List of geographers
Encyclopedia
This list of geographer
s is presented in English alphabetical transliteration
order (by surname
s). See also: List of Graeco-Roman geographers.
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
s is presented in English alphabetical transliteration
Transliteration
Transliteration is a subset of the science of hermeneutics. It is a form of translation, and is the practice of converting a text from one script into another...
order (by surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
s). See also: List of Graeco-Roman geographers.
A
- Hardo AasmäeHardo AasmäeHardo Aasmäe is an Estonian politician and geographer.He was active in the Estonian People's Front, and was the first post-Soviet mayor of Tallinn, from 1990 to 1992....
(Estonia, born 1951) - Aziz Ab'SaberAziz Ab'SaberAziz Nacib Ab'Sáber is an environmentalist and one of Brazil´s most respected scientists, honored with the highest awards of Brazilian science in geography, geology, ecology and archaeology...
(Brazil, born 1924) - Diogo AbreuDiogo AbreuProf. Diogo José Brochado de Abreu is a Portuguese geographer.After his basic and secondary education at Colégio Militar, he graduated in geography in 1978 at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where he also took a Doctorate in Geography in 1989.He is known for his research,...
(Portugal, born 1947) - Peter Adams (Canada, born 1936)
- AgatharchidesAgatharchidesAgatharchides of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer .-Life:He is believed to have been born at Cnidus, hence his appellation. As Stanley M...
(Ancient Greece, 2nd century BC) - Agathedaemon of AlexandriaAgathedaemon of AlexandriaAgathedaemon of Alexandria, map designer, probably lived in the 2nd century AD. Some manuscripts of the Geography of Ptolemy contain twenty-seven maps, which are stated to have been drawn by Agathodaemon, who "delineated the whole world according to the eight books of Ptolemy's geography." As...
(Ancient Greece, 2nd century AD) - John A. AgnewJohn A. AgnewJohn A. Agnew is a prominent British-American political geographer. Agnew was educated at the Universities of Exeter and Liverpool in England and Ohio State in the United States.-Life and career:...
- A. W. AndrewsA. W. AndrewsArthur Westlake Andrews was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, and mountaineer.He trained as a geographer and became a teacher of geography and history in Southwark...
(UK, 1868–1959)) - Alypius of AntiochAlypius of AntiochAlypius of Antioch was a geographer and a vicarius of Roman Britain, probably in the late 350s AD. He replaced Flavius Martinus after that vicarius' suicide...
(Roman Empire, fl. circa 450) - Ash AminAsh AminAsh Amin FBA AcSS is a professor of geography at the University of Cambridge and formally at Durham University, UK. He graduated from the University of Reading in 1979 with a first-class degree in Italian Studies and then gained a PhD in geography from Reading in 1986...
(UK) - Jacques AncelJacques AncelJacques Ancel was a French geographer and geopolitician. He is author of several books, including Peoples and Nations of Balkans: political geography and Geopolitics ....
(France, 1879–1943) - Karl AndreeKarl AndreeKarl Andree was a German geographer.Andree was born in Braunschweig. He was educated at Jena, Göttingen, and Berlin. After having been implicated in a students' political agitation he became a journalist, and in 1851 founded the newspaper Bremer Handelsblatt...
(Germany, 1808–1875) - Richard AndreeRichard AndreeRichard Andree was, like his father Karl Andree, a German geographer noted for devoting himself especially to ethnography...
(Germany, 1835–1912) - Aaron ArrowsmithAaron ArrowsmithAaron Arrowsmith was an English cartographer, engraver and publisher and founding member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square, London from Winston, County Durham when about twenty years of age, and was employed by John Cary, the engraver and William Faden. He became...
(England, 1750–1823) - Väinö AuerVäinö AuerVäinö Auer , the son of senator Kyösti Auer, was a Finnish geologist and geographer, chiefly remembered as an explorer of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia...
(Finland, 1895–1981) - Félix de AzaraFélix de AzaraFélix Manuel de Azara was a Spanish military officer, naturalist and engineer. He was born in Barbunales, Aragon....
(Spain, 1742–1821)
B
- Zonia BaberZonia BaberMary Arizona "Zonia" Baber was an American geographer and geologist. She is best known for developing a method for teaching geography. Baber initially worked as a teacher of geography and as a principal in a private school...
(1862-1955) - Karl Ernst von BaerKarl Ernst von BaerKarl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn also known in Russia as Karl Maksimovich Baer was an Estonian naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, a founding father of embryology, explorer of European Russia and Scandinavia, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a...
(1792–1876) - Oliver Edwin BakerOliver Edwin BakerOliver Edwin Baker was an American economic geographer.-Education and early career:Baker was born in Tiffin, Ohio. His father, Edwin Baker, was a merchant, and his mother, Martha Ranney Thomas, had been a schoolteacher...
- Abu Abdullah al-BakriAbu Abdullah al-Bakri', or simply Al-Bakri was an Andalusian-Arab geographer and historian.-Life:Al-Bakri was born in Huelva, the son of the sovereign of the short lived principality of Huelva. When his father was deposed by al-Mu'tadid he moved to Córdoba where he studied with the geographer al-Udri and the...
(1014–1094) - Robert BaileyRobert Bailey (geographer)Robert G. Bailey is an American geographer. In the mid-1990s the US Forest Service adapted the Bailey hierarchy of ecological units for use as the scientific framework for ecosystem management of the national forests.-References:...
- Robert BallingRobert BallingRobert C. Balling, Jr. is a professor of geography at Arizona State University, and the former director of its Office of Climatology. His research interests include climatology, global climate change, and geographic information systems...
- Keith Barber
- John George BartholomewJohn George BartholomewJohn George Bartholomew FRSE was a British cartographer and geographer. As a holder of a royal warrant, he used the title "Cartographer to the King"; for this reason he was sometimes known by the epithet "the Prince of Cartography".Bartholomew's longest lasting legacy is arguably naming the...
- Ibn BattutaIbn BattutaAbu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta , or simply Ibn Battuta, also known as Shams ad–Din , was a Muslim Moroccan Berber explorer, known for his extensive travels published in the Rihla...
(Morocco, 1304–1369) - Anthony BebbingtonAnthony Bebbington- Anthony Bebbington :Anthony Bebbington is Professor and Director, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA. He was previously Professor of Nature, Society and Development in School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK.-Background:Tony Bebbington was born in...
1962- - Frederick William BeecheyFrederick William BeecheyFrederick William Beechey was an English naval officer and geographer. He was the son of Sir William Beechey, RA., and was born in London.-Career:...
