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101 famous people found
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Jean Claude Hyppolite MEHÉE DE LA TOUCHE
French writer and diplomat
1762 - 1827 -
William BRADFORD
English Separatist who emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620
1589 - 1657 -
Jacques-Oudart FOURMENTIN
French privateer
1764 - 1848 -
Diego COLÓN
Portuguese navigator and explorer
1479 - 1526 -
Louise Renée DE PENANCOET DE KEROUAL
Mistress of Charles II of England
1649 - 1734 -
Jeanne DE VALOIS-SAINT-REMY
Notorious French adventuress and thief, she is known for her prominent role in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace
1756 - 1791 -
Charles PLUMIER
French botanist
1646 - 1704 -
André Guillaume RESNIER DE GOUé
French general
1729 - 1811 -
Charles Marie DE LA CONDAMINE
French explorer, geographer, and mathematician
1701 - 1774 -
Aimé BONPLAND
French explorer and botanist
1773 - 1858 -
Jean Baptiste Christian FUSÉE-AUBLET
French pharmacist, botanist and explorer
1723 - 1778 -
Pierre BLANCARD
French botanist and explorer
1741 - 1826 -
John KENDRICK
American sea captain, both during the American Revolutionary War and the exploration and maritime fur trading of the Pacific Northwest
1740 - 1794 -
Antoine BRUNY D'ENTRECASTEAUX
French naval officer, explorer and colonial governor
1737 - 1793 -
Alexander VON HUMBOLDT
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
1769 - 1859 -
Charles STURT
British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia
1795 - 1869 -
Nathaniel PALMER
American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer
1799 - 1877 -
Josiah HARLAN
American adventurer, best known for travelling to Afghanistan and Punjab with the intention of making himself a king
1799 - 1871 -
Martin FROBISHER
English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage
1535 - 1594 -
Horace-Bénédict DE SAUSSURE
Genevan aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism
1740 - 1799