Pirates, Privateers,
Corsairs, Explorers & More

All of the Pirates, Privateers, Corsairs, and Explorers I have compiled biographies for are listed below.

As with everything on this site,
if you find something incorrect or you think someone ought to be added to the list, EMAIL ME and I will do my best to help.

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Name	Born	Died	Title
Lope de Aguirre	1518	1561	Explorer
Hernando de Alarcon	Unknown	16th Century	Explorer
Mansel Alcantra	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
King Alfonso V	1432	1481	Explorer
William Howard Allen	1790	1822	Privateer
Diego de Almagro	1475	1538	Explorer
Pedro de Alvarado	1485	1541	Explorer
Princess Alvilda	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Captain Thomas Anstis	Unknown	1723	Pirate
Louis Michel Aury	1788	1821	Pirate
Pedro Menendez de Aviles	1519	1574	Explorer
William Baffin	Unknown	1622	Explorer
Vasco Nunez de Balboa	1475	1519	Explorer
Captain Balestrier	Unknown	1742	Corsair
Aruj Barbarossa	1473	1518	Corsair
Khair ad Din Barbarossa	1475	1546	Corsair
Willem Barents	1550	1597	Explorer
Sebastian de Belalcazar	1495	1551	Explorer
Samuel Bellamy	Unknown	1717	Pirate
Abraham Blauvelt	Unknown	1663?	Pirate
Stede Bonnet	Unknown	1718	Pirate
Anne Bonny	Unknown	1720	Pirate
George Booth	Unknown	1710	Pirate
Roche Braziliano	1630	1675	Pirate
Etienne Brule	1592	1633	Explorer
Dixie Bull	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Samuel Burgess	1690	1716	Pirate
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca	1490	1557	Explorer
John Cabot	1450	1499	Explorer
Sebastian Cabot	1476	1557	Explorer
Pedro Alvarez Cabral	1467	1520	Explorer
John Callice	Unknown	1587	Pirate
Juan Sebastian del Cano	1476	1526	Explorer
Jacques Cartier	1491	1557	Explorer
Thomas Cavendish	1560	1592	Explorer
Samuel de Champlain	1567	1635	Explorer
Dirk Chivers	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Eric Cobham	Unknown	1760?	Pirate
Maria Cobham	Unknown	1760?	Pirate
Roberto Cofresí	1791	1825	Pirate
Edward Collier	1550	1605	Pirate
Christopher Columbus	1451	1506	Explorer
Claes Gerritszoon Compaen	1587	1660	Privateer
Christopher Condent	Unknown	1770	Pirate
Francisco Ferdinand de Cordoba	1475	1526	Explorer
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado	1510	1554	Explorer
Gaspar & Miguel Corte-Real	1412	1502	Explorer
Hernando Cortez	1485	1547	Explorer
Juan de la Cosa	1460	1510	Explorer
John Coxon	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Robert Culliford	Unknown	June, 1719	Pirate
William Dampier	1652	1715	Privateer
Howell Davis	Unknown	June, 1719	Pirate
John Davis	1550	1605	Explorer
Daniel Defoe	1660	April, 1731	Explorer
Bartolomeu Dias	1450	1500	Explorer
Bernal Diaz del Castillo	1492	1581	Explorer
Juan Diaz de Solis	1470	1516	Explorer
Sir Francis Drake	1540	1596	Privateer
Réné Duguay-Trouin	1673	1736	Privateer
Jean Thomas Dulaien	Unknown	1695	Privateer
Peter Easton	1570(?)	1619(?)	Pirate
James Ferguson	Unknown	1717	Pirate
Martin Fernandez de Encisco	1470	1528	Explorer
Edward England	Unknown	1720	Privateer
Eustace the Monk	1170	1217	Privateer
John Evans	Unknown	1724	Pirate
Henry Every	Unknown	1695	Pirate
Juan Fernandez	1536	1604	Explorer
Martin Frobisher	1535	1595	Explorer
Vasco da Gama	1460	1524	Explorer
José Gaspar (a.k.a. "Gasparilla")	Never	Never	Pirate
Charles Gibbs	Unknown	1831	Pirate
Sir Humphrey Gilbert	1539	1583	Explorer
Nathaniel Gordon	1826	1862	Pirate
Red Legs Greaves	Unkown	1680	Buccaneer
Sir Richard Grenville	1542	1591	Explorer
Juan de Grijalva	1480	1527	Explorer
John Halsey	Unknown	1708	Pirate
John Harrison	1693	1776	Explorer
John Hawkins	1532	1595	Privateer
Jonas Berntsson Lambert-Wenman	1665	1732	Corsair
Henry the Navigator	1394	1460	Explorer