- Walter BehrmannWalter BehrmannWalter Emmerich Behrmann was a German geographer.He taught at the Frankfurt University , Free University of Berlin .-Literary works:* Die Sepik und sein Stromgebiet, 1917...
- Charles Tilstone BekeCharles Tilstone BekeCharles Tilstone Beke was an English traveller, geographer and Biblical critic. Born in Stepney, London, the son of a merchant in the City of London, for a few years Beke engaged in mercantile pursuits...
- Lev Semenovich BergLev Semenovich BergLev Semyonovich Berg was a leading Soviet geographer and ichthyologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950...
- Ahmed ibn Sahl al-BalkhiAhmed ibn Sahl al-BalkhiAbu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Born in 850 CE in Shamistiyan, in the Persian province of Balkh, Khorasan , he was a disciple of al-Kindi...
(Persia, 850-934) - Luiza BialasiewiczLuiza BialasiewiczDr. Luiza Bialasiewicz is an academic, and senior lecturer in Human Geography within the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway. She has held the post since September 2006. From 2000-2006 she was based in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham. Dr. Bialasiewicz obtained her...
- Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī (Persia, 973-1048)
- Isaiah BowmanIsaiah BowmanIsaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an American geographer...
- Joan BlaeuJoan BlaeuJoan Blaeu was a Dutch cartographer.He was born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu.In 1620 he became a doctor of law but he joined the work of his father. In 1635 they published the Atlas Novus in two volumes...
(Amsterdam 1596-1673) - Harm de BlijHarm de BlijHarm J. de Blij is a geographer. He is a former geography editor on ABC's Good Morning America...
- Franz BoasFranz BoasFranz Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology" and "the Father of Modern Anthropology." Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did...
- Edward William BrayleyEdward William BrayleyEdward William Brayley FRS was an English geographer, librarian, and science author.-Early life:Brayley was born in London, the son of Edward Wedlake Brayley, a notable antiquary and his wife Anne . His early schooling, in the company of his brothers Henry and Horatio was private and sheltered...
- Conrad Malte-BrunConrad Malte-BrunConrad Malte-Brun , born Malthe Conrad Bruun, was a Danish-French geographer and journalist. His second son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, was also a geographer.-Biography:...
- William BungeWilliam BungeWilliam Wheeler Bunge Jr. is an American geographer active mainly as a quantitative geographer and spatial theorist. He also became a radical geographer and anti-war activist in the USA and Canada.-Personal life:...
- Philip BurdenPhilip BurdenPhilip D. Burden is a geographer, author of The Mapping of North America: A List of Printed Maps 1511-1670, the authoritative work on its topic.-Works:...
- Sir Richard Francis BurtonRichard Francis BurtonCaptain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British geographer, explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia, Africa and the Americas as well as his...
, Royal Geographical Society - Prince Roland BonaparteRoland BonaparteRoland Bonaparte, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French prince and president of the Société de Géographie from 1910 until his death.-Biography:...
C
- Manuel CastellsManuel CastellsManuel Castells is a sociologist especially associated with information society and communication research....
- Richard CathcartRichard CathcartRichard Brook Cathcart is an American geographer who specializes in macro-engineering.-External links:**...
- Andreas CellariusAndreas CellariusAndreas Cellarius was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam....
- Samuel de ChamplainSamuel de ChamplainSamuel de Champlain , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608....
- Chen Cheng-Siang ChenChen Cheng-Siang ChenCheng-Siang Chen is a Chinese geographer.He was Professor of Geography and Director of the Geographical Research Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He wrote the entry on China for Encyclopaedia Britannica.- References:...
- George Chisholm (geographer)George Chisholm (geographer)George Chisholm was a British geographer. He authored the first English-language textbook on economic geography: Handbook on Commercial Geography . It was later revised by Kenneth Stamp....
- Walter ChristallerWalter ChristallerWalter Christaller , was a German geographer whose principal contribution to the discipline is Central Place Theory, first published in 1933...
(Germany 1893-1969) - Richard ChorleyRichard ChorleyRichard John Chorley was a leading figure in the late 20th century for his work in quantitative geography, and played an instrumental role in bringing in the use of systems theory to geography.-Early Education:...
- Václav CílekVáclav CílekVáclav Cílek is Czech geologist, climatologist, writer, philosopher, science popularizer and translator of Tao and Zen texts.- Biography :...
(Czechia, born 1955) - A. Rees ClarkA. Rees ClarkA. Rees Clark is an American academic. Clark researched and taught geography at University of Maryland, Villanova University and Colgate Universities from 1971 through 1980...
- Claudius Clavus (Claudus Claussøn Swart)
- Philip Cluwer
- Denis CosgroveDenis CosgroveDenis E. Cosgrove was an Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles...
(England 1948-2008) - John Antony CramerJohn Antony CramerJohn Antony Cramer , English classical scholar and geographer, was born at Mitlödi in Switzerland.He was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford...
- George CresseyGeorge CresseyGeorge Babcock Cressey was an American geographer, author, and academic. Born in Tiffin, Ohio, he attended Denison University and then the University of Chicago, where he received a PhD in geology. After receiving his degree, he taught at Shanghai college and traveled widely in China...
- James CrollJames CrollJames Croll was a 19th century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change based on changes in the Earth's orbit.-Life:...
- Mike CrangMike CrangDr. Michael A. Crang is a reader in cultural geography at Durham University in the UK. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in geography and gained a PhD from the University of Bristol....
- Jovan CvijićJovan CvijicJovan Cvijić was a Serbian geographer, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences, and rector of the University of Belgrade. A world-renowned scientist, Cvijić is considered the founder of geography in Serbia.-Early life and family:Jovan Cvijić was born on October 11 Jovan Cvijić...
(Serbia 1865-1927)
D
- Jack DangermondJack DangermondJack Dangermond is an American business executive and environmental scientist. In 1969, he co-founded with his wife Laura the Environmental Systems Research Institute , a privately-held Geographic Information Systems software company...
- William Morris DavisWilliam Morris DavisWilliam Morris Davis was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography"....
(USA, 1850–1934) - Alexander DalrympleAlexander DalrympleAlexander Dalrymple was a Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty. He was the main proponent of the theory that there existed a vast undiscovered continent in the South Pacific, Terra Australis Incognita...
- Frank DebenhamFrank DebenhamFrank Debenham, OBE was Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Cambridge University and first director of the Scott Polar Research Institute.-Biography:...
- John DeeJohn Dee (mathematician)John Dee was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occultist, navigator, imperialist and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy....
