# List of polar explorers

This list is for recognised pioneering explorers of the polar regions. It does not include subsequent travelers and expeditions.

## Polar explorers

* Jameson Adams
* Mark Agnew
* Stian Aker
* Valerian Albanov
* Roald Amundsen
* Salomon August Andrée
* Piotr Fyodorovich Anjou
* Henryk Arctowski
* Josée Auclair
* Mikhail Babushkin
* Konstantin Badygin
* Karl Baer
* Georgiy Baidukov
* Ann Bancroft
* Willem Barents
* Michael Barne
* Robert Bartlett
* Nikifor Begichev
* Fabian von Bellingshausen
* Robert M. Berry
* Edward W. Bingham
* Olav Bjaaland
* Alfred Björling
* Carsten Borchgrevink
* Jon Bowermaster
* Henry Robertson Bowers
* Louise Arner Boyd
* Edward Bransfield
* Philip Brocklehurst
* William Speirs Bruce
* Georgy Brusilov
* Daniel Byles
* Richard Evelyn Byrd
* Todd Carmichael
* Umberto Cagni
* Jacques Cartier
* Jean-Baptiste Charcot
* Semion Chelyuskin
* Apsley Cherry-Garrard
* Vasili Chichagov
* Valery Chkalov
* Jeremy Clarkson
* George Comer
* Sebastian Copeland
* Frederick A. Cook
* James Cook
* Henry Cookson
* Augustine Courtauld
* Albert P. Crary
* Tom Crean
* Lars Christensen
* Andrew Croft
* Francis Crozier
* Ann Daniels
* Edgeworth David
* Jason De Carteret
* Edwin de Haven
* George W. De Long
* Nina Demme
* Antoni Bolesław Dobrowolski
* Erich von Drygalski
* George J. Dufek
* Jules Dumont d'Urville
* Lincoln Ellsworth
* Edward Evans
* Edgar Evans
* Sir Ranulph Fiennes
* Dwayne Fields
* John Franklin
* Peter Freuchen
* Martin Frobisher
* Vivian Fuchs
* Tobias Furneaux
* Yakov Gakkel
* Matvei Gedenschtrom
* Adrien de Gerlache
* Johann Georg Gmelin
* Adolphus Greely
* Pen Hadow
* Charles Francis Hall
* Helmer Hanssen
* Bernhard Hantzsch
* Sverre Hassel
* Adrian Hayes
* Isaac Israel Hayes
* Samuel Hearne
* Matthew A. Henson
* Wally Herbert
* Alex Hibbert
* Edmund Hillary
* John Hornby
* Andreas Peter Hovgaard
* Henry Hudson
* John Huston
* Edward Israel
* Hjalmar Johansen
* Antony Jinman
* Erling Kagge
* Otto Kalvitsa
* Elisha Kent Kane
* Sydney L. Kirkby
* Gerald Ketchum
* Maria Klenova
* Lauge Koch
* Aleksandr Kolchak
* Nikolai Kolomeitsev
* Alexander Kuchin
* Paul Landry
* Dmitry Laptev
* Khariton Laptev
* Carl Anton Larsen
* Georges Lecointe
* Christian Leden
* Ernest de Koven Leffingwell
* Percy Lemon
* Godske Lindenov
* Martin Lindsay
* Fyodor Litke
* Ivan Lyakhov
* Alistair Mackay
* Alexander MacKenzie
* Aeneas Mackintosh
* Cecil Madigan
* Rune Malterud
* Stepan Malygin
* Donal T. Manahan
* Albert Hastings Markham
* James Marr
* Eric Marshall
* Fyodor Matisen
* Fyodor Matyushkin
* Douglas Mawson
* James May
* Francis Leopold McClintock
* Jim McNeill
* Janice Meek
* Alexander von Middendorff
* Ejnar Mikkelsen
* Fyodor Minin
* Gerhard Muller
* Fridtjof Nansen
* George Nares
* Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
* Edward Nelson
* Umberto Nobile
* Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
* Otto Nordenskjöld
* Børge Ousland
* Dmitry Ovtsyn
* Pyotr Pakhtusov
* Nathaniel Palmer
* Ivan Papanin
* William Parry
* Charlie Paton
* Fiann Paul
* Robert Edwin Peary
* Yakov Permyakov
* Eric Philips
* Ralph Plaisted
* Fedot Popov
* Richard Profit
* Vasili Pronchishchev
* Maria Pronchishcheva
* Lewis Gordon Pugh
* Emil Racovita
* Pierre-Esprit Radisson
* John Rae
* Knud Rasmussen
* Andrew Regan
* George W. Rice
* John Richardson
* Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen
* Quintin Riley
* Alfred Ritscher
* Edith Ronne
* Finn Ronne
* James Clark Ross
* John Ross
* Vladimir Rusanov
* John Rymill
* Rudolf Samoylovich
* Yakov Sannikov
* Ben Saunders
* Otto Schmidt
* William Scoresby
* Robert Falcon Scott
* Georgy Sedov
* Ernest Shackleton
* Nobu Shirase
* Pyotr Shirshov
* Ivan Simonov
* Paul Siple
* Mikhail Somov
* Pavel Senko
* Mikhail Stadukhin
* Vilhjalmur Stefansson
* Will Steger
* Otto Sverdrup
* Robert Swan
* Eduard Toll
* Yevgeny Tolstikov
* Alexey Tryoshnikov
* Avgust Tsivolko
* Nikolay Urvantsev
* Georgy Ushakov
* Merkury Vagin
* Boris Vilkitsky
* Vladimir Vize
* Lawrence Wager
* Paul Walker
* Carl Frederick Wandel
* Gino Watkins
* Richard Weber
* James Weddell
* Walter Wellman
* Frank Wild
* Hubert Wilkins
* Edward Wilson
* Oscar Wisting
* Frank Worsley
* Ferdinand von Wrangel
* Nikolai Pinegin