USS Barb, most decorated submarine of the war
-
American attorney and women's rights activist
-
US Army 4 Star General
-
WWII: Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston, became a POW for well over 3 years
-
Lieutenant General, United States Army (retired), Author, Advisor to Donald Trump
-
Student that Killed Pamela Smart's Husband in an attempt to make her his wife
-
army general
-
astronaut mir
-
WWII Flying Tigers (clerk)
-
Military Commander Ferdinand Foch was a French general and military theorist who served as the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War. An aggressive, even reckless commander at the First Marne, Flanders and Artois campaigns of 1914-1916, Foc
-
Invented Embolectomy Catheter - industry standard that revolutionized cardiovascular surgery (balloon catheterization); inductee Inventor Hall of Fame
-
air force general
-
air force general
-
Reputed Patriarca mobster
-
Inventor and Game Designer who invented the game Twister
-
Don Foley (2) Gay Activist
-
US WWII vet, born in 1920. Served as a Navy WAVE in secret intelligence work involving Japanese merchant ships, though she refused to discuss details of her work even decades later
-
Member of the Band of Brothers, 506th Easy Company WWII
-
US Army Vietnam War Medal of Honor Recipient
-
navy admiral
-
Author; 'Visions from a Foxhole : A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps'/WW2 Battle of the Bulge veteran
-
cancer researcher
-
Mayor of Dallas from 1976 to 1981, Folsom was a longtime real estate developer and served as president of the Dallas School Board during the racial integration of the 1960s
-
WWII: PTO. Marine Corps Fighter pilot (VMF-121) of the 'Cactus Air Force' at Guadalcanal 1942 who flew with J. Foss' 'Flying Circus'. In the mission that sank the Japanese battleship Hiei. Later Squadron Leader, VMF-533. Post-war test pilot
-
WW2 US Navy Flying Ace, VF-15 - 5 Kills
-
(Born 1980) US Navy Medical Corpsman Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran. Navy Cross Recipient
-
Commander 21st Theatre Sustaintment Commandunit 23203APO AE 09263
-
WWII. Holocaust survivor. Witness of 'Kristallnacht' and the burning of the synagogue at Fasanstrasse, Berlin, on Nov. 10/11, 1938
-
Cuban native living in exile in Florida when he joined the Bay of Pigs invasion force as a Frogman/Worked with CIA
-
Humanitarian: Retraced and completed Terry Fox's cross country cancer research fundraising marathon in 1984
-
South African rape survivor, anti-rape activist, founded the Jes Foord Foundation
-
historian
-
historian
-
Military, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
-
British WW2 pilot involved in the 'Battle of Britain'
-
Larry Alt and Pete Forcelli, agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), helped expose Operation Fast and Furious scandal, that resulted in federally-monitored guns ending up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels
-
Fred Ford (4)Co-creator, with Paul Reiche III, of the Star Control universe. Ford did the programming, while Reiche was responsible for the game design and fiction. Ford was also the lead programmer on The Horde and Pandemonium
-
American pilot in World War 2, completed 35 bombing raids on German Targets
-
US physicist, teacher, author (b. 1926). Worked on developing the H-Bomb, under his mentor John Wheeler at Los Alamos, before completing his graduate studies
-
astronaut
-
Former Lorraine Motel worker, witness to the Martin Luther King assassination, and pictured in the iconic photo of the scene
-
United States Under Secretary of the Army (2007-2009)
-
Robert Ford (2) British Army Officer
-
Female death row inmate, subject of A&E Documentary 'Women on Death Row.'
