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101 famous people found
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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 -
Davy CROCKETT
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician
1786 - 1836 -
Jacques CARTIER
French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
1491 - 1557 -
Fernand DE MAGELLAN
Portuguese explorer
1480 - 1521 -
Jean-François de LA PEROUSE
French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania
1741 - 1788 -
Daniel BOONE
American pioneer and hunter
1734 - 1820 -
Fletcher Christian
English seaman who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789
1764 - 1793 -
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 -
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 -
Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675 -
Louis JOLLIET
French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America
1645 - 1700 -
René-Robert CAVELIER DE LA SALLE
17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America
1643 - 1687 -
Juan DE OÑATE
Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
1550 - 1626 -
Jeanne MANCE
French nurse and settler of New France, founder of Montreal
1606 - 1673 -
James COOK
English explorer, navigator and cartographer
1728 - 1779 -
Eugène François VIDOCQ
French criminalist
1775 - 1857 -
Auguste de Saint-Hilaire
French botanist and traveler
1779 - 1853 -
Vasco DE GAMA
Portuguese explorer
1469 - 1524