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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, an 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

Literature

• 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
• The Pioneers (novel), by James Fenimore Cooper
• The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, a 2019 book by David McCullough

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

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

• 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)