Explorer
356 famous people found
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Anthony FOKKER
Dutch aviation pioneer, aviation entrepreneur, aircraft designer, and aircraft manufacturer
1890 - 1939 -
Calamity Jane
American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller
1852 - 1903 -
Michael Collins
American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface
1930 - 2021 -
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 -
Hernán Cortés
Spanish Conquistador
1485 - 1547 -
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 -
Elisa DEROCHE
French pilot, world's first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910
1882 - 1919 -
Clarisse CREMER
French female sailor
1989 -
Yannick BESTAVEN
French sailor
1972 -
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