Pioneer commonly refers to a

settler A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. A settler who migrates to an area previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited may be described as a pioneer. Settl ...

who migrates to previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited land. In the United States pioneer commonly refers to an

American pioneer American pioneers were European American and African American settlers who migrated westward from the Thirteen Colonies and later United States to settle in and develop areas of North America that had previously been inhabited or used by Nat ...

, a person in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas. Pioneer, The Pioneer, or pioneering may also refer to:

Companies and organizations

Pioneer Aerospace Corporation Pioneer Aerospace Corporation is an aerodynamic deceleration manufacturer. Pioneer has designed and manufactured parachutes and parafoils for numerous NASA missions. History Pioneer Aerospace Corporation began production in 1938. In 1988, Pione ...

* Pioneer Chicken, an American fast-food restaurant chain * Pioneer Club Las Vegas, a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. *

Pioneer Corporation commonly referred to as Pioneer, is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Tokyo, that specializes in digital entertainment products. The company was founded by Nozomu Matsumoto in January 1, 1938 in Tokyo as a radio and speaker repair ...

, 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 The Pioneer Instrument Company was an American aircraft component manufacturer. History The Pioneer Instrument Company was started by Morris Maxey Titterington and Brice Herbert Goldsborough in Brooklyn, New York in 1919 using patents from the ...

, an American aeronautical instrument manufacturer *

Pioneer movement A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party. Typically children enter into the organization in elementary school and continue until adolescence. The adolescents then typically join the Young Communist Leagu ...

, a communist youth organization * Pioneer Natural Resources, an energy company in Texas, U.S. * Pioneer Pictures, a former American film studio *

Pioneer Surgical Technology RTI Surgical is a medical technology company that was founded in 1998 after spinning off from the University of Florida Tissue Bank Alachua, Florida, United States. RTI began operations as Regeneration Technologies in Alachua, Fla. In February ...

, a medical technology company in Michigan, U.S. * Pioneer Total Abstinence Association, Irish Catholics who avoid alcohol *

Pioneers (missions agency) Pioneers is a Christian missions organization focused on church planting among unreached people groups. It was founded by former Wall Street Journal National Sales Manager Ted Fletcher in 1979 and has offices in Orlando, Florida, Australia, Gha ...

, a Christian missions organization

Entertainment

Art

* ''The Pioneer'' (Eugene, Oregon), a 1919 sculpture by Alexander Phimister Proctor * ''The Pioneer'' (painting), a 1904 painting by Frederick McCubbin *

The Pioneer (Visalia, California) :''This is about the sculpture in Visalia, California. For the same-named sculptures elsewhere, see Pioneer (disambiguation).'' ''The Pioneer'' in Visalia, California was a sculpture by Solon H. Borglum that was first displayed at the Panama– ...

, a sculpture in California by Solon H. Borglum * ''The Pioneers'' (sculpture), a 1928 sculpture in Illinois by Lorado Taft *

Pioneer Monument (disambiguation) Pioneer Monument or Pioneer Memorial may refer to: ;in Canada * Pioneer Monument Obelisk (Montreal), Quebec ;in the United States * Pioneer Monument (San Francisco), California * Pioneer Memorial (Denver, Colorado) or Pioneer Monument (Denver, ...

for others named "Pioneer Monument" or "Pioneer Memorial"

Film

* ''Pioneer'' (film), a 2013 Norwegian film, directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg * ''The Pioneers'' (1903 film) * ''The Pioneers'' (1916 film), directed by Franklyn Barrett * ''The Pioneers'' (1926 film), directed by Raymond Longford * ''The Pioneers'' (1941 film), directed by Albert Herman * ''The Pioneers'' (2021 film), 2021 Chinese film

Games

Pioneer (pinball) ''Spirit of 76'' is a pinball game designed by Ed Krynski and Wayne Neyens and released in 1975 by Gottlieb. The pinball machine should not be confused with the pinball machine '' The Spirit of '76'' by Mirco Games, Inc.http://www.ipdb.org/ ...

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

Music

Albums

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

Bands

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

Songs

* "Pioneer" (song), by Freddie, 2015 *"Pioneer", by The Band Perry, 2013, from '' Pioneer''

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 David Gaub McCullough (; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American popular historian. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United Stat ...

Military

Pioneer (military) A pioneer () is a soldier employed to perform engineering and construction tasks. The term is in principle similar to sapper or combat engineer. Pioneers were originally part of the artillery branch of European armies. Subsequently, they formed p ...