(England, 1527–1608) - Jared DiamondJared DiamondJared Mason Diamond is an American scientist and author whose work draws from a variety of fields. He is currently Professor of Geography and Physiology at UCLA...
(USA, 1937) - DicaearchusDicaearchusDicaearchus of Messana was a Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author. Dicaearchus was Aristotle's student in the Lyceum. Very little of his work remains extant. He wrote on the history and geography of Greece, of which his most important work was his Life of Greece...
(Greece, circa 350-285 BC) - Peter DickenPeter DickenPeter Dicken is a geographer, notable for his contributions to research into globalization, especially in his book Global Shift, which has sold many tens of thousand of copies. Global Shift is also known as the 'Globalization Bible' because of its factual and encyclopedic nature...
- Al-DinawariAl-DinawariĀbu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawarī was a Persian polymath excelling as much in astronomy, agriculture, botany and metallurgy and as he did in geography, mathematics and history. He was born in Dinawar, . He studied astronomy, mathematics and mechanics in Isfahan and philology and poetry in...
(828-898) - Vasily V. DokuchaevVasily V. DokuchaevVasily Vasili'evich Dokuchaev was a Russian geographer who is credited with laying the foundations of soil science.- Overview :...
- William E. DoolittleWilliam E. DoolittleWilliam E. Doolittle is an American geographer who is prominent among the fourth generation of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography. He is currently the Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor in Geography at the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin...
E
- William Gordon EastWilliam Gordon EastWilliam Gordon East was an English geographer and writer. He studied at Cambridge University.His work includes the following books:* The Union of Moldavia and Wallachia, 1859: An Episode in Diplomatic History...
- EratosthenesEratosthenesEratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer, and music theorist.He was the first person to use the word "geography" and invented the discipline of geography as we understand it...
(Greece, 276-194 BC) - Lewis Evans (surveyor)Lewis Evans (surveyor)Lewis Evans , was a Welsh surveyor and geographer, working principally in British America.Lewis Evans was born in Caernarfonshire, Wales...
- George EverestGeorge EverestColonel Sir George Everest was a Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843.Sir George was largely responsible for completing the section of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India along the meridian arc from the south of India extending north to Nepal, a distance...
F
- Ahmad ibn FadlanAhmad ibn FadlanAhmad ibn Fadlān ibn al-Abbās ibn Rāšid ibn Hammād was a 10th century Arab traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Arab Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars...
(10th c.) - Ghazi FalahGhazi FalahGhazi-Walid Falah is a Bedouin Israeli-Canadian geographer, who is currently a tenured professor at the University of Akron, Ohio, USA.Ghazi Falah is an expert on political, social and urban geography of the Middle East and the Arab World, with special emphasis on Israel. He has published over 45...
- Ibn al-FaqihIbn al-FaqihIbn al-Faqih al-Hamadani was a 10th century Persian historian and geographer, famous for his Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan .-References:...
(10th c.) - Abu al-Fida (Abulfeda) (Syria, 1273–1331)
- J. Keith FraserJ. Keith FraserDr. John Keith Fraser is a Canadian physical geographer. He served as president of the Canadian Association of Geographers, as well as the executive secretary, publisher and general manager of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.-Biography:...
- Gemma FrisiusGemma FrisiusGemma Frisius , was a physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker...
(Netherlands, 1508–1555) - Masahisa FujitaMasahisa Fujitais a Japanese economist and professor at Kyoto university, who has studied regional science and Urban Economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy .Fujita majored in urban planning as an undergraduate at Kyoto University...
G
- Alfons GabrielAlfons GabrielAlfons Gabriel was an Austrian geographer and travel writer who made several trips to the deserts of Iran, during 1927-8, 1933, and 1937. Gabriel wrote five books about his trips and findings...
- Luis García SáinzLuis García SáinzLuis García Sáinz was a pioneer of physical geography in Spain. It was the first Professor in Geography en la University of Valencia and secretary on restart the Instituto Juan Sebastián Elcano. He belongs to the German School of Spanish Geographers...
(Spain, 1894-1965) - Francis GaltonFrancis GaltonSir Francis Galton /ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈgɔːltn̩/ FRS , cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician...
- Paul GallezPaul GallezPaul Gallez was an Argentinian cartographer and historian, born in Brussels, and based on the city of Bahía Blanca, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina....
- Johann Georg August GallettiJohann Georg August GallettiJohann Georg August Galletti was an German historian and geographer. Galletti's fame is not based on his merits as an academic, but on his reputation as the creator of a few hundreds of stylistic howlers, becoming a legend as Kathederblüten originated during his time as a grammar school professor...
- Abu Said Gardezi (d. 1061)
- Henry GannettHenry GannettHenry Gannett, M.E.; LL.D. was an American geographer who is described as the "Father of the Quadrangle" which is the basis for topographical maps in the United States.-Life:...
- William Garrison (geographer)William Garrison (geographer)William Louis Garrison is an American geographer and transportation analyst, currently a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the "quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics...
- Johann Gottlieb GeorgiJohann Gottlieb GeorgiJohann Gottlieb Georgi was a German geographer and chemist.Georgi was professor of chemistry at St Petersburg. He accompanied both Johann Peter Falck and Peter Simon Pallas on their respective journeys through Siberia. Gergi was particularly interested in Lake Baikal...
- Artur GavazziArtur GavazziArtur Gavazzi was a Croatian geographer of Italian ancestry.Gavazzi was born in Split and died in Zagreb ....
(Croatia, Slovenia, 1861–1944) - John Alan GlennonJohn Alan GlennonJohn Alan Glennon is an American geographer and explorer. His work has been mapping and describing caves and geysers.-Caves:...
- Johann Georg GmelinJohann Georg GmelinJohann Georg Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.- Early life and education :Gmelin was born in Tübingen, the son of an professor at the University of Tübingen. He was a gifted child and begun attending university lectures at the age of 14. In 1727, he graduated with a medical...
- Reginald G. Golledge
- Michael Frank GoodchildMichael Frank GoodchildMichael Frank Goodchild is a British-American geographer. He is currently a professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara...
(1944 -) - Jean Gottman
- Peter GouldPeter GouldPeter Gould was an Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Geography at Penn State University. Throughout his tenure at Penn State University, Gould received many awards including the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, the Retzius Gold Metal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and...
- Derek GregoryDerek GregoryDerek Gregory Ph.D. FBA, FRCC is an influential British academic and geographer who is currently Professor of Political Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He formerly held positions at the University of Cambridge.Gregory is best known for his book The Colonial...
