Explorer

This page lists 5,134 biographies of explorers, covering lives from 2300 BC to 2001. Featuring Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Wyville Thomson and John Morphett. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Charles Chaillé-Long

1842 – 1917

Gunnbjörn Ulfsson

Pierre Boucher

1622 – 1717

Peter Simon Pallas

1741 – 1811

Max Steineke

1898 – 1952

Felipe de Neve

1724 – 1784

Thomas Burr

1813 – 1866

Florence Baker

1841 – 1916

James King

1750 – 1784

Colin Baker

b. 1943

Howard Burnham

1870 – 1917

James Wordie

1889 – 1962

John Shields

1769 – 1809

Torgils Orrabeinfostre

Suresh Biswas

1861 – 1905

Caleb Greenwood

1763 – 1850

Frank Wild

1873 – 1939

Trevarton Charles Sholl

1845 – 1867

Luis de Moscoso Alvarado

1505 – 1551

John Davidson

1797 – 1836

William Johnson

György Almásyn

1867 – 1933

Louis Fornel

1698 – 1745

Roy Koerner

1932 – 2008

Henry Frederick Stephenson

1842 – 1919

Godske Lindenov

1501 – 1612

Busby Noble

1960 – 2022

Pêro da Covilhã

1450 – 1530

Anatoli Ivanishin

b. 1969

William Grant Stairs

1863 – 1892

Moritz Wagner

1813 – 1887

Lourenço de Almeida

1480 – 1508

William Temple Hornaday

1854 – 1937

Richard Whitbourne

1561 – 1635

Georges Destenave

1854 – 1928

Antônio Raposo Tavares

1598 – 1658

Juan Menéndez Granados

Rosita Forbes

1890 – 1967

Michael Lok

1532 – 1620

Jean Alfonse

1484 – 1544

Johan Reinhard

b. 1943

Georg Forster

1754 – 1794

Gustav Adolf Fischer

1848 – 1886

Charles Cooke Hunt

1833 – 1868

John Rivett-Carnac

1796 – 1869

Isaac Weld

1774 – 1856

Felipe de Cáceres

b. 1538

Lino Lacedelli

1925 – 2009

P.J. Moonie

b. 1936

Johan Reinhold Sahlberg

1845 – 1920

Dmitry Ovtsyn

1708 – 1757

Cowits

1835 – 1868

John Rymill

1905 – 1968

Ben Nicker

1908 – 1941

Reid Stowe

b. 1952

Joshua Slocum

1844 – 1909

Joseph Moloney

1857 – 1896

Richard Henderson

1735 – 1785

Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard

1876 – 1922

Matthijs Hendrikszoon Quast

1601 – 1641

Robert Anstruther Goodsir

1823 – 1895

Harold La Borde

1933 – 2016

John MacGregor

1825 – 1892

Zenobius Membre

1645 – 1680

Khariton Laptev

1700 – 1763

Alfred Durlacher

b. 1828

Isol the Pisan

Joseph Burke

1812 – 1873

Alonso de Sotomayor

1545 – 1610

John Ovens

1788 – 1825

William Woodville Rockhill

1854 – 1914

Étienne Brûlé

1592 – 1633

Howard Barraclough Fell

1917 – 1994

Nikolai Severtzov

1827 – 1885

Toussaint Charbonneau

1767 – 1843

Noël Ballay

1847 – 1902

Jorge de Alvarado

1490 – 1540

Mary Wortley Montagu

1689 – 1762

Richard Thelwell Maurice

1859 – 1909

Edouard Wyss-Dunant

1897 – 1983

Gustavus Blin Wright

1832 – 1898

François-Désiré Breton

1781 – 1820

Thomas Dermer

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

1852 – 1936

William Bennet Stevenson

1787 – 1830

Sandy Glen

1912 – 2004

Richard W. Richards

1893 – 1985

George Forster

1750 – 1791

Francisco Pascasio Moreno

1852 – 1919

Ludovic de Polignac

1828 – 1904

David Scott Cowper

b. 1942

Robert Garside

b. 1967

Clifford J. MacGregor

1904 – 1985

Leonhard Seppala

1877 – 1967

Erik Eriksen

1820 – 1888

Euthymenes

Tom George Longstaff

1875 – 1964

Fredrik Hasselquist

1722 – 1752

Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón

1478 – 1526

Frederick Selous

1851 – 1917