- Henry The Navigator
Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu <small>KG</small> (Porto, March 4, 1394-Sagres, November 13, 1460); pron.), was an "infante" (prince) of the Portuguese House of Aviz and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire. He is known in English as Prince Henry the Navigator or the Seafarer (Portuguese: "o Navegador"). Prince Henry the Navigator was the third son of King John I of Portugal, … - Hanno The Navigator
Hanno the Navigator was a Carthaginian explorer who flourished c. 450 BC. - Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (Genoa?, 1451 - May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain) was a navigator and colonialist who is one of several historical figures credited as the first European to discover the Americas. Though likely not the first to reach the Americas from Europe, it was Columbus' voyages that lead to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World. It is generally believed that he was born in Genoa, … - James Cook
Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. Ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy, Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia, the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. - Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral, (c. 1540 - January 27 1596) was an English privateer, navigator, slave trader, politician and civil engineer of the Elizabethan era. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died of dysentery after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1596. His exploits were semi-legendary and made him a hero to the English but to the Spaniards he was equated with the devil. - John Cabot
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 credited as one of the first early modern Europeans to land on the North American mainland, aboard the "Matthew" in 1497. - Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson (September 12, 1570s - 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. His place of birth was London, England. He is presumed to have died in 1611 in Hudson Bay, Canada, after he was set adrift, along with his son and eight others, by mutinous crewmen. Hudson's early life is an unknown, but he is thought to have spent many years at sea. He is said to have begun as a cabin boy at 16 and gradually worked his way up to ship's captain. - Fred Noonan
Frederick Joseph Noonan (4 April 1893 - missing 2 July 1937, declared dead 20 June 1938) was a flight navigator, sea captain and aviation pioneer who first charted many commercial airline routes across the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s. He was last seen in Lae, New Guinea on 2 July 1937 and disappeared with Amelia Earhart somewhere over the western Pacific during their World Flight. - Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier (December 31, 1491 - September 1 1557) was a French navigator who first explored and described the Gulf of St-Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named Canada. - Hernando de Soto
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 his late teens, in the conquest of Central America at the side of Governor Pedrarias Dávila. He joined Francisco Pizarro in the early 1530's conquest of South America, and he became enormously wealthy from his share of the Incan booty. In 1539, De Soto launched the largest of the early Spanish colonial expeditions. - Dale Brown
Dale Brown (b. November 2 1956) is an American author most famous for his military-action-aviation techno-thrillers, with thirteen "New York Times" best-sellers to his credit. Brown was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Western European History, and received a commission in the United States Air Force in 1978. - John Hawkins
Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled as John Hawkyns) (Plymouth 1532 - November 12 1595) was an English shipbuilder, naval administrator and commander, merchant, navigator, and slave trader. As treasurer (1577) and controller (1589) of the navy, he rebuilt older ships and helped design the faster ships that withstood the Spanish Armada in 1588. He later devised the naval blockade to intercept Spanish treasure ships. - Pedro Álvares Cabral
Pedro Álvares Cabral, pron. in Portuguese pronunciation, in Brazilian pronunciation, was a Portuguese navigator and explorer, generally regarded as the first European discoverer of the sea route to Brazil (April 22, 1500). He is thought to have been born in Belmonte, in the Beira Baixa province of Portugal. He was the third son of Fernão Cabral (c.1427-c.1492), Governor of Beira and Belmonte, … - Mau Piailug
Pius Mau Piailug (born 1932) is a Micronesian navigator, one of the best-known living practitioners of the ancient art of navigation without the aid of instruments. - William Adams
William Adams, was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Briton ever to reach that country. He was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's bestselling novel "Shogun". Soon after Adams' arrival in Japan, he became a key advisor to the "shogun" Tokugawa Ieyasu and built for him Japan's first Western-style ships. - Samuel Wallis
