Biographies of Pirates, Privateers and Explorers

Pirates, Privateers, Corsairs, Explorers & More

The names of all of the Pirates, Privateers, Corsairs and Explorers that I have compiled biographies for so far are all listed for you below. Feel free to sort the columns to help find the biography you need. Clicking on someone's name will take you to that person's biography...

As with everything on this site:
if you find something that you think is wrong, needs correcting, or are just looking for information on someone who is not listed here, please take a moment to EMAIL ME and let me know and I will do my best to get them added to the list.

Name	Born	Died	Title
Lope de Aguirre	c. 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	c. 1485	1541	Explorer
Princess Alvilda (fictional?)	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	c. 1742	Corsair
Aruj Barbarossa	c. 1473	1518	Corsair
Khair ad Din Barbarossa	c. 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	c. 1710	Pirate
Roche Braziliano	c. 1630	c. 1675	Pirate
Etienne Brule	c. 1592	1633	Explorer
Dixie Bull	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Samuel Burgess	1690	1716	Pirate
Alvar Nu�ez Cabeza de Vaca	c. 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 Cofres�	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	c. 1492	c. 1581	Explorer
Juan Diaz de Solis	1470	1516	Explorer
Sir Francis Drake	c. 1540	1596	Privateer
R�n� 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	c. 1170	1217	Privateer
John Evans	Unknown	1724	Pirate
Henry Every	Unknown	1695	Pirate
Juan Fernandez	c. 1536	1604	Explorer
Martin Frobisher	1535	1595	Explorer
Vasco da Gama	1460	1524	Explorer
Jos� Gaspar (a.k.a. "Gasparilla")	Never	Never	Pirate
Gasparilla (a.k.a. "Jos� Gaspar")	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	c. 1665	c. 1732	Corsair
Henry the Navigator	1394	1460	Explorer
Benjamin Hornigold	Unknown	1719 (?)	Privateer
Henry Hudson	c. 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
Fran�ois 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	c. 1635	1688	Pirate
Luis de Moscoso Alvarado	1505	1551	Explorer
Panfilo de Narv�ez	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	c. 1465	1515	Explorer
Grace O'Malley	c. 1530	Unknown	Pirate
Juan de O�ate	c. 1550	1630	Explorer
Francisco de Orellana	c. 1490	1546	Explorer
Robert Ossian (a.k.a. "Pirate King")	Unknown	Never!	Explorer
William Parker	Unknown	1617	Pirate
Martin Alonso Pinz�n	c. 1565	1611	Explorer
Vicente Y��ez Pinz�n	1463	1514	Explorer
Francisco Pizarro	c. 1475	1541	Explorer
Marco Polo	1254	1323 (?)	Explorer
Juan Ponce de Leon	1460	1521	Explorer
Lawrence Prince	Unknown	Unknown	Pirate
Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesado	c. 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	c. 1496 (?)	1542	Explorer
Francis Spriggs	Unknown	c. 1725 (?)	Explorer
Klaus St�rtebeker	c. 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	c. 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	c.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

Pirates, Privateers, Corsairs, Explorers & More

The names of all of the Pirates, Privateers, Corsairs and Explorers that I have compiled biographies for so far are all listed for you below. Feel free to sort the columns to help find the biography you need. Clicking on someone's name will take you to that person's biography...

As with everything on this site: if you find something that you think is wrong, needs correcting, or are just looking for information on someone who is not listed here, please take a moment to EMAIL ME and let me know and I will do my best to get them added to the list.

Name

Born

Died

Title

c. 1518

1561

Explorer

Unknown

16th Century

Explorer

Unknown

Unknown

Pirate

1432

1481

Explorer

1790

1822

Privateer

1475

1538

Explorer

c. 1485

1541

Explorer

Princess Alvilda (fictional?)

Unknown

Unknown

Pirate

Unknown

1723

Pirate

1788

1821

Pirate

1519

1574

Explorer

Unknown

1622

Explorer

1475

1519

Explorer

Unknown

c. 1742

Corsair

c. 1473

1518

Corsair

c. 1475

1546

Corsair

1550

1597

Explorer

1495

1551

Explorer

Unknown

1717

Pirate

Unknown

1663?

Pirate

Unknown

1718

Pirate

Unknown

1720

Pirate

Unknown

c. 1710

Pirate

c. 1630

c. 1675

Pirate

As with everything on this site:
if you find something that you think is wrong, needs correcting, or are just looking for information on someone who is not listed here, please take a moment to EMAIL ME and let me know and I will do my best to get them added to the list.