- Lev GumilevLev GumilevLev Nikolayevich Gumilev , was a Soviet historian, ethnologist and anthropologist. His unorthodox ideas on the birth and death of ethnic groups have given rise to the political and cultural movement known as "Neo-Eurasianism".-Life:His parents were two prominent poets Nikolay Gumilev and Anna...
- Arnold Henry GuyotArnold Henry GuyotArnold Henry Guyot was a Swiss-American geologist and geographer.-Biography:...
H
- Mohammad Reza HafezniaMohammad Reza HafezniaMohammad Reza Hafeznia is a full professor of political geography in Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. He obtained his Ph.D in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University in 1990....
(Iran) - Toni HagenToni HagenToni Hagen was a Swiss geologist and a pioneer of Swiss development assistance. After taking a diploma in engineering and geology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, he took a doctorate in the geology of the Welsh mountains and then became a research assistant at the Zurich...
- Torsten HägerstrandTorsten HägerstrandTorsten Hägerstrand , was a Swedish geographer. He is known for his work on migration, cultural diffusion and time geography....
(Sweden, 1916–2004) - Peter HaggettPeter HaggettPeter Haggett, CBE Sc.D. FBA is an eminent British geographer and academic, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in Urban and Regional Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol....
- Mohammad Reza HafezniaMohammad Reza HafezniaMohammad Reza Hafeznia is a full professor of political geography in Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran. He obtained his Ph.D in political geography from Tarbiat Modares University in 1990....
(Iran) - Yaqut al-HamawiYaqut al-HamawiYāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī) was an Islamic biographer and geographer renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world. "al-Rumi" refers to his Greek descent; "al-Hamawi" means that he is from Hama, Syria, and ibn-Abdullah is a reference to his father's name, Abdullah...
(1179–1229) - Hamdani (893-945)
- Richard HartshorneRichard HartshorneRichard Hartshorne was a prominent American geographer. He completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University and his doctorate at the University of Chicago , then taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin , with war-time interruption to...
(United States, 1899–1992) - Karl HaushoferKarl HaushoferKarl Ernst Haushofer was a German general, geographer and geopolitician. Through his student Rudolf Hess, Haushofer's ideas may have influenced the development of Adolf Hitler's expansionist strategies, although Haushofer denied direct influence on the Nazi regime.-Biography:Haushofer belonged to...
- Cole HarrisCole HarrisRichard Colebrook "Cole" Harris, is a Canadian geographer.-Education:He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958 from the University of British Columbia. He received a Master of Science degree in 1962 and achieved his Ph.D...
- David HarveyDavid Harvey (geographer)David Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . A leading social theorist of international standing, he received his PhD in Geography from University of Cambridge in 1961. Widely influential, he is among the top 20 most cited...
(United States, Britain, born 1935) - Henri HauserHenri HauserHenri Hauser [ozer] , Algerian-born French economist, historian, geographer.He was a professor of ancient and medieval history at the University of Clermont-Ferrand , and modern history and geography at Dijon University , history at Sorbonne University , economic history at the University of Paris...
- Ibn HawqalIbn HawqalMuḥammad Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal was a 10th century Muslim writer, geographer, and chronicler. His famous work, written in 977, is called Ṣūrat al-’Arḍ ....
(d. after 977) - Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (Iraq, 965-1039)
- Zheng HeZheng HeZheng He , also known as Ma Sanbao and Hajji Mahmud Shamsuddin was a Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa, collectively referred to as the Voyages of Zheng He or Voyages of Cheng Ho from...
- John Heap
- Sven HedinSven HedinSven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, and travel writer, as well as an illustrator of his own works...
(Sweden, 1865–1952) - Gamal HemdanGamal HemdanGamal Hemdan was a prominent Egyptian geographer.-Life:Hemdan was born in 1928 in Al Qalyubiyah governorate, Egypt....
(Egypt, 1928–1993) - Alfred HettnerAlfred HettnerAlfred Hettner was a German geographer.He is known for his concept of chorology, the study of places and regions....
- HipparchusHipparchusHipparchus, the common Latinization of the Greek Hipparkhos, can mean:* Hipparchus, the ancient Greek astronomer** Hipparchic cycle, an astronomical cycle he created** Hipparchus , a lunar crater named in his honour...
(Greece, 190-120 BC) - Filip HjulströmFilip HjulströmHenning Filip Hjulström was a Swedish geographer. Hjulström was professor of geography at Uppsala University from 1944, and in 1949, when the subject of geography was split, he became professor of Physical Geography....
(Sweden, 1092-1982) - Thomas HoldichThomas HoldichColonel Sir Thomas Hungerford Holdich, KCMG, KCIE, CB was an English geographer and president of the Royal Geographical Society. He is best known as Superintendent of Frontier Surveys in British India and author of numerous books, including The Gates of India, The Countries of the King's Award and...
- John Holmes (professor)John Holmes (professor)John H. Holmes is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Queensland. He has remained active during his "retirement" and has continued his primary research into changing resource values in Australia’s rangelands and their implications in the allocation of property rights...
- Johann HomannJohann HomannJohann Baptist Homann was a German geographer and cartographer, who made maps of the Americas.Homann was born in Oberkammlach near Kammlach, which is now in Bavaria. Although educated at a Jesuit school, he eventually converted to Protestantism. In 1715 Homann was appointed Imperial Geographer of...
(Germany, 1664–1724) - J.F. HorrabinJ.F. HorrabinJames Francis Horrabin, was an English socialist, , radical writer and cartoonist. He was briefly Labour Party Member of Parliament for Peterborough...
- Robert E. HortonRobert E. HortonRobert Elmer Horton was an American ecologist and soil scientist, considered by many to be the father of modern hydrology....
- Alexander von HumboldtAlexander von HumboldtFriedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt...
(Germany, 1769–1859) - Carl HumannCarl HumannCarl Wilhelm Humann was a German engineer, architect and archaeologist...
- Ellsworth HuntingtonEllsworth HuntingtonEllsworth Huntington was a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on climatic determinism, economic growth and economic geography...
- Thomas HutchinsThomas HutchinsThomas Hutchins was an American military engineer, cartographer, geographer and surveyor.He joined the militia during the French and Indian War and later took a regular commission with British forces...
J
- Jane JacobsJane JacobsJane Jacobs, was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities , a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States...
- Kim Jeong-hoKim Jeong-hoKim Jeong-ho was a Korean geographer and cartographer. It is believed that he walked the entire length and breadth of the Korean peninsula, through mountain and valley, in order to research and compile his magnum opus, the Daedong Yeojido, a map of Korea that was published in 1861, from which...
- Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871)Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871)Alexander Keith Johnston was a Scottish geographer.-Biography:He was born at Kirkhill near Edinburgh. After an education at the high school and the University of Edinburgh he was apprenticed to an engraver; and in 1826 joined his brother in a printing and engraving business, forming the...
- Alexander Keith Johnston (1844-1879)Alexander Keith Johnston (1844-1879)Alexander Keith Johnston was a Scottish explorer and geographer.He was the son of Alexander Keith Johnston ....
- Ron J. JohnstonRon J. JohnstonRonald John Johnston, OBE, AcSS, FBA is a British human geographer, noted for elaborating his discipline's foundations, particularly its history and nature, and for his contributions to urban social geography and electoral geography...
- Ibn JubayrIbn JubayrIbn Jubayr was a geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus.-Early life:Born in Valencia in Spain, then the seat of an independent emirate. Ibn Jubayr was descendant of a tribe of Andalusian origins, Jubayr was the son of a civil servant...
(1145–1217)
K
- Felix Philipp KanitzFelix Philipp KanitzFelix Philipp Kanitz was an Austro-Hungarian naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist and author of travel notes....
- Mahmud al-Kashgari (1005–1102)
- Robert KatesRobert KatesRobert W. Kates is an American geographer and independent scholar in Trenton, Maine, and University Professor at Brown University.- Background :...
- Ibn KhordadbehIbn KhordadbehAbu'l Qasim Ubaid'Allah ibn Khordadbeh , author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography, was a Persian geographer and bureaucrat of the 9th century...
(820-912) - Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-KhwārizmīMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi'There is some confusion in the literature on whether al-Khwārizmī's full name is ' or '. Ibn Khaldun notes in his encyclopedic work: "The first who wrote upon this branch was Abu ʿAbdallah al-Khowarizmi, after whom came Abu Kamil Shojaʿ ibn Aslam." . 'There is some confusion in the literature on...
(780-850) - Richard KiepertRichard KiepertRichard Kiepert was a German cartographer born in Weimar. He was the son of famed geographer Heinrich Kiepert .-Biography:...
- Heinrich KiepertHeinrich KiepertHeinrich Kiepert , German geographer, was born at Berlin as the son of a wealthy businessman.Already in his youth he traveled with his parents and had a particular interest in the geographic circumstances, which he carefully sketched...
- Al-KindiAl-Kindi' , known as "the Philosopher of the Arabs", was a Muslim Arab philosopher, mathematician, physician, and musician. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is unanimously hailed as the "father of Islamic or Arabic philosophy" for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion...
(Alkindus) (801-873) - Peter KnightPeter Knight (scientist)Sir Peter Knight, FRS is a British physicist, Professor of Quantum Optics and Senior Research Investigator Imperial College London, and Principal of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2005. He was president of the Optical Society of...
- Grigorios KonstantasGrigorios KonstantasGrigorios Konstantas was a Greek scholar and figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment. He was actively involved in various educational issues as well as participated in the Greek War of Independence.-Life:...
(1753-1844) - Peter KozlerPeter KozlerPeter Kozler or Kosler was a Slovene lawyer, geographer, cartographer, activist and manufacturer...
- Stepan KrasheninnikovStepan KrasheninnikovStepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov was a Russian explorer of Siberia, naturalist and geographer who gave the first full description of Kamchatka in the early 18th century. He was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1745...
- Peter KropotkinPeter KropotkinPrince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, economist, geographer, author and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists. Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between...
L
- Yves LacosteYves LacosteYves Lacoste is a French geographer and geopolitician. He was born in Fes, Morocco. In 1976 he established the French geopolitical journal "Hérodote"...
- Joannes de LaetJoannes de LaetJoannes or Johannes de Laet was a Dutch geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company. Philip Burden called his History of the New World, "...arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century" and "...one of the foundation maps of Canada"...
- William LambtonWilliam LambtonLieutenant-Colonel William Lambton, FRS was a British soldier, surveyor, and geographer.Lambton was the Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey of India, which he began in 1802. He died and is buried at Hinganghat in Wardha district of Maharashtra...
- Marcia LangtonMarcia LangtonMarcia Lynne Langton is one of Australia's leading Aboriginal scholars. She holds the Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia...
- Liu AnLiu AnLíu Ān was a Chinese prince and advisor to his nephew, Emperor Wu of Han of the Han Dynasty in China and the legendary inventor of t'ai chi...
(China, 177-122 BC) - Philippe Le BillonPhilippe Le BillonDr. Philippe Le Billon is a geographer, author and assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. He earned an MBA in Paris and a doctorate in Oxford. He has authored or co-authored several books on the economy and politics of war, and the role of corruption in war.-External links:*...
- Peirce F. LewisPeirce F. LewisPeirce F. Lewis is an American geographer and emeritus professor at Pennsylvania State University who has written extensively on the subjects of the American landscape and the cultural geography of America.-Further reading:* *...
- David LivingstoneDavid LivingstoneDavid Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. His meeting with H. M. Stanley gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr...
M
- Halford John MackinderHalford John MackinderSir Halford John Mackinder PC was an English geographer and is considered one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy.-Early life and education:...
(UK, 1861–1947) - Ahmad Bin MajidAhmad Bin MajidAhmad ibn Mājid , was an Arab navigator and cartographer born in 1421 in Julphar, which is now known as Ras Al Khaimah. This city makes up one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates, but at that time it was classified as the coast of Oman. He was raised with a family famous for...
(born 1432) - Conrad Malte-BrunConrad Malte-BrunConrad Malte-Brun , born Malthe Conrad Bruun, was a Danish-French geographer and journalist. His second son, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, was also a geographer.-Biography:...
- Victor Adolphe Malte-BrunVictor Adolphe Malte-BrunVictor Adolphe Malte-Brun was a French geographer and cartographer.He was born in Paris, France. The son of Conrad Malte-Brun, another geographer, of Danish origin, and founder of the Société de Géographie....
- Kenneth Mason
- Doreen MasseyDoreen Massey (geographer)Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA AcSS , is a contemporary British social scientist and geographer, working among others on topics typical of marxist geography...
- Abu al-Hasan 'Alī al-Mas'ūdī (896-956)
- Otto MaullOtto MaullOtto Maull was a German geographer and geopolitician. He taught human geography at University of Graz, in Austria. Author of several books ....
- Simion MehedinţiSimion MehedintiSimion Mehedinţi was a Romanian geographer and member of the Romanian Academy. A figure of importance in the Junimea literary club, he was for a while editor of its magazine, Convorbiri Literare....
(Romania, 1868–1962) - D. W. MeinigD. W. MeinigDonald William Meinig is an American geographer. He is the Maxwell Research Professor Emeritus of Geography at Syracuse University....
