Famous explorers
person who by means of travel searches out new information
1,342 people
Hasekura Tsunenaga
1571
– 1622
· Age 51
Deceased
Hans Egede
1686
– 1758
· Age 72
Deceased
Hans Sloane
1660
– 1753
· Age 92
Deceased
Francisco de Almeida
1450
– 1510
Deceased
Heinrich Barth
1821
– 1865
· Age 44
Deceased
Martin Frobisher
1535
– 1594
· Age 59
Deceased
Henry Walter Bates
1825
– 1892
· Age 67
Deceased
C
Christopher McCandless
1968
– 1992
· Age 24
Deceased
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
1784
– 1817
· Age 32
Deceased
Jeanne Baret
1740
– 1807
· Age 67
Deceased
Zhang Qian
Daniel Boone
1734
– 1820
· Age 85
Deceased
Jacques Piccard
1922
– 2008
· Age 86
Deceased
C
Cosmas Indicopleustes
0600
– 0550
Deceased
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
1727
– 1817
· Age 90
Deceased
Robert J. Flaherty
1884
– 1951
· Age 67
Deceased
Adam Johann von Krusenstern
1770
– 1846
· Age 75
Deceased
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
1497
– 1543
· Age 46
Deceased
Vladimir Arsenyev
1872
– 1930
· Age 58
Deceased
Yelena Serova
1976
· Age 49
Alive
Richard E. Grant
1957
· Age 68
Alive
Johann Reinhold Forster
1729
– 1798
· Age 69
Deceased
Walton Goggins
1971
· Age 54
Alive
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
1485
– 1556
Deceased
Pierre Bouguer
1698
– 1758
· Age 60
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q11900058