Explorer - 16th-18th century
38 famous people found
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Louis Aleno de Saint-Aloüarn
French Navy officer and explorer
1738 - 1772 -
Bartholomew Gosnold
English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in London and Jamestown in colonial America
1571 - 1607 -
Louis Dubois
Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the town of New Paltz, New York
1626 - 1696 -
Marc Joseph MARION DU FRESNE
Breton-born French explorer
1724 - 1772 -
Jean François Sylvestre DENIS DE TROBRIAND
French naval officer and navigator
1765 - 1799 -
Guy DE CONTENSON
French explorer
1844 - 1921 -
Edouard BOUET-WILLAUMEZ
French admiral
1808 - 1871 -
François PERON
French naturalist and explorer
1775 - 1810 -
William BRADFORD
English Separatist who emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620
1589 - 1657 -
Charles PLUMIER
French botanist
1646 - 1704 -
Charles Marie DE LA CONDAMINE
French explorer, geographer, and mathematician
1701 - 1774 -
Jean Baptiste Christian FUSÉE-AUBLET
French pharmacist, botanist and explorer
1723 - 1778 -
André MICHAUX
French botanist and explorer
1746 - 1802 -
Pedro DE-VALDIVIA
Spanish conquistador and the first royal governor of Chile
1497 - 1553 -
Louis DE BUADE DE FRONTENAC
French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France
1622 - 1698 -
Francisco DE ALMEIDA
Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer
1450 - 1510 -
Juan PONCE DE LEON
Spanish explorer and conquistador
1460 - 1521 -
Philibert COMMERSON
French naturalist
1727 - 1773