Steve Fossett

Steve Fossett

male, 65 years old
Aviation pioneer, FellowoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety, aviator, fellow of The Explorers Club, sailboat racer, Balloonist…The Explorers Club, Royal Geographical Society
James Stephen Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) is a American aviator and adventurer known for his appetite to set world...
David Livingstone

David Livingstone

male, deceased (1873)
central, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?", buried at Westminster Abbey, H. M. Stanley, reigning monarch, Central Africa…FellowoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety, London Missionary Society, Explorer of Africa, Alumni of the University of Glasgow, Fellow of the Royal Society
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 - 4 May 1873) was a Scottish Presbyterian pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and...
Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley

female, 63 years old
Bond girl, Sapphire and Steel, absolutely fabulous, actress, The New Avengers, Sensitive Skin…Order of the British Empire, FellowoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, The House That Dripped Blood actress, Trail of the Pink Panther actress
Joanna Lumley OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress and former model who is best known for her roles in "The New Avengers", "Absolutely...
Redmond O'Hanlon

Redmond O'Hanlon

male, 62 years old
Old Marlburian, Roman Catholic, Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, Times Literary Supplement, Royal Geographical Society, Royal Society of Literature…FellowoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety
Redmond O'Hanlon (born 1947) is a British author. He was educated at Marlborough school and then Oxford University. He was elected a member of the...
Francis Galton

Francis Galton

male, deceased (1911)
electrocardiograph, Darwin-Wedgwood family, fingerprints, forensic science, FellowoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety, Intelligence researcher…Explorer of Africa, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, inheritance of intelligence, regression toward the mean, Fellow of the Royal Society
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist,...
John Franklin

John Franklin

male, deceased (1847)
explorer, officer, knight, British, Explorer of Australia, Explorer of the Arctic…Fellow of the Royal Society, FellowoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety, Explorer of Canada, Naval history of Canada, Royal Navy
Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin FRGS (April 15, 1786 - June 11, 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who mapped almost two...
Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

male, deceased (1913)
Aposematism, Biologist, biogeographer, FellowoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety, spiritism, dualism…Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, Order of Merit, Natural history of Indonesia, craters of the Moon named after them, Fellow of the Royal Society
Alfred Russel Wallace OM, FRS (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He...
James Augustus Grant

James Augustus Grant

male, deceased (1892)
Fellow of the Royal Society, From NAIRN, FellowoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety, lucknow, Companion of the Order of the Star of India, zanzibar…Explorer of Africa, Companion of the Order of the Bath, Order of the Bath, Order of the Star of India, Royal Geographical Society
James Augustus Grant (April 11, 1827 - February 11, 1892) was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa. Grant was born at Nairn in the...
Samuel Baker

Samuel Baker

male, deceased (1893)
Fellow of the Royal Society, buried at Brompton Cemetery, FellowoftheRoyalGeographicalSociety, crimea, Dobrudja, Maisemore…The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon, Explorer of Africa
Sir Samuel White Baker (8 June 1821 - 30 December, 1893) was an English explorer.