Benjamin Hornigold	Unknown	1719 (?)	Privateer
Henry Hudson	1565	1611	Explorer
Domingo Martinez de Irala	1451	1566	Explorer
Henry Johnson	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Thomas Jones	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
John Julian	Unknown	1733 (?)	Pirate
William Kidd	1645	1701	Pirate
John King	Unknown	1717	Pirate
François l'Olonnais	Unknown	1668	Pirate
Jean Lafitte	Unknown	1821	Pirate
Francois Le Clerc	Unknown	1563	Corsair
Edward Low	Unknown	1724	Pirate
George Lowther	Unknown	1723	Pirate
Ferdinand Magellan	1480	1521	Explorer
David Marteen	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
William May	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Captain Christopher Mings	Unknown	1666	Pirate
Henry Morgan	1635	1688	Pirate
Luis de Moscoso Alvarado	1505	1551	Explorer
Panfilo de Narváez	1478	1528	Explorer
Jean David Nau	Unknown	1668	Pirate
Noland Richard	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Nathaniel North	Unknown	1707	Pirate
John Nutt	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Alonso de Ojeda	1465	1515	Explorer
Grace O'Malley	1530	Unknown	Pirate
Juan de Oñate	1550	1630	Explorer
Francisco de Orellana	1490	1546	Explorer
Robert Ossian (a.k.a. "Pirate King")	Unknown	Never!	Explorer
William Parker	Unknown	1617	Pirate
Martin Alonso Pinzón	1565	1611	Explorer
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón	1463	1514	Explorer
Francisco Pizarro	1475	1541	Explorer
Marco Polo	1254	1323 (?)	Explorer
Juan Ponce de Leon	1460	1521	Explorer
Lawrence Prince	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesado	1509	1579	Explorer
Hendrick Quintor	Unknown	1717	Pirate
Calico Jack Rackham	Unknown	1720	Pirate
Sir Walter Raleigh	1554	1618	Privateer
Mary Read	Unknown	1720	Pirate
Manuel Pardal Rivero	Unknown	1670	Privateer
Joseph Rivers	Unknown	1717	Pirate
Bartholomew Roberts	Unknown	1723	Pirate
Woodes Rogers	1679(?)	1732	Privateer
Cheng I Sao (a.k.a. Ching Shih)	1775	1844	Pirate
Elizabeth Shirland	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Simon Simonson	Unknown	1609	Pirate
Hernando de Soto	1496 (?)	1542	Explorer
Francis Spriggs	Unknown	1725 (?)	Explorer
Klaus Störtebeker	1360	1401	Privateer
Ralph Stout	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Gertrude Imogene Stubbs	1879	1921	Pirate
Edward Teach (a.k.a. "Blackbeard")	Unknown	1718	Pirate
Guillame Le Testu	1509	1572	Pirate
Thomas Tew	Unknown	1695	Pirate
Pedro de Valdivia	1498	1554	Explorer
Charles Vane	Unknown	1719	Pirate
Diego Velasquez de Cuellar	1465	1524	Explorer
Giovanni da Verrazano	1485	1528	Explorer
Amerigo Vespucci	1454	1512	Explorer
Sebastian Vizcaino	1550	1615	Explorer
Rachel Wall	Unknown	1789	Pirate
Welser Family	15th Century	17th Century	Explorer
Godeke Wessels	Unknown	1402	Privateer
Palgrave Williams	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Richard Worley	Unknown	1718	Pirate
John Yeates	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate

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Pirates, Privateers,Corsairs, Explorers & More

All of the Pirates, Privateers, Corsairs, and Explorers I have compiled biographies for are listed below. As with everything on this site,if you find something incorrect or you think someone ought to be added to the list, EMAIL ME and I will do my best to help.

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Pirates, Privateers,
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All of the Pirates, Privateers, Corsairs, and Explorers I have compiled biographies for are listed below.

As with everything on this site,
if you find something incorrect or you think someone ought to be added to the list, EMAIL ME and I will do my best to help.