List of polar explorers

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
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 Hovgaard
Henry Hudson
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 Middendorf
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
Paul Siple
Mikhail Somov
Pavel Senko
Mikhail Stadukhin
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Will Steger
Otto Sverdrup
Robert Swan
Eduard Toll
Beverley Thomas
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
See also
List of Russian explorers
List of female explorers and travelers
References
History-related lists
Geography-related lists
Antarctica-related lists