Explorer
374 famous people found
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Thomas PESQUET
French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut
1978 -
Kit CARSON
American frontiersman
1809 - 1868 -
Jacques CARTIER
French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
1491 - 1557 -
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 -
Fernand DE MAGELLAN
Portuguese explorer
1480 - 1521 -
Howard HUGHES
American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist
1905 - 1976 -
John GLENN
United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician
1921 - 2016 -
Wilbur WRIGHT
American inventor of the airplane
1867 - 1912 -
Orville WRIGHT
American inventor of the airplane
1871 - 1948 -
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 -
Amelia EARHART
American aviation pioneer and author
1897 - 1939 -
Jacques-Yves COUSTEAU
French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher
1910 - 1997 -
Daniel BOONE
American pioneer and hunter
1734 - 1820 -
Fletcher Christian
English seaman who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789
1764 - 1793 -
Sophie ADENOT
French engineer, helicopter pilot, and astronaut
1982 -
Dirk FRIMOUT
Belgian astrophysicist
1941 -
Treat Williams
American actor, writer, and aviator
1951 - 2023 -
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