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16 famous people found
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Francis DRAKE
English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era
1540 - 1596
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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
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James COOK
English explorer, navigator and cartographer
1728 - 1779
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Ranulph FIENNES
English adventurer and holder of several endurance records
1944
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Philip CARTERET
British naval officer and explorer who participated in two of the Royal Navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764-66 and 1766-69
1733 - 1796
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Richard GRENVILLE
English Member of Parliament for Cornwall, Soldier, High Sheriff of County Cork, Armed Merchant Fleet Owner, Privateer, Sheriff of Cornwall, Colonizer, and explorer
1542 - 1591
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Walter RALEIGH
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer
1552 - 1618
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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
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John ROSS
British naval officer and Arctic explorer
1777 - 1856
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Thomas CAVENDISH
English explorer and a privateer
1560 - 1592
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Francis GALTON
English Victorian polymath, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician
1822 - 1911
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Richard HAWKINS
English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog"
1562 - 1622
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William BRADFORD
English Separatist who emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620
1589 - 1657
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Charles STURT
British explorer of Australia, and part of the European exploration of Australia
1795 - 1869
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Martin FROBISHER
English seaman who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage
1535 - 1594
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Geoffrey DE HAVILLAND
British aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer
1882 - 1965