-
Military
-
Freddie Foreman (born 5 March 1932 in Battersea, London) is a convicted English criminal involved in the disposal of the body of Jack 'the Hat' McVitie (killed by Reggie Kray) and for which he was sentenced to ten years in prison
-
Astronaut Born March 29 1957
-
Peace Activist and Author wrote several books including Praying with Icons and Ladder of the Beatitudes
-
Lz X - ray Battle of la Drang/1965 1/5 Calvery/ Born April 13, 1938/African American part of Berlin Airlift/1st Cav Airmobile
-
WWII: PTO. Last surviving veteran of iconic Kokoda Track campaign photo
-
WWII: One of the few remaining 'lumberjills' of the war, a group in the Women's Land Army. Now 96 and possibly living in Glasgow
-
Inventor random access memory; inductee to Inventor Hall of Fame. Born: 07/14/1918
-
astronaut (STS-105)
-
US Army General
-
WWII: PTO. Leyte, Philippines, Okinawa. 96th Infantry, 763rd Tank Battalion
-
American WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War Ace
-
army general
-
German WWII Soldier, born 1925 in Berlin. Drafted near war's end, soon taken POW by the US, shuttled to France & the USSR. Got medical degree, moved to the US. Radiology career. Medical officer in the US Air Force, later the Army Reserves
-
Donut Dolly Vietnam War/11/67-04/68 Lai Khe 1st Inf. Div. 04/68-06/68 Da Nang 3rd Marines 07/68-09/68 Chu Lai - Americal Div. 10/68 - 12/68 Lai Khe - 1st Inf. Div. http://www.donutdolly.com/id24.htm#patty__bright__fortenberry
-
WWII author and Ace
-
USS Indianapolis Survivor
-
WWII: ETO. 78th Infantry Division
-
WWII Marine Ace- shot down 26 Japanese planes- LIFE cover June 7, 1943, awarded the congressional medal of honor
-
United States Air Aces
-
First solo balloonist to circumnavigate the earth..
-
Monkey Woman of the World/Reseacher
-
Astronaut
-
Bob Foster (4) JFK - Secret Service, in the 'Kiddie detail', featured in many famous pictures with John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy
-
Korean war ace/15 mig kills
-
Charles Foster (3) Charles Basil Foster (born January 17, 1923) is an English-born Canadian publicist, newspaper editor, author and songwriter. He was born in Cheshire, England. During World War II he was a pilot with the Royal Air Force
-
Daniel Foster (2) November 22nd 1963/Parkland Hospital JFK's trauma room #1 attending doctors/John Fitzgerald Kennedy Assassination
-
Author and historian
-
Flying Tigers-Nurse;named Foster in 1941, Petach in 1942
-
British ace from WW2, 6.5 victories, Battle of Britain
-
WWII Tank Commander, Battle of the Bulge
-
Born 26 July 1910 is a Breton nationalist. His name in French was Jean-Adolphe Fouéré. He is the father of the actress Olwen Fouéré. He was born in Aignan, département Gers, France.He was
-
Aviation Radioman 2nd Class, USN, USS Hornet (CV-12) SB2C Helldiver Radio Operator/Gunner Distinguished Flying Cross Shot down while bombing the battleship Yamato during the Battle of Okinawa. Rescued by Destroyer
-
WWII: PTO. Battle of Peleliu. USMC
-
One of his Purples Hearts is pictured on the USPS Purple Heart stamp
-
Superintendent US Naval Acadamy
-
Aviation stunt pilot
-
Dust Bowl survivor, born 1913. Lived through worst of Dust Bowl in Boise City, OK. Featured in Ken Burns' PBS documentary, The Dust Bowl
-
Fowler is best known for his UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) investigations and books focusing primarily on UFO sightings and close encounters in the New England area of the U.S., including the Betty Andreasson Luca Alien Abduction case
-
Man who claims to be the Sailor kissing a nurse on VJ Day in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous Life Magazine photo; from Tampa, FL
-
William Fowler (2)Author/historian
-
RCAF Pilot, WWII, Wounded E. Rommell
-
Mountaineer of the 1996 Mt. Everest tragedy
-
WWII: PTO. Marine Corps, 23rd Provisional Company, 6th Defense Battalion. Battle of Midway, June 1942. Was assigned to Midway Islands in 1942 to defend the atoll. Later in the Iwo Jima invasion and the postwar occupation of Japan
