Name | Lifespan | Other Names | |
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Hanno the Navigator | ?-c. 440 BC | ||
Pytheas | 380-310 BC | ||
Zhang Qian | 195-113 BC | ||
Xuanzang | c. 602-664 | (Hsuan-tsang) | |
Ingólfur Arnarson | ?-8xx | (Ingólfr) | |
Bjarni Herjólfsson | 9xx-c. 1000 | ||
Erik the Red | 950-1003 | (Eric) | |
Leif Erikson | c. 970-c. 1020 | ||
Benjamin of Tudela | 1130-1173 | ||
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine | 1182-1252 | (John) | |
Marco Polo | 1254-1324 | ||
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta | 1304-1369 | ||
Jean de Béthencourt | 1362-1425 | ||
Zheng He | 1371-1435 | ||
Henry the Navigator | 1394-1460 | (Henrique) | |
Niccolò de' Conti | 1395-1469 | (Nicholas, Nicolò) | |
Giovanni Caboto | c. 1450-c. 1499 | (John) | |
Bartolomeu Dias | 1450-1500 | ||
Francisco de Almeida | 1450-1510 | ||
Christopher Columbus | c. 1451-1506 | (Cristobal, Cristoforo) | |
Diogo Cão | c. 1452-1486 | ||
Afonso de Albuquerque | 1453-1515 | (Alfonso) | |
Amerigo Vespucci | 1454-1512 | ||
Martin Behaim | 1459-1507 | ||
Pêro da Covilhã | c. 1460-1526 | (Pedro, Peter) | |
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón | c. 1462-c. 1514 | ||
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar | 1465-1524 | ||
Alonso de Ojeda | c. 1466-c. 1515 | ||
Pedro Álvares Cabral | c. 1467-c. 1520 | (Peter) | |
Vasco da Gama | c. 1469-1524 | ||
Juan Díaz de Solís | 1470-1516 | ||
Francisco Pizarro | c. 1471-1541 | ||
Juan Ponce de León | 1474-1521 | ||
Sebastiano Caboto | c. 1474-c. 1557 | (Sebastian) | |
Vasco Núñez de Balboa | c. 1475-1519 | ||
Juan Sebastián Elcano | 1476-1526 | ||
Diego de Almagro | 1479-1538 | ||
Ferdinand Magellan | 1480-1521 | ||
Giovanni da Verrazzano | 1485-1528 | ||
Hernán Cortés | 1485-1547 | (Hernándo) | |
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | c. 1490-c. 1559 | ||
Antonio Pigafetta | c. 1491-c. 1531 | ||
Jacques Cartier | 1491-1557 | ||
Hernando de Soto | c. 1496-1542 | (Ferdinando) | |
Andrés de Urdaneta | 1498-1568 | (Andrew) | |
Ruy López de Villalobos | 1500-1544 | ||
Miguel López de Legazpi | 1502-1572 | (Michael) | |
Fernão Mendes Pinto | 1509-1583 | (Ferdinand) | |
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado | 1510-1554 | ||
Lope de Aguirre | 1510-1561 | ||
Francisco de Orellana | 1511-1546 | ||
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa | 1532-1592 | (Peter) | |
Yermak Timofeyevich | 1537-1585 | ||
Francis Drake | 1540-1596 | ||
Álvaro de Mendaña y Neira | 1542-1595 | ||
Willem Barentsz | 1550-1597 | (William) | |
John Davis | c. 1550-1605 | ||
Walter Raleigh | 1552-1618 | ||
William Adams | 1564-1620 | ||
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós | 1565-1614 | (Peter) | |
Cornelis de Houtman | 1565-1599 | ||
Henry Hudson | c. 1570-1611 | ||
Willem Janszoon | 1570-1630 | ||
Samuel de Champlain | 1574-1635 | ||
John Smith | 1580-1631 | ||
William Baffin | 1584-1622 | ||
Abel Tasman | 1603-1659 | ||
Semyon Dezhnyov | 1605-1673 | (Simon) | |
Evliya Çelebi | 1611-c. 1682 | (Mehmed) | |
Jan van Riebeeck | 1619-1677 | (Johan) | |
Louis Hennepin | 1626-1705 | ||
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle | 1643-1687 | ||
William Dampier | 1651-1715 | ||
Jacob Roggeveen | 1659-1729 | ||
Vitus Bering | 1681-1741 | ||
Charles Marie de La Condamine | 1701-1774 | ||
Ferdinand Konščak | 1703-1759 | (Fernando) | |
