Pioneer (disambiguation)

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A pioneer is an early settler or innovator.

Pioneer may also refer to:

Contents 1 Business 2 Geography 3 Space and military 4 Politics and religion 5 Other uses 6 See also

[edit] Business

• Pioneer Corporation, a Japan based manufacturer of electronics
• Pioneer Hi-Bred, a seed producer in the United States
• Pioneer Petroleum, an independent gas station chain in Ontario
• Geneon, formerly known as Pioneer Entertainment, a Japanese anime company
• Pioneer Surgical Technology, a Michigan based medical device company
• Pioneer Investments, an investment management company
• Petach Tikva Pioneers, a baseball team in the Israel Baseball League
• The Pioneer, one of India's oldest newspapers

[edit] Geography

• Pioneer, California, USA
• Pioneer, Louisiana, USA
• Pioneer Island, part of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago in the Kara Sea, north of Russia
• Pioneer, Singapore, Singapore
• Pioneer Pass, a pass on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada

See also: Pioneer Township

[edit] Space and military

• Pioneer (submarine), built in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1862
• Assault Pioneer, a trained infantry soldier capable of simple combat engineering tasks
• Scammell Pioneer Semi-trailer, a British tank recovery and transport vehicle
• RQ-2 Pioneer, an Israeli UAV
• Pioneer program, a series of unmanned NASA planetary exploration probes launched between 1958 and 1978
  • Pioneer 1, the first spacecraft launched by NASA
  • Pioneer 2
  • Pioneer 3
  • Pioneer 4
  • Pioneer 5
  • Pioneer 6, 7, 8 and 9
  • Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to leave the solar system
  • Pioneer 11, the first spacecraft to explore Saturn
  • Pioneer Venus project

[edit] Politics and religion

• Pioneers (missions agency), a Christian missionary organization
• Mormon pioneers, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who migrated to the Salt Lake Valley
• Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, an Irish organisation for Roman Catholics
• Pioneer, a level of Baptized Publishers of Jehovah's Witnesses
• Pioneering (Bahá'í), unpaid lay missionary work for the Bahá'í religion
• Pioneer Movement, a communist youth movement
• Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union

[edit] Other uses

• Pioneer species, a plant adapted to the extreme environment of an otherwise barren location
• Pioneer (schooner), a tall ship located at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City
• Pioneer butterfly, the Belenois aurota
• The Pioneer, a painting by Frederick McCubbin
• Pioneer High School, a public high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• St. George Pioneerzz, a former minor league baseball team

[edit] See also

• Pionýr, a voluntary organization in the Czech Republic
• American pioneer
• American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory
• Settler
• All pages beginning with Pioneer