cirkumnavigatori (iz latinskoga: circum oko, okolo, navigator brodar, pomorac), pomorci koji su u doba → geografskih otkrića plovili oko svijeta. Prvi su bili → Fernão Magellan (1519-21) i → Juan Sebastián del Cano (1519–22), zatim → Francis Drake (1577–80), → Thomas Cavendish (1586–88), → Jacob Le Maire (1615–17), → Abel Janszoon Tasman (1642), → William Dampier (1688), → George Anson (1740–44), → Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1766–69) i → James Cook (1768–71).