James Cook | 1728-1779 | ||
Louis Antoine de Bougainville | 1729-1811 | ||
James Bruce | 1730-1794 | ||
Peter Pond | 1739-1807 | ||
Jeanne Baret | 1740-1807 | ||
Jean François de Galaup | 1741-1788 | (John) | |
John Ledyard | 1751-1789 | ||
George Vancouver | 1757-1798 | ||
Alexander MacKenzie | 1764-1820 | ||
Alexander von Humboldt | 1769-1859 | ||
William Clark | 1770-1838 | ||
Adam Johann von Krusenstern | 1770-1846 | ||
George Bass | 1771-1803 | ||
Mungo Park | 1771-1806 | ||
Matthew Flinders | 1774-1814 | ||
Meriwether Lewis | 1774-1809 | ||
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen | 1778-1852 | ||
Giovanni Belzoni | 1778-1823 | ||
Zebulon Pike | 1779-1813 | ||
John Oxley | 1784-1828 | ||
John Franklin | 1786-1847 | ||
William Hovell | 1786-1875 | ||
Davy Crockett | 1786-1836 | (David) | |
Peter Skene Ogden | 1790-1854 | ||
Jules Dumont d'Urville | 1790-1842 | ||
William Edward Parry | 1790-1855 | ||
Thomas Mitchell | 1792-1855 | ||
Charles Sturt | 1795-1869 | ||
Ferdinand von Wrangel | 1797-1870 | ||
Hamilton Hume | 1797-1873 | ||
Arvid Adolf Etholén | 1799-1876 | ||
James Clark Ross | 1800-1862 | ||
John Lloyd Stephens | 1805-1852 | ||
David Livingstone | 1813-1873 | ||
John McDouall Stuart | 1815-1866 | ||
Heinrich Barth | 1821-1865 | ||
Richard Francis Burton | 1821-1890 | ||
Samuel Baker | 1821-1893 | ||
Adolf Overweg | 1822-1852 | ||
James Augustus Grant | 1827-1892 | ||
John Hanning Speke | 1827-1864 | ||
Ármin Vámbéry | 1832-1913 | ||
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld | 1832-1901 | (Nils) | |
John Wesley Powell | 1834-1902 | ||
Nikolay Przhevalsky | 1839-1888 | ||
Henry Morton Stanley | 1841-1904 | ||
Teoberto Maler | 1842-1917 | (Teobert) | |
Gustav Adolf Fischer | 1848-1886 | ||
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza | 1852-1905 | (Peter, Pietro) | |
Calamity Jane | 1852-1903 | (Martha) | |
Robert Peary | 1856-1920 | ||
Fridtjof Nansen | 1861-1930 | ||
Mary Kingsley | 1862-1900 | ||
Aurel Stein | 1862-1943 | (Marc, Márk) | |
Francis Younghusband | 1863-1942 | ||
Sven Hedin | 1865-1952 | ||
Cândido Rondon | 1865-1958 | ||
Frederick Cook | 1865-1940 | ||
Gustav Adolf von Götzen | 1866-1910 | ||
Adolf Henrik Lindstrøm | 1866-1939 | ||
Robert Falcon Scott | 1868-1912 | ||
Alexandra David-Néel | 1868-1969 | ||
Roald Amundsen | 1872-1928 | ||
Ernest Shackleton | 1874-1922 | (Henry) | |
Harriet Quimby | 1875-1912 | ||
Robert Bartlett | 1875-1946 | ||
Douglas Mawson | 1882-1958 | ||
Apsley Cherry-Garrard | 1886-1959 | (George, Benet) | |
George Mallory | 1886-1924 | ||
Roland Garros | 1888-1918 | (Eugène, Adrien, Georges) | |
Richard E. Byrd | 1888-1957 | (Evelyn) | |
Amelia Earhart | 1897-1937 | ||
Bill Tilman | 1898-1977 | (William) | |
Charles Lindbergh | 1902-1974 | ||
Jacques Cousteau | 1910-1997 | (Yves) | |
Tenzing Norgay | 1914-1986 | ||
Thor Heyerdahl | 1914-2002 | ||
Edmund Hillary | 1919-2008 | ||
John Glenn | 1921-2016 | ||
Chuck Yeager | 1923-2020 | (Charles) | |
Alan Shepard | 1923-1998 | ||
Vladimir Komarov | 1927-1967 | ||
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin | 1930- | (Buzz) | |
Neil Armstrong | 1930-2012 | ||
Michael Collins | 1930-2021 | ||
Yuriy Gagarin | 1934-1968 | (Yuri) | |
Gene Cernan | 1934-2017 | (Eugene) | |
Aleksey Leonov | 1934-2019 | (Aleksei, Alexey) | |
Valentina Tereshkova | 1937- | ||
Reinhold Messner | 1944- |