Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

male, deceased (1506)
Christopher Columbus (Genoa?, 1451 - May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain) was a navigator and colonialist who is one of several historical figures...
Walter Raleigh

Walter Raleigh

male, deceased (1618)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 or 1554 – 29 October, 1618), was a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for es...

John White

male, deceased (1593)
John White (c.1540 - c.1606), flourishing 1585-1590, the Virginian pioneer and English colonist in America, sailed with Richard Grenville in 1585,...
John Winthrop

John Winthrop

male, deceased (1649)
John Winthrop (12 January 1587/8-26 March 1649) led a group of English Puritans to the New World, joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 and...
Francisco Pizarro

Francisco Pizarro

male, deceased (1541)
Francisco Pizarro González was a Spanish conquistador, conqueror of the Inca Empire and founder of Lima, La Ciudad de los Reyes, capital of Peru. P...

Squanto

male, deceased (1622)
Tisquantum (better known as Squanto) (c. 1580s - November 1622) was one of two Native American Indians (Samoset being the other) that assisted the...
William Loren Katz

William Loren Katz

male
William Loren Katz is an American author, educator, and historian. He is famous for having written extensively on the 500-year history of relations...
Martin Frobisher

Martin Frobisher

male, deceased (1594)
Martin Frobisher was an English seaman (from Wakefield, Yorkshire) who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage. All...
Karla Bonoff

Karla Bonoff

female, 57 years old
Karla Bonoff (born 27 December 1951) in Santa Monica, California, is an American singer-songwriter but primarily known for her great songwriting...

Juan Ponce de León

male, deceased (1521)
Juan Ponce de León (c. 1460 - July 1521) was a Spanish conquistador. He was born in Santervás de Campos (Valladolid). As a young man he joined th...