Samuel Wallis (April 1728 - January 21, 1795) was a Cornish navigator who circumnavigated the world. Wallis was born near Camelford, Cornwall. In 1766 he was given the command of HMS "Dolphin" to circumnavigate the world, accompanied by the "Swallow" under the command of Philip Carteret. The two ships were parted shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Wallis continuing to Tahiti, … - Martin Behaim
Martin Behaim, or "Behem", was a navigator and geographer of great pretensions. Behaim was born at Nuremberg, according to one tradition, about 1436; according to Ghillany, as late as 1459 and was supposedly of Bohemian origin. He was drawn to Portugal by participation in Flanders trade, and acquired a scientific reputation at the court of John II of Portugal. As a pupil, real or supposed, of the astronomer Regiomontanus (i.e., … - James Grant
James Grant (1772-11 November 1833) was a British naval officer and navigator in the early nineteenth century. He made several voyages to Australia and Tasmania, and was the first to map parts of the Australian coast. Grant was baptized on 6 September 1772 at Forres, Morayshire, Scotland. As a Lieutenant he took command of "HMS Lady Nelson", a new vessel of 60 tons fitted with a centre-board keel, … - Tobias Furneaux
Captain Tobias Furneaux was an English navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration. He was the first man to circumnavigate the world in both directions. Furneaux was born at Swilly near Plymouth. He entered the Royal Navy, and was employed on the French and African coasts and in the West Indies during the latter part of the Seven Years' War (1760–1763). - John Hope
John Raymond Hope (May 14, 1919-June 13, 2002) was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel. Born in Pennsylvania, Hope served as a flight navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After returning to civilian life, Hope earned a degree in meteorology from the University of Illinois. He then worked as a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Memphis, Tennessee, … - John Nichol
John Nichol is a retired Royal Air Force navigator who was shot down and captured during the first Gulf War. He co-authored a book, "Tornado Down", with his pilot John Peters, about this experience. He has gone on to write fiction. He now makes occasional appearances on British television and is available as a motivational speaker. - William Baffin
William Baffin (1584 - January 23, 1622) was an English navigator and discoverer. Nothing is known of his early life, but it is conjectured that he was born in London of humble origin, and gradually raised himself by his diligence and perseverance. The earliest mention of his name occurs in 1612, in connection with an expedition in search of a Northwest Passage, under the orders of Captain James Hall, whom he accompanied as chief pilot. - Willem Barents
Willem Barents (Dutch: Barentsz; born ?1550 on Terschelling, West Frisian Islands, Netherlands; died June 201597 on the Barents sea, near Novaya Zemlya, Russia) was a Dutch navigator and explorer, a leader of early expeditions to the far north. In 1594 he left Amsterdam with two ships to search for the Northeast passage north of Siberia and on to eastern Asia. He reached the west coast of Novaya Zemlya, and followed it northward, … - José Padilla
José Padilla is a Spanish disc jockey and producer of ambient music. He is best known for his work as DJ in the Café del Mar bar in the island of Ibiza, and is considered responsible for popularizing electronic chill-out music. Born in Barcelona, Padilla moved to Ibiza in 1975, taking up the DJ residency at Cafe del Mar in 1991. In 1994, he compiled the first "Cafe del Mar" album for the React label. - James Lancaster
Sir James Lancaster (1554(?)-May 1618) was an English navigator, statesman, and pioneer of the British Indian trade and empire. In his early life, he fought and traded in Portugal. On the 10th of April 1591 he started from Plymouth, with Raymond and Foxcroft, on his first great voyage to the East Indies; this fleet of three ships is the earliest of English oversea Indian expeditions. - Richard Chancellor
Richard Chancellor (d. 1556) was an English explorer and navigator; the first to penetrate to the White Sea and establish relations with Russia. Chancellor, a native of Bristol, acquired geographical and maritime proficiency from the explorer Sebastian Cabot and the geographer John Dee. Cabot had always been interested in making a voyage to Asia through the Arctic, and for this purpose King Edward VI chartered an association of English merchants, … - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador. Along with his older brother Martin Alonzo Pinzón, he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World in 1492, as captain of the "Niña". In 1499, Pinzón sailed to the South American coast. Carried by a strong storm, he reached the north coast of what today is Brazil on January 26, 1500. Pinzón disembarked on the shore called Praia do Paraíso, … - James Weddell
James Weddell (August 24, 1787 - September 9, 1834) was an English navigator, sealer, and explorer of the antarctic. - Juan Díaz de Solís
