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...
Marco Polo

Marco Polo

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...
John Cabot

John Cabot

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...
Hernando de Soto

Hernando de Soto

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...
Zheng He

Zheng He

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...
Abel Tasman

Abel Tasman

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...
Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta

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...
Pytheas

Pytheas

male
Pytheas (Πυθέας(Pitheas), ca. 380 - ca. 310 BC) was a Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (today Marsei...

William Paterson

male, deceased (1810)
Colonel William Paterson was a Scottish soldier, explorer, and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania. In 1794, Lieutenant...
Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

male, deceased (1997)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher who studied the sea and...