Holy Land travellers

American author and humorist (1835–1910)

Moses ben Maimon (died 12 December 1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. Originally from Córdoba, where he was born on Passover Eve of 1135 or 1138, his family was exiled from Muslim-ruled Spain when they refused to convert to Islam shortly after the Almohad Caliphate conquered the Almoravid dynasty in 1148. Over the course of the next two decades, Maimonides resided in Fez, Acre, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Cairo

Jerome (; ; ; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.

French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)

andalusian geographer (1100–1165)

Turkish traveler and writer (1611–1682)

British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)

French writer (1850-1923)

11th-century Persian Isma'ili poet, scholar, philosopher, and missionary

Jewish explorer and writer

Swiss traveller and writer (1784-1817)

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr, commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi or al-Muqaddasī,, meaning Jerusalemite, was a medieval Arab geographer, author of The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions and Description of Syria (Including Palestine).

Scottish painter (1796–1864)

American biblical scholar (1794-1863)

Western Roman Christian woman, widely regarded to be the author of a detailed account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land about 381/2–384

United States poet, novelist and travel writer (1825-1878)

Czech theologian, orientalist and explorer (1868–1944)

Spanish composer of the Renaissance

Willibald (; c. 700 – c.787) was an 8th-century bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria.

German physician, naturalist, explorer and orientalist (1767-1811)

English clergyman, Biblical scholar, traveller and ornithologist (1822-1906)

German clergyman and cartographer

French traveler and historian (1821–1891)

Czech rabbi

British orientalist (1840-1882)

Austrian poet and writer (1810–1894)

German traveler and author (1471–1505)

Swiss theologian

English artist (1809-1854)

British canoeist (1825-1892)

British politician (1786-1855)

Czech traveller, composer and writer (1564-1621)

American journalist (1821-1875)

Eastern Orthodox abbot

German painter, illustrator and architect (1848-1904)

14th century Jewish physician, topographer, and traveler

German heraldist and pilgrim to Jerusalem

unidentified Christian pilgrim

Romanian historian (1818–1864)

Russian bishop (1804–1885)

Arculf was a Frankish churchman who toured the Holy Land around 670. Bede claimed he was a bishop from Gaul (). According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (V, 15), Arculf was shipwrecked on the shore of Iona on his return from his pilgrimage. He was hospitably received by Adomnán, the abbot of the island monastery from 679 to 704, to whom he gave a detailed narrative of his travels. Adomnán, with aid from some further sources, was able to produce De Locis Sanctis ("on the sacred places"), a descriptive work in three books dealing with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, other sites in

Scottish Presbyterian minister and author

lord of Caumont, Castelnau, Castelculier and Berbiguières, has left written accounts of his pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela and Jerusalem, and a book for his children

French priest (1825-1907)

Italian merchant, author and reisender

German author

thumb|Illuminated manuscript depicting city map of Jerusalem under Crusader control, 1200s. Sæwulf ( ; 1102 – 1103) was probably the first English (Anglo-Saxon) pilgrim to Jerusalem following its conquest in the First Crusade. His Latin written account of his pilgrimage, Relatio de situ Ierusalem , tells of an arduous and dangerous journey; and Sæwulf's descriptive narrative provides scholars brief but significant insight into sea travel across the Mediterranean to the new Kingdom of Jerusalem that was established soon after the end of the First Crusade.

Irish Presbyterian minister, missionary and traveller

Franciscan

ninth-century Frankish monk

Italian architect