List of geographers

A

Hardo Aasmäe (Estonia, 1951–2014)

Aziz Ab'Saber (Brazil, born 1924)

Diogo Abreu (Portugal, born 1947)

Peter Adams (Canada, born 1936)

Agatharchides (Ancient Greece, 2nd century BC)

Agathedaemon of Alexandria (Ancient Greece, 2nd century AD)

John A. Agnew (British-American, born 1949)

A. W. Andrews (UK, 1868–1959)

Ash Amin (UK, born 1955)

Alypius of Antioch (Roman Empire, fl. c. 450)

Jacques Ancel (France, 1879–1943)

Karl Andree (Germany, 1808–1875)

Richard Andree (Germany, 1835–1912)

Aaron Arrowsmith (England, 1750–1823)

Väinö Auer (Finland, 1895–1981)

Félix de Azara (Spain, 1742–1821)

B

Zonia Baber (1862–1955)

Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876)

Robert Bailey

Oliver Edwin Baker (US, 1883–1949)

Abu Abdullah al-Bakri (1014–1094)

Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi (Persia, 850–934)

Robert Balling

Keith Barber

John George Bartholomew

Ibn Battuta (Morocco, 1304–1369)

Anthony Bebbington (born 1962)

Frederick William Beechey

Walter Behrmann

Charles Tilstone Beke

Lev Semenovich Berg

Luiza Bialasiewicz

Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī (Persia, 973–1048)

Joan Blaeu (Amsterdam 1596–1673)

Harm de Blij

Franz Boas

Prince Roland Bonaparte

Isaiah Bowman

Edward William Brayley

Harold Brookfield