Geographers
Explore the lives and contributions of prominent geographers throughout history, from ancient cartographers to modern-day explorers. Get insights into their discoveries, theories, and how they shaped our understanding of the world.
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Frederick Jackson
 Great BritainEnglish polar explorer and geographer, explorer of Africa and Australia
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Bernhard Varen
 GermanyGerman-Dutch geographer
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William Bunge
 USAAmerican geographer
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Alexander von Humboldt
Germany German naturalist, geographer and traveler, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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Mikhail Gotsky
Sea captain, Arctic explorer, PhD in Geographical Sciences
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Aimy Bonpland
 FranceFrench geographer and botanist
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Budag Budagov
 AzerbaijanAzerbaijani Soviet scientist, geographer, doctor of geographical sciences
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Ian Gamilton
Great Britain British geographer known for his work in industrial geography.
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Anaximander
 GreeceAncient Greek naturalist, geographer and natural philosopher
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George Everest
Great Britain English geographer and surveyor, whose name is given to the highest peak in the world
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Philipp Cluver
Germany A German scholar who studied historical geography.
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Karl Haushofer
Germany German geographer and sociologist, founder of the German school of geopolitics.
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Alfred Kirchhoff
Germany German geographer.
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Nikolay Korzhenevsky
Russian, Soviet physical geographer and glaciologist, Doctor of Geographical Sciences
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David Harvey
USA Anglo-American geographer, representative of the school of spatial analysis, then one of the founders of the so-called. "radical geography".
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Wilbur Zelinsky
USA American geographer, one of the most important representatives of cultural geography.
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Felix Philipp Kanitz
 AustriaAustrian geographer and ethnographer
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Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon Anville
France French geographer and cartographer
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Emil von Sydow
Germany German geographer and cartographer
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Adolf Bastian
Germany German ethnologist
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Sven Hedin
 SwedenSwedish traveler, geographer, journalist and writer.
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Richard Hartshorn
USA American geographer, founder of behavioral geography.
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Jan Rekliu
France Famous French geographer, participant in the Paris Commune. In collaboration with other authors, he created an extensive work on world geography, translated into many languages
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Gerhardt Mercator
France Flemish cartographer
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Guido Cora
 ItalyItalian geographer
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Vladimir Dergachev
 UkraineUkrainian geopolitician, geographer-economist, professor
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Ibn Hawqal
 IraqA 10th-century Arab geographer and traveller, originally from Baghdad
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Derek Gregory
Great Britain British geographer.
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Vladimir Arseniev
Russian Soviet geographer, ethnographer and writer, explorer of the Ussuri region
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Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
 RussiaRussian geographer, statistician, head of the Russian Geographical Society
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Yves Lacoste
France French geographer and geopolitician
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Vasiliy Shuleykin
Russia Soviet geophysicist, participant and leader of a number of oceanographic expeditions.
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Karel Koristka
 CzechCzech surveyor and geographer.
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Jan Krejci
Czech geographer and geologist
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Gustav Adolf von Kloden
Germany German geographer
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Adolphe Laurent Joanne
France French writer and geographer.
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Heinrich Glarean
Sweden Swiss humanist, music theorist, geographer, historian, philologist, mathematician
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Dmitriy Anychin
Russia Soviet anthropologist, geographer, ethnographer and archaeologist
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Shihab Al-Omari
 EgyptArab scientist, geographer, historian, encyclopedist.
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Paul Vidal de la Blache
France French geographer and geopolitician.
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Torsten Hagerstrand
Sweden Swedish geographer
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Georgiy Vysotskiy
Ukraine Russian soil scientist, forestry specialist, geobotanist and geographer
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Vladimir Keppen
Germany German-Russian geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist.
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Alexander Zupan
Austria Austrian geographer and meteorologist.
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Grigoriy Grumm-Grjimaylo
Russia Geographer and zoologist, explorer of Central and Middle Asia, the Far East. His name is given to: a pass on Sikhote-Alin, one of the glaciers he discovered in the Pamirs and a glacier on the Bogdo-Ula massif
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John Glennon
USA American geographer and explorer specializing in cartography and description of caves and geysers.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers
Germany German geographer, regional specialist, traveler, professor of geography
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Vasil Kynchev
 BulgariaBulgarian geographer and educator
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Knud Rasmussen
 DenmarkDanish ethnographer and explorer of Greenland and Arctic America.
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Pietro Coppo
Italy Italian geographer and cartographer
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