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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George Everest
 Great BritainEnglish geographer and surveyor, whose name is given to the highest peak in the world
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Dmitriy Anychin
 RussiaSoviet anthropologist, geographer, ethnographer and archaeologist
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Walter Christaller
 GermanyGerman geographer, author of the theory of central places
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Guido Ravennas
 ItalyItalian geographer and historian of the early Middle Ages
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Karl Haushofer
Germany German geographer and sociologist, founder of the German school of geopolitics.
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Vladimir Dergachev
 UkraineUkrainian geopolitician, geographer-economist, professor
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Wilbur Zelinsky
 USAAmerican geographer, one of the most important representatives of cultural geography.
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Alfred Kirchhoff
Germany German geographer.
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Richard Hartshorn
USA American geographer, founder of behavioral geography.
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Aimy Bonpland
 FranceFrench geographer and botanist
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Alexander Djavahishvili
 GeorgiaAn outstanding Georgian geographer and anthropologist
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Pietro Coppo
Italy Italian geographer and cartographer
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Vasil Kynchev
 BulgariaBulgarian geographer and educator
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Pieter van der Aa
 NetherlandsDutch publisher of maps and atlases
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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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Alexander Zupan
 AustriaAustrian geographer and meteorologist.
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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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Otto Krummel
Germany German geographer
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Bernhard Varen
Germany German-Dutch geographer
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Evgeniy Lavrenko
Soviet geobotanist
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Gerhardt Mercator
France Flemish cartographer
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Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers
Germany German geographer, regional specialist, traveler, professor of geography
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Frederick Jackson
Great Britain English polar explorer and geographer, explorer of Africa and Australia
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Yves Lacoste
France French geographer and geopolitician
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Paul Vidal de la Blache
France French geographer and geopolitician.
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Alfred Hettner
Germany German geographer, main theorist and founder of the chorological scientific school
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Torsten Hagerstrand
 SwedenSwedish geographer
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Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Great Britain Scottish scientist
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Isay Guterman
Soviet aeroclimatologist
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Shihab Al-Omari
 EgyptArab scientist, geographer, historian, encyclopedist.
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Mikhail Gotsky
Sea captain, Arctic explorer, PhD in Geographical Sciences
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Philipp Cluver
Germany A German scholar who studied historical geography.
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Jan Krejci
Czech geographer and geologist
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Carl Ortwin Sauer
USA American geographer, founder of modern cultural geography
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Piter Hagget
Great Britain British geographer
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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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Heinrich Glarean
Sweden Swiss humanist, music theorist, geographer, historian, philologist, mathematician
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Guido Cora
Italy Italian geographer
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John Glennon
USA American geographer and explorer specializing in cartography and description of caves and geysers.
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Felix Philipp Kanitz
Austria Austrian geographer and ethnographer
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Adolf Bastian
Germany German ethnologist
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Sven Hedin
Sweden Swedish traveler, geographer, journalist and writer.
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Petr Brounov
Russian geographer and meteorologist
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Derek Gregory
Great Britain British geographer.
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Gustav Adolf von Kloden
Germany German geographer
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Budag Budagov
 AzerbaijanAzerbaijani Soviet scientist, geographer, doctor of geographical sciences
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William Bunge
USA American geographer
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Matthias Quaden
Germany German geographer and cartographer.
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Nikolay Korzhenevsky
Russian, Soviet physical geographer and glaciologist, Doctor of Geographical Sciences
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