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91 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
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Francis DRAKE
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
1540 - 1596
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Francisco PIZARRO
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire
1478 - 1541
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Davy CROCKETT
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician
1786 - 1836
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Jacques CARTIER
French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
1491 - 1557
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Fernand DE MAGELLAN
Portuguese explorer
1480 - 1521
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Daniel BOONE
American pioneer and hunter
1734 - 1820
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Jean-François de LA PEROUSE
French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania
1741 - 1788
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René-Robert CAVELIER DE LA SALLE
French explorer and fur trader in North America
1643 - 1697
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Jean-Baptiste GAULTIER DE LA VERENDRYE
French explorer, founder of Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods and of Fort Maurepas on the Red River
1713 - 1736
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Louis JOLLIET
French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America
1645 - 1700
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Pierre LE MOYNE D'IBERVILLE
French soldier, ship captain, explorer, colonial administrator, knight of the order of Saint-Louis, adventurer, privateer, trader, member of Compagnies Franches de la Marine and founder of the French colony of Louisiana in New France
1661 - 1706
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Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675
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Juan DE OÑATE
Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
1550 - 1626
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Jeanne MANCE
French nurse and settler of New France, founder of Montreal
1606 - 1673
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James COOK
English explorer, navigator and cartographer
1728 - 1779
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Eugène François VIDOCQ
French criminalist
1775 - 1857
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Vasco DE GAMA
Portuguese explorer
1469 - 1524
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Robert SURCOUF
French corsair
1773 - 1827
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René DUGUAY-TROUIN
Famous Breton corsair of Saint-Malo
1673 - 1736