The Most Famous

Explorers from Iceland

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This page contains a list of the greatest Icelanders Explorers. The pantheon dataset contains 498 Explorers, 5 of which were born in Iceland. This makes Iceland the birth place of the 16th most number of Explorers behind Denmark and Canada.

Top 5 Explorers

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Icelanders Explorers of all time. This list of famous Icelanders Explorers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #1
    Photo of Leif Erikson

    Leif Erikson

    970 - 1020

    HPI 88.25100 langs

    Leif Ericson is most famous for being the first European to discover North America.

  2. #4
    Photo of Bjarni Herjólfsson

    Bjarni Herjólfsson

    966 - 1000

    HPI 67.6728 langs

    Bjarni Herjólfsson is most famous for being the first European to discover America.

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