Explorer
357 famous people found
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Jacques MARQUETTE
French-Canadian Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement
1637 - 1675 -
Jean-Baptiste GAULTIER DE LA VERENDRYE
French explorer, founder of Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods and of Fort Maurepas on the Red River
1713 - 1736 -
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 -
Juan DE OÑATE
Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and colonial governor of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
1550 - 1626 -
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 -
Dieudonné COSTES
French aviator
1892 - 1973 -
Maurice BELLONTE
French aviator
1896 - 1983 -
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 -
Buzz ALDRIN
American astronaut who was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 11
1930 -
James COOK
English explorer, navigator and cartographer
1728 - 1779 -
Eugène François VIDOCQ
French criminalist
1775 - 1857 -
Claudie HAIGNERE
French doctor, politician, and former spationaut
1957 -
Louis BLERIOT
French aviator, inventor and engineer
1872 - 1936 -
Alain BOMBARD
French biologist, physician and politician
1924 - 2005 -
Louis BREGUET
French aircraft designer and builder, one of the early aviation pioneers
1880 - 1955 -
Roland GARROS
French aviator and a fighter aircraft pilot during World War I
1888 - 1918 -
Jean MERMOZ
French aviator
1901 - 1936 -
Ernest SHACKLETON
Anglo-Irish explorer
1874 - 1922