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19 famous people found
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Francis DRAKE
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
1540 - 1596 -
Fletcher Christian
English seaman who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789
1764 - 1793 -
Edward SMITH
British naval officer, he was the captain of the RMS Titanic, and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage
1850 - 1912 -
James COOK
English explorer, navigator and cartographer
1728 - 1779 -
Ranulph FIENNES
English adventurer and holder of several endurance records
1944 -
Philip CARTERET
British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764-66 and 1766-69
1733 - 1796 -
Richard GRENVILLE
English Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Soldier, High Sheriff of County Cork, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, Privateer, Sheriff of Cornwall, Colonizer, and explorer
1542 - 1591 -
Walter RALEIGH
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer
1552 - 1618 -
James Clark ROSS
British naval officer and explorer remembered today for his exploration of the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry
1800 - 1862 -
John ROSS
British naval officer and Arctic explorer
1777 - 1856 -
Thomas CAVENDISH
English explorer and a privateer
1560 - 1592 -
Francis GALTON
English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician
1822 - 1911 -
Richard HAWKINS
English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog"
1562 - 1622 -
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings
1866 - 1923 -
Bartholomew Gosnold
English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America
1571 - 1607 -
William BRADFORD
English Separatist who emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620
1589 - 1657 -
Charles STURT
British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia
1795 - 1869 -
Martin FROBISHER
English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage
1535 - 1594 -
Geoffrey DE HAVILLAND
British aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer
1882 - 1965