-
Part of raid of WWII POW camp Cabanatuan 'The Great Raid
-
WWII: 1st Marine Division. Flamethrower in the Battle of Peleliu, 1944
-
WWII: PTO. USS Kennabago
-
Desert Storm Fighter Pilot -- shot down a MiG-21 from his F/A-18 on 17 Jan, 1991. His was the first Navy air-to-air kill of the war
-
inventor of natural colored cotton
-
JFK - chief of protocol and head of the social office at the White House 1960-1975
-
Vietnam War Medal Of Honor Recipient - US Marines
-
United States Air Aces
-
WWII: British Arctic Convoy veteran
-
WWII: MTO/ETO. North Africa, Battle of Kasserine Pass (Tunisia), Sicily, D-Day (Omaha Beach, 3rd wave), Battle of the Bulge. 15th Engineer Combat Battalion, 9th Infantry Division
-
Pasco county sheriff,s office florida
-
Former Italian terrorist, living in Italy
-
WWII veteran of the 3rd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. He fought throughout Europe from October of 1944 in Alsace-Lorraine, ending near the Austrian Alps when the war ended
-
(Born 1909) Supercentenarian and oldest person alive to live in the United States that is verified
-
Oldest man in the U.S. - Deceased 2008
-
Mobster, Colombo Street Boss 2008-2009 - operated from New England, imprisoned December 2009
-
Senior Test Pilot - Stratolaunch
-
The only child of Spain's Caudillo, dictator, General Francisco Franco
-
American Serial Killer
-
French Veteran of Spanish Civil War, International Brigade. Born: 1920
-
German-born American biophysicist at Columbia University, New York City and a Nobel laureate. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson
-
Father of Anne Frank, Concentration Camp Survivor
-
NASA - Flight Director (Orange flight) Apollo 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17 and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
-
American broadcast news executive. Created the groundbreaking Huntley-Brinkley Report, and was its producer until 1964. Served two tenures as president of NBC News. Mentored such journalists as Tom Brokaw, John Chancellor & Linda Ellerbee
-
Uss yorktown & 1948 israel war of independence pilot
-
British immunologist born 03/18/21912
-
Retired General
-
Engineer and a leading pioneer in Canada?s space programme. He played a leading role in the design, construction and application of Canada's first satellite, the Alouette
-
Military
-
Historian. Born: 01/02/1915
-
Stunt Pilot
-
Flight (aviator)
-
American writer. Won a Pulitzer in 1971 for her reporting on the life of Diana Oughton, a member of Weather Underground. Became the first woman to win a Pulitzer for National Reporting, and the youngest person ever to win any Pulitzer
-
U.S. Army General
-
Retired general, Author
-
Cuban writer and political activist Carlos Franqui, an important figure in the Cuban revolution
-
Oklahoma Dust Bowl survivor of the 1930s. Interviewed by Ken Burns for his Dust Bowl documentary
-
JFK - Honor Guard at President Kennedy's funeral
-
Inductee of National Inventors Hall of Fame
-
ww2 pilot
-
Last Hindenburg Crewman Alive. Currently resides in Germany. Born: 05/22/1922
-
Witness to the JFK murder and was 6 years old and is seen in background right after the shot to the head
-
John 'Sonny' Franzese is a longtime member and the current Underboss of the Colombo crime family.
-
Michael Franzese (born May 27, 1951) is a former New York mobster and captain of the Colombo crime family who was heavily involved in the gasoline tax rackets in the 1980s. Since then, he has publicly renounced organized crime, created a foundation for he
-
Historian
-
WWII: PTO. USS Randolph
-
4 Star General Born April 16, 1953
-
Francis Davidson Fraser (born 13 December 1923, and better known as 'Mad' Frankie Fraser) is a former British criminal and gang member who has spent more than half of his life in prison for numerous violent offences
-
Gymnast who witnessed Hitler refusing to shake Jesse Owens' hand at 1936 Olympics Games. Lives in Forres, Morayshire, Scotland, UK.
