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77 famous people found
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BUFFALO BILL
American soldier, bison hunter and showman
1846 - 1917 -
Davy CROCKETT
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician
1786 - 1836 -
Clément ADER
French inventor and engineer
1841 - 1925 -
Kit CARSON
American frontiersman
1809 - 1868 -
Wyatt EARP
American deputy sheriff and deputy U.S. marshal in Tombstone, Arizona, best known for his part in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1848 - 1929 -
Daniel BOONE
American pioneer and hunter
1734 - 1820 -
Edward SMITH
British naval officer, he was the captain of the RMS Titanic, and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage
1850 - 1912 -
Wild Bill HICKOK
Folk hero of the American Old West
1837 - 1876 -
Robert SURCOUF
French privateer and slave trader
1773 - 1827 -
Charles RENARD
French military engineer
1847 - 1905 -
Antoine DE TOUNENS
French lawyer and adventurer, King of Araucania and Patagonia
1825 - 1878 -
John Charles FREMONT
American military officer, math instructor, explorer, author, U.S. Senator, and politician
1813 - 1890 -
Louis-François-Marie TARDY DE MONTRAVEL
French admiral, explorer and colonial administrator
1811 - 1864 -
Joshua SLOCUM
First man to sail single-handedly around the world
1844 - 1909 -
Charles Bonaventure DE RAYS
French nobleman who had ambitions of starting a great French colony in the South Pacific
1832 - 1893 -
Ernest DOUDART DE LAGREE
Leader of the French Mekong Expedition of 1866-1868
1823 - 1868 -
Zebulon PIKE
American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named
1779 - 1813 -
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 -
Francis GALTON
English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician
1822 - 1911 -
Edward BUNKER
American pioneer, Mormon, and community founder of Bunkerville, Nevada
1822 - 1901