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List of geographers

Index List of geographers

This list of geographers is presented in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surnames). [1]

299 relations: A. W. Andrews, Aaron Arrowsmith, Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Abu Sa'id Gardezi, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Abu'l-Fida, Agatharchides, Agathodaemon of Alexandria, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Ahmad ibn Mājid, Ahmad ibn Rustah, Al-Bakri, Al-Biruni, Al-Kindi, Al-Maqdisi, Al-Masudi, Alan Wilson (academic), Albrecht Penck, Alexander Dalrymple, Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871), Alexander Keith Johnston (1844–1879), Alexander von Humboldt, Alfons Gabriel, Alfred Hettner, Alfred Merz, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Weber, Alfred Wegener, Allan Pred, Allen J. Scott, Alypius of Antioch, Amīn Rāzī, Anastas Ishirkov, Andreas Cellarius, Andres Tarand, Andrew Sluyter, Anthony Bebbington, Anton Melik, Arnold Henry Guyot, Arthur H. Robinson, Artur Gavazzi, Ash Amin, August Meitzen, Averroes, Avicenna, Aziz Ab'Sáber, Élisée Reclus, Bernard Romans, Billie Lee Turner II, ..., Carl Humann, Carl O. Sauer, Carl Ritter, Carl Troll, Carlos Ferrás Sexto, Ceri Peach, Charles Tilstone Beke, Charles W. J. Withers, Chen Cheng-siang, Chris Philo, Christophe Neff, Claudius Clavus, Cole Harris, Conrad Malte-Brun, Cosmas Indicopleustes, Daniel Philippidis, David Harvey, David Livingstone, David Sadler (geographer), Denis Cosgrove, Denis Wood, Derek Gregory, Dicaearchus, Diogo Abreu (geographer), Don Mitchell (geographer), Donald W. Meinig, Doreen Massey (geographer), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann, Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, Edward Soja, Edward Ullman, Edward William Brayley, Ellen Churchill Semple, Ellsworth Huntington, Emil Trinkler, Eratosthenes, Erich Obst, Evelyn Stokes, Félix de Azara, Félix Delamarche, Felix Philipp Kanitz, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Filip Hjulström, Francis Galton, Frank Debenham, Frans Dieleman, Franz Boas, Fred B. Kniffen, Fred K. Schaefer, Frederick William Beechey, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Friedrich Ratzel, Gamal Hamdan, Gemma Frisius, Geographer, George Chisholm (geographer), George Cressey, George Everest, George Trebeck, Gerard Toal, Ghazi Falah, Gilbert F. White, Gim Jeong-ho, Grigorios Konstantas, Halford Mackinder, Hamdallah Mustawfi, Hardo Aasmäe, Harm de Blij, Harold Brookfield, Heinrich Kiepert, Henri Hauser, Henry Gannett, Henry Schoolcraft, Hipparchus, Ibn al-Faqih, Ibn al-Haytham, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Hawqal, Ibn Jubayr, Ibn Khordadbeh, Isaiah Bowman, J. F. Horrabin, J. Keith Fraser, Jack Dangermond, Jacques Ancel, James Croll, James Rennell, Jane Jacobs, Jared Diamond, Jean Gottmann, Jedidiah Morse, Joan Blaeu, Joannes de Laet, Johann Georg August Galletti, Johann Georg Gmelin, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Johann Homann, John A. Agnew, John Alan Glennon, John Brown (geographer), John Cramer (priest), John Dee, John Francon Williams, John George Bartholomew, John Hanning Speke, John Heap (geographer), John Holmes (professor), John Kirtland Wright, John Robert Victor Prescott, Joseph Nicollet, Joseph Partsch, Joseph Rock, Jovan Cvijić, Karl Andree, Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, Karl Ernst von Baer, Karl Haushofer, Keith Barber (geographer), Kelvyn Jones, Kenneth Mason (geographer), Kenneth Olwig, Leopold von Schrenck, Lev Berg, Lev Gumilyov, Lewis Evans (surveyor), List of cartographers, List of Graeco-Roman geographers, List of Muslim geographers, List of Russian earth scientists, Liu An, Luis García Sainz, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Mahmud al-Kashgari, Manuel Castells, Marcia Langton, Marco Polo, Marinus of Tyre, Mark Bassin, Mark Monmonier, Masahisa Fujita, Megasthenes, Michael Frank Goodchild, Michael Mortimore, Michael Watts, Mike Crang, Miles Ogborn, Milton Santos, Mohammad-Reza Hafeznia, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Naomasa Yamasaki, Neil Smith (geographer), Nigel Thrift, Nikolai Spathari, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Oliver Edwin Baker, Orlando Ribeiro, Oskar Spate, Otto Maull, Pasqualetti, Patrick Geddes, Patrick O'Flanagan, Paul Gallez, Paul Siple, Paul Vidal de La Blache, Pedro Nunes, Peirce F. Lewis, Peter Adams (politician), Peter Dicken, Peter Gould (professor), Peter Haggett, Peter J. Taylor, Peter Knight (physicist), Peter Kosler, Peter Kropotkin, Philip Burden, Philipp Clüver, Philippe Le Billon, Piri Reis, Posidonius, Pseudo-Scymnus, Ptolemy, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Pytheas, Ralph Stockman Tarr, Reece Jones (geographer), Reginald Golledge, Richard Andree, Richard Cathcart, Richard Chorley, Richard Francis Burton, Richard G. Smith (geographer), Richard Hartshorne, Richard Kiepert, Richard Waller, Robert Bailey (geographer), Robert Balling, Robert E. Horton, Robert Kates, Roger Tomlinson, Roland Bonaparte, Ron Johnston (geographer), Royal Geographical Society, Samuel de Champlain, Sarah A. Radcliffe, Saskia Sassen, Scymnus, Shen Kuo, Simion Mehedinți, Stepan Krasheninnikov, Strabo, Su Song, Surname, Sven Hedin, Thomas E. Ross, Thomas Holdich, Thomas Hutchins, Toni Hagen, Torsten Hägerstrand, Transliteration, Vasily Dokuchaev, Václav Cílek, Väinö Auer, Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun, Vladimir Obruchev, Waldo R. Tobler, Walter Behrmann, Walter Christaller, Walther Penck, Wilbur Zelinsky, Wilhelm Tomaschek, William Bunge, William E. Doolittle, William G. Moseley, William Garrison (geographer), William Gordon East, William Lambton, William Morris Davis, William Roy, Xoán Paredes, Xu Xiake, Ya'qubi, Yaqut al-Hamawi, Yi-Fu Tuan, Yuly Shokalsky, Yves Lacoste, Zheng He, Zonia Baber. Expand index (249 more) »

