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.
Anaximander
Greece
GreeceAncient Greek naturalist, geographer and natural philosopher
Wilbur Zelinsky
USA
USAAmerican geographer, one of the most important representatives of cultural geography.
Ibn Hawqal
Iraq
IraqA 10th-century Arab geographer and traveller, originally from Baghdad
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.
Knud Rasmussen
Denmark
DenmarkDanish ethnographer and explorer of Greenland and Arctic America.
Evgeniy Lavrenko
Soviet geobotanist
Otto Krummel
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer
Paul Vidal de la Blache
France
FranceFrench geographer and geopolitician.
Andrey Ditmar
Soviet geographer, historian of geography, actor
Petr Brounov
Russian geographer and meteorologist
Philipp Cluver
Germany
GermanyA German scholar who studied historical geography.
Alexander von Humboldt
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist, geographer and traveler, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Alfred Kirchhoff
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer.
Heinrich Glarean
Sweden
SwedenSwiss humanist, music theorist, geographer, historian, philologist, mathematician
Dmitriy Anychin
Russia
RussiaSoviet anthropologist, geographer, ethnographer and archaeologist
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish scientist
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
Vasil Kynchev
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian geographer and educator
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
Carl Ortwin Sauer
USA
USAAmerican geographer, founder of modern cultural geography
Nikolay Korzhenevsky
Russian, Soviet physical geographer and glaciologist, Doctor of Geographical Sciences
Walter Christaller
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer, author of the theory of central places
Alexander Zupan
Austria
AustriaAustrian geographer and meteorologist.
Mikhail Gotsky
Sea captain, Arctic explorer, PhD in Geographical Sciences
Frederick Jackson
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish polar explorer and geographer, explorer of Africa and Australia
Jan Krejci
Czech geographer and geologist
Budag Budagov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani Soviet scientist, geographer, doctor of geographical sciences
Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer, regional specialist, traveler, professor of geography
Vladimir Keppen
Germany
GermanyGerman-Russian geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist.
Alfred Hettner
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer, main theorist and founder of the chorological scientific school
Aimy Bonpland
France
FranceFrench geographer and botanist
Pietro Coppo
Italy
ItalyItalian geographer and cartographer
Isay Guterman
Soviet aeroclimatologist
Shihab Al-Omari
Egypt
EgyptArab scientist, geographer, historian, encyclopedist.
Vasiliy Shuleykin
Russia
RussiaSoviet geophysicist, participant and leader of a number of oceanographic expeditions.
Torsten Hagerstrand
Sweden
SwedenSwedish geographer
Gerhardt Mercator
France
FranceFlemish cartographer
William Bunge
USA
USAAmerican geographer
Georgiy Vysotskiy
Ukraine
UkraineRussian soil scientist, forestry specialist, geobotanist and geographer
Matthias Quaden
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer and cartographer.
Adolf Bastian
Germany
GermanyGerman ethnologist
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon Anville
France
FranceFrench geographer and cartographer
Sven Hedin
Sweden
SwedenSwedish traveler, geographer, journalist and writer.
Karl Haushofer
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer and sociologist, founder of the German school of geopolitics.
Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
Russia
RussiaRussian geographer, statistician, head of the Russian Geographical Society
Derek Gregory
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish geographer.
George Everest
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish geographer and surveyor, whose name is given to the highest peak in the world
Richard Hartshorn
USA
USAAmerican geographer, founder of behavioral geography.
Vladimir Arseniev
Russian Soviet geographer, ethnographer and writer, explorer of the Ussuri region