-
War hero, Victoria Cross receiver
-
4 Star GeneralBorn Aug.17,1952
-
Politician
-
Retired USMC General
-
Retired naval pilot and Commander of VFA-41 also known as 'The Black Aces'
-
Commander US Alaskan Command
-
JFK - The man who drove Lee Harvey Oswald to work on Nov. 22, 1963, when Oswald took that package with him in Frazier's car that is assumed to have been the rifle that killed Kennedy; he was a co-worker of Oswald at the TSBD
-
Flight astronaut 1967 group 6 astronaut candidate
-
WWII: Battle of Midway
-
Bataan death march survivor- wrote book-hells guest
-
Member of the 3 original 1939 Little League teams
-
Centenarian (1901-2002). One of the last living US WWI Marine veterans. Lied about age to join, sent to combat in France. Re-enlisted in WWII, served in the battle of Okinawa. Wounded in the trenches by an exploding shell in WWI, and hit in the neck with
-
WWII: Merchant Marine
-
Chemist/Educator - created many self-testing systems for diabetes
-
NASA - Associate Administrator for the Exploration Systems Development (ESD) Directorate. Involved in Artemis I
-
British air ace from WW2 with 13 victories
-
Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in which 146 of her co-workers perished in 1911
-
WWII - Iwo Jima survivor. Also fought at Bougainville, where he served and spent time with later Iwo flag raiser Ira Hayes
-
'Tuskegee Airmen'/332nd, WWII, Lawyer
-
WWII veteran; 101st Airborne, 506th PIR, Easy Company - one of the original Band of Brothers
-
Medal of Honor Vietnam at lz-xray 1965
-
Civil Rights Attorney. Member of the US Commission on Civil Rights 1964-79
-
DPD , one of lead motorcycle officers in President Kennedy's motorcade on Nov.22 , 1963
-
'Tuskegee Airmen'
-
WWII: PTO. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Liscome Bay in the Battle of Tarawa on 23 November 1943 when 687 got killed
-
WWII: Ace, 6 victories. VMF-121, later VMF-115, William Freeman flew over 200 combat missions in the Pacific theater
-
WW2/From Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, member of the Women?s Royal Naval Service, Wrens. Worked on Colossus, world?s first digital electronic computer, which was developed at Bletchley but the existence of which was kept secret for decades
-
Highest ranking German officer to survive the sinking of the bismark
-
WWII: B-17 Ball Turrett Gunner, 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group (Bloody 100th). Shot down on his last mission on April 28, 1944 in B-17 #42-107024 (unnamed). POW at Stalag XI, Nürnberg, Stalag 17B, Krems, Austria
-
Soldier french revolution, knighted in uk, alot of stuff, a admiral of the royal navy
-
WWII: UK veteran of the 'Kings? Royal Rifles' who landed on Juno Beach three days after D-Day and fought all the way to Hamburg
-
Teen witness to JFK assassination. Standing on Houston Street as limo passed by, running across the street as the shots were fired. He and a friend ran up into the railway area (leading some to think they had thrown firecrackers at the motorcade), then ba
-
German Nazi lives in Garbsen-Auf der Horst (near Hannover/Lower Saxony)
-
Born March 13, 1916, American self-taught structural designer, architectural designer, concept artist, educator, and futurist
-
British journalist, businessman and welfare adviser. He is a great grandson of Sigmund Freud, and son of Annette Krarup and Walter Freud. Sometimes known as Baron Freud
-
German explorer & wolf scientist, lived amongst wolves for several years, opened a wolf park in germany
-
Witness For The Prosecution Of Scott Peterson
-
One of the fathers of the Ford Mustang
-
US Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran. Served from 1970 to 1981
-
WWII: D-Day, electrician on the USS August; also helped serve the meal when President Truman was aboard
-
WWII: Reconnaissance Photographer at NAS Honolulu, working at Admiral Nimitz' Office. Took countless photos in the Pacific, incl. celebrities visiting the base, like Rene Gagnon (flag-raiser at M t. Suribachi) or actress Betty Hutton
-
Astronaut
-
WWII: Army Scout Veteran. Arrived in Normandy on Aug. 5, 1944, with the 80th Division and fought all through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Austria
-
Founder and CEO of Icelandic gaming company, Plain Vanilla. Created the bestselling app QuizUp. Thor sold QuizUp to Glu Games in 2016
-
Army medic with the 16th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division that treated soldiers on Omaha Beach, D-Day June 6th 1944
-
Former heart surgeon who was jailed in 1975 for the murder of his wife and was the oldest prisoner in New York until his relase on parole in 2007
-
WWII: US Navy veteran who served on the USS Russell (DD-414); the ship fought in 16 major engagements incl. the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway where she picked up survivors of the carriers USS Lexington resp. USS Yorktown
-
Woman who claims to be the nurse being kissed by the sailor in Alfred Eisenstadt's famous VJ Day 1945 photo on the cover of Life Magazine, taken in Times Square - 'Crossroads Of The World'
