Explorer
313 famous people found
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Samuel DE CHAMPLAIN
French colonist, navigator, cartographer, draftsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler, founder of Quebec
1574 - 1635 -
Youri GAGARINE
Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut
1934 - 1968 -
Francis DRAKE
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
1540 - 1596 -
Francisco PIZARRO
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
1478 - 1541 -
Neil ARMSTRONG
American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon
1930 - 2012 -
BUFFALO BILL
American soldier, bison hunter and showman
1846 - 1917 -
Davy CROCKETT
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician
1786 - 1836 -
Charles LINDBERGH
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
1902 - 1974 -
Yannick BESTAVEN
French sailor
1972 -
Clarisse CREMER
French female sailor
1989 -
Clément ADER
French inventor and engineer
1841 - 1925 -
Anne MORROW LINDBERGH
American author and aviator
1906 - 2001 -
Jean RASPAIL
French author, traveler and explorer
1925 - 2020 -
René FONCK
French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Allied fighter ace
1894 - 1953 -
Thomas PESQUET
French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut
1978 -
Kit CARSON
American frontiersman
1809 - 1868 -
Jacques CARTIER
French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
1491 - 1557 -
Wyatt EARP
American deputy sheriff and deputy U.S. marshal in Tombstone, Arizona, best known for his part in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1848 - 1929 -
Fernand DE MAGELLAN
Portuguese explorer
1480 - 1521 -
Amelia EARHART
American aviation pioneer and author
1897 - 1939