Explorer - 20th century

24 famous people found

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  Jean RASPAIL

  French author, traveler and explorer

  1925 - 2020
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  Ernest SHACKLETON

  Anglo-Irish explorer

  1874 - 1922
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  Philippe DE DIEULEVEULT

  French journalist

  1951 - 1985
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  Jacques SUZANNE

  French painter, artist, pianist, actor and explorer

  1880 - 1967
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  Ranulph FIENNES

  English adventurer and holder of several endurance records

  1944
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  Vilhjalmur STEFANSSON

  Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist

  1879 - 1962
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  Zebulon PIKE

  American brigadier general and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado is named

  1779 - 1813
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  Hiram BINGHAM III

  Amercian academic, explorer and politician

  1875 - 1956
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  Joseph-Elzéar BERNIER

  Quebec mariner who led expeditions into the Canadian Arctic

  1852 - 1934
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  Jacques BACOT

  Explorer and pioneering French Tibetologist

  1877 - 1965
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  Fernand ANGINIEUR

  French soldier

  1868 - 1914
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  Fernand QUIQUANDON

  French explorer

  1857 - 1938
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  Louis-Gustave BINGER

  French officer and explorer who claimed the Côte d'Ivoire for France

  1856 - 1936
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  Aîmé OLIVIER DE SANDERVAL

  French adventurer, explorer of West Africa, entrepreneur and author

  1840 - 1919
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  Guy DE LARIGAUDIE

  French writer of Scout novels and travel books

  1908 - 1940
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  Jean-Baptiste MARCHAND

  French military officer and explorer in Africa

  1863 - 1934
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  Louis LIOTARD

  French explorer

  1904 - 1940
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  Lowell THOMAS

  American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous

  1892 - 1981
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  Fridtjof NANSEN

  Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

  1861 - 1930
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  Robert PEARY

  American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole

  1856 - 1920