Famous explorers
person who by means of travel searches out new information
2,387 people
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Bjarni Herjólfsson
0966
– 1000
· Age 34
Deceased
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin
1744
– 1774
· Age 30
Deceased
Louis Jolliet
1645
– 1700
· Age 54
Deceased
Peter Davison
1951
· Age 74
Alive
Ellen MacArthur
1976
· Age 49
Alive
William Beebe
1877
– 1962
· Age 84
Deceased
Jan Czerski
1845
– 1892
· Age 47
Deceased
Dominique Fernandez
1929
· Age 96
Alive
Johann Jakob von Tschudi
1818
– 1889
· Age 71
Deceased
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Sverker II of Sweden
1164
– 1210
· Age 46
Deceased
Alexander Dalrymple
1737
– 1808
· Age 70
Deceased
Nicolas Baudin
1754
– 1803
· Age 49
Deceased
Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard
1858
– 1945
· Age 87
Deceased
Maurice Herzog
1919
– 2012
· Age 93
Deceased
John Richardson
1787
– 1865
· Age 77
Deceased
Thekla Resvoll
1871
– 1948
· Age 77
Deceased
Gonzalo Pizarro
1502
– 1548
· Age 46
Deceased
Maurice Benyovszky
1746
– 1786
· Age 39
Deceased
Francisco Hernández de Cordoba
1475
– 1518
· Age 43
Deceased
Nikolai Rezanov
1764
– 1807
· Age 42
Deceased
Humphrey Gilbert
1539
– 1583
· Age 44
Deceased
Yuri Lisyansky
1773
– 1837
· Age 63
Deceased
Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
1798
– 1853
· Age 54
Deceased
George Anson, 1st Baron Anson
1697
– 1762
· Age 65
Deceased
Sebastián de Belalcázar
1480
– 1551
· Age 71
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11900058