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
 * 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
 * Jeremy Clarkson
 * George Comer
 * Sebastian Copeland
 * Frederick A. Cook
 * James Cook
 * Henry Cookson
 * Augustine Courtauld
 * Albert P. Crary
 * Tom Crean
 * Lars Christensen
 * Andrew Croft
 * Francis Crozier
 * 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
 * John Franklin
 * Peter Freuchen
 * Martin Frobisher
 * Vivian Fuchs
 * Tobias Furneaux
 * Yakov Gakkel
 * Matvei Gedenschtrom
 * Adrien de Gerlache
 * Johann Georg Gmelin
 * Adolphus Greely
 * Pen Hadow
 * Charles Francis Hall
 * Helmer Hanssen
 * Bernhard Hantzsch
 * Sverre Hassel
 * Adrian Hayes
 * Isaac Israel Hayes
 * Samuel Hearne
 * Matthew A. Henson
 * Wally Herbert
 * Alex Hibbert
 * Edmund Hillary
 * John Hornby
 * Andreas Hovgaard
 * Henry Hudson
 * Edward Israel
 * Hjalmar Johansen
 * Antony Jinman
 * Erling Kagge
 * 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
 * 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 Middendorf
 * 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
 * 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
 * Walter Wellman
 * Frank Wild
 * Hubert Wilkins
 * Edward Wilson
 * Oscar Wisting
 * Frank Worsley
 * Ferdinand von Wrangel
 * Nikolai Pinegin