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Adam Johann von Krusenstern

Baltic German admiral and explorer in Russian service, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe

American astronaut

First American To Travel Into Outer Space

Albert Hastings Markham

British explorer and Royal Navy officer

Alexander Gordon Laing

Early 19th-century Scottish explorer; first European to reach Timbuktu

Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)

Scottish explorer

Alexander von Humboldt

German geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)

Alexandre de Serpa Pinto

Explorer and soldier

Soviet cosmonaut, first person to perform spacewalk

American astronaut

American aviation pioneer and author (1897–1937)

Pioneering English aviator

André Borschberg

Swiss businessman and pilot

Andriyan Nikolayev

Soviet cosmonaut

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

British explorer (1886-1959)

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

Cuban cosmonaut (born 1942)

Arthur Whitten Brown

British Army officer

American politician (1808-1882)

Australian engineer and adventurer

Benjamin Bonneville

Union Army general (1796–1878)

Bertrand Piccard

Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist

American astronaut; second person to walk on the Moon Last Surviving Crew Member of Apollo 11

Charles Debrille Poston

Early Arizona politician (1825–1902)

American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and a former astronaut for NASA

Charles Kingsford Smith

Australian aviator

Charles Lindbergh

American aviator (1902–1974)

Retired Canadian astronaut

Christa McAuliffe

American teacher and astronaut killed in the Challenger disaster

American frontiersman and explorer of Kentucky

David Livingstone

British colonialist and missionary to Africa (1813–1873)

American astronaut

David Thompson (explorer)

Canadian fur trader and surveyor (1770–1857)

American astronaut

American engineer and entrepreneur

Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882–1958)

Ed White (astronaut)

American astronaut

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2016)

Ellen MacArthur

Long-distance yachtswoman

Ernest Shackleton

Anglo-Irish polar explorer (1874–1922)

Pioneer of Washington Territory who later publicized the memory of the Oregon Trail

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

19th-century Russian Navy officer, cartographer, and explorer

Ferdinand von Wrangel

Baltic German explorer and Russian admiral (1797-1870)

Franklin Chang-Díaz

NASA astronaut and entrepreneur

American astronaut

American aviator and navigator (1893–1937)

American explorer

Fridtjof Nansen

Norwegian polar explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1861–1930)

Last Apollo astronaut to walk on the Moon

Soviet cosmonaut

American astronaut (1927–2004)

British adventurer, filmmaker and television presenter

Gregory Blaxland

18/19th-century English-Australian farmer and explorer

American astronaut and businessman

First African-American astronaut in space

American astronaut (1926–1967)

Harrison Schmitt

United States astronaut, 12th man to set foot on the Moon

British explorer and travel writer

Hazza Al Mansouri

Emirati astronaut

German explorer

Henry Morton Stanley

19th-century Welsh journalist and explorer

American fur trapper and frontiersman

British explorer (1831-1904)

Isabelle Eberhardt

Swiss explorer and writer

American astronaut and politician

James Augustus Grant

Scottish explorer and collector (1827 – 1892)

James Clark Ross

British explorer and naval officer

American astronaut

American astronaut

American explorer

American astronaut

John Alcock (RAF officer)

British aviator (1892–1919)

American politician

John C. Frémont

United States Army officer, explorer, and politician (1813–1890)

British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)

American astronaut and politician (1921–2016)

John Hanning Speke

British Indian Army officer and explorer

John Hemming (explorer)

Canadian explorer

John Lloyd Stephens

American explorer, writer, and diplomat (1805–1852)

British naval officer

Swiss pioneer of California

John Young (astronaut)

American Apollo and Space Shuttle astronaut (1930–2018)

19th-century Canadian-American seaman; first to circumnavigate the world solo

Guatemalan Mesoamericanist

American engineer and a NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

Jules Dumont d'Urville

French Navy officer and explorer (1790–1842)

American astronaut

New Zealand-born Dutch solo sailor

American NASA astronaut (b. 1963)

Louis-Gustave Binger

French explorer (1856-1936)

French athlete, mountaineer, aviator, and journalist

American explorer (1866–1955)

Meriwether Lewis

American explorer

Michael Collins (astronaut)

American astronaut (1930–2021)

Mungo Park (explorer)

Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2012)

Nikolay Przhevalsky

Russian soldier, explorer, and geographer

Paul Scully-Power

American astronaut

Paweł Strzelecki

Polish explorer and geologist

American astronaut and biochemistry researcher (born 1960)

British geographer, artillery officer and archaeologist

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–1999)

Danish explorer of Greenland, author

Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza

Italian explorer

Ranulph Fiennes

British explorer born 1944

Richard E. Byrd

American naval officer and explorer

Richard F. Gordon Jr.

American astronaut

Richard Francis Burton

19th-century British explorer, translator, writer, and linguist

Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the South Pole

Robert Falcon Scott

British explorer, leader of expeditions to the Antarctic

Robert O'Hara Burke

Australian explorer

American Arctic explorer (1856–1920)

Canadian astronaut

Portuguese explorer

Robin Knox-Johnston

British yacht racer

Ronald Evans (astronaut)

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–1990)

Native American woman & companion to Lewis and Clark at age 16

American physicist and astronaut (1951–2012)

Samantha Cristoforetti

Italian ESA astronaut

British explorer, officer and naturalist (1821–1893)

Scott Carpenter

American astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)

Scott Kelly (astronaut)

American engineer, retired astronaut, and retired U.S. Navy captain

East German cosmonaut, 1st German in space (1937–2019)

Sophie Blanchard

French balloonist (1778–1819)

American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer

American physician and retired NASA astronaut

American lunar astronaut (1933–1994)

Sultan bin Salman Al Saud

Saudi Arabian royal, astronaut, and government official

Svetlana Savitskaya

Soviet cosmonaut (born 1948)

Thomas P. Stafford

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1930–2024)

Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914–2002)

Valentina Tereshkova

Russian cosmonaut and first woman in space

Valeri Polyakov

Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (born 1942)

British explorer

American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut

American explorer and territorial governor (1770–1838)

William Edward Parry

English naval officer and Arctic explorer

William John Wills

Explorer of Australia

William Lawson (explorer)

English born Australian explorer and politician (1774–1850)

William Wentworth

19th-century English-Australian journalist, politician, and explorer

Chinese astronaut

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space

Soviet cosmonaut

American general and explorer (1779–1813)