1 - 53 of 53 famous, important and notable explorers ranked by their popularity on On This Day.
1. Christopher Columbus
2. Ferdinand Magellan
3. James Cook
4. Jacques Cartier
5. Vasco da Gama
6. Henry Morton Stanley
7. Meriwether Lewis
8. John Cabot
9. Henry Hudson
10. Roald Amundsen
11. Alexander Mackenzie (Explorer)
12. Amerigo Vespucci
13. David Livingstone
14. Tenzing Norgay
15. Ernest Shackleton
16. Joseph Banks
17. Abel Tasman
18. Samuel de Champlain
19. Francis Drake
20. Robert Falcon Scott
21. Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
22. Hiram Bingham
23. William Clark
24. Fridtjof Nansen
25. Edmund Hillary
26. Alexander von Humboldt
27. Jacques Cousteau
28. Juan Ponce de León
29. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
30. Walter Raleigh
31. Charles Wilkes
32. William Dampier
33. Marco Polo
34. John Smith
35. Pedro Álvares Cabral
36. Richard E. Byrd
37. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
38. Matthew Flinders
39. Thor Heyerdahl
40. Daniel Boone
41. Juan de la Cosa
42. Bartolomeu Dias
43. Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
44. Alfred Russel Wallace
45. Robert Peary
46. Aimé Bonpland
47. Hernando de Soto
48. Ludwig Leichhardt
49. Robert McClure
50. Giovanni da Verrazzano
51. Richard Francis Burton
52. David Thompson
53. Juan Sebastián Elcano