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.
Karl Haushofer
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer and sociologist, founder of the German school of geopolitics.
Walter Christaller
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer, author of the theory of central places
Paul Vidal de la Blache
France
FranceFrench geographer and geopolitician.
Carl Ortwin Sauer
USA
USAAmerican geographer, founder of modern cultural geography
Ian Gamilton
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish geographer known for his work in industrial geography.
Alexander Djavahishvili
Georgia
GeorgiaAn outstanding Georgian geographer and anthropologist
David Harvey
USA
USAAnglo-American geographer, representative of the school of spatial analysis, then one of the founders of the so-called. "radical geography".
Karel Koristka
Czech
CzechCzech surveyor and geographer.
Adolf Bastian
Germany
GermanyGerman ethnologist
Bernhard Varen
Germany
GermanyGerman-Dutch geographer
Wilbur Zelinsky
USA
USAAmerican geographer, one of the most important representatives of cultural geography.
Richard Hartshorn
USA
USAAmerican geographer, founder of behavioral geography.
Jan Rekliu
France
FranceFamous French geographer, participant in the Paris Commune. In collaboration with other authors, he created an extensive work on world geography, translated into many languages
Derek Gregory
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish geographer.
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish scientist
Frederick Jackson
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish polar explorer and geographer, explorer of Africa and Australia
Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
Russia
RussiaRussian geographer, statistician, head of the Russian Geographical Society
Knud Rasmussen
Denmark
DenmarkDanish ethnographer and explorer of Greenland and Arctic America.
Johann Gunther Friedrich Cannabich
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer.
Jan Krejci
Czech geographer and geologist
Budag Budagov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani Soviet scientist, geographer, doctor of geographical sciences
Evgeniy Lavrenko
Soviet geobotanist
Vladimir Arseniev
Russian Soviet geographer, ethnographer and writer, explorer of the Ussuri region
Alexander von Humboldt
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist, geographer and traveler, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Pieter van der Aa
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch publisher of maps and atlases
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon Anville
France
FranceFrench geographer and cartographer
Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer, regional specialist, traveler, professor of geography
Aimy Bonpland
France
FranceFrench geographer and botanist
Nikolay Korzhenevsky
Russian, Soviet physical geographer and glaciologist, Doctor of Geographical Sciences
Sven Hedin
Sweden
SwedenSwedish traveler, geographer, journalist and writer.
Otto Krummel
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer
Ibn Hawqal
Iraq
IraqA 10th-century Arab geographer and traveller, originally from Baghdad
Karl Sonklar
Austria
AustriaAustrian geographer
Shihab Al-Omari
Egypt
EgyptArab scientist, geographer, historian, encyclopedist.
Yves Lacoste
France
FranceFrench geographer and geopolitician
Gerhardt Mercator
France
FranceFlemish cartographer
Isay Guterman
Soviet aeroclimatologist
Grigoriy Grumm-Grjimaylo
Russia
RussiaGeographer 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
Guido Ravennas
Italy
ItalyItalian geographer and historian of the early Middle Ages
Guido Cora
Italy
ItalyItalian geographer
Maxim Bogdasarov
Uzbekistan
UzbekistanDoctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Geography
Alexander Zupan
Austria
AustriaAustrian geographer and meteorologist.
Vladimir Keppen
Germany
GermanyGerman-Russian geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist.
William Bunge
USA
USAAmerican geographer
Torsten Hagerstrand
Sweden
SwedenSwedish geographer
Pietro Coppo
Italy
ItalyItalian geographer and cartographer
Matthias Quaden
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer and cartographer.
Felix Philipp Kanitz
Austria
AustriaAustrian geographer and ethnographer
Petr Brounov
Russian geographer and meteorologist
Dmitriy Anychin
Russia
RussiaSoviet anthropologist, geographer, ethnographer and archaeologist