Explorer
237 famous people found
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Roger FRISON-ROCHE
French explorer
1906 - 1999 -
Jeanne MANCE
French nurse and settler of New France, founder of Montreal
1606 - 1673 -
Maurice HERZOG
French mountaineer and administrator
1919 - 2012 -
Eugène François VIDOCQ
French criminalist
1775 - 1857 -
Jean MERMOZ
French aviator
1901 - 1936 -
Roland GARROS
French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I
1888 - 1918 -
Louis BREGUET
French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers
1880 - 1955 -
Alain BOMBARD
French biologist, physician and politician
1924 - 2005 -
Louis BLERIOT
French aviator, inventor and engineer
1872 - 1936 -
Claudie HAIGNERE
French doctor, politician, and former spationaut
1957 -
Auguste de Saint-Hilaire
French botanist and traveler
1779 - 1853 -
Adrienne BOLLAND
French test pilot and the first woman to fly over the Andes between Chile and Argentina
1895 - 1975 -
Michel TOGNINI
French test pilot, engineer, Brigadier General in the French Air Force, and a former CNES and ESA astronaut
1949 -
Marie MARVINGT
French athlete, mountaineer, aviator, and journalist
1875 - 1963 -
Yves LODAY
French sailor
1955 -
Thomas DESTAILLEUR
French Adventurer
1989 - 2019 -
Henri PEQUET
French pilot in the first official airmail flight on February 18, 1911
1888 - 1974 -
André TURCAT
Former French test pilot
1921 - 2016 -
Jean ASSOLLANT
French aviator
1905 - 1942 -
Marthe RICHARD
Prostitute and spy
1889 - 1982