Category
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Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador
Juan Ponce de León
Spanish explorer and conquistador
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador
Pedro de Valdivia
Spanish conquistador, first royal governor of Chile (1497–1553)
Pedro de Alvarado
Spanish conquistador, explorer and condottiero

Miguel López de Legazpi
16th-century Spanish conquistador, navigator, and colonial governor

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Spanish explorer of the American southwest

Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Portuguese or Spanish explorer

Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar
Spanish governor of Cuba

Alonso de Ojeda
Spanish navigator and governor
Bernal Díaz del Brawl
Spanish conquistador

Pánfilo de Narváez
Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas
Juan de Grijalva
Spanish conquistador (1490-1527)

Pedro de Mendoza
Spanish conquistador

Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
founder of Bogotá

Juan de la Cosa
Basque navigator from Castile,
Lope de Aguirre
Basque Spanish conquistador
Francisco Hernández de Cordoba
conquistador, explorer
Sebastián de Belalcázar
Spanish conquistador
Pedro Arias Dávila
Royal Governor of Panama (c.1440-1531)
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba Brito del Socorro y Nazareno
Spanish conquistador

Inés Suárez
Spanish conquistador and soldier

Cristóbal de Olid
Spanish conquistador
Antonio
Basque explorer, adventurer, soldier, explorer, memorialist, authorized by Pope Urban VIII to dress like a man
Francisco de Bobadilla
Spanish conquistador and colonial governor
Álvaro de Saavedra
Spanish Conquistador
Francisco de Montejo y León
Spanish conquistador
Juan de Salcedo
Spanish conquistador
Juan de Oñate
Spanish Conquistador, explorer, and colonial governor
Diego de Almagro II
son of Spanish conquistador Diego de Almagro
Domingo Martínez de Irala
Spanish conquistador
Pedro de Ursúa
Spanish conquistador
García López de Cárdenas
Spanish explorer, the first European to see the Grand Canyon

Estevanico
Estevanico (–1539), Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first African and person to explore North America and one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition.
Gil González Dávila
Spanish colonial governor
Juan de Ayolas
Spanish conquistador and explorer
Alonso Fernández de Lugo
Andalusian military man and administrator
Francisco de Carvajal
Spanish general and conquistador
Francisco de Aguirre
Spanish conquistador
Alonso de Alvarado
Spanish conquistador
Diego de Nicuesa
Spanish governor of Panama (1464-1511)
Francisco de Villagra
Royal Governor of Chile
Juan de Esquivel
Spanish explorer
Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera
Spanish conquistador
Nuño de Guzmán
Spanish conqueror
Francisco Roldán
Spanish conquistador

Melchor Bravo de Saravia
Royal Governor of Chile
Rodrigo de Quiroga
Galician-Spanish conquistador general
Martín de Ursúa
Spanish conquistador
Martin de Goiti
Spanish conquistador
Jorge Robledo
Spanish conquistador
María de Estrada
Spanish conqueror
Diego de Rojas
Spanish conquistador
Tristán de Luna y Arellano
Spanish conquistador
Diego de Losada
Spanish explorer
Pedro Pizarro
Spanish conquistador and chronicler

Gaspar de Espinosa
conquistador
Bartolomé Ruiz
Spanish conquistador (1482-1532)
Francisco Fajardo
Spanish conquistador
Alonso de Camargo
Spanish sailor