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103 famous people found
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Robert SURCOUF
French privateer and slave trader
1773 - 1827 -
René DUGUAY-TROUIN
Famous Breton corsair of Saint-Malo
1673 - 1736 -
Giacomo CASANOVA
Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
1725 - 1798 -
Martin PREVOST
New France settler
1611 - 1691 -
Pedro ARIAS DAVILA
Spanish colonial administrator
1468 - 1531 -
Zebulon PIKE
American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named
1779 - 1813 -
Pierre GAULTIER DE VARENNES
French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer
1685 - 1749 -
Jan VAN RIEBEECK
Dutch colonial administrator and founder of Cape Town
1619 - 1677 -
Joseph R. WALKER
American mountain man and experienced scout
1798 - 1876 -
Philip CARTERET
British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764-66 and 1766-69
1733 - 1796 -
Richard GRENVILLE
English Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Soldier, High Sheriff of County Cork, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, Privateer, Sheriff of Cornwall, Colonizer, and explorer
1542 - 1591 -
John ROSS
British naval officer and Arctic explorer
1777 - 1856 -
James Clark ROSS
British naval officer and explorer remembered today for his exploration of the Arctic with his uncle Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry
1800 - 1862 -
Walter RALEIGH
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer
1552 - 1618 -
Thomas CAVENDISH
English explorer and a privateer
1560 - 1592 -
Álvar Núñez CABEZA DE VACA
Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition
1488 - 1557 -
Charles WILKES
American naval officer and explorer
1798 - 1877 -
George CLIFFORD
English peer, as well as a naval commander and courtier in the court of Queen Elizabeth I
1558 - 1605 -
Richard HAWKINS
English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog"
1562 - 1622 -
Álvaro DE MENDAñA
Spanish navigator
1543 - 1595