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97 famous people found
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Gonzalo PIZARRO
Spanish conquistador
1510 - 1548 -
Jean BART
French naval commander and privateer
1650 - 1702 -
Aaron Olmsted
American wealthy sea captain in the China trade out of New England
1753 - 1806 -
Louis Aleno de Saint-Aloüarn
French Navy officer and explorer
1738 - 1772 -
Bartholomew Gosnold
English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America
1571 - 1607 -
Louis Dubois
Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the town of New Paltz, New York
1626 - 1696 -
Edward Sabine
Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th president of the Royal Society
1788 - 1883 -
François Fidèle RIPAUD de MONTAUDEVERT
French privateer
1755 - 1814 -
Louis-Michel AURY
French privateer
1786 - 1821 -
Antoine Ignace MELLING
French painter, architect and voyager
1763 - 1831 -
Marc Joseph MARION DU FRESNE
Breton-born French explorer
1724 - 1772 -
Pierre LHERMITE
French sea captain and rear admiral
1761 - 1828 -
René MADEC
French adventurer in India
1736 - 1784 -
Anne DIEU-LE-VEUT
French pirate
1661 - 1710 -
Jean François Sylvestre DENIS DE TROBRIAND
French naval officer and navigator
1765 - 1799 -
François PERON
French naturalist and explorer
1775 - 1810 -
Jean Claude Hyppolite MEHÉE DE LA TOUCHE
French writer and diplomat
1762 - 1827 -
William BRADFORD
English Separatist who emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620
1589 - 1657 -
Jacques-Oudart FOURMENTIN
French privateer
1764 - 1848 -
Diego COLÓN
Portuguese navigator and explorer
1479 - 1526