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...
James Cook

James Cook

male, deceased (1779)
Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. Ultimately rising to th...
Ellen MacArthur

Ellen MacArthur

female, 33 years old
Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE (born July 8, 1976) is an English sailor from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, on...
Robin Knox-Johnston

Robin Knox-Johnston

male, 70 years old
Sir William Robert Pat "Robin" Knox-Johnston, CBE, RD and bar (born 17 March 1939) was the first man to perform a single-handed non-stop...
Steve Fossett

Steve Fossett

male, 65 years old
James Stephen Fossett (born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee) is a American aviator and adventurer known for his appetite to set world...
Francis Chichester

Francis Chichester

male, deceased (1972)
Sir Francis Chichester (September 17 1901 - August 26 1972), aviator and sailor, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person...
Francis Joyon

Francis Joyon

male, 53 years old
Francis Joyon (born May 28, 1956) is a professional sailboat racer and yachtsman. In February 2004 Breton Francis Joyon became the fastest world...
Dee Caffari

Dee Caffari

female
Denise "Dee" Caffari MBE is a British sailor, and is the first woman to have sailed single-handedly non-stop around the world "the wrong way"; west...
Bertrand Piccard

Bertrand Piccard

male, 51 years old
Bertrand Piccard was born on March 1st 1958 in Lausanne (Switzerland) into a family of explorers and scientists. His grandfather was the first...
Brian Jones

Brian Jones

male, 62 years old
Brian Jones is an English balloonist. Brian Jones, along with Bertrand Piccard, co-piloted the first successful uninterrupted circumnavigation of...