- male, deceased (1506)
- Christopher Columbus (Genoa?, 1451 - May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain) was a navigator and colonialist who is one of several historical figures...
- male, deceased (1324)
- Marco Polo (September 15 1254 - January 9 1324 at earliest but no later than June 1325) was a Venetian trader and explorer who gained fame for his...
- male, deceased (1498)
- Giovanni Caboto (c. 1450 - c.1498), known in English as John Cabot, and in French as Jean Cabot, was a Genoese navigator and explorer commonly...
- male, deceased (1542)
- Hernando de Soto (c.1496/1497 –May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. Born in the Extremadura region of Spain, he participated, in...
- male, deceased (1433)
- Zheng He (1371-1433), was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively referred to as the travels of...
- male, deceased (1659)
- Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 - October 10 1659), was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant. He is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in...
- male, deceased (1377)
- Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (Arabic: "' was a Berber Sunni Islamic scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, or...
- male
- Pytheas (Πυθέας(Pitheas), ca. 380 - ca. 310 BC) was a Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (today Marsei...
- male, deceased (1810)
- Colonel William Paterson was a Scottish soldier, explorer, and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania. In 1794, Lieutenant...
- male, deceased (1997)
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher who studied the sea and...
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