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page 116th-century Portuguese explorers
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Portuguese military commander and explorer (c.1467/8 – c.1521)
Afonso de Albuquerque
Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman (1453–1515)
Francisco de Almeida
Portuguese nobleman and soldier
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Portuguese or Spanish explorer
Juan Díaz de Solís
16th Century navigator and explorer
Tristão da Cunha
Portuguese explorer and diplomat
Fernão Mendes Pinto
Portuguese explorer and writer (1509–1583)
Pêro da Covilhã
Portuguese explorer and diplomat
Pedro Mascarenhas
Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator
João de Nóvoa
Galician explorer, Navigator and Politician
Gaspar Corte-Real
Portuguese explorer
Duarte Barbosa
Portuguese explorer and writer (1480–1521)
António de Abreu
Portuguese explorer
Jorge Álvares
Portuguese explorer
Tomé Pires
Portuguese apothecary and diplomat
Francisco Serrão
Portuguese explorer
Fernão de Noronha
16th-century Portuguese merchant of Lisbon
Lourenço Marques
Portuguese explorer
Estêvão Gomes
Portuguese cartographer and explorer (c. 1483–1538)
Cristóvão da Gama
Portuguese soldier in Ethiopia
Gonçalo Coelho
Portuguese explorer
João de Castro
Portuguese explorer
Diogo Lopes de Sequeira
Governor of Portuguese India
Martim Afonso de Sousa
Portuguese explorer
Lourenço de Almeida
Portuguese explorer
Paulo Dias de Novais
Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator
Nicolau Coelho
Portuguese navigator and explorer (1460-1504)
Jorge de Menezes
Portuguese explorer
Filipe de Brito e Nicote
adventurer, mercenary, and Governor of Syriam (1605-1613)
Miguel Corte-Real
Portuguese explorer
Francisco Álvares
16th century Portuguese missionary and explorer
Diogo Rodrigues
Portuguese explorer
Aleixo Garcia
Portuguese explorer
Fernão Pires de Andrade
Portuguese merchant/pharmacist/diplomat
Diogo de Azambuja
Portuguese explorer
António de Saldanha
Portuguese explorer and diplomat
Duarte Fernandes
Portuguese explorer
João Álvares Fagundes
Portuguese explorer
Francisco Barreto
Portuguese colonial governor
Nuno da Cunha
Portuguese colonial administrator
Rui de Sequeira
Portuguese sailor and navigator
Jean Alfonse
Navigator, explorer and corsair
Caramuru
Caramuru (-1557) was the Tupi name of the Portuguese colonist Diogo Álvares Correia, who is notable for being the first European to establish contact with the native Tupinambá population in modern-day Brazil and was instrumental in the early colonization of Brazil by the Portuguese crown. Notably, Caramuru's native-born wife, Catarina Paraguaçu, was the first South American native to be received in France in 1526. He and Catarina became the first Christian family in Brazil and had three children: Gaspar, Gabriel and Jorge, all named knights by Tomé de Sousa.
Duarte Coelho
Portuguese colonial administsrator
João Serrão
Portuguese pilot and captain and Spanish explorer
António da Madalena
Portuguese explorer
João Ramalho
Portuguese explorer (1493-1580)
Jorge Cabral
ruler of Portuguese India as governor
Gabriel Soares de Souza
Portuguese botanist (1540-1592)
Rafael Perestrello
Portuguese explorer
Gonçalo Álvares
Portuguese explorer
Diogo Soares
Portuguese explorer (...-1553)
Domingo Paes
Portuguese explorer
Cristóvão Jacques
Portuguese explorer
António Galvão
Portuguese administrator and historian
João de Lisboa
Portuguese explorer (c.1470 – 1525)
Cristóvão de Mendonça
Portuguese explorer
Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho
(27 March 1560-c. 1602)
Fernão Nunes
Portuguese explorer