Juan Díaz de Solís, was a Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain. Born João Dias de Sólis, he trained as a navigator in Portugal until 1504, when he was forced to flee to Spain for unnamed reasons, possibly the sharing of secret Portuguese information with the Spaniards. He served as navigator on expeditions to the Yucatan in 1506 and Brazil in 1508 with Vicente Yáñez Pinzón. He became a pilot-major in 1512 following the death of Amerigo Vespucci, … - John Meares
John Meares (c. 1756 - 1809) was an English navigator and explorer, best known for his role in initiating a crisis that led to the Vancouver Expedition establishing Britain's claims to the Northwest coast of America. In 1771, Meares joined the Royal Navy as a captain's servant and was commissioned a Lieutenant in 1778. In 1783 he joined the merchant service and in 1785, based in India, … - Tom Marshall
Tom Marshall (October 9 1921 -1993) was an international Bible teacher who authored a number of books on counselling and healing, best known for his work entitled "Understanding Leadership". Marshall was born in Ayrshire Scotland. His parents emigrated to New Zealand in 1925, settling in Moera, near Petone, Wellington. He was educated at Moera Primary School and Hutt Valley High School. After serving as a navigator in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II, … - Leo Mustonen
Leo Mustonen was a Finnish-American World War II Army Air Corps cadet who was reported missing after a plane crash on November 18, 1942 until his frozen remains were found in October 2005 at the bottom of a glacier in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, 63 years later. He was 22 at the time of his death. Mustonen joined the Army during his senior high school year in Brainerd, Minnesota and was in training to become a navigator when he was reported missing. - Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira
Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira or Neyra was a Spanish navigator. Born in Congosto, in León, he was the nephew of Lope García de Castro, viceroy of Peru. In 1567, he and Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa sailed from Callao, in Peru, on an expedition to the South Pacific in search of the legendary Terra Australis. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa was the "Master of the Route." The voyage discovered Wake Island and the Solomon Islands. - Edward Fenton
Edward Fenton (d. 1603) was an English navigator, son of Henry Fenton and brother of Sir Geoffrey Fenton. He was a native of Nottinghamshire. In 1577 he sailed, in command of the "Gabriel", with Sir Martin Frobisher's second expedition for the discovery of the Northwest Passage, and in the following year he took part as second in command in Frobisher's third expedition, his ship being the "Judith". He was then employed in Ireland for a time, … - Juan Francisco De La Bodega Y Quadra
Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (baptized 3 June, 1743 - 26 March, 1794) was a Spanish naval officer born in Lima, Peru. Sailing from the Spanish Naval Department at San Blas, in what now is the Mexican state of Nayarit, from 1774 - 1788 this South American navigator explored the Northwest Coast of North America as far north as Alaska. - John Ehrlichman
John Daniel Ehrlichman (March 20, 1925 - February 14, 1999) was counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon and a key figure in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and in the ensuing Watergate scandal for which he was convicted of criminal activities. He served a year and a half in prison for his crimes. - Jens Munk
Jens Munk was a Danish-Norwegian navigator, born near Arendal, Norway. In 1619, under the auspices of King Christian IV, he set out with two ships to discover the Northwest Passage to the Indies and China. He penetrated Davis Strait as far north as 69° and then turned southward and spent the winter on Churchill River. Cold, famine, and scurvy destroyed so many of his men that only two persons besides himself survived. With these he sailed for home, reaching Bergen, Norway, … - Juan de Bermúdez
Juan de Bermúdez was a Spanish navigator of the 16th century. His fame is chiefly due to his discovery of the Bermuda Islands which are named in his honor. He died in 1570. It is unclear what year Bermúdez discovered the islands, although it was before the 1511 publication of a map in the Legatio Babylonica that included "La Bermuda" among the Atlantic islands. However, Bermuda commemorated the 500th anniversary of its sighting in 2003. - Aleksei Chirikov
Aleksei Ilyich Chirikov was a Russian navigator and captain who charted some of the Aleutian Islands and was deputy to Vitus Bering during the Kamchatka expeditions. - Christopher Middleton
Christopher Middleton (late 1600s - February 12, 1770) was an English navigator. In May 1741 he left England and sailed to North America in search of a Northwest Passage to the East Indies. He spent the winter at the entrance of the Churchill River in Hudson Bay. He then proceeded as far north as Repulse Bay, but was prevented from going further by the ice. He returned to England in 1742, where he was presented with the Copley Medal and elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
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