Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan

male, deceased (1521)
Ferdinand Magellan ; Spring 1480-April 27, 1521, Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines) was a Portuguese-born maritime explorer who, at the service of...

Francisco Serrão

male, deceased (1521)
Francisco Serrão was a Portuguese explorer, and a cousin or personal friend of Ferdinand Magellan. His 1512 voyage was the first known European s...
Juan Sebastián Elcano

Juan Sebastián Elcano

male, deceased (1526)
Juan Sebastián Elcano (Getaria, Gipuzkoa, Kingdom of Castille, 1476 - Pacific Ocean, August 4 1526) was a Spanish explorer, who completed the f...
Nathaniel Courthope

Nathaniel Courthope

male, deceased (1620)
Nathaniel Courthope was an English merchant navy officer involved in the wars with the Dutch over the Spice Islands. On November 13, 1609 Nathaniel...
Jacob Le Maire

Jacob Le Maire

male, deceased (1616)
Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 - December 22 1616) was a Dutch mariner, born in Antwerp, who circumnavigated the earth in 1615-16. He discovered the...
Willem Schouten

Willem Schouten

male, deceased (1625)
Willem Cornelisz Schouten (1567?-1625) was a Dutch navigator. In 1615 Willem Cornelisz Schouten and Jacob le Maire sailed from Texel in the...

Juan Serrano

male
Juan Serrano was a sixteenth century navigator who sailed with Ferdinand Magellan during the first circumnavigation of the world (1517-1519). Of...
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli

Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli

male, deceased (1482)
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397 - May 10, 1482) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. He was born at Florence, the son of...

Tomé Pires

male, deceased (1540)
Tomé Piers was an apothecary from Lisbon who spent 1512 to 1515 in Malacca immediately after the Portuguese conquest at a time when Europeans were o...

António de Abreu

male
António de Abreu was a Portuguese navigator and naval officer (16th century, born in Madeira). He participated under Afonso de Albuquerque in the c...