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Robert Falcon Scott
Royal Navy officer and explorer (1868–1912)
Bear Grylls
English adventurer, writer and television presenter (born 1974)
Matthew Flinders
English navigator and cartographer (1774-1814)
George Mallory
English mountaineer (1886-1924)
John Hanning Speke
British military officer and explorer (1827–1864)
Henry Walter Bates
English naturalist and explorer (1825–1892)
Mary Kingsley
British ethnographer, scientific writer and explorer (1862–1900)
Percy Fawcett
British explorer, anthropologist and archaeologist (1867–1925)
Lawrence Oates
British explorer (1880-1912)
Samuel Baker
British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist (1821–1893)
Andrew Comyn Irvine
English mountaineer (1902–1924)
Edward John Eyre
British explorer and colonial administrator (1815–1901)
Clements Markham
British geographer (1830-1916)
Ranulph Fiennes
British explorer (born 1944)
William John Burchell
British scientist (1781-1863)
Frank Wild
British Antarctica explorer (1873-1939)
Tobias Furneaux
Royal Navy officer and explorer (1735-1781)
John Byron
British Royal Navy officer and politician; (1723-1786)
St John Philby
English Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence officer (1885–1960)
Boyd Alexander
British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist (1873-1910)
Verney Lovett Cameron
traveller from England (1844–1894)
Ed Stafford
English explorer (born 1975)
Richard Spruce
British botanist and explorer (1817–1893)
Tim Severin
British explorer, historian, writer (1940-2020)
Thomas Griffith Taylor
British geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. (1880–1963)
Thomas Baines
British expedition artist (1820-1875)
Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave
British explorer (1744-1792)
Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans
Royal Navy admiral (1881–1957)
Frederick Selous
British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist (1851–1917)
Alfred Maudslay
British explorer and scholar (1850–1931)
Thomas Edward Bowdich
English traveller and author (1791-1824)
Anthony de la Roché
English explorer
Gregory Blaxland
English explorer and pastoralist in New South Wales, Australia (1778-1853)
Eric Shipton
British explorer (1907–1977)
Valentine Baker
British soldier (1827–1887)
Percy Sykes
British general, diplomat and scholar (1867–1945)
Frederick George Jackson
British polar explorer (1860–1938)
William John Wills
British surveyor (1834–1861)
Ernest Joyce
Royal Naval seaman and explorer (1875–1940)
William Gifford Palgrave
British Arabic scholar (1826–1888)
Peter Egerton-Warburton
British military officer, Commissioner of Police for South Australia and Australian explorer (1813–1889)
John Whitehead
English explorer and naturalist (1860–1899)
Jane Franklin
British explorer and philanthropist (1791–1875)
Spencer Le Marchant Moore
British botanist (1850-1931)
George Murray Levick
Antarctic explorer, and founder of the British Schools Exploring Society
Edward L. Atkinson
Royal Navy surgeon and Antarctic explorer (1881-1929)
Tahir Shah
British journalist and documentary filmmaker
Rosita Forbes
British writer and explorer
Claude Reignier Conder
British Army officer (1848–1910)
Arnold Henry Savage Landor
English painter, explorer, writer, and anthropologist
John Davis
American sailor and seal hunter
Sherard Osborn
British Royal Navy admiral (1822-1875)
George French Angas
English explorer, naturalist and painter who emigrated to Australia and became a museum director (1822-1886)
Leonard Hussey
British explorer (1891–1964)
Bertram Thomas
Civil servant and explorer (1892–1950)
John Fearn
British explorer
Alan Hinkes
British Himalayan mountaineer
John Gilbert
English naturalist and explorer (1812-1845)
Alfred Cheetham
Antarctic explorer (1867–1918)
Charles Granville Bruce
British mountain climber