This is a list of notable travelers, consisting of people that are known for their travels or explorations. Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations, and can involve travel by foot, bicycle, automobile, train, boat, airplane, or other means and can be one way or round trip.[1][2] Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements.
Bodhisena – Tamil Indian Buddhist scholar and monk who traveled to Japan and established the Kegon school. He first went to China, and later he traveled to Japan via Cambodia and Vietnam.
Guru Nanak Sahib – the founder of Sikh faith, who was born in the northern part of undivided India in 1469 ad. travelled across all of South Asia (India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan), China and Middle East (Mecca, Iraq, Turkey). He even visited Vatican City (Rome). His goal was to spread the message of peace. He is believed to have received a word directly from God in 1499 after which he embarked on these journeys. He is believed to have travelled more than 28,000 km in five major tours of the world during the period from 1500 to 1524.
Tania Aebi – completed a solo circumnavigation of the Earth in a 26-foot sailboat between the ages of 18 and 21, starting in May 1985, making her the first American woman and the youngest person (at the time) to sail around the world.[3]
Abu Salim al-Ayyashi – (1628–1679) was a well-known travel writer, poet and scholar from Morocco. He wrote a two volume rihla about his journeys: Ma al-Mawaid (Table Water).
Francis Arundell – toured in exploration of Asia Minor in March to September 1826, and ventured again in 1833 upon another tour of 1,000 miles through districts the greater part of which had hitherto not been described by any European traveller, when he made an especial study of the ruins of Antioch in Pisidia. Two volumes describing these discoveries were published in 1834.
Jean Batten – became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world. She made the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.
Ibn Battuta – a medieval Moroccan Muslim traveler and scholar, who is widely recognised as one of the greatest travelers of all time.[4][5] He is known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in The Rihla (lit. "Journey").
Benjamin of Tudela – a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe, Asia, and Africa in the 12th century. His vivid descriptions of western Asia preceded those of Marco Polo by a hundred years. With his broad education and vast knowledge of languages, Benjamin of Tudela is a major figure in medieval geography and Jewish history.
Nancy Bird Walton – a pioneering Australian aviator, and was the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots' Association
William Eleroy Curtis – an American journalist and diplomat who promoted Pan-Americanism, publishing many popular novels and articles with his observations of South America, Asia, and Europe.[8]
Zechariah Dhahiri – wrote extensively about his travels and experiences in many travel places, publishing them in a book which he called, Sefer Ha-Mūsar (The Book of Moral Instruction).
Eva Dickson – a Swedish explorer, rally driver, aviator and travel writer. She was the first woman to have crossed the Sahara desert by car.
Rose de Freycinet – a Frenchwoman who, in the company of her husband, Louis de Freycinet, sailed around the world between 1817 and 1820 on a French scientific expedition on a military ship, initially disguised as a man.
Isabel Godin des Odonais – an 18th-century woman who became separated from her husband in South America by colonial politics, and was not reunited with him until more than 20 years later. Her long journey, from western Peru to the mouth of the Amazon River, is without equal in the history of South America.
Sascha Grabow – a German author, traveler, photographer and former ATP tennis player
Margaretha Heijkenskjöld – a Swedish traveler and a dress reformer. She attracted a lot of attention from her contemporaries by her journeys.
Gunther Holtorf – a German traveler who, often in company of his wife Christine, journeyed across the world in his G-WagenMercedes-Benz named "Otto", visiting 179 countries in 26 years.[10]
John Henry Mears – set the record for the fastest trip around the world both in 1913 and 1928. He was also a Broadway producer. On 2 July 1913, he left New York City on the RMS Mauretania, then traveled by a combination of steamers, yachts, and trains to circumnavigate the Earth and reach New York City again on 6 August 1913. He had an elapsed time of 35 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes, 18 and four-fifths seconds.
Alma Maximiliana Karlin – an Austro-Hungarian – Yugoslavian (now Slovene) traveler from Celje, writer, poet, ethnographer, collector, polyglot and theosophist who travelled the world for 8 years. She started her travel in 24 November 1919 and finished it in January 1928, earning all the money by herself while traveling, by publishing travelogues in newspapers, publishing numerous books (might be more than 22 books published altogether), teaching languages to people, traducing and so on. She mastered 10 languages and she obtained a degree of excellence from 8 foreign languages at Society of Arts in London. She wrote her own dictionary of 10 languages which helped her on her travel around the world.