- Anton MelikAnton MelikAnton Melik was a Slovene geographer.- Biography :Melik was born in the village of Črna Vas, now part of Ljubljana, Slovenia, at that time part of Austria-Hungary. Before and during World War I, he studied at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1916 in history and geography. Later he was...
- Alfred MerzAlfred MerzAlfred Merz was an Austrian geographer, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin. He died in Buenos Aires while on an expedition to survey the South Atlantic and is buried in Perchtoldsdorf...
- MegasthenesMegasthenesMegasthenes was a Greek ethnographer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work Indica.He was born in Asia Minor and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of Syria possibly to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India. However the exact date of his embassy is uncertain...
- August MeitzenAugust MeitzenAugust Meitzen was a German statistician.-Biography:He was born in Breslau and educated at Heidelberg and Tübingen...
(Germany 1822-1910) - Anton MelikAnton MelikAnton Melik was a Slovene geographer.- Biography :Melik was born in the village of Črna Vas, now part of Ljubljana, Slovenia, at that time part of Austria-Hungary. Before and during World War I, he studied at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1916 in history and geography. Later he was...
(Slovenia, 1890–1966) - Nicolae MilescuNicolae MilescuNicolae Milescu was a Moldavian writer, traveler, geographer, and diplomat. Milescu spoke 9 languages: Romanian, Latin, Greek, Modern Greek, French, German, Turkish, Swedish and Russian...
- Don MitchellDon Mitchell (geographer)Don Mitchell is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. From an academic household in California, he is a graduate of San Diego State University , Pennsylvania State University and received his Ph.D...
- Mark MonmonierMark MonmonierMark Stephen Monmonier is a Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He specializes in toponymy, geography, and geographic information systems. His popular written works show a combination of serious study and a sense of humor. Most of his work is...
- Jedidiah MorseJedidiah MorseJedidiah Morse was a notable geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States. He was the father of Samuel F. B. Morse, the man who developed Morse code.-Early life and education:...
- William G. MoseleyWilliam G. MoseleyWilliam G. Moseley is an author, scholar and professor of geography at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is a development and human-environment geographer with particular expertise in political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, livelihood security,...
- Hamdollah MostowfiHamdollah MostowfiHamdollah Mostowfi was a Persian historian, geographer and epic poet.Mostowfi is the author of Nozhat ol-Gholub , Zafar-Nameh , and the Tarikh e Gozideh . His tomb is a structure with a blue turquoise conical dome, at Qazvin.-References and notes:...
(1281–1349) - Al-MuqaddasiAl-MuqaddasiMuhammad ibn Ahmad Shams al-Din Al-Muqaddasi , also transliterated as Al-Maqdisi and el-Mukaddasi, was a medieval Arab geographer, author of Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim .-Biography:Al-Muqaddasi, "the Hierosolomite" was born in Jerusalem in 946 AD...
(945-1000)
O
- Erich ObstErich ObstErich Obst was a German geographer and geopolitician. Between 1924 and 1944 he was the editor of the German geopolitical magazine "Zeitschrift fur Geopolitik"....
- Vladimir ObruchevVladimir ObruchevVladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.- Scientific research :...
- Patrick O'FlanaganPatrick O'FlanaganPatrick O'Flanagan is an Irish geographer and academic.-Career:He is emeritus professor of the at University College Cork, Ireland. He was the former Head of this department...
- Miles OgbornMiles OgbornProfessor Miles Ogborn is an influential human geographer at Queen Mary, University of London. He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2001 for outstanding contribution to his discipline.-See also:*Lampeter Geography School...
- Gearóid Ó Tuathail
- Orlando RibeiroOrlando RibeiroOrlando Ribeiro was a Portuguese geographer and historian.-Biography:Orlando Ribeiro was born in Lisbon, Portugal.Ribeiro devoted his life to the teaching and research in Geography and is often labelled as one of the main reformist of this science in Portugal. He graduated in Geography and History...
(Portugal, 1911–1997)
P
- Joseph PartschJoseph PartschJoseph Partsch was a German geographer, born at Schreiberhau, Silesia. He studied at the University of Breslau, receiving his doctorate in 1874, and began teaching at the university, becoming later professor of geography. Here he remained until 1905, when on the death of Ratzel, he was called to...
- Pasqualetti
- PausaniasPausanias (geographer)Pausanias was a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He is famous for his Description of Greece , a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, and is a crucial link between classical...
(Greece, fl. circa 150) - Albrecht PenckAlbrecht PenckAlbrecht Penck , was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck.Born in Reudnitz near Leipzig, Penck became a university professor in Vienna from 1885 to 1906, and in Berlin from 1906 to 1927. There he was also the director of the Institute and Museum for Oceanography by 1918...
- Walther PenckWalther PenckWalther Penck was an Austrian geographer, born in Vienna as son of geographer Albrecht Penck.Walther Penck worked 1912-1914 in Argentina as a geographer, and is best known for his contributions to the field of geomorphology...
- Chris PhiloChris PhiloChris Philo is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, the University of Glasgow.Philo graduated from the Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University and became a Research Fellow there. In 1989 he joined the Department of Geography at the University of Wales,...
- Daniel PhilippidisDaniel PhilippidisDaniel Philippidis was a Greek scholar, figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment and member of the patriotic organization Filiki Etaireia. He was one of the most active scholars of the Greek diaspora in the Danubian Principalities and Western Europe...
(ca. 1750-1832) - PosidoniusPosidoniusPosidonius "of Apameia" or "of Rhodes" , was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age...
(Greece 135-51 BCE) - Marco PoloMarco PoloMarco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...
- Allan PredAllan PredAllan Richard Pred was an internationally-known American geographer and professor at the University of California at Berkeley He wrote over 20 books and monographs, translated into seven languages, and over 70 articles and book chapters....
- John Robert Victor PrescottJohn Robert Victor PrescottJohn Robert Victor Prescott FASSA is an Australian academic, author, geographer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne.-Early life:Prescott earned his BSc and MA degrees at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom...
- Nikolai PrzhevalskyNikolai PrzhevalskyNikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky and Prjevalsky, ; —), was a Russian geographer of Polish background and explorer of Central and Eastern Asia. Although he never reached his final goal, Lhasa in Tibet, he travelled through regions unknown to the west, such as northern Tibet, modern Qinghai and...
- Pseudo-ScymnusPseudo-ScymnusPseudo-Scymnus is the name given by Augustus Meineke to the unknown author of a work on geography written in Classical Greek, The Circumnavigation of the Earth, an anonymous verse periegesis first published at Augsburg in 1600...
- PtolemyPtolemyClaudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
(Roman Egypt, circa 85-165) - PytheasPytheasPytheas of Massalia or Massilia , was a Greek geographer and explorer from the Greek colony, Massalia . He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe at about 325 BC. He travelled around and visited a considerable part of Great Britain...
(Greece, fl. circa 360 BC)
R
- Sarah A. RadcliffeSarah A. RadcliffeDr. Sarah A. Radcliffe is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of New Hall, Cambridge. She is an editor at the journal.-Bibliography:* Culture and Development in a Globalizing World...
- Friedrich RatzelFriedrich RatzelFriedrich Ratzel was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum in the sense that the National Socialists later would.-Life:...
- Amin RaziAmin Razi' was a 16th century Persian geographer and author of an encyclopedia called Haft iqlīm . It provided information about the seven different regions known to the Islamic world at the time.-References:...
(Persia, 16th century) - Elisee ReclusÉlisée ReclusÉlisée Reclus , also known as Jacques Élisée Reclus, was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes , over a period of nearly 20 years...
- Piri ReisPiri ReisPiri Reis was an Turkish Ottoman admiral, geographer and cartographer born between 1465 and 1470 and died in 1554 or 1555....
(Turkey, 1465–1554) - James RennellJames RennellMajor James Rennell, FRS was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.-Early life:Rennell was born near Chudleigh in Devon...
- Orlando RibeiroOrlando RibeiroOrlando Ribeiro was a Portuguese geographer and historian.-Biography:Orlando Ribeiro was born in Lisbon, Portugal.Ribeiro devoted his life to the teaching and research in Geography and is often labelled as one of the main reformist of this science in Portugal. He graduated in Geography and History...
- Ferdinand Baron Von Richthofen 19th Century
- Carl RitterCarl RitterCarl Ritter was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography. From 1825 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the University of Berlin.-Biography:Ritter was born in Quedlinburg, one of the six children of a...
(Germany, 1779–1859) - Arthur H. RobinsonArthur H. RobinsonArthur H. Robinson was an American geographer and cartographer, who was professor in the Geography Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison from 1947 until he retired in 1980...
- Joseph RockJoseph RockJoseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist.-Life:He was born in Vienna, Austria, but emigrated to the United States in 1905 and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he eventually became an authority on the flora there...
- Friedrich Gerhard RohlfsFriedrich Gerhard RohlfsFriedrich Gerhard Rohlfs was a German geographer, explorer, author and adventurer.He was born at Vegesack, now part of Bremen. There was much pressure on Rohlfs to be in the medicine field, and he eventually joined the French Foreign Legion in a medical capacity...
- Bernard RomansBernard RomansBernard Romans was a Dutch-born American navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer. His best known work, A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida, published in 1775, is a valuable source of information about the Floridas during the period of...
- Thomas E. RossThomas E. RossThomas E. Ross, Ph.D. b. 1942 is a retired professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Educated at Marshall University he gained his Ph.D. from University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1977...
- William RoyWilliam RoyMajor-General William Roy FRS was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain....
- Ibn RushdAverroes' , better known just as Ibn Rushd , and in European literature as Averroes , was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy,...
(Averroes) (Islamic Spain, 1126–1198) - Ibn Rustah (Persia, d. 903)
S
- David SadlerDavid Sadler (geographer)David Sadler is a professor and a researcher of human geography at the University of Liverpool, England.Sadler gained his first degree, and a doctorate from Durham University, and has held academic posts at Durham, and the University of Wales, Lampeter, before becoming a professor at Liverpool.His...
- Milton SantosMilton SantosMilton Almeida dos Santos was a Brazilian geographer who had a degree in law.-Biography:Santos was born in Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia, Brazil on May 3, 1926. Santos' parents were teachers at elementary school and taught him at home how to read and write...
(Brazil, 1926—2001) - Saskia SassenSaskia SassenSaskia Sassen is a Dutch sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is currently Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Sassen coined the term global city...
- Carl Sauer (USA, 1889—1975)
- Fred K. SchaeferFred K. SchaeferFred K. Schaefer was a geographer. He is considered as one of the pioneers of quantitative revolution.-Life:Fred K. Schaefer was born in Berlin, Germany in the family of metal worker. He was involved in politics as a member of Social Democratic party and after the rise of fascism he fled from Nazi...
(Berlin, Germany 1904-USA, 1953) - Henry SchoolcraftHenry SchoolcraftHenry Rowe Schoolcraft was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 discovery of the source of the Mississippi River. He married Jane Johnston, whose parents were Ojibwe and Scots-Irish...
- ScymnusScymnusScymnus of Chios was a Greek geographer. He was said to have been the author of a periegesis in prose.An anonymous verse periegesis first published at Augsburg in 1600, originally ascribed to Marcianus of Heraclea, was long thought to be the lost work of Scymnus, but this was shown not to be the...
- Leopold von SchrenckLeopold von SchrenckLeopold Ivanovich von Schrenck was a Russian zoologist, geographer and ethnographer.-Biography:Schrenck was a Baltic German born and brought up near Chotenj, south-west of St Petersburg. He received his doctorate from the University of Tartu, and then studied natural science in Berlin and Königsberg...
- Allen J Scott
- Ellen Churchill SempleEllen Churchill SempleEllen Churchill Semple was an American geographer. Ellen was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the youngest of five children by Alexander Bonner Semple and Emerine Price. She is most closely associated with work in anthropogeography and environmentalism...
- Edward Shackleton, Baron ShackletonEdward Shackleton, Baron ShackletonEdward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, KG AC OBE PC FRS , was a British geographer and Labour Party politician....
- Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-ShanskyPyotr Semenov-Tyan-ShanskyPyotr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky was a Russian geographer and statistician who managed the Russian Geographical Society for more than 40 years....
- Shen KuoShen KuoShen Kuo or Shen Gua , style name Cunzhong and pseudonym Mengqi Weng , was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty...
(China, 1031–1095) - Yuly ShokalskyYuly ShokalskyYuly Mikhailovich Shokalsky was a Russian oceanographer, cartographer, and geographer.A grandson of Anna Kern, Pushkin's celebrated mistress, Shokalsky graduated from the Naval Academy in 1880 and made a career in the Imperial Russian Navy, helping establish the Sevastopol Marine Observatory and...
- Ibn SinaAvicennaAbū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā , commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived...
