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21 famous people found
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Jacques CARTIER
French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
1491 - 1557 -
Fernand DE MAGELLAN
Portuguese explorer
1480 - 1521 -
Jean-François de LA PEROUSE
French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania
1741 - 1788 -
Fletcher Christian
English seaman who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789
1764 - 1793 -
James COOK
English explorer, navigator and cartographer
1728 - 1779 -
Vasco DE GAMA
Portuguese explorer
1469 - 1524 -
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 -
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 -
George CLIFFORD
English peer, as well as a naval commander and courtier in the court of Queen Elizabeth I
1558 - 1605 -
Richard HAWKINS
English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog"
1562 - 1622 -
Álvaro DE MENDAñA
Spanish navigator
1543 - 1595 -
Aaron Olmsted
American wealthy sea captain in the China trade out of New England
1753 - 1806 -
Diego COLÓN
Portuguese navigator and explorer
1479 - 1526 -
Antoine BRUNY D'ENTRECASTEAUX
French naval officer, explorer and colonial governor
1737 - 1793 -
Alexander VON HUMBOLDT
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer
1769 - 1859 -
Louis Antoine DE BOUGAINVILLE
French admiral and explorer
1729 - 1811 -
Henrique DE PORTUGAL
Portuguese explorer
1394 - 1460 -
Tristão DA CUNHA
Portuguese explorer and naval commander
1460 - 1540 -
Afonso DE ALBUQUERQUE
Portuguese general, and a great conqueror
1453 - 1515 -
Pedro Álvares CABRAL
Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil
1467 - 1520