Waclaw Korabiewicz – a Polish reporter, poet, traveler, collector of ethnographic exhibits
Vyacheslav Krasko – a Russian traveler, manager and professional financier with a PhD Economics.[12] Krasko is a member of the Union of the Russian Around-the-World Travelers.
Lyuba Kutincheva (1910–1998), a female Bulgarian traveler and polyglot who traveled for almost a decade (1929–1938) through the Middle East, Far East, northern Africa and Europe.[13]
Vladimir Lysenko – Between September 1997 and 2002, Lysenko crossed 62 countries by car. He crossed each continent (other than Antarctica) twice, traveling between the most distant points of each continent in both latitude and longitude.
Peter Mundy – a seventeenth-century British merchant trader, traveller and writer. He was the first Briton to record, in his Itinerarium Mundi ('Itinerary of the World'), tasting Chaa (tea) in China and travelled extensively in Asia, Russia and Europe.[15]
Ida Laura Pfeiffer – Austrian explorer, travel writer, and ethnographer. She was one of the first female travelers and her bestselling journals were translated into seven languages.
Jovan Rajić – a Serbian writer, historian, traveller, and pedagogue
Christoph Rehage - walked from Beijing to Urumqi and made a viral video about it on YouTube
Matas Šalčius – a Lithuanian traveler, journalist, writer and political figure
Rahul Sankrityayan – a known polymath and polyglot who travelled different parts of the world. He wrote over 100 books on different subjects and had knowledge of about 35 languages.
Sam Sloan – a chess organizer and player who has visited 78 countries in his work
Lady Hester Stanhope – a British socialite, adventurer and traveler. Her archaeological expedition to Ashkelon in 1815 is considered the first modern excavation in the history of Holy Land archeology.
Marten Douwes Teenstra – (17 September 1795 – 29 October 1864) Dutch writer and traveller in South Africa and the Dutch East Indies. The account of his stay at the Cape from 12 March to 7 July 1825, De vruchten mijner werkzaamheden (fruits of my labours), was a thorough description of his trip, rich in interesting detail of the personalities and places he came across, and thoughtful commentary on the social, political and economic life of the Cape colony.
Barbara Toy – most famous for the series of books she wrote about her pioneering and solitary travels around the world in a Land Rover, undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s.
Wiebe Wakker – holds the world record for completing the longest ever electric car trip in the world covering a distance of about 95,000 km and visiting 33 countries.[17]
Xuanzang - 7th-century Chinese monk who made a seventeen year overland journey to India, returning to China with a caravan of Buddhist texts and later wrote an influential and historically significant record of his travels.
^Nehru, Jawaharlal (1989). Glimpses of World History. Oxford University Press. p. 752. ISBN0-19-561323-6. After outlining the extensive route of Ibn Battuta's Journey, Nehru notes: "This is a record of travel which is rare enough today with our many conveniences.... In any event, Ibn Battuta must be amongst the great travellers of all time."
^Coates, Benjamin (January 2014). "The Pan-American Lobbyist". Diplomatic History. 38 (1): 22–48. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
^(in Italian)Da Torino a Pechino a Gpl. Ecomobile (n. 77, August 2008), pp. 12–13.
^Mulvey, Stephen (9 October 2014). "Gunther, Christine and Otto". BBC News.
^La vita, et sito de Zychi, chiamati Ciarcassi, Historia notabile, Venezia, Aldo Manuzio, 1502, Italian Wikisource
^Grosheva, Olga (8 November 2012). "Туроператор "Новый век" пополнил ряды банкротов" [Tour operator "Novy Vek" joined the ranks of bankrupts] (in Russian). Kommersant. from the original on 3 March 2016.
^Борисов, Теодор (23 April 2020). "Мистериозната авантюристка Люба Кутинчева". Българска история (in Bulgarian).
