Famous explorers
person who by means of travel searches out new information
662 people
Charles Darwin
1809
– 1882
· Age 73
Deceased
Christopher Columbus
1451
– 1506
· Age 55
Deceased
Marco Polo
1254
– 1324
· Age 69
Deceased
Yuri Gagarin
1934
– 1968
· Age 34
Deceased
Ferdinand Magellan
1480
– 1521
· Age 41
Deceased
Theodore Roosevelt
1858
– 1919
· Age 60
Deceased
Roald Amundsen
1872
– 1928
· Age 55
Deceased
James Cook
1728
– 1779
· Age 50
Deceased
Vasco da Gama
1469
– 1524
· Age 55
Deceased
Hernán Cortés
1485
– 1547
· Age 62
Deceased
Ibn Battuta
1304
– 1368
· Age 63
Deceased
Ulysses S. Grant
1822
– 1885
· Age 63
Deceased
Jacques Cartier
1491
– 1557
· Age 65
Deceased
Zheng He
1371
– 1433
· Age 62
Deceased
Alexander von Humboldt
1769
– 1859
· Age 89
Deceased
Edmund Hillary
1919
– 2008
· Age 88
Deceased
Arthur C. Clarke
1917
– 2008
· Age 90
Deceased
Francis Drake
1540
– 1596
· Age 55
Deceased
James Cameron
1954
· Age 71
Alive
Peter Kropotkin
1842
– 1921
· Age 78
Deceased
Amerigo Vespucci
1454
– 1512
· Age 57
Deceased
Alfred Russel Wallace
1823
– 1913
· Age 90
Deceased
Leif Erikson
0972
– 1020
· Age 48
Deceased
Ernst Haeckel
1834
– 1919
· Age 85
Deceased
Abel Tasman
1603
– 1659
· Age 56
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11900058