(Avicenna) (Persia, 980-1037) - Paul Allen SiplePaul Allen SiplePaul Allman Siple was an American Antarctic explorer and geographer who took part in six Antarctic expeditions, including the two Byrd expeditions of 1928–1930 and 1933–1935, representing the Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout. Siple was also a Sea Scout. His first and third books covered...
- Andrew SluyterAndrew SluyterAndrew Sluyter is an American social scientist and professor in the Geography and Anthropology Department of the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. His interests are the environmental history and historical ecology of the colonization of the Americas...
- Neil SmithNeil Smith (geographer)Neil Smith was born 1954 in Leith, Scotland. he is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography, at the Graduate Center department of the City University of New York. From 2008 he holds a twenty percent appointment as Sixth Century Professor of Geography and Social Theory, at the...
- Richard G SmithRichard G SmithDr Richard G Smith is a British geographer with interests in social theory and cities.He is a senior lecturer in human geography at Swansea University in the UK. At twenty he graduated with a first class degree from the University of Hull, and at twenty four with a PhD from Bristol University...
- Edward SojaEdward SojaEdward William Soja is a postmodern political geographer and urban planner on the faculty at UCLA, where he is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and the London School of Economics. He has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University...
(Spain, 1942) - Su SongSu SongSu Song was a renowned Chinese polymath who specialized himself as a statesman, astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist, zoologist, botanist, mechanical and architectural engineer, poet, antiquarian, and ambassador of the Song Dynasty .Su Song was the engineer of a...
(China, 1020–1101) - Oskar SpateOskar SpateOskar Hermann Khristian Spate was a geographer best known for his role in strengthening geography as a discipline in Australia and the Pacific....
- John Speke, Royal Geographic Society
- Evelyn StokesEvelyn StokesDame Evelyn Mary Stokes, DNZM was a professor of geography at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and a member of the New Zealand government's Waitangi Tribunal...
(New Zealand, 1936–2005) - StraboStraboStrabo, also written Strabon was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher.-Life:Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus , a city which he said was situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black Sea...
(Roman Empire, Greece, circa 63/64 - circa 24 BC) - Ulf StrohmayerUlf StrohmayerUlf Strohmayer is a German geographer who is a professor and head of the Geography Department at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Born in Germany, educated there, in Sweden and in the USA , has held posts in the USA, France and the University of Wales, Lampeter.Texts include "Space and...
T
- Andres TarandAndres TarandAndres Tarand , is an Estonian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists between 2004 and 2009. Tarand also served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1994 to 1995.Born in Tallinn, Tarand graduated from the...
(Estonia, born 1940) - Ralph Stockman TarrRalph Stockman TarrRalph Stockman Tarr, S.B. was an American geographer, born at Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard and he served at Cornell where he became professor in 1897. He was in charge of the 1896 Cornell expedition to Greenland...
- Peter J. TaylorPeter J. TaylorPeter James Taylor is an English geographer. Born in Tring in Hertfordshire, he was Professor of Political Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne between 1970 and 1996, since when he has been Professor of Geography at Loughborough University...
- Johann Heinrich von ThünenJohann Heinrich von ThünenJohann Heinrich von Thünen was a prominent nineteenth century economist. Von Thünen was a Mecklenburg landowner, who in the first volume of his treatise, The Isolated State , developed the first serious treatment of spatial economics, connecting it with the theory of rent...
(Germany, 1783–1850) - Nigel ThriftNigel ThriftNigel John Thrift is the current Vice Chancellor of the University of Warwick and a leading academic in the field of human geography.-Early life and career:...
- Waldo R. ToblerWaldo R. ToblerWaldo Tobler is an American-Swiss geographer and cartographer. Tobler's idea that "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related to each other" is referred to as the "first law of geography." Tobler is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara...
- Wilhelm TomaschekWilhelm TomaschekWilhelm Tomaschek, or Vilém Tomášek was a Czech-Austrian geographer and orientalist. Born at Olmiitz, in Moravia, he received his education at Vienna,...
- Roger TomlinsonRoger TomlinsonRoger F. Tomlinson, CM is an English geographer and the primary originator of modern computerized Geographic Information Systems , and has been acknowledged as the "father of GIS".Dr...
- George TrebeckGeorge TrebeckGeorge Trebeck was born in Middlesex, England in the year 1800. He moved to Calcutta, West Bengal circa 1815 with his father Charles Trebeck and brother of the same name...
- Emil TrinklerEmil TrinklerEmil Trinkler was a German geographer, explorer of Asia. Trinkler died as the result of a motor accident at the early age of thirty-five.- Literary works :* Tibet, 1922...
- Carl TrollCarl TrollCarl Troll , was a German geographer, brother of botanist Wilhelm Troll.From 1919 until 1922 Troll studied amongst other biology, chemistry, geology, geography and physics at the Universität in München. In 1921 he obtained his doctorate in botany and in 1925 his habilitation in geography...
- Yi-Fu TuanYi-Fu TuanYi-Fu Tuan is a Chinese-U.S. geographer.Tuan was born in 1930 in Tientsin, China. He was the son of a rich oligarch and was part of the top class in the Republic of China....
(United States, China, born 1930) - Billie Lee Turner II
- Marinos of Tyre
W
- Alfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...
- Michael WattsMichael WattsMichael J. Watts is "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. An intensively productive scholar, he works on a variety of themes from African development to contemporary...
- Alfred WeberAlfred WeberAlfred Weber was a German economist, sociologist and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography.-Life:...
(Germany, 1868–1958) - Gilbert F. WhiteGilbert F. WhiteGilbert Fowler White was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management" and the "leading environmental geographer of the 20th century"...
- Alan Wilson
- Charles W. J. WithersCharles W. J. WithersProfessor Charles W. J. Withers FBA, FRSE is professor of historical geography at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.- Education :...
- Denis WoodDenis WoodDenis Wood is an artist, author, cartographer and a former professor of Design at North Carolina State University. Born in 1945, Wood grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, receiving a BA in English from then Western Reserve University . He received an MA and a PhD in geography from Clark University, in...
(United States, 1945 - ) - John Kirtland WrightJohn Kirtland WrightJohn Kirtland Wright was an American geographer, notable for his cartography, geosophy, and study of the history of geographical thought. He was the son of classical scholar John Henry Wright and novelist Mary Tappan Wright, and the brother of legal scholar and utopian novelist Austin Tappan...
- Alfred Lothar Wegener
- Richard WallerRichard WallerRichard George Waller is an American clarinetist, visual artist and founder/former artistic director of the Linton Chamber Music Series in Cincinnati, Ohio.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 16, 1929 to Thomas and Sonia Castleman Waller....
See also
- List of cartographers
- List of Muslim geographers
- Russian geographers