A. W. Andrews

Arthur Westlake Andrews (12 December 1868 – 22 November 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, mountaineer and amateur tennis and badminton player.

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Aaron Arrowsmith

Aaron Arrowsmith (1750–1823) was an English cartographer, engraver and publisher and founding member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers.

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Abu Hanifa Dinawari

Ābu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawarī (815–896 CE, أبو حنيفة الدينوري) was an Islamic Golden Age polymath, astronomer, agriculturist, botanist, metallurgist, geographer, mathematician, and historian.

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Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani

(279/280-333/334 A.H. / 893-945 A.D; أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني) was an Arab Muslim geographer, chemist, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, from the tribe of Banu Hamadan, western 'Amran/Yemen.

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Abu Sa'id Gardezi

Abu Saʿīd Abdul-Hay ibn Dhaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardēzī, Gardīzī or Gurdēzī (died c. 1061 CE) (ابوسعید عبدالحی بن ضحاک بن محمود گردیزی) was a Persian Muslim geographer and historian of the early 11th century from Gardēz in modern Afghanistan.

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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi (ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist.

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Abu'l-Fida

Abu al-Fida (أبو الفداء; November 1273October 27, 1331), fully Abu Al-fida' Isma'il Ibn 'ali ibn Mahmud Al-malik Al-mu'ayyad 'imad Ad-din and better known in English as Abulfeda, was a Kurdish historian, geographer and local governor of Hama.

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Agatharchides

Agatharchides or Agatharchus (Ἀγαθαρχίδης or Ἀγάθαρχος, Agatharchos) of Cnidus was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC).

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Agathodaemon of Alexandria

Agathodaemon of Alexandria (Ἀγαθοδαίμων Ἀλεξανδρεὺς, Agathodaímōn Alexandreùs) was a Greek or Hellenized cartographer, presumably from Alexandria, Egypt, in late Antiquity, probably in the 2nd century A.D. Agathodaemon is mentioned in some of the earliest manuscripts of Ptolemy's ''Geography'': "From the eight books of geography of Claudius Ptolemaeus the whole habitable world Agathodaemon of Alexandria delineated." The line appears in the running text of the Geography and not as a caption on the maps themselves.

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Ahmad ibn Fadlan

Ibn Fadlan (أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāšid ibn Ḥammād, 921–22) was a 10th-century Arab Muslim traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, known as his Risala ("account" or "journal") His account is most notable for providing a detailed description of the Volga Vikings, including an eyewitness account of a ship burial.

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Ahmad ibn Mājid

Ahmad ibn Mājid (أحمد بن ماجد), was an Arabian navigator and cartographer born in 1421 in Julfar.

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Ahmad ibn Rustah

Ahmad ibn Rustah Isfahani (احمد ابن رسته اصفهانی Aḥmad ibn Rusta Iṣfahānī), more commonly known as Ibn Rustah (ابن رسته, also spelled Ibn Rusta and Ibn Ruste), was a 10th-century Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta district, Isfahan, Persia.

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Al-Bakri

, or simply Al-Bakri (أبو عبيد عبدالله بن عبد العزيز البكري) (c. 1014–1094) was an Andalusian Arab historian and the greatest geographer of the Muslim West.

