Editing Easter Island (section)

=== Foreign settlers and researchers ===
* [[Felipe González de Ahedo]] (1714–1802), a Spanish navigator and cartographer; annexed Easter Island in 1770.
* [[Eugène Eyraud]] (1820–1868), missionary
* [[Hippolyte Roussel]] (1824–1898), a French priest and missionary
* [[Jean-Baptiste Dutrou-Bornier]] (1834–1876) a French mariner, removed many of the Rapa Nui people and turned the island into a sheep ranch.
* [[Policarpo Toro]] (1856–1921), a Chilean naval officer, took possession of the island on behalf of Chile.
* [[Katherine Routledge]] (1866–1935), an English archaeologist and anthropologist
* Monsignor [[Rafael Edwards Salas]], (1878–1938), a Chilean priest, professor, and bishop who served as the military vicar of Chile and specially in the island.
* [[Sebastian Englert]] (1888–1969), missionary and ethnologist
* [[Thomas Barthel]] (1923–1997) a German ethnologist and epigrapher
* [[Thor Heyerdahl]] (1914–2002), a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer
* [[William Mulloy]] (1917–1978), an American anthropologist and archaeologist