, a soldier employed for engineering and construction tasks *

Pioneer Column The Pioneer Column was a force raised by Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company in 1890 and used in his efforts to annex the territory of Mashonaland, later part of Zimbabwe (once Southern Rhodesia). Background Rhodes was anxious t ...

, an 1890 force of the British South Africa Company * AAI RQ-2 Pioneer, a U.S. military unmanned aerial vehicle *

RSD-10 Pioneer The RSD-10 ''Pioneer'' (russian: ракета средней дальности (РСД) «Пионер» tr.: ''raketa sredney dalnosti (RSD) "Pioner"''; en, Medium-Range Missile "Pioneer") was an intermediate-range ballistic missile with a ...

, 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 is a census-designated place in Amador County, California. It is located east-northeast of Pine Grove, at an elevation of 2986 feet (910 m), along State Route 88. The community is in ZIP code 95666 and area code 209. The populatio ...

* Pioneer, Florida * Pioneer, Indiana *

Pioneer, Iowa Pioneer is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, Iowa, United States. The population was 4 at the time of the 2020 census, and elected to unincorporate as a municipality in 2020. Geography Pioneer is located at (42.654422, -94.390775 ...

* Pioneer, Kansas * Pioneer, Louisiana * Pioneer, Michigan *

Pioneer, Missouri Pioneer is an unincorporated community in Barry County, Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land ar ...

* Pioneer, Nevada *

Pioneer, Ohio Pioneer is a village in Williams County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,369 at the 2010 census. History Pioneer was platted in 1853. A post office has been in operation at Pioneer since 1851. From 1903, the village was the terminus ...

* Pioneer, Tennessee

Other places

* Pioneer, Alberta *

Pioneer, Singapore Pioneer is a planning area located in the West Region of Singapore, named after Pioneer Road, formerly ''Jalan Besi'.'' The area is bounded by Jurong West to the north, Boon Lay to the east, Tuas to the west, the Western Water Catchment to th ...

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 * USS ''Pioneer'', several U.S. Navy ships * USC&GS ''Pioneer'', several U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ships * ''Pioneer'' (paddle-steamer), an 1863 New Zealand gunboat * ''Pioneer'' (submarine), built for the American Civil War * ''Pioneer'' (schooner), an 1885 ship at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City, U.S. * Pioneer (sidewheeler 1849), one of the first steamboats in California, U.S.

Sports

* London Greenhouse Pioneers, an English basketball team *

Pioneer Bowl The Pioneer Bowl was the name of some December college football bowl games played in two different eras. Between 1971 and 1982, the game was contested 10 times in Texas as an NCAA College Division regional final, or as a playoff game for Divis ...

, a football game *

Pioneer Football League The Pioneer Football League (PFL) is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) as a football-only conference. It has member ...

, a college conference *

Pioneer League (baseball) The Pioneer League is an independent baseball league that operates in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. Its teams are not directly affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB). It is designated as an MLB Partner League. From 1939 ...

, a minor league *

Pioneer Race Course Pioneer Race Course, also known as the Pioneer Race Track, was a horse race track opened in March 1851, in the southern Mission District of San Francisco, California. Pioneer was the first race course in San Francisco. At the time that it was buil ...

, a former San Francisco horse racing course * Sacred Heart Pioneers, the athletic teams of the Sacred Heart University

Other

Pioneer program The Pioneer programs were two series of United States lunar and planetary space probes exploration. The first program, which ran from 1958 to 1960, unsuccessfully attempted to send spacecraft to orbit the Moon, successfully sent one spacecraft to ...

, a series of U.S. lunar, solar, and interplanetary unmanned space missions launched from 1958 through 1978 *

Pioneer species Pioneer species are hardy species that are the first to colonize barren environments or previously biodiverse steady-state ecosystems that have been disrupted, such as by wildfire. Pioneer flora Some lichens grow on rocks without soil, ...

, a species that colonizes an otherwise barren environment * Pioneering (Scouting), creating structures with ropes and wood spars *

Young Pioneers (disambiguation) Young Pioneers may refer to: Media * ''Young Pioneers'' (novel), a short novel by Rose Wilder Lane ** ''Young Pioneers'' (film), a 1976 American made-for-television Western film ** ''Young Pioneers' Christmas'', a 1976 American made-for-televisio ...