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Al-Biruni

Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Al-Bīrūnī (Chorasmian/ابوریحان بیرونی Abū Rayḥān Bērōnī; New Persian: Abū Rayḥān Bīrūnī) (973–1050), known as Al-Biruni (البيروني) in English, was an IranianD.J. Boilot, "Al-Biruni (Beruni), Abu'l Rayhan Muhammad b. Ahmad", in Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden), New Ed., vol.1:1236–1238.

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Al-Kindi

Abu Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim philosopher, polymath, mathematician, physician and musician.

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Al-Maqdisi

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Shams al-Dīn al-Maqdisī (محمد بن أحمد شمس الدين المقدسي), also transliterated as al-Maqdisī or el-Mukaddasi, (c. 945/946 - 991) was a medieval Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions), as well as author of the book, Description of Syria (Including Palestine).

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Al-Masudi

Al-Mas‘udi (أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي,; –956) was an Arab historian and geographer.

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Alan Wilson (academic)

Professor Sir Alan Geoffrey Wilson FAcSS (born 8 January 1939) is a British mathematician and social scientist, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds and a professor at University College London.

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Albrecht Penck

Albrecht Penck (25 September 1858 – 7 March 1945) was a German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penck.

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Alexander Dalrymple

Alexander Dalrymple FRS (24 July 1737 – 19 June 1808) was a Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty.

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Alexander Keith Johnston (1804–1871)

Alexander Keith Johnston FRSE FRGS FGS FEGS LLD (28 December 18049 July 1871) was a Scottish geographer and cartographer.

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Alexander Keith Johnston (1844–1879)

Alexander Keith Johnston (November 11, 1844 in EdinburghJune 28, 1879 in Tanzania) was a Scottish explorer, cartographer and geographer.

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Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

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Alfons Gabriel

Alfons Gabriel (1894–1976) was an Austrian geographer, explorer and travel writer who made several trips to the deserts of Iran, during 1927-8, 1933, and 1937.

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Alfred Hettner

Alfred Hettner (August 6, 1859 in Dresden – August 31, 1941 in Heidelberg) was a German geographer.

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Alfred Merz

Alfred Merz (24 January 1880 in Perchtoldsdorf, Niederösterreich – 16 August 1925 in Buenos Aires) was an Austrian geographer, oceanographer and director of the Institute of Marine Science in Berlin.

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Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 18237 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.

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Alfred Weber

Alfred Weber (30 July 1868 – 2 May 1958) was a German economist, geographer, sociologist and theoretician of culture whose work was influential in the development of modern economic geography.

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Alfred Wegener

Alfred Lothar Wegener (–) was a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist.

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Allan Pred

Allan Richard Pred (1936 – 2007) was an internationally known American geographer and professor at the University of California at Berkeley He wrote more than 20 books and monographs, translated into seven languages, and over 70 articles and book chapters.

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Allen J. Scott

Allen John Scott (born 1938) is a professor of geography and public policy at University of California, Los Angeles.

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Alypius of Antioch

Alypius of Antioch was a geographer and a vicarius of Roman Britain, probably in the late 350s AD.

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Amīn Rāzī

Amin Razi (امین احمد رازی; also known as Al-Razi) was a Safavid-era (16th to 17th century) Persian geographer, author of a geographical and biographical encyclopedia (tadhkirah) called Haft iqlīm (هفت اقلیم "seven climes") based on the system of seven climes of Ptolemy's Almagest.

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Anastas Ishirkov

Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov (Анастас Тодоров Иширков; 5 April 1868 – 6 April 1937) was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer.

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Andreas Cellarius

Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596, Neuhausen, – 1665, Hoorn) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.

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Andres Tarand

Andres Tarand (born 11 January 1940) is an Estonian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Estonia from 1994 to 1995.

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Andrew Sluyter

Andrew Sluyter is an American social scientist who currently teaches as an associate professor in the Geography and Anthropology Department of the Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

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Anthony Bebbington

Anthony Bebbington (born 1962) is a geographer, professor and Director of the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, USA.

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Anton Melik

Anton Melik (January 1, 1890 – June 8, 1966) was a Slovene geographer.

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Arnold Henry Guyot

Arnold Henry Guyot (September 28, 1807February 8, 1884) was a Swiss-American geologist and geographer.

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Arthur H. Robinson

Arthur H. Robinson (January 5, 1915 – October 10, 2004) was an American geographer and cartographer, who was professor in the Geography Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1947 until he retired in 1980.

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Artur Gavazzi

Artur Gavazzi (14 October 1861 – 12 March 1944) was a Croatian geographer and cartographer of Italian ancestry.

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Ash Amin

Ash Amin CBE FBA FAcSS (born 31 October 1955) is a British Pakistani academic known for his writing on urban and regional development, contemporary cultural change, progressive politics, and the collaborative economy.

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August Meitzen

August Meitzen (born 16 December 1822, in Breslau; died 19 January 1910, in Berlin) was a German statistician.

