Jan Jacobs May van Schellinkhout
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Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout was a Dutch seafarer and explorer originally from the province Friesland. It is after him the island of Jan Mayen is named. He sighted the island in 1614, and Joris Carolus, who made a (now lost) report and (still existing) map of the voyage, named one of its promontories "Jan Meys Hoeck". The name later was transferred to the island as a whole, although the expedition of May and Carolus was not the first to see it: Henry Hudson had already done so in 1607.
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