Trader Vic

Trader Vic

male, deceased (1984)
Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr. (December 10, 1902 - October 11, 1984) was the founder of a chain of Polynesian-themed restaurants that bore his...
Don The Beachcomber

Don The Beachcomber

male, deceased (1989)
Donn Beach (born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt February 22, 1907 - June 7, 1989) is the acknowledged founding father of tiki restaurants, bars, and...
Samuel Wallis

Samuel Wallis

male, deceased (1795)
Samuel Wallis (April 1728 - January 21, 1795) was a Cornish navigator who circumnavigated the world. Wallis was born near Camelford, Cornwall. In...

William Ellis

male, deceased (1872)
William Ellis (1794-1872) was an English missionary and author. Born in London of working class parents in straightened circumstances, he developed...
Jabez Bryce

Jabez Bryce

male, 74 years old
Jabez Bryce is a Tonga-born leader in the Anglican Church. As of 2005 he is the Bishop of Polynesia in the Province of New Zealand, which includes...
Victor Segalen

Victor Segalen

male
Victor Segalen (January 14, 1878 - May 21, 1919) was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist,...
Bernard Moitessier

Bernard Moitessier

male, deceased (1994)
Bernard Moitessier (10 April 1925 Hanoi, Vietnam - 16 June 1994 near Paris, France) was a renowned French yachtsman and author of books about his...
Georg Forster

Georg Forster

male, deceased (1794)
Johann Georg Adam Forster (November 27 1754 – January 10 1794) was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and re...

Robert I. Levy

male, deceased (2003)
Robert I. Levy (b 1924, d. 29 August 2003, Asolo, Veneto, Italy) was an American psychiatrist and anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Tahiti...
Horatio Hale

Horatio Hale

male, deceased (1896)
Horatio Hale (May 3, 1817 - December 28, 1896), American ethnologist, was born in Newport, New Hampshire. He was the son of David Hale, a lawyer,...