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Averroes

Ibn Rushd (ابن رشد; full name; 1126 – 11 December 1198), often Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian philosopher and thinker who wrote about many subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics.

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Avicenna

Avicenna (also Ibn Sīnā or Abu Ali Sina; ابن سینا; – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.

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Aziz Ab'Sáber

Aziz Nacib Ab'Sáber (October 24, 1924 – March 16, 2012) was an environmentalist and one of Brazil´s most respected scientists, honored with the highest awards of Brazilian science in geography, geology, ecology and archaeology.

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Élisée Reclus

Jacques Élisée Reclus (15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905) was a renowned French geographer, writer and anarchist.

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Bernard Romans

Bernard Romans (bapt. 6 July 1741, Delft – 1784, at sea) was a Dutch-born American navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter, and writer.

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Billie Lee Turner II

Billie Lee Turner II (born December 22, 1945, Texas City, Texas, USA) is an American geographer, member of the National Academy of Sciences, and prominent among the third generation of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography.

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Carl Humann

Carl Humann (first name also Karl, born 4 January 1839 in Steele, part of today’s Essen - Germany; † 12 April 1896 in Smyrna, today İzmir - Turkey) was a German engineer, architect and archaeologist.

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Carl O. Sauer

Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer.

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Carl Ritter

Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779September 28, 1859) was a German geographer.

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Carl Troll

Carl Troll (24 December 1899 in Gabersee – 21 July 1975 in Bonn), was a German geographer, brother of botanist Wilhelm Troll.

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Carlos Ferrás Sexto

Carlos Ferrás Sexto (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, 1965) is a Galician geographer and academic.

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Ceri Peach

Guthlac Ceri Klaus Peach (born 26 October 1939) is a geographer from Bridgend, Wales.

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Charles Tilstone Beke

Charles Tilstone Beke (10 October 1800 – 31 July 1874) was an English traveller, geographer and Biblical critic.

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Charles W. J. Withers

Professor Charles W. J. Withers FBA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSGS (born 6 December 1954) is professor of historical geography at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Chen Cheng-siang

Chen Cheng-siang (1922 – 2003) was a Chinese geographer.

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Chris Philo

Chris Philo FAcSS (born 1960) is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, the University of Glasgow.

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Christophe Neff

Christophe Neff (born 10 June 1964 in Tübingen, Germany) is a Franco-German geographer, working on Mediterranean ecosystems, the geography of the Mediterranean Basin and fire ecology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.In Germany he is considered as one of the rare German experts for Mediterranean ecosystem and fire ecology., Furthermore, he is an expert of the geography of Francophone (African French geography) and Lusophone Africa and the Azores.

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Claudius Clavus

Claudius Clavus (Suartho) also known as Nicholas Niger, (Claudius Claussøn Swart), (September 14, 1388-?), was a Danish geographer sometimes considered to be the first Nordic cartographer.

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Cole Harris

Cole Harris, (born July 4, 1936) is a Canadian geographer and university professor.

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Conrad Malte-Brun

Conrad Malte-Brun (12 August 177514 December 1826), born Malthe Conrad Bruun, and sometimes referred to simply as Malte-Brun, was a Dano-French geographer and journalist.

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Cosmas Indicopleustes

Cosmas Indicopleustes (Greek Κοσμᾶς Ἰνδικοπλεύστης, literally "Cosmas who sailed to India"; also known as Cosmas the Monk) was a Greek merchant and later hermit from Alexandria of Egypt.

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Daniel Philippidis

Daniel Philippidis (Δανιήλ Φιλιππίδης; Dimitrie Daniil Philippide; c. 1750 – 1832) was a Greek scholar, figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment and member of the patriotic organization Filiki Etaireia.

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David Harvey

David W. Harvey (born 31 October 1935) is the Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

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David Livingstone

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Christian Congregationalist, pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late-19th-century Victorian era.

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David Sadler (geographer)

David Sadler (born 1960) is a professor and a researcher of human geography at the University of Liverpool, England.

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Denis Cosgrove

Denis E. Cosgrove (3 May 1948 Liverpool – 21 March 2008 Los Angeles) was an Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Denis Wood

Denis Wood is an artist, author, cartographer and a former professor of Design at North Carolina State University.

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Derek Gregory

Derek Gregory Ph.D. (Cantab) FBA, FRSC (born 1 March 1951) is a British academic and world-renowned geographer who is currently Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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Dicaearchus

Dicaearchus of Messana (Δικαίαρχος Dikaiarkhos), also written Dicearchus or Dicearch, was a Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author.

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Diogo Abreu (geographer)

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Don Mitchell (geographer)

Don Mitchell (born 1961) is Professor of Cultural Geography at Uppsala University (since 2017) and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography in the Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

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Donald W. Meinig

Donald William Meinig (born November 1, 1924 in Palouse, Washington).

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Doreen Massey (geographer)

Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA FAcSS (3 January 1944 – 11 March 2016) was a British social scientist and geographer, working among others on topics involving Marxist geography, feminist geography, and cultural geography.

