List of Famous people with last name Flinders

Matthew Flinders

First Name Matthew
Last Name Flinders
Born on March 16, 1774
Died on July 19, 1814 (aged 40)

Captain Matthew Flinders was an English navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of the landmass that is now known as Australia. He is also credited as being the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent including Van Diemen's Land, a title he regarded as being "more agreeable to the ear" than previous names such as Terra Australis.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.013549089431763s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.010690927505493s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.010666131973267s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0054209232330322s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0028660297393799s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.002816915512085s
router_page: 1x 0.0022118091583252s
headline: 2x 0.0018582344055176s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0017068386077881s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.0002741813659668s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00018811225891113s
head-facts: 1x 0.00017094612121582s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.7881393432617E-5s
qids: 1.5x 1.4066696166992E-5s
related: 1x 1.9073486328125E-6s
using-file-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2025-12-19 01:46:12)  -----