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

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

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

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

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

 * 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)