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Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann

Eberhardt August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (August 17, 1743, Uelzen – July 4, 1815, Braunschweig) was a German geographer and zoologist.

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Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton

Edward Arthur Alexander Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, (15 July 1911 – 22 September 1994) was a British geographer, Royal Air Force officer and Labour Party politician.

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Edward Soja

Edward William Soja (1940–2015) was a self-described "urbanist," a noted postmodern political geographer and urban theorist on the planning faculty at UCLA, where he was Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, and the London School of Economics.

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Edward Ullman

Edward Louis Ullman (1912 – 1976), son of classical scholar Berthold Ullman, was trained as a geographer at University of Chicago where he was influenced by the urban and economic emphasis in social science.

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Edward William Brayley

Edward William Brayley FRS (1801 – 1 February 1870) was an English geographer, librarian, and science author.

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Ellen Churchill Semple

Ellen Churchill Semple (January 8, 1863 – May 8, 1932) was an American geographer and the first female president of the Association of American Geographers.

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Ellsworth Huntington

Ellsworth Huntington (September 16, 1876 – October 17, 1947) was a professor of geography at Yale University during the early 20th century, known for his studies on environmental determinism/climatic determinism, economic growth and economic geography.

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Emil Trinkler

Emil Trinkler (19 May 1896, Bremen – 19 April 1931, Bremen) was a German geographer, explorer of Asia.

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Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (Ἐρατοσθένης ὁ Κυρηναῖος,; –) was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist.

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Erich Obst

Karl August Erich Obst (13 September 1886 – 9 June 1981) was a German geographer and geopolitician.

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Evelyn Stokes

Dame Evelyn Mary Stokes (née Dinsdale, 5 December 1936 – 15 August 2005) was a professor of geography at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and a member of the New Zealand government's Waitangi Tribunal.

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Félix de Azara

Félix Manuel de Azara (18 May 1746 – 20 October 1821) was a Spanish military officer, naturalist, and engineer.

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Félix Delamarche

Félix Delamarche was a French geographer and engineer who flourished during the 18th century and early 19th century.

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Felix Philipp Kanitz

Felix Philipp Kanitz (Bulgarian and Феликс Филип Каниц, 2 August 1829 – 8 January 1904) was an Austro-Hungarian naturalist, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist and author of travel notes.

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Ferdinand von Richthofen

Baron Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen FRSFor HFRSE BGS (5 May 18336 October 1905), better known in English as was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.

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Filip Hjulström

Henning Filip Hjulström (6 October 1902 – 26 March 1982) was a Swedish geographer.

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Francis Galton

Sir Francis Galton, FRS (16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English Victorian era statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician.

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Frank Debenham

Frank Debenham, OBE (26 December 1883 – 23 November 1965) was Emeritus Professor of Geography at the Department of Geography, Cambridge University and first director of the Scott Polar Research Institute.

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Frans Dieleman

François Marinus (Frans) Dieleman (2 September 1942 in Aardenburg – 11 April 2005) was a Dutch geographer, Professor in Urban and Rural Geography at the Utrecht University known for his work in the fields of urban geography and the geography of housing.

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Franz Boas

Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".

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Fred B. Kniffen

Fred Bowerman Kniffen (January 18, 1900 – May 19, 1993) was an American geographer and distinguished professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University for over 64 years.

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Fred K. Schaefer

Fred Kurt Schaefer (July 7, 1904 – June 6, 1953) was a geographer.

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Frederick William Beechey

Frederick William Beechey (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer and geographer.

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Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs

Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs (April 14, 1831 – June 2, 1896) was a German geographer, explorer, author and adventurer.

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Friedrich Ratzel

Friedrich Ratzel (August 30, 1844 – August 9, 1904) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for first using the term Lebensraum ("living space") in the sense that the National Socialists later would.

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Gamal Hamdan

Gamal Hamdan (February 2, 1928 – April 17, 1993) was an Egyptian scholar and geographer.

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Gemma Frisius

Gemma Frisius (born Jemme Reinerszoon; December 9, 1508 – May 25, 1555), was a Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker.

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Geographer

A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.

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George Chisholm (geographer)

Dr George Goudie Chisholm FRSE FRSGS LLD (1850–1930) was a British geographer.

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George Cressey

George Babcock Cressey (December 15, 1896 – October 21, 1963) was an American geographer, author, and academic.

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George Everest

Colonel Sir George Everest CB FRS FRAS FRGS (4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.

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George Trebeck

George Trebeck (1800-1825) was born in Middlesex, England in the year 1800.

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Gerard Toal

Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail; born 1962 in the Republic of Ireland) is Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the Government and International Affairs program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, National Capital Region campus.

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Ghazi Falah

Ghazi-Walid Falah (غازي فلاح, ראזי פלאח) is a Bedouin Israeli-Canadian geographer, who is a tenured professor at the University of Akron, Ohio.

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Gilbert F. White

Gilbert Fowler White (November 26, 1911 – October 5, 2006) was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management" and the "leading environmental geographer of the 20th century" (Wescoat, 2006).

