Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) is an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrates that Brazil and the West Indies do not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constitute an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.

Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent comes to be termed "America", deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name.