^"Gift of rare manuscript celebrates openingof George W. Bush Presidential Center - SMU". www.smu.edu. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
^Peter Mundy, Merchant Adventurer, Ed. R E Pritchard, 2011, Bodleian Library, Oxford
^St. John, James Augustus (1831). "Jean-Baptiste Tavernier". The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, (Volume 1). H. Colburn and R. Bently. pp. 167–191.
^Majendie, Matt (22 March 2019). "Electric traveler travels 90,000km in three years relying on strangers to pay his way". CNN.
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This is a list of notable travelers consisting of people that are known for their travels or explorations Travel is the movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations and can involve travel by foot bicycle automobile train boat airplane or other means and can be one way or round trip 1 2 Travel can also include relatively short stays between successive movements A statue dedicated to the traveler in Oviedo Spain Contents 1 Travelers 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksTravelers editThis is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources nbsp Jean Batten in 1937 Aleko Konstantinov a cosmopolitan traveler was the first Bulgarian to write about his visits to Western Europe and America His visits to the World Exhibitions of Exposition Universelle 1889 in Paris General Land Centennial Exhibition 1891 in Prague and World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 including a visit to Niagara Falls provided Bulgarian readers who had recently gained independence from nearly 500 years of oppression by the Ottoman Empire with a portrait of the developed world Giacomo Casanova Italian adventurer and author Bodhisena Tamil Indian Buddhist scholar and monk who traveled to Japan and established the Kegon school He first went to China and later he traveled to Japan via Cambodia and Vietnam Guru Nanak Sahib the founder of Sikh faith who was born in the northern part of undivided India in 1469 ad travelled across all of South Asia India Nepal Sri Lanka Afghanistan China and Middle East Mecca Iraq Turkey He even visited Vatican City Rome His goal was to spread the message of peace He is believed to have received a word directly from God in 1499 after which he embarked on these journeys He is believed to have travelled more than 28 000 km in five major tours of the world during the period from 1500 to 1524 Tania Aebi completed a solo circumnavigation of the Earth in a 26 foot sailboat between the ages of 18 and 21 starting in May 1985 making her the first American woman and the youngest person at the time to sail around the world 3 Dominick Arduin a Frenchwoman who disappeared in her attempt to ski to the North Pole Abu Salim al Ayyashi 1628 1679 was a well known travel writer poet and scholar from Morocco He wrote a two volume rihla about his journeys Ma al Mawaid Table Water Francis Arundell toured in exploration of Asia Minor in March to September 1826 and ventured again in 1833 upon another tour of 1 000 miles through districts the greater part of which had hitherto not been described by any European traveller when he made an especial study of the ruins of Antioch in Pisidia Two volumes describing these discoveries were published in 1834 Jean Batten became the best known New Zealander of the 1930s internationally by making a number of record breaking solo flights across the world She made the first ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936 Ibn Battuta a medieval Moroccan Muslim traveler and scholar who is widely recognised as one of the greatest travelers of all time 4 5 He is known for his extensive travels accounts of which were published in The Rihla lit Journey List of places visited by Ibn Battuta Jeanne Bare recognized as the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe 6 7 nbsp Benjamin of Tudela in the Sahara Author Dumouza 19th century engraving Benjamin of Tudela a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe Asia and Africa in the 12th century His vivid descriptions of western Asia preceded those of Marco Polo by a hundred years With his broad education and vast knowledge of languages Benjamin of Tudela is a major figure in medieval geography and Jewish history Nancy Bird Walton a pioneering Australian aviator and was the founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots Association Nellie Bly widely known for her record breaking trip around the world in 72 days Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch a Serbian artist and writer on art world traveller and member of the Serbian Karađorđevic dynasty Renata Chlumska an adventurer and mountain climber with dual Swedish and Czech citizenship she became the first Swedish and Czech woman to climb Mount Everest William Eleroy Curtis an American journalist