Pioneer

Pioneer commonly refers to a settler who migrates to previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited territory.

In the United States pioneer commonly refers to an American pioneer, a person in American history who migrated westward to settle in what is now the Western and Midwestern United States.

Pioneer, The Pioneer, or pioneering may also refer to:

Companies and organizations

• Pioneer Aerospace Corporation
• Pioneer Chicken, an American fast-food restaurant chain
• Pioneer Club Las Vegas, a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
• Pioneer Corporation, a Japanese electronics manufacturer
• Pioneer Energy, a Canadian gas station chain
• Pioneer Entertainment, a Japanese anime company
• Pioneer Hi-Bred, a U.S.-based agriculture company
• Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall, Laughlin, Nevada, U.S.
• Pioneer Instrument Company, an American aeronautical instrument manufacturer
• Pioneer movement, a communist youth organization
• Pioneer Natural Resources, a defunct energy company in Texas, U.S.
• Pioneer Pictures, a former American film studio
• Pioneer Surgical Technology, a medical technology company in Michigan, U.S.
• Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, Irish Catholics who avoid alcohol
• Pioneers (missions agency), a Christian missions organization

Entertainment

Visual Arts

• The Pioneer (1904), painting by Frederick McCubbin, Australia
• The Pioneer (Visalia, California) (c. 1915), sculpture by Solon H. Borglum, California
• The Pioneer (Eugene, Oregon) (1919), sculpture by Alexander Phimister Proctor, Oregon
• The Pioneer (Los Angeles) (1925), sculpture by Henry Lion, California
• The Pioneers (sculpture) (1928), sculpture by Lorado Taft, Illinois
• Pioneer Monument (disambiguation) for others named "Pioneer Monument" or "Pioneer Memorial"

Films

• The Pioneers (1903 film), an American silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.
• The Pioneers (1916 film), an Australian silent film directed by Franklyn Barrett
• The Pioneers (1926 film), an Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford
• The Pioneers (1941 film), an American film directed by Albert Herman
• The Pioneers (1980 film), a Taiwanese film starring Hsu Feng
• Pioneer (film), a 2013 Norwegian film directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg
• The Pioneers (2021 film), a Chinese film directed by Xu Zhangxiong

Games

• Pioneer (pinball), a 1976 pinball machine produced by Gottlieb
• Pioneer (video game), a 2006 space trading and combat simulator

Music

Bands

• Pioneer (band), an American Christian music band
• The Pioneers (band), a Jamaican reggae vocal trio

Albums

• The Pioneers (album) by MC Eiht and Spice 1, 2004
• Pioneer (The Maine album), 2011
• Pioneer (Pioneer album), self titled album, 2012
• Pioneer (The Band Perry album), 2013

Songs

• "The Pioneers" (song) by Bloc Party, 2005
• "Pioneer" by The Band Perry, from Pioneer, 2013
• "Pioneer" (song) by Freddie, 2015
• "Pioneers", by For King & Country from Burn the Ships, 2018

Literature

Books

• The Pioneers (novel), 1823 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Pioneers, 1872 novel by R. M. Ballantyne
• The Pioneer, 1905 novel by Geraldine Bonner
• The Pioneer, 1912 novel by Harold Edward Bindloss
• The Pioneers, 1954 novel by Jack Schaefer
• Pioneers, 1986 novel by Phillip Mann
• The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, 2019 non-fiction book by David McCullough

Magazines and newspapers

• Pioneer (magazine), a Soviet/Russian monthly magazine
• Pioneer (newspaper), various English-language newspapers
  • The Pioneer (South Australia), a newspaper
  • The Pioneer (India), an English-language newspaper published in India
• Pioneer (Estonian magazine)

Military

• Pioneer (military), a soldier employed for engineering and construction tasks
• Pioneer Column, an 1890 force of the British South Africa Company
• AAI RQ-2 Pioneer, a U.S. military unmanned aerial vehicle
• RSD-10 Pioneer, a Soviet missile
• Scammell Pioneer Semi-trailer, a British tank recovery and transport vehicle
• Scottish Aviation Pioneer, a British military aircraft

Places

Australia

• Pioneer, Queensland
• Pioneer, Tasmania
• Pioneer River, in Queensland
• Shire of Pioneer, a former local government area

United States

• Pioneer, Arizona
• Pioneer, California
• Pioneer, Florida
• Pioneer, Indiana
• Pioneer, Iowa
• Pioneer, Kansas
• Pioneer, Louisiana
• Pioneer, Missouri
• Pioneer, Nevada
• Pioneer, Ohio
• Pioneer, Tennessee
• Pioneer Township, Michigan
  • Pioneer, Michigan

Other places

• Pioneer, Alberta
• Pioneer, Singapore

Rail transport

• Pioneer (locomotive), built in 1837
• Pioneer (train), an Amtrak passenger train
• Pioneer MRT station, a transit station in Singapore

Schools

• Pioneer High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan), U.S.
• Pioneer High School (San Jose, California), U.S.
• Pioneer High School (Whittier, California), U.S.
• Pioneer Junior College, Singapore
• Pioneer-Pleasant Vale Schools, (Garfield County, Oklahoma) U.S.

Ships

• HMS Pioneer, several Royal Navy ships, 1800s
• Pioneer (sidewheeler 1849), one of the first steamboats in California, U.S., 1849
• Pioneer (paddle-steamer), New Zealand gunboat, 1863
• Pioneer (submarine), built for the American Civil War, 1861
• Pioneer (schooner), ship at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, U.S., 1885
• USS Pioneer, several U.S. Navy ships, 1800s – 1900s
• USC&GS Pioneer, several U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ships, 1900s
• MV P&O Pioneer, a British hybrid power seagoing ferry, introduced on the Dover–Calais route, 2023

Sports

See also: Pioneer Conference (disambiguation)

• London Greenhouse Pioneers, an English basketball team
• Pioneer Bowl (disambiguation), American college football games
• Pioneer Football League, a college conference
• Pioneer League (baseball), a minor league
• Pioneer Race Course, a former San Francisco horse racing course
• Sacred Heart Pioneers, the athletic teams of the Sacred Heart University

Other

• Pioneer program, a series of U.S. lunar, solar, and interplanetary unmanned space missions launched from 1958 through 1978
• Pioneer species, a species that colonizes an otherwise barren environment
• Pioneering (Scouting), creating structures with ropes and wood spars
• Young Pioneers (disambiguation)

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Pioneer
• All pages with titles containing Pioneer
• Pioneer Award (disambiguation)
• Pioneer Club (disambiguation)
• Pioneer Days (disambiguation)
• Pioneer League (disambiguation)
• Pioneer Township (disambiguation)
• Pionier (disambiguation)
• Pioner (disambiguation)