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
• Mark Agnew
• Stian Aker
• Valerian Albanov
• Roald Amundsen
• Salomon August Andrée
• Piotr Fyodorovich Anjou
• Henryk Arctowski
• Josée Auclair
• Mikhail Babushkin
• Konstantin Badygin
• Karl Baer
• Georgiy Baidukov
• John Balleny
• 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
• George Comer
• Sebastian Copeland
• Frederick A. Cook
• James Cook
• Henry Cookson
• Augustine Courtauld
• Albert P. Crary
• Tom Crean
• Lars Christensen
• Jeremy Clarkson
• Andrew Croft
• Francis Crozier
• Christian Dahl
• Eduard Dallmann
• Émile Danco
• 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
• Wilhelm Filchner
• John Franklin
• Peter Freuchen
• Martin Frobisher
• Vivian Fuchs
• Tobias Furneaux
• Yakov Gakkel
• Leo Gburek
• Matvei Gedenschtrom
• Adrien de Gerlache
• Johann Georg Gmelin
• Adolphus Greely
• Pen Hadow
• Charles Francis Hall
• Richard Hammond
• Helmer Hanssen
• Bernhard Hantzsch
• Sverre Hassel
• Isaac Israel Hayes
• Samuel Hearne
• Matthew A. Henson
• Wally Herbert
• Alex Hibbert
• Edmund Hillary
• John Hornby
• Andreas Peter Hovgaard
• Henry Hudson
• John Huston
• Edward Israel
• Hjalmar Johansen
• Antony Jinman
• Erling Kagge
• Evald Kallstenius
• 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
• Fritz Loewe
• 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 von Middendorff
• 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
• Nikolai Pinegin
• 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
• Ivan Simonov
• Paul Siple
• Mikhail Somov
• Pavel Senko
• Mikhail Stadukhin
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson
• Will Steger
• Otto Sverdrup
• Robert Swan
• Eduard Toll
• 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
• Alfred Wegener
• 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