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360 famous people found
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Alexander VON HUMBOLDT
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
1769 - 1859 -
Fridtjof NANSEN
Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1861 - 1930 -
Nathaniel PALMER
American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer
1799 - 1877 -
Charles STURT
British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia
1795 - 1869 -
Robert PEARY
American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole
1856 - 1920 -
Adolf Friedrich ZU MECKLENBURG
German explorer in Africa, a colonial politician
1873 - 1969 -
Alexandre André TELLET-LARENTE
French aviator
1904 - 1939 -
Josiah HARLAN
American adventurer, best known for travelling to Afghanistan and Punjab with the intention of making himself a king
1799 - 1871 -
Martin FROBISHER
English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage
1535 - 1594 -
Alfred GRANDIDIER
French naturalist and explorer
1836 - 1921 -
René CAILLIE
French explorer, and the first European to return alive from the town of Timbuktu
1799 - 1838 -
Louis Antoine DE BOUGAINVILLE
French admiral and explorer
1729 - 1811 -
Horace-Bénédict DE SAUSSURE
Genevan aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism
1740 - 1799 -
André MICHAUX
French botanist and explorer
1746 - 1802 -
Pedro DE-VALDIVIA
Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile
1497 - 1553 -
James John FLOYD
Pioneer of the Midwestern United States around the Louisville, Kentucky
1750 - 1783 -
William CLARK
American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and 4th Governor of Missouri Territory
1770 - 1838 -
Meriwether LEWIS
American explorer, soldier, and 2nd Governor of Louisiana Territory
1774 - 1809 -
Norman D. VAUGHAN
American dogsled driver and explorer
1905 - 2005 -
Alain RICHARD
French pilot
1930 - 1962