Explorer - 20th century

29 famous people found

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  Calamity Jane

  American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller

  1852 - 1903
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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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  Jean COMMAILLE

  Former Foreign Legion soldier, first curator of the Angkor site

  1868 - 1916
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  Scipione BORGHESE

  Italian aristocrat, industrialist, politician, explorer, mountain climber and racing driver

  1871 - 1927
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  Hubert de Chevigny

  French aviator

  1949 - 2022
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  Jeannine AUBOYER

  French historian

  1912 - 1990
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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