and diplomat who promoted Pan Americanism publishing many popular novels and articles with his observations of South America Asia and Europe 8 Zechariah Dhahiri wrote extensively about his travels and experiences in many travel places publishing them in a book which he called Sefer Ha Musar The Book of Moral Instruction Eva Dickson a Swedish explorer rally driver aviator and travel writer She was the first woman to have crossed the Sahara desert by car Amelia Earhart first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane Walter Evans Wentz Rose de Freycinet a Frenchwoman who in the company of her husband Louis de Freycinet sailed around the world between 1817 and 1820 on a French scientific expedition on a military ship initially disguised as a man Isabel Godin des Odonais an 18th century woman who became separated from her husband in South America by colonial politics and was not reunited with him until more than 20 years later Her long journey from western Peru to the mouth of the Amazon River is without equal in the history of South America Sascha Grabow a German author traveler photographer and former ATP tennis player Guido Guerrini first person to go from Europe to China covering the whole route by a gas fuelled car 9 Susan Hale an American author traveler and artist Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond Hay a British journalist who was the first woman to travel around the world by air in a Zeppelin Margaretha Heijkenskjold a Swedish traveler and a dress reformer She attracted a lot of attention from her contemporaries by her journeys Gunther Holtorf a German traveler who often in company of his wife Christine journeyed across the world in his G Wagen Mercedes Benz named Otto visiting 179 countries in 26 years 10 Giorgio Interiano a Genovese traveler historian and ethnographer His travelogue La vita amp sito de Zichi chiamiti ciarcassi historia notabile 11 was among the first European accounts of the life and customs of the Circassian people nbsp John Henry Mears between ca 1910 and ca 1915 John Henry Mears set the record for the fastest trip around the world both in 1913 and 1928 He was also a Broadway producer On 2 July 1913 he left New York City on the RMS Mauretania then traveled by a combination of steamers yachts and trains to circumnavigate the Earth and reach New York City again on 6 August 1913 He had an elapsed time of 35 days 21 hours 35 minutes 18 and four fifths seconds Martin and Osa Johnson American adventurers and documentary filmmakers Alma Maximiliana Karlin an Austro Hungarian Yugoslavian now Slovene traveler from Celje writer poet ethnographer collector polyglot and theosophist who travelled the world for 8 years She started her travel in 24 November 1919 and finished it in January 1928 earning all the money by herself while traveling by publishing travelogues in newspapers publishing numerous books might be more than 22 books published altogether teaching languages to people traducing and so on She mastered 10 languages and she obtained a degree of excellence from 8 foreign languages at Society of Arts in London She wrote her own dictionary of 10 languages which helped her on her travel around the world Waclaw Korabiewicz a Polish reporter poet traveler collector of ethnographic exhibits Vyacheslav Krasko a Russian traveler manager and professional financier with a PhD Economics 12 Krasko is a member of the Union of the Russian Around the World Travelers Santhosh George Kulangara an Indian Malayali voyager television producer director broadcaster editor and publisher He is the founder and managing director of Safari TV a non profit television channel known for its travel and history based programs As of December 2023 he has explored 143 countries citation needed and his journeys are telecast through Sancharam the first travel documentary in Malayalam which has broadcast over 1900 episodes citation needed Lyuba Kutincheva 1910 1998 a female Bulgarian traveler and polyglot who traveled for almost a decade 1929 1938 through the Middle East Far East northern Africa and Europe 13 Rom Landau Therese von Lutzow Vladimir Lysenko Between September 1997 and 2002 Lysenko crossed 62 countries by car He crossed each continent other than Antarctica twice traveling between the most distant points of each continent in both latitude and longitude John Maley American explorer and travel writer who explored the Trans Mississippi in the early 19th century 14 Niccolao Manucci Peter Mundy a seventeenth century British merchant trader traveller and writer He was the first Briton to record in his Itinerarium Mundi Itinerary of the World tasting Chaa tea in China and travelled extensively in Asia Russia and Europe 15 Ida Laura Pfeiffer Austrian explorer travel writer and ethnographer She was one of the first female travelers and her bestselling journals were