| Name | Years | Also Known As |
|---|
| Pythias | 380-310 BC | |
| Zhang Qian | ?-113 BC | |
| Erik the Red | 950-1003 | (Eric) |
| Leif Ericson | 980-1020 | |
| Giovanni da Pian del Carpine | 1180-1252 | (Joannes, John) |
| Marco Polo | 1254-1324 | |
| Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta | 1304-1377 | |
| Zheng He | 1371-1433 | |
| Niccolò da Cont | 1395-1469 | (Nicolò, Nicholas) |
| Giovanni Caboto | 1450-1499 | (John) |
| Bartolomeu Dias | 1450-1500 | (Bartholomew) |
| Francisco de Almeida | 1450-1510 | |
| Cristoforo Columbo | 1451-1506 | (Cristobal, Christopher) |
| Afonso de Albuquerque | 1453-1515 | (Alfonso) |
| Amerigo Vespucci | 1454-1512 | |
| Juan Ponce de León | 1460-1521 | (John) |
| Pêro da Covilhã | 1460-1526 | (Pedro, Peter) |
| Pedro Álvares Cabral | 1467-1520 | (Peter) |
| Vasco da Gama | 1469-1524 | |
| Vasco Núñez de Balboa | 1475-1519 | |
| Francisco Pizarro | 1475-1541 | |
| Juan Sebastián Elcano | 1476-1526 | (John) |
| Diego de Almagro | 1479-1538 | |
| Ferdinand Magellan | 1480-1521 | |
| Giovanni da Verrazzano | 1485-1528 | (John) |
| Hernán Cortés | 1485-1547 | (Hernándo, Ferdinand) |
| Jacques Cartier | 1491-1557 | |
| Andrés de Urdaneta | 1498-1568 | (Andrew) |
| Hernando de Soto | 1500-1542 | (Ferdinand) |
| Ruy López de Villalobos | 1500-1544 | |
| Miguel López de Legazpi | 1502-1572 | (Michael) |
| Fernão Mendes Pinto | 1509-1583 | (Ferdinand) |
| Francisco Vázquez de Coronado | 1510-1554 | |
| Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa | 1532-1602 | (Peter) |
| Yermak Timofeyevich | 1537-1585 | |
| Sir Francis Drake | 1540-1596 | |
| Willem Barents | 1550-1597 | (William) |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | 1552-1618 | |
| Cornelis de Houtman | 1565-1599 | |
| Pedro Fernandes de Queirós | 1565-1614 | (Peter) |
| Samuel de Champlain | 1567-1635 | |
| Henry Hudson | 1570-1611 | |
| Willem Janszoon | 1570-1630 | (William) |
| William Baffin | 1584-1622 | |
| Abel Tasman | 1603-1659 | |
| Semyon Dezhnev | 1605-1673 | (Simon) |
| Louis Hennepin | 1626-1705 | |
| René Robert Cavelier de La Salle | 1643-1687 | (Robert) |
| Vitus Bering | 1681-1741 | |
| Ferdinand Konščak | 1703-1759 | |
| Ignacije Szentmartony | 1718-1793 | |
| James Cook | 1728-1779 | |
| James Bruce | 1730-1794 | |
| Peter Pond | 1739-1807 | |
| Jean François Galaup | 1741-1788 | (John) |
| John Ledyard | 1751-1789 | |
| George Vancouver | 1757-1798 | |
| Sir Alexander MacKenzie | 1764-1820 | |
| Alexander von Humboldt | 1769-1859 | |
| William Clark | 1770-1838 | |
| George Bass | 1771-1803 | |
| Mungo Park | 1771-1806 | |
| Meriwether Lewis | 1774-1809 | |
| Matthew Flinders | 1774-1814 | |
| Zebulon Pike | 1779-1813 | |
| John Oxley | 1785-1828 | |
| Sir John Franklin | 1786-1847 | |
| William Hovell | 1786-1875 | |
| Peter Skene Ogden | 1790-1854 | |
| Sir William Edward Parry | 1790-1855 | |
| Thomas Mitchell | 1792-1855 | |
| Charles Sturt | 1795-1869 | |
| Hamilton Hume | 1797-1873 | |
| Sir James Clark Ross | 1800-1862 | |
| John Lloyd Stephens | 1805-1852 | |
| William Herndon | 1813-1857 | |
| David Livingstone | 1813-1873 | |
| John McDouall Stuart | 1815-1866 | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton | 1821-1890 | |
| Sir Samuel Baker | 1821-1893 | |
| John Hanning Speke | 1827-1864 | |
| James Augustus Grant | 1827-1892 | |
| Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld | 1832-1901 | |
| John Wesley Powell | 1834-1902 | |
| Sir Henry Morton Stanley | 1841-1904 | |
| Teoberto Maler | 1842-1917 | (Teobert) |
| Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza | 1852-1905 | (Pietro, Peter) |
| Robert Peary | 1856-1920 | |
| Fridtjof Nansen | 1861-1930 | |
| Sir Marc Aurel Stein | 1862-1943 | (Márk) |
| William Grant Stairs | 1863-1892 | |
| Sir Francis Younghusband | 1863-1942 | |
| Frederick Cook | 1865-1940 | |
| Sven Hedin | 1865-1952 | |
| Cândido Rondon | 1865-1958 | |
| Robert Falcon Scott | 1868-1912 | |
| Alexandra David-Néel | 1868-1969 | |
| Roald Amundsen | 1872-1928 | |
| Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton | 1874-1922 | |
| Robert Bartlett | 1875-1946 | |
| Sir Douglas Mawson | 1882-1958 | |
| George Mallory | 1886-1924 | |
| Richard Evelyn Byrd | 1888-1957 | |
| Amelia Earhart | 1897-1937 | |
| William Tilman | 1898-1977 | (Bill) |
| Charles Lindbergh | 1902-1974 | |
| Jacques Cousteau | 1910-1997 | |
| Tenzing Norgay | 1914-1986 | |
| Thor Heyerdahl | 1914-2002 | |
| Sir Edmund Hillary | 1919- | |
| John Glenn | 1921- | |
| Alan Shepard | 1923-1998 | |
| Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin | 1930- | |
| Neil Armstrong | 1930- | |
| Yuriy Gagarin | 1934-1968 | (Yuri) |
| Aleksey Leonov | 1934- | (Aleksei) |
| Valentina Tereshkova | 1937- | |