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Gim Jeong-ho

Gim Jeong-ho (pen name Gosanja; ‘the guy of old mountain’ 1804–1866?), also known as Kim Jeong-ho, was a Korean geographer and cartographer.

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Grigorios Konstantas

Grigorios Konstantas (Γρηγόριος Κωνσταντάς; 1753–1844) was a Greek scholar and figure of the modern Greek Enlightenment.

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Halford Mackinder

Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was an English geographer, academic, politician, the first Principal of University Extension College, Reading (which became the University of Reading) and Director of the London School of Economics, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy.

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Hamdallah Mustawfi

Ḥamdallāh Mustawfī Qazvīnī (1281–1349; fa) was a Persian historian, geographer and epic poet who was descended from a family of Arab origin.

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Hardo Aasmäe

Hardo Aasmäe (11 February 1951 – 2 December 2014) was an Estonian geographer, entrepreneur and politician.

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Harm de Blij

Harm J. de Blij (see IJ (digraph); closest pronunciation: "duh blay") (1935–2014) was a geographer.

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Harold Brookfield

Harold Chillingworth Brookfield (born 1926 in England) is a British and Australian geographer specialising in the analysis of rural development, small-scale societies, family farming, and the relationship between land use and society in developing countries.

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Heinrich Kiepert

Heinrich Kiepert (July 31, 1818 – April 21, 1899) was a German geographer.

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Henri Hauser

Henri Hauser (19 July 1866 – 27 May 1946) was a French historian, geographer, and economist.

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Henry Gannett

Henry Gannett (August 24, 1846 – November 5, 1914) was an American geographer who is described as the "Father of the Quadrangle" which is the basis for topographical maps in the United States.

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Henry Schoolcraft

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River.

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Hipparchus

Hipparchus of Nicaea (Ἵππαρχος, Hipparkhos) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician.

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Ibn al-Faqih

Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani (ابن فقیه الهمذانی) was a 10th-century Persian historian and geographer, famous for his Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan ("Concise Book of Lands").

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Ibn al-Haytham

Hasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized Alhazen; full name أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age.

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Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta (محمد ابن بطوطة; fully; Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي بن بطوطة) (February 25, 13041368 or 1369) was a Moroccan scholar who widely travelled the medieval world.

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Ibn Hawqal

Muḥammad Abū’l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal (محمد أبو القاسم بن حوقل, born in Nisibis, Upper Mesopotamia; travelled 943-969 CE) was a 10th-century Arab Muslim writer, geographer, and chronicler.

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Ibn Jubayr

Ibn Jubayr (1 September 1145 –29 November 1217; ابن جبير), also written Ibn Jubair, Ibn Jobair, and Ibn Djubayr, was an Arab geographer, traveller and poet from al-Andalus.

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Ibn Khordadbeh

Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (ابوالقاسم عبیدالله ابن خردادبه) (c. 820 – 912 CE), better known as Ibn Khordadbeh or Ibn Khurradadhbih, was the author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography.

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Isaiah Bowman

Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph.

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J. F. Horrabin

James Francis "Frank" Horrabin (1 November 1884 – 2 March 1962) was an English socialist (sometime communist) radical writer and cartoonist.

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J. Keith Fraser

John Keith Fraser (born February 18, 1922) is a Canadian physical geographer.

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Jack Dangermond

Jack Dangermond is an American billionaire businessman and environmental scientist.

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Jacques Ancel

Jacques Ancel (July 22, 1879 in Parmain, Val-d'Oise – 1943) was a French geographer and geopolitician.

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James Croll

James Croll, FRS, (2 January 1821 – 15 December 1890) was a 19th-century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change based on changes in the Earth's orbit.

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James Rennell

Major James Rennell, FRS FRSE FRGS (3 December 1742 – 29 March 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.

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Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.

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Jared Diamond

Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American ecologist, geographer, biologist, anthropologist and author best known for his popular science books The Third Chimpanzee (1991); Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Prize); Collapse (2005); and The World Until Yesterday (2012).

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Jean Gottmann

(Iona) Jean Gottmann (10 October 1915, in Kharkov – 28 February 1994, in Oxford) was a French geographer who was best known for his seminal study on the urban region of the Northeast megalopolis.

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Jedidiah Morse

Jedidiah Morse (August 23, 1761June 9, 1826) was a notable geographer whose textbooks became a staple for students in the United States.

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Joan Blaeu

Joan Blaeu (23 September 1596 – 21 December 1673) was a Dutch cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu.

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Joannes de Laet

Joannes or Johannes De Laet (Latinized as Ioannes Latius) (1581 in Antwerp – buried 15 December 1649, in Leiden) was a Dutch geographer and director of the Dutch West India Company.

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Johann Georg August Galletti

Johann Georg August Galletti (August 19, 1750 – March 16, 1828) was a German historian and geographer.

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Johann Georg Gmelin

Johann Georg Gmelin (8 August 1709 – 20 May 1755) was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer.

