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David Harvey
David Harvey
USA
Anglo-American geographer, representative of the school of spatial analysis, then one of the founders of the so-called. "radical geography".
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Great Britain
Scottish scientist
Maxim Bogdasarov
Maxim Bogdasarov
Uzbekistan
Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Geography
Aimy Bonpland
Aimy Bonpland
France
French geographer and botanist
Wilbur Zelinsky
Wilbur Zelinsky
USA
American geographer, one of the most important representatives of cultural geography.
Mikhail Gotsky
Mikhail Gotsky
Sea captain, Arctic explorer, PhD in Geographical Sciences
Budag Budagov
Budag Budagov
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani Soviet scientist, geographer, doctor of geographical sciences
John Glennon
John Glennon
USA
American geographer and explorer specializing in cartography and description of caves and geysers.
Jan Krejci
Jan Krejci
Czech geographer and geologist
Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
Russia
Russian geographer, statistician, head of the Russian Geographical Society
Alexander Djavahishvili
Alexander Djavahishvili
Georgia
An outstanding Georgian geographer and anthropologist
Vasil Kynchev
Vasil Kynchev
Bulgaria
Bulgarian geographer and educator
Alexander Zupan
Alexander Zupan
Austria
Austrian geographer and meteorologist.
Yves Lacoste
Yves Lacoste
France
French geographer and geopolitician
Dmitriy Anychin
Dmitriy Anychin
Russia
Soviet anthropologist, geographer, ethnographer and archaeologist
Nikolay Korzhenevsky
Nikolay Korzhenevsky
Russian, Soviet physical geographer and glaciologist, Doctor of Geographical Sciences
Sven Hedin
Sven Hedin
Sweden
Swedish traveler, geographer, journalist and writer.
Vladimir Dergachev
Vladimir Dergachev
Ukraine
Ukrainian geopolitician, geographer-economist, professor
Vladimir Keppen
Vladimir Keppen
Germany
German-Russian geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist.
Derek Gregory
Derek Gregory
Great Britain
British geographer.
Grigoriy Grumm-Grjimaylo
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
Johann Gunther Friedrich Cannabich
Johann Gunther Friedrich Cannabich
Germany
German geographer.
Pieter van der Aa
Pieter van der Aa
Netherlands
Dutch publisher of maps and atlases
Petr Brounov
Petr Brounov
Russian geographer and meteorologist
Piter Hagget
Piter Hagget
Great Britain
British geographer
Vladimir Arseniev
Vladimir Arseniev
Russian Soviet geographer, ethnographer and writer, explorer of the Ussuri region
Pietro Coppo
Pietro Coppo
Italy
Italian geographer and cartographer
Georgiy Vysotskiy
Georgiy Vysotskiy
Ukraine
Russian soil scientist, forestry specialist, geobotanist and geographer
Frederick Jackson
Frederick Jackson
Great Britain
English polar explorer and geographer, explorer of Africa and Australia
Heinrich Glarean
Heinrich Glarean
Sweden
Swiss humanist, music theorist, geographer, historian, philologist, mathematician
Carl Ortwin Sauer
Carl Ortwin Sauer
USA
American geographer, founder of modern cultural geography
Shihab Al-Omari
Shihab Al-Omari
Egypt
Arab scientist, geographer, historian, encyclopedist.
Karl Haushofer
Karl Haushofer
Germany
German geographer and sociologist, founder of the German school of geopolitics.
Alfred Hettner
Alfred Hettner
Germany
German geographer, main theorist and founder of the chorological scientific school
Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers
Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers
Germany
German geographer, regional specialist, traveler, professor of geography
Anaximander
Anaximander
Greece
Ancient Greek naturalist, geographer and natural philosopher
Gerhardt Mercator
Gerhardt Mercator
France
Flemish cartographer
Evgeniy Lavrenko
Evgeniy Lavrenko
Soviet geobotanist
Knud Rasmussen
Knud Rasmussen
Denmark
Danish ethnographer and explorer of Greenland and Arctic America.
Guido Ravennas
Guido Ravennas
Italy
Italian geographer and historian of the early Middle Ages
Isay Guterman
Isay Guterman
Soviet aeroclimatologist
Bernhard Varen
Bernhard Varen
Germany
German-Dutch geographer
Ibn Hawqal
Ibn Hawqal
Iraq
A 10th-century Arab geographer and traveller, originally from Baghdad
Adolf Bastian
Adolf Bastian
Germany
German ethnologist
George Everest
George Everest
Great Britain
English geographer and surveyor, whose name is given to the highest peak in the world
Walter Christaller
Walter Christaller
Germany
German geographer, author of the theory of central places
Jan Rekliu
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
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon Anville
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon Anville
France
French geographer and cartographer
Andrey Ditmar
Andrey Ditmar
Soviet geographer, historian of geography, actor
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Germany
German naturalist, geographer and traveler, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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