# Lijst van ontdekkingsreizigers

Dit is een lijst van bekende mensen die bekendstaan als ontdekkingsreizigers.

## A

* Alexander de Grote
* Diego de Almagro
* Pedro de Alvarado
* Roald Amundsen
* Roy Chapman Andrews
* Neil Armstrong
* Thomas Aubert
* Diogo de Azambuja

## B

* William Baffin
* Vasco Núñez de Balboa
* Willem Barentsz
* Heinrich Barth
* George Bass
* Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta
* Nicolas Baudin
* Jérôme Becker
* Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
* Vitus Bering
* Jean de Béthencourt
* Gregory Blaxland
* Adriaen Block
* Louis Antoine de Bougainville
* Sint-Brandaan (Brandaan van Clonfert)
* Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
* James Bruce
* Olivier Brunel
* Robert O'Hara Burke
* Richard Francis Burton
* Richard E. Byrd

## C

* Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
* John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto)
* Sebastian Cabot
* Pedro Álvares Cabral
* René Caillié
* Ernest Cambier
* Diogo Cão
* David Carnegie
* Jacques Cartier
* Thomas Cavendish
* Paul du Chaillu
* Harriet Chalmers Adams
* Samuel de Champlain
* Richard Chancellor
* Jimmy Chin
* Susan Christianen
* William Clark
* Christoffel Columbus
* Niccolò da Conti
* James Cook
* Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
* Hernán Cortés
* Pêro da Covilhã
* Tristão da Cunha
* Allan Cunningham
* Aina Cederblom

## D

* William Dampier
* Dixie Dansercoer
* Alexandra David-Néel
* John Davis
* Alexandre Delcommune
* George Washington DeLong
* Semjon Dezjnjov
* Bartolomeu Dias
* Charles Montagu Doughty
* Francis Drake
* Jules Dumont d'Urville

## E

* Gil Eanes
* Juan Sebastián Elcano
* Leif Eriksson
* George Everest
* Edward John Eyre
* Eudoxos van Kyzikos

## F

* Percy Fawcett
* Matthew Flinders
* Alexander Forrest
* John Forrest
* John Franklin
* John Charles Frémont
* Louis de Freycinet
* Martin Frobisher
* Juan de Fuca

## G

* Vasco da Gama
* Francis Garnier
* Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Vérendrye
* Adrien de Gerlache
* Gaston de Gerlache
* Joos van Ghistele
* Ernest Giles
* William Gosse
* Augustus Charles Gregory

## H

* Hanno
* Edmond Hanssens
* Harchoef
* Dirck Hartog
* Hatsjepsoet
* John Hawkins
* Sven Hedin
* Louis Hennepin
* Matthew Henson
* Bjarni Herjólfsson
* Edmund Hillary
* Himilco
* Hippalus
* Cornelis de Houtman
* Frederik de Houtman
* William Hovell
* Alain Hubert
* Henry Hudson
* Alexander von Humboldt
* Hamilton Hume

## I

* Ibn Battuta

## J

* Jermak (Vasili Timofejovitsj)
* Louis Jolliet

## K

* Þorfinnur Karlsefni
* Edmund Kennedy
* Alexander Khimushin
* Phillip Parker King
* Mary Kingsley

## L

* Charles Marie de La Condamine
* Eustache de La Fosse
* Richard Lander
* Jean-François de La Pérouse
* René Robert Cavelier de La Salle
* William Lawson
* Ludwig Leichhardt
* Charles Lemaire
* Jacob le Maire
* Paul Le Marinel
* Meriwether Lewis
* David Livingstone
* Miguel López de Legazpi
* García Jofre de Loaísa
* Louis-Philippe Loncke
* Duarte Lopez
* Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz

## M

* Alexander Mackenzie
* Eugène Mage
* Ferdinand Magellaan
* Douglas Mawson
* Jan Jacobsz. May van Schellinkhout
* Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira
* Fernão Mendes Pinto
* Thomas Mitchell
* Giovanni da Montecorvino

## N

* Fridtjof Nansen
* Pánfilo de Narváez
* Nearchos
* Marcos de Niza
* Umberto Nobile
* Olivier van Noort
* Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
* Kazimierz Nowak

## O

* Francisco de Orellana
* Ottar (Ohthere)
* John Oxley

## P

* Mungo Park
* William Parry
* Emin Pasha
* Robert Edwin Peary
* Harry St. John Philby
* Johannes van Pian del Carpine
* Filippo Pigafetta
* Zebulon Pike
* Francisco Pizarro
* Gonzalo Pizarro
* Fernão do Pó
* Marco Polo
* Dirck Gerritsz. Pomp
* Odoric van Pordenone
* Gaspar de Portolá
* Panagiotes Potagos
* John Wesley Powell
* Pytheas

## Q

* Pedro Fernandes de Queirós
* Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
* Hernán Pérez de Quesada
* Manuel Quimper

## R

* John Rae
* Walter Raleigh
* Morten Rasch
* Matteo Ricci
* Jan Corneliszoon Rijp
* Erik de Rode
* Jacob Roggeveen
* James Clark Ross
* John Ross
* Willem van Rubroeck

## S

* Georg Schweinfurth
* Robert Falcon Scott
* Scylax
* Francisco Serrão
* Ernest Shackleton
* Pieter-Jan De Smet
* Jedediah Smith
* John Smith
* Hernando de Soto
* John Hanning Speke
* Henry Morton Stanley
* Emile Storms
* Paul Edmund Strzelecki
* John McDouall Stuart
* Charles Sturt
* Otto Sverdrup

## T

* Abel Tasman
* Alexine Tinne
* Luis Váez de Torres
* Nuno Tristão

## U

* Andrés de Urdaneta

## V

* George Vancouver
* Ludovico di Varthema
* Diego Velasquez
* Lieven Van de Velde
* Giovanni da Verrazzano
* Amerigo Vespucci
* Ruy López de Villalobos
* Willem de Vlamingh
* Maarten Gerritszoon Vries

## W

* Peter Warburton
* Robert de Wavrin
* William Wentworth
* Charles Wilkes
* Hugh Willoughby
* William John Wills

## X

* Xuanzang

## Y

* Francis Younghusband

## Z

* João Gonçalves Zarco
* Zhang Qian
* Zheng He