The Most Famous
EXPLORERS from Suriname
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Surinamer Explorers of all time. This list of famous Surinamer Explorers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. François Levaillant (1753 - 1824)
With an HPI of 45.70, François Levaillant is the most famous Surinamer Explorer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
François Levaillant (born Vaillant, later in life as Le Vaillant, "The Valiant") (6 August 1753 – 22 November 1824) was a French author, explorer, naturalist, zoological collector, travel writer, and noted ornithologist. He described many new species of birds based on birds he collected in Africa and several birds are named after him. He was among the first to use colour plates for illustrating birds and opposed the use of binomial nomenclature introduced by Carl Linnaeus, preferring instead to use descriptive French names such as the bateleur (meaning "tumbler or tight-rope walker") for the distinctive African eagle.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as explorers born between 1753 and 1753. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased explorers include François Levaillant. As of April 2022, 1 new explorers have been added to Pantheon including François Levaillant.
