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NameLifespanAlso Known As
Abel Tasman1603-1659
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld1832-1901
Afonso de Albuquerque1453-1515(Alfonso)
Alan Shepard1923-1998
Aleksey Leonov1934-(Aleksei)
Alexander von Humboldt1769-1859
Sir Alexander MacKenzie1764-1820
Alexandra David-Néel1868-1969
Amelia Earhart1897-1937
Amerigo Vespucci1454-1512
Andrés de Urdaneta1498-1568(Andrew)
Bartolomeu Dias1450-1500(Bartholomew)
Cândido Rondon1865-1958
Charles Lindbergh1902-1974
Charles Sturt1795-1869
Cornelis de Houtman1565-1599
Cristoforo Columbo1451-1506(Christopher, Cristobal)
David Livingstone1813-1873
Diego de Almagro1479-1538
Sir Douglas Mawson1882-1958
Sir Edmund Hillary1919-
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin1930-
Erik the Red950-1003(Eric)
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton1874-1922
Ferdinand Konščak1703-1759
Ferdinand Magellan1480-1521
Fernão Mendes Pinto1509-1583(Ferdinand)
Sir Francis Drake1540-1596
Sir Francis Younghusband1863-1942
Francisco de Almeida1450-1510
Francisco Pizarro1475-1541
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado1510-1554
Frederick Cook1865-1940
Fridtjof Nansen1861-1930
George Bass1771-1803
George Mallory1886-1924
George Vancouver1757-1798
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine1180-1252(Joannes, John)
Giovanni Caboto1450-1499(John)
Giovanni da Verrazzano1485-1528(John)
Hamilton Hume1797-1873
Zheng He1371-1433
Henry Hudson1570-1611
Sir Henry Morton Stanley1841-1904
Hernán Cortés1485-1547(Ferdinand, Hernándo)
Hernando de Soto1500-1542(Ferdinand)
Ignacije Szentmartony1718-1793
Jacques Cartier1491-1557
Jacques Cousteau1910-1997
James Bruce1730-1794
James Cook1728-1779
James Augustus Grant1827-1892
Sir James Clark Ross1800-1862
Jean François Galaup1741-1788(John)
Sir John Franklin1786-1847
John Glenn1921-
John Ledyard1751-1789
John Oxley1785-1828
John Wesley Powell1834-1902
John Hanning Speke1827-1864
John Lloyd Stephens1805-1852
John McDouall Stuart1815-1866
Juan Sebastián Elcano1476-1526(John)
Juan Ponce de León1460-1521(John)
Leif Ericson980-1020
Louis Hennepin1626-1705
Sir Marc Aurel Stein1862-1943(Márk)
Marco Polo1254-1324
Matthew Flinders1774-1814
Meriwether Lewis1774-1809
Miguel López de Legazpi1502-1572(Michael)
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta1304-1377
Mungo Park1771-1806
Neil Armstrong1930-2012
Niccolò de' Conti1395-1469(Nicholas, Nicolò)
Pedro Álvares Cabral1467-1520(Peter)
Pedro Fernández de Queirós1565-1614(Peter)
Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa1532-1602(Peter)
Pêro da Covilhã1460-1526(Pedro, Peter)
Peter Skene Ogden1790-1854
Peter Pond1739-1807
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza1852-1905(Peter, Pietro)
Pythias380-310 BC
Zhang Qian?-113 BC
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle1643-1687
Sir Richard Francis Burton1821-1890
Richard Evelyn Byrd1888-1957
Roald Amundsen1872-1928
Robert Bartlett1875-1946
Robert Peary1856-1920
Robert Falcon Scott1868-1912
Ruy López de Villalobos1500-1544
Sir Samuel Baker1821-1893
Samuel de Champlain1567-1635
Semyon Dezhnev1605-1673(Simon)
Sven Hedin1865-1952
Tenzing Norgay1914-1986
Teoberto Maler1842-1917(Teobert)
Thomas Mitchell1792-1855
Thor Heyerdahl1914-2002
Valentina Tereshkova1937-
Vasco Núñez de Balboa1475-1519
Vasco da Gama1469-1524
Vitus Bering1681-1741
Sir Walter Raleigh1552-1618
Willem Barents1550-1597(William)
Willem Janszoon1570-1630(William)
William Baffin1584-1622
William Clark1770-1838
William Herndon1813-1857
William Hovell1786-1875
Sir William Edward Parry1790-1855
William Grant Stairs1863-1892
William Tilman1898-1977(Bill)
Yermak Timofeyevich1537-1585
Yuriy Gagarin1934-1968(Yuri)
Zebulon Pike1779-1813

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