Explorer
235 famous people found
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Charlie Dalin
French offshore sailor
1984 -
Antoine
French pop singer, sailor, adventurer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker
1944 -
Elisa DEROCHE
French pilot, world's first licensed female pilot on 8 March 1910
1882 - 1919 -
Yannick BESTAVEN
French sailor
1972 -
Clarisse CREMER
French female sailor
1989 -
Clément ADER
French inventor and engineer
1841 - 1925 -
Jean RASPAIL
French author, traveler and explorer
1925 - 2020 -
René Fonck
French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Allied fighter ace
1894 - 1953 -
Thomas PESQUET
French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut
1978 -
Jacques CARTIER
French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
1491 - 1557 -
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer, poet, journalist and aviator
1900 - 1944 -
Jean-François de LA PEROUSE
French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania
1741 - 1788 -
Jacques-Yves COUSTEAU
French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher
1910 - 1997 -
Sophie ADENOT
French engineer, helicopter pilot, and astronaut
1982 -
Jules VEDRINES
French aviator
1881 - 1919 -
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 -
Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675 -
René-Robert CAVELIER DE LA SALLE
17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America
1643 - 1687 -
Dieudonné COSTES
French aviator
1892 - 1973 -
Maurice BELLONTE
French aviator
1896 - 1983