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19 famous people found
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Davy CROCKETT
American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician
1786 - 1836 -
Daniel BOONE
American pioneer and hunter
1734 - 1820 -
Eugène François VIDOCQ
French criminalist
1775 - 1857 -
Giacomo CASANOVA
Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
1725 - 1798 -
John ROSS
British naval officer and Arctic explorer
1777 - 1856 -
Antoine Ignace MELLING
French painter, architect and voyager
1763 - 1831 -
René MADEC
French adventurer in India
1736 - 1784 -
Jean Claude Hyppolite MEHÉE DE LA TOUCHE
French writer and diplomat
1762 - 1827 -
Louise Renée DE PENANCOET DE KEROUAL
Mistress of Charles II of England
1649 - 1734 -
Jeanne DE VALOIS-SAINT-REMY
Notorious French adventuress and thief, she is known for her prominent role in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace
1756 - 1791 -
Aimé BONPLAND
French explorer and botanist
1773 - 1858 -
John KENDRICK
American sea captain, both during the American Revolutionary War and the exploration and maritime fur trading of the Pacific Northwest
1740 - 1794 -
Josiah HARLAN
American adventurer, best known for travelling to Afghanistan and Punjab with the intention of making himself a king
1799 - 1871 -
Horace-Bénédict DE SAUSSURE
Genevan aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism
1740 - 1799 -
James John FLOYD
Pioneer of the Midwestern United States around the Louisville, Kentucky
1750 - 1783 -
Michelle DE BONNEUIL
French overseas agent during the French Revolution and First French Empire
1748 - 1829 -
Solomon JUNEAU
Canadian fur trader, land speculator and politician who helped found the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1793 - 1856 -
Félix DAYOT
French hydrograph
1772 - 1821 -
Jean-Marie DAYOT
French Navy officer and an adventurer
1760 - 1809