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Johann Gottlieb Georgi

Johann Gottlieb Georgi (31 December 1729 – 27 October 1802) was a German botanist, naturalist and geographer.

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Johann Heinrich von Thünen

Johann Heinrich von Thünen (24 June 1783 – 22 September 1850), sometimes spelt Thuenen, was a prominent nineteenth century economist and a native of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in northern Germany.

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Johann Homann

Johann Baptist Homann (20 March 1664 – 1 July 1724) was a German geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas.

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John A. Agnew

John A. Agnew, FBA (born Millom, England, August 29, 1949) is a prominent British-American political geographer.

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John Alan Glennon

John Alan Glennon (born September 24, 1970) is an American geographer and explorer.

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John Brown (geographer)

John Brown (2 August 1797 – 7 February 1861) was a geographer, and was particularly interested in Franklin's lost expedition.

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John Cramer (priest)

John Antony Cramer (1793 – 24 August 1848), English classical scholar and geographer, was born at Mitlödi in Switzerland.

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John Dee

John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy.

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John Francon Williams

John Francon Williams FRGS (1854 – 4 September 1911) was a Welsh journalist, writer, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor, born in Llanllechid, Caernarvonshire.

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John George Bartholomew

John George Bartholomew FRSE FRGS (22 March 1860 – 14 April 1920) was a British cartographer and geographer.

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John Hanning Speke

John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 – 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa.

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John Heap (geographer)

John Arnfield Heap, CMG (5 February 1932 – 8 March 2006) was an English polar scientist who helped protect Antarctica from exploitation.

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John Holmes (professor)

John H. Holmes is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Queensland.

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John Kirtland Wright

John Kirtland Wright (1891–1969) was an American geographer, notable for his cartography, geosophy, and study of the history of geographical thought.

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John Robert Victor Prescott

John Robert Victor Prescott FASSA is an Australian academic, author, geographer and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne.

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Joseph Nicollet

Joseph Nicolas Nicollet (July 24, 1786 – September 11, 1843), also known as Jean-Nicolas Nicollet, was a French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician known for mapping the Upper Mississippi River basin during the 1830s.

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Joseph Partsch

Joseph Partsch (4 July 1851 – 22 June 1925) was a German geographer, born at Schreiberhau, Silesia.

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Joseph Rock

Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884 – 1962) was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist.

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Jovan Cvijić

Jovan Cvijić (Јован Цвијић,; 12 October 1865 – 16 January 1927) was a Serbian geographer and ethnologist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences and rector of the University of Belgrade.

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Karl Andree

Karl Andree (20 October 1808 – 10 August 1875) was a German geographer.

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Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz

Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz (22 October 1881 – 20 July 1908) was a German geophysicist who made important contributions to seismology, in particular the formulation of the Zoeppritz equations.

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Karl Ernst von Baer

Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer, Edler von Huthorn (Карл Эрнст фон Бэр; –) was an Estonian scientist and explorer.

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Karl Haushofer

Karl Ernst Haushofer (27 August 1869 – 10 March 1946) was a German general, geographer and politician.

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Keith Barber (geographer)

Keith Edward Barber (1944 – 1 February 2017) was a professor of physical geography at the University of Southampton.

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Kelvyn Jones

Kelvyn Jones, (born) is a British professor of human quantitative geography at the University of Bristol.

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Kenneth Mason (geographer)

Lieut-Colonel Kenneth Mason MC (10 September 1887 – 2 June 1976) was a soldier and geographer notable as the first statutory professor of Geography at the University of Oxford.

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Kenneth Olwig

Kenneth Robert Olwig (born 1946) is an American-born landscape geographer, specializing in the study of the Scandinavian landscape.

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Leopold von Schrenck

Leopold von Schrenck (Леопольд Иванович фон Шренк; 1826 – 8 January 1894) was a Baltic German zoologist, geographer and ethnographer from Russia.

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Lev Berg

Lev Semyonovich Berg (also known as Leo S. Berg) (Лев Семёнович Берг.; 14 March 1876, Bender – 24 December 1950, Leningrad) was a leading Russian geographer, biologist and ichthyologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950.

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Lev Gumilyov

Lev Nikolayevich Gumilyov (Лев Никола́евич Гумилёв; 1 October 1912, St. Petersburg – 15 June 1992, St. Petersburg) was a Soviet historian, ethnologist, anthropologist and translator from Persian.

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Lewis Evans (surveyor)

Lewis Evans (c. 17001756) was a Welsh surveyor and geographer, working principally in British America.

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List of cartographers

Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.

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List of Graeco-Roman geographers

;Pre-Hellenistic Classical Greece.

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List of Muslim geographers

The following is a non-exhaustive list of Muslim geographers.

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List of Russian earth scientists

This list of Russian Earth scientists includes the notable geographers, geologists, oceanographers, meteorologists, ecologists and other representatives of Earth sciences from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.

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Liu An

Liú Ān (c. 179–122 BC) was a Han dynasty Chinese prince and an advisor to his nephew, Emperor Wu of Han (武帝).

