Explorer
71 famous people found
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
American geologist
1828 - 1887 -
Mark Kelly
American politician, former astronaut and U.S. Navy captain
1964 -
Roger Wolfe Kahn
American jazz and popular musician, composer, bandleader (Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra) and aviator
1907 - 1962 -
Joe Redington
American dog musher and kennel owner, who is best known as the "Father of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race"
1917 - 1999 -
Al Key
American aviator
1905 - 1976 -
Deering DAVIS
American designer and author who was one of the first American aviators to serve in Italy in World War I
1897 - 1965 -
Norman PRINCE
American aviator, leading founder of France's Lafayette Escadrille
1887 - 1916 -
Gene CERNAN
American astronaut, naval aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, and fighter pilot
1934 - 2017 -
David FERRIE
American pilot who was alleged by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison to have been involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy
1918 - 1967 -
Ed SCHIEFFELIN
Indian scout and prospector who discovered silver in the Arizona Territory, which led to the founding of Tombstone, Arizona
1847 - 1897 -
Don LORENZO HUBBELL
American trader instrumental in promoting the sale of Navajo art, sheriff of Apache County, Arizona
1853 - 1930 -
Guy DE LARIGAUDIE
French writer of Scout novels and travel books
1908 - 1940 -
Lowell THOMAS
American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous
1892 - 1981 -
John KENDRICK
American sea captain, both during the American Revolutionary War and the exploration and maritime fur trading of the Pacific Northwest
1740 - 1794 -
Alfred PACKER
American prospector who was accused of cannibalism during the winter of 1873-1874
1842 - 1907 -
Robert PEARY
American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole
1856 - 1920 -
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 -
James John FLOYD
Pioneer of the Midwestern United States around the Louisville, Kentucky
1750 - 1783 -
Meriwether LEWIS
American explorer, soldier, and 2nd Governor of Louisiana Territory
1774 - 1809