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.

David Harvey
USA
USAAnglo-American geographer, representative of the school of spatial analysis, then one of the founders of the so-called. "radical geography".

John Glennon
USA
USAAmerican geographer and explorer specializing in cartography and description of caves and geysers.

Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky
Russia
RussiaRussian geographer, statistician, head of the Russian Geographical Society

Gerhardt Mercator
France
FranceFlemish cartographer

Anaximander
Greece
GreeceAncient Greek naturalist, geographer and natural philosopher

Bernhard Varen
Germany
GermanyGerman-Dutch geographer

Walter Christaller
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer, author of the theory of central places

Georgiy Vysotskiy
Ukraine
UkraineRussian soil scientist, forestry specialist, geobotanist and geographer

Matthias Quaden
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer and cartographer.

Alexander Zupan
Austria
AustriaAustrian geographer and meteorologist.

Paul Vidal de la Blache
France
FranceFrench geographer and geopolitician.

Gustav Adolf von Kloden
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer

Philippe Buache
France
FranceFrench geographer

Dmitriy Anychin
Russia
RussiaSoviet anthropologist, geographer, ethnographer and archaeologist

Wilbur Zelinsky
USA
USAAmerican geographer, one of the most important representatives of cultural geography.

Vladimir Dergachev
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian geopolitician, geographer-economist, professor

Friedrich Wilhelm Sievers
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer, regional specialist, traveler, professor of 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

Piter Hagget
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish geographer

Torsten Hagerstrand
Sweden
SwedenSwedish geographer

Andrey Ditmar
Soviet geographer, historian of geography, actor

Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon Anville
France
FranceFrench geographer and cartographer

Vladimir Arseniev
Russian Soviet geographer, ethnographer and writer, explorer of the Ussuri region

Frederick Jackson
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish polar explorer and geographer, explorer of Africa and Australia

Aimy Bonpland
France
FranceFrench geographer and botanist

Budag Budagov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani Soviet scientist, geographer, doctor of geographical sciences

Shihab Al-Omari
Egypt
EgyptArab scientist, geographer, historian, encyclopedist.

Carl Ortwin Sauer
USA
USAAmerican geographer, founder of modern cultural geography

Evgeniy Lavrenko
Soviet geobotanist

Vladimir Keppen
Germany
GermanyGerman-Russian geographer, meteorologist, climatologist and botanist.

Derek Gregory
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish geographer.

Yves Lacoste
France
FranceFrench geographer and geopolitician

George Everest
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish geographer and surveyor, whose name is given to the highest peak in the world

Knud Rasmussen
Denmark
DenmarkDanish ethnographer and explorer of Greenland and Arctic America.

Alfred Kirchhoff
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer.

Ibn Hawqal
Iraq
IraqA 10th-century Arab geographer and traveller, originally from Baghdad

Vasiliy Shuleykin
Russia
RussiaSoviet geophysicist, participant and leader of a number of oceanographic expeditions.

Alexander Djavahishvili
Georgia
GeorgiaAn outstanding Georgian geographer and anthropologist

Petr Brounov
Russian geographer and meteorologist

Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish scientist

Alexander von Humboldt
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist, geographer and traveler, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Karel Koristka
Czech
CzechCzech surveyor and geographer.

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

Jan Krejci
Czech geographer and geologist

Maxim Bogdasarov
Uzbekistan
UzbekistanDoctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Geography

Mikhail Gotsky
Sea captain, Arctic explorer, PhD in Geographical Sciences

Vasil Kynchev
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian geographer and educator

Nikolay Korzhenevsky
Russian, Soviet physical geographer and glaciologist, Doctor of Geographical Sciences

Sven Hedin
Sweden
SwedenSwedish traveler, geographer, journalist and writer.

Johann Gunther Friedrich Cannabich
Germany
GermanyGerman geographer.