Juan de la Cosa
Juan de la Cosa (c. 1450–1510) was a Castilian navigator and cartographer from Santoña. He owned and sailed the Santa María, Columbus's flagship on the first voyage of 1492. In 1499 he was chief pilot with Alonso de Ojeda on the South American coast, and around 1500 he drew the earliest surviving European world map showing the New World.
He later joined Rodrigo de Bastidas's voyage. In 1509 he returned with Ojeda to Colombia and was killed by poison arrows near Cartagena in February 1510.