Carl Akeley

Akeley, Carl Ethan (1864-1926), a United States taxidermist, inventor, explorer, and sculptor.

David Livingstone

Livingstone, David (1813–1873), a British missionary and the greatest of all explorers in Africa.

Emin Pasha

Emin Pasha, the assumed name of Eduard Schnitzer (1840–1892), a German surgeon who became an African explorer and government official.

Henry M. Stanley

Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841–1904), an Anglo-American journalist and explorer of Africa.

John H. Speke

Speke, John Hanning (1827–1864), a British explorer of Africa. He was the discoverer of the source of the White Nile.

Mungo Park

Park, Mungo (1771–1806), a Scottish explorer. Leading two West African expeditions, 1795–97 and 1805–06, Park became the first to explore the Niger River in modern times.

Paul B. Du Chaillu

Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni (1831–1903), a French-American explorer. His observations in Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa (1861) were ridiculed and disputed by some scientists, but were later confirmed by travelers.

Samuel W. Baker

Baker, Samuel White (1821–1893), a British explorer of Africa. Accompanied by his wife, Florence, he discovered Lake Albert in 1864.

Sir Harry Johnston

Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton (1858–1927), a British administrator and explorer.