It is named after Barthélemy de Lesseps, a French diplomat, writer, and scientific explorer of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Ronny Velásquez (born 31 August 1951) is a Venezuelan anthropologist, scientific explorer and editor.

Especially adept in mathematics and geography, he was one of the first scientific explorers, cartographers, astronomers, historians, builders, and ranchmen of the Pimera Alta.

Thereafter, his talents were devoted to the purpose of preparing himself as a scientific explorer.

He commanded both the Challenger Expedition and the British Arctic Expedition, and was highly thought of a leader and a scientific explorer.

He was one of the earliest European scientific explorers of Brazil, and a major collector of Brazilian flora.

Which is not to take anything away from these scientific explorers, who lead us on wondrous voyages to find out who we are and where we are.

He was one of the first European scientific explorers to employ indigenous scientists and research assistants on his expeditions.

As the era of discovery came to a close around 1920, Hedin contented himself with organizing the Sino-Swedish Expedition for qualified scientific explorers.

One colleague described Bullock as an "adventurous scientific explorer, continually seeking undiscovered phenomena and new unifying principles".