translated into seven languages Niccolo and Maffeo Polo Italian traveling merchants who engaged in two voyages Jovan Rajic a Serbian writer historian traveller and pedagogue Christoph Rehage walked from Beijing to Urumqi and made a viral video about it on YouTube Matas Salcius a Lithuanian traveler journalist writer and political figure Rahul Sankrityayan a known polymath and polyglot who travelled different parts of the world He wrote over 100 books on different subjects and had knowledge of about 35 languages Jacob Saphir a Meshulach and traveler of Romanian Jewish descent Annemarie Schwarzenbach a Swiss writer journalist photographer and traveler Sam Sloan a chess organizer and player who has visited 78 countries in his work Lady Hester Stanhope a British socialite adventurer and traveler Her archaeological expedition to Ashkelon in 1815 is considered the first modern excavation in the history of Holy Land archeology nbsp Jean Baptiste Tavernier in oriental costume 1679 Rick Steves travel writer Audrey Sutherland American traveler kayaker teacher and author Jean Baptiste Tavernier a 17th century French gem merchant and traveler 16 Marten Douwes Teenstra 17 September 1795 29 October 1864 Dutch writer and traveller in South Africa and the Dutch East Indies The account of his stay at the Cape from 12 March to 7 July 1825 De vruchten mijner werkzaamheden fruits of my labours was a thorough description of his trip rich in interesting detail of the personalities and places he came across and thoughtful commentary on the social political and economic life of the Cape colony Barbara Toy most famous for the series of books she wrote about her pioneering and solitary travels around the world in a Land Rover undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s Mark Twain author Ikechi Uko organizer of Akwaaba African Travel Market the first international travel fair in West Africa Wiebe Wakker holds the world record for completing the longest ever electric car trip in the world covering a distance of about 95 000 km and visiting 33 countries 17 Xuanzang 7th century Chinese monk who made a seventeen year overland journey to India returning to China with a caravan of Buddhist texts and later wrote an influential and historically significant record of his travels nbsp Japanese painting of Xuanzang Ziryab a singer oud player composer poet and teacher who lived and worked in Iraq North Africa and Al Andalus during the medieval Islamic period See also edit nbsp Biography portal nbsp Lists portal List of explorers List of female explorers and travelers List of space travelers by name List of space travelers by nationality Mughal travelersReferences edit Travel definition The Free Dictionary Travel definition Merriam Webster Tania Aebi Bio Premiere Motivational Speakers Bureau Dunn Ross E 2005 1986 The Adventures of Ibn Battuta University of California Press p 20 ISBN 978 0 520 24385 9 Nehru Jawaharlal 1989 Glimpses of World History Oxford University Press p 752 ISBN 0 19 561323 6 After outlining the extensive route of Ibn Battuta s Journey Nehru notes This is a record of travel which is rare enough today with our many conveniences In any event Ibn Battuta must be amongst the great travellers of all time Dunmore John 2002 Monsieur Baret First Woman Around the World Heritage Press ISBN 0 908708 54 8 Ridley Glynis 2010 The Discovery of Jeanne Baret Crown Publishing Group ISBN 0 307 46352 4 Coates Benjamin January 2014 The Pan American Lobbyist Diplomatic History 38 1 22 48 Retrieved 1 May 2022 in Italian Da Torino a Pechino a Gpl Ecomobile n 77 August 2008 pp 12 13 Mulvey Stephen 9 October 2014 Gunther Christine and Otto BBC News La vita et sito de Zychi chiamati Ciarcassi Historia notabile Venezia Aldo Manuzio 1502 Italian Wikisource Grosheva Olga 8 November 2012 Turoperator Novyj vek popolnil ryady bankrotov Tour operator Novy Vek joined the ranks of bankrupts in Russian Kommersant Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 Borisov Teodor 23 April 2020 Misterioznata avantyuristka Lyuba Kutincheva Blgarska istoriya in Bulgarian Gift of rare manuscript celebrates openingof George W Bush Presidential Center SMU www smu edu Retrieved 18 January 2024 Peter Mundy Merchant Adventurer Ed R E Pritchard 2011 Bodleian Library Oxford St John James Augustus 1831 Jean Baptiste Tavernier The Lives of Celebrated Travellers Volume 1 H Colburn and R Bently pp 167 191 Majendie Matt 22 March 2019 Electric traveler travels 90 000km in three years relying on strangers to pay his way CNN External links editJourneys of Guru Nanak Kashi Samaddar Most Travelled Person of The Year honored by World Records India nbsp Media related to Special Search Travelers at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of travelers amp oldid 1210687492, wikipedia, wiki, 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