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Luis García Sainz

Luis García Sáinz (Saragossa, 1894-Saragossa, March 11, 1965) was a pioneer of physical geography in Spain.

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Luiza Bialasiewicz

Luiza Bialasiewicz (born 14 August 1971, Warsaw)is an Italian political geographer (from Polish descent) and Jean Monnet Professor of EU External Relations in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

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Mahmud al-Kashgari

Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammed al-Kashgari (محمود بن الحسين بن محمد الكاشغري - Maḥmūd ibnu 'l-Ḥussayn ibn Muḥammad al-Kāšġarī; Mahmûd bin Hüseyin bin Muhammed El Kaşgari, Kaşgarlı Mahmûd; مەھمۇد قەشقىرى, Mehmud Qeshqiri, Мәһмуд Қәшқири) was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar.

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Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells Oliván (born 1942) is a Spanish sociologist especially associated with research on the information society, communication and globalization.

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Marcia Langton

Marcia Lynne Langton AM (born 31 October 1951, Brisbane, Australia) holds the Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne in the Faculty of Medicine.

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Marco Polo

Marco Polo (1254January 8–9, 1324) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice.

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Marinus of Tyre

Marinus of Tyre (Μαρῖνος ὁ Τύριος, Marînos o Týrios; 70–130) was a Greek or Hellenized, possibly Phoenician, geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography and provided the underpinnings of Claudius Ptolemy's influential Geography.

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Mark Bassin

Mark Bassin is a geographer and specialist on Russian and German geopolitics.

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Mark Monmonier

Mark Stephen Monmonier (born 2 February 1943) is a Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.

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Masahisa Fujita

is a Japanese economist who has studied regional science and Urban economics and International Trade, Spatial Economy (New Economic Geography).

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Megasthenes

Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, c. 350 – c. 290 BC) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat and Indian ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period.

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Michael Frank Goodchild

Michael Frank Goodchild (born February 24, 1944) is a British-American geographer.

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Michael Mortimore

Michael Mortimore (born 7 September 1937, Bermuda, died 10 September 2017) was a British geographer and a prolific researcher of issues in the African drylands.

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Michael Watts

Michael J. Watts (born 1951 in England) is "Class of 1963" Emeritus Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Mike Crang

Dr.

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Miles Ogborn

Professor Miles Ogborn is an influential human geographer at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Milton Santos

Milton Almeida dos Santos (born May 3, 1926 – June 24, 2001) was a Brazilian geographer who had a degree in law.

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Mohammad-Reza Hafeznia

Mohammad Reza Hafeznia (born 1955, Birjand, Iran) is a full professor of political geography in Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran.

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Muhammad al-Idrisi

Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti, or simply al-Idrisi (أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي القرطبي الحسني السبتي; Dreses; 1100 – 1165), was an Arab Muslim geographer, cartographer and Egyptologist who lived in Palermo, Sicily at the court of King Roger II.

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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

There is some confusion in the literature on whether al-Khwārizmī's full name is ابو عبد الله محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي or ابو جعفر محمد بن موسی الخوارزمی.

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Naomasa Yamasaki

was a Japanese geographer and regarded as the father of modern Japanese geography.

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Neil Smith (geographer)

Neil Robert Smith (18 June 1954 – 29 September 2012) was a Scottish geographer and academic.

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Nigel Thrift

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Oliver Edwin Baker

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Pytheas

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Reginald Golledge

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Richard Andree

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Richard Cathcart

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Richard Chorley

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Richard Francis Burton

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Richard G. Smith (geographer)

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Richard Hartshorne

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Richard Kiepert

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Richard Waller

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Robert Bailey (geographer)

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Robert Balling

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Robert E. Horton

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Robert Kates

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Roger Tomlinson

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Roland Bonaparte

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Ron Johnston (geographer)

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Royal Geographical Society

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Samuel de Champlain

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Sarah A. Radcliffe

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Saskia Sassen

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Scymnus

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Shen Kuo

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Simion Mehedinți

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Stepan Krasheninnikov

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Strabo

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Su Song

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Surname

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Sven Hedin

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Thomas E. Ross

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Thomas Holdich

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Thomas Hutchins

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Toni Hagen

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Torsten Hägerstrand

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Vasily Dokuchaev

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Václav Cílek

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Väinö Auer

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Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun

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Vladimir Obruchev

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Waldo R. Tobler

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Walter Behrmann

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Walter Christaller

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Walther Penck

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Wilbur Zelinsky

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Wilhelm Tomaschek

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William Bunge

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William E. Doolittle

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William G. Moseley

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William Garrison (geographer)

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William Gordon East

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William Lambton

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William Morris Davis

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William Roy

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Xoán Paredes

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Xu Xiake

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Ya'qubi

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Yaqut al-Hamawi

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Yi-Fu Tuan

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Yuly Shokalsky

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Yves Lacoste

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Zheng He

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Zonia Baber

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