| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Buzz Aldrin |
Astronaut |
20-Jan-1930 |
|
Second man on the Moon |
| Neil Armstrong |
Astronaut |
5-Aug-1930 |
25-Aug-2012 |
First man on the Moon |
| Isaac Asimov |
Author |
2-Jan-1920 |
6-Apr-1992 |
Foundation |
| Hiram Bingham |
Politician |
19-Nov-1875 |
6-Jun-1956 |
US Senator, discovered Machu Picchu |
| Ben Bova |
Author |
28-Nov-1932 |
|
Science fiction writer |
| Charles F. Brush III |
Archaeologist |
3-Apr-1923 |
1-Jun-2006 |
Explorers Club president 1978-81 |
| James Cameron |
Film Director |
16-Aug-1954 |
|
Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar |
| Jacques Cousteau |
Activist |
11-Jun-1910 |
25-Jun-1997 |
Oceanographer, environmentalist |
| Charles Duke |
Astronaut |
3-Oct-1935 |
|
10th to walk on the Moon |
| George Eastman |
Inventor |
12-Jul-1854 |
14-Mar-1932 |
Inventor of the Kodak camera |
| Ranulph Fiennes |
Explorer |
7-Mar-1944 |
|
World explorer |
| Jack Fletcher |
Photographer |
1917 |
31-Dec-2003 |
National Geographic photographer |
| Malcolm Forbes |
Business |
19-Aug-1919 |
24-Feb-1990 |
Forbes publisher, Faberge collector |
| Steve Fossett |
Aviator |
22-Apr-1944 |
3-Sep-2007 |
First to cross Pacific in a balloon |
| Jim Fowler |
Naturalist |
9-Apr-1932 |
|
Did all the work on Wild Kingdom |
| Murray Gell-Mann |
Physicist |
15-Sep-1929 |
|
Quarks and strangeness |
| J. Paul Getty, Sr. |
Business |
15-Dec-1892 |
6-Jun-1976 |
Founder of Getty Oil Company |
| John Glenn |
Astronaut |
18-Jul-1921 |
|
First American to orbit earth |
| Arthur Godfrey |
Actor |
31-Aug-1903 |
16-Mar-1983 |
Arthur Godfrey and His Friends |
| Barry Goldwater |
Politician |
1-Jan-1909 |
29-May-1998 |
US Senator from Arizona, 1953-65, 1969-87 |
| Jane Goodall |
Naturalist |
3-Apr-1934 |
|
Primate researcher |
| Thor Heyerdahl |
Explorer |
6-Oct-1914 |
18-Apr-2002 |
Kon-Tiki |
| Edmund Hillary |
Explorer |
20-Jul-1919 |
11-Jan-2008 |
First to summit Mt. Everest |
| L. Ron Hubbard |
Religion |
13-Mar-1911 |
24-Jan-1986 |
Perpetrated Dianetics, Scientology |
| Alfred Kohlberg |
Business |
27-Jan-1887 |
7-Apr-1960 |
The China Lobby Man |
| Richard Leakey |
Anthropologist |
19-Dec-1944 |
|
Excavated Koobi Fora |
| Charles Lindbergh |
Aviator |
4-Feb-1902 |
26-Aug-1974 |
Transatlantic soloist |
| Tenzing Norgay |
Explorer |
15-May-1914 |
9-May-1986 |
With Edmund Hilllary on Everest |
| Scott E. Parazynski |
Astronaut |
28-Jul-1961 |
|
Shuttle astronaut, summited Everest |
| Robert E. Peary |
Explorer |
6-May-1856 |
20-Feb-1920 |
First to reach the North Pole |
| Andrew Revkin |
Journalist |
c. 1956 |
|
New York Times science reporter |
| Sally Ride |
Astronaut |
26-May-1951 |
23-Jul-2012 |
First American woman in space |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
Head of State |
27-Oct-1858 |
6-Jan-1919 |
26th US President, 1901-09 |
| Carl Safina |
Author |
23-May-1955 |
|
Song for the Blue Ocean |
| Thomas P. Stafford |
Astronaut |
17-Sep-1930 |
|
Gemini 6 & 9, Apollo 10, Apollo-Soyuz |
| Kathryn D. Sullivan |
Astronaut |
3-Oct-1951 |
|
Columbus Center for Science and Industry |
| James V. Taranik |
Geologist |
23-Apr-1940 |
21-Jun-2011 |
Desert Research Institute |
| Norman Thagard |
Astronaut |
3-Jul-1943 |
|
Shuttle astronaut |
