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from Alexander the Great to Sally Ride

Delia Akeley (1875-1970), Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), Roald Amundsen (1872-c. 1928), Antonio de Andrade (1580-1634), Apollo (1957-1972), Neil Armstrong (1930-), Vladimir Atlasov (b. 17th century-1711), Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), Florence Baker (1841-1916), Joseph Banks (1743-1820), Pedro Joao Baptista (lived 19th century), Amaro Jose (lived 19th century), Aleksandr Baranov (1746-1819), Rabban Bar Sauma (c.1200-c.1294), Heinrich Barth (1821-1865), Abu Abdallah Ibn Battutah (1304-1369), Jim Beckwourth (1798-1867), Gertrud00Bell (1868-1926), Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (1778-1852), Benjamin of Tudela (b. early 12th century-d. after 1173), Hiram Bingham (1875-1956), Isabella Bird (1831-1904), Anne Blunt (1837-1917), Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922), Sidi Mubarak Bombay (c.1820-1885), Daniel Boone (1734-1820), Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), Louise Arner Boyd (1887-1972), Pierre avorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905), Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo (1841-1917), Roberto Ivens (1850-1898), Etienne Brule (c.1592-1633), Robert O'Hara Burke (c.1820-c.1861), William John Wills (1834-1861), Richard Burton (1821-1890), Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957), Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1490-c.1560), John Cabot (c.1450-c.1499), Sebastian Cabot (c.1476-1557), Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho (b. 16th [possibly 15th] century-d.1543), Rene Caillie (1799-c.1838), Giovanni da Pian del Carpini (c.1180-1252), Philip Carteret (1734-1796), Samuel Wallis (1728-1795), Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876), Samuel de Champlain (c.1567-1635), Chang Ch'ien (c.160-114 B.C.), Cheng Ho (c.1371-c.1433), Medard Chouart des Groselliers (1625-1698), Pierre Esprit Radisson (c.1636-c.1710), James Chuma (c.1850-1882), Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), James Cook (1728-1779), Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (c.1510-1554), Hernan Cortes (1485-1547), Jacques Cousteau (1910-), Pero da Covilha (1450-1545), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Alexandra David-Neel (1868-1969), Bartolomeu Dias (c.1450-1596), Francis Drake (c.1540-1596), Paul Du Chaillu (c.1831-1903), Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880-1951), Erik the Red (c.950-c.1004), Estevanico (c.1500-1539), Explorer 1 (1958-1970), Edward John Eyre (1815-1901), Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), John Franklin (1786-1847), John Charles Fremont (1813-1890), Vivian Fuchs (1908-), Yury Gagarin (1934-1968), Aelius Gallus (lived first century B.C.), Vasco da Gama (c.1460-1524), Francis Garnier (1839-1873), John Glenn (1921-), Glomar Challenger (1968-1980), Isabel Godin des Odonais (1728-1792), Abu al-Kasim Ibn Ali al-Nasibi Ibn Hawkal (c.920-c.990), Sven Hedin (1865-1952), Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), Matthew A. Henson (1866-1955), Herodotus (c.484-c.425 B.C.), Edmund Hillar (1919-), Cornelis de Houtman (c.1540-1599), Hsuan-tsang (602-664), Hubble Space Telescope (1990-), Henry Hudson (c.1565-1611), Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), Wilson Price Hunt (1782-1842), Robert Stuart (1785-1848), Willem Janszoon (1570-d.17th century), Amy Johnson (1903-1941), Louis Jolliet (1645-1700), Mary Kingsley (1862-1900), Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810-1881), Jean Francois de Galaup, Comte de La Perouse (1741-c.1788), Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), Michael J. Leahy (1901-1979), Leif Eriksson (b. late 970's-1020), Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809), William Clark (1770-1838), Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), David Livingstone (1813-1873), Luna (1959-1976), Alexander Mackenzie (1764-1820), Ferdinand Magellan (c.1480-1521), Thomas Manning (1772-1840), Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863-1934), Mariner (1962-1975), Beryl Markham (1902-1986), Abu al-Hasan 'Ali al-Mas'udi (c.895-957), Robert McClure (1807-1873), Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), U.S.S. Nautilus (1954-1980), Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1519), Peter Skene Ogden (1794-1854), Alonso de Ojeda (1465-1515), Francisco de Orellana (c.1490-1546), Mungo Park (1771-1806), Edward Parry (1790-1855), Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), Annie Smith Peck (1850-1935), Auguste Piccard (1884-1962), Jacques Piccard (1922-), Zebulon Pike (1779-1813), Fernao Mendes Pinto (c.1510-1583), Francisco Pizarro (c.1475-1541), Marco Polo (1254-1324), Juan Ponce de Leon (1460-1521), Wiley Post (1899-1935), Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888), Pytheas (c.380-c.300 B.C.), Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), Johannes Rebmann (1820-1876), Sally Ride (1951-), Susie Carson Rijnhart (1868-1908), Jacob Roggeveen (1659-1729), Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (1831-1896), Dick Rutan (1939-), Jeana Yeager (1952-), Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), Nain Singh (c.1832-c.1882), Jedediah Smith (1799-1831), John Smith (1580-1631), Hernando de Soto (c.1500-1542), John Hanning Speke (1827-1864), Sputnik (1957-1961), Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Will Steger (1944-), Aurel Stein (1862-1943), Abel Tasman (1603-1659), Annie Royle Taylor (1855-d. 20th century), Valentina Tereshkova (1937-), David Thompson (1770-1857), Joseph Thomson (1858-1895), George Vancouver (1757-1798), Giovanni da Verrazano (1485-1528), Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), Viking (1975-1983), Voyager 1 and 2 (1977-1990), Charles Wilkes (1798-1877), Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958), Fanny Bullock Workman (1859-1925), Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Xenophon (c.431-c.352 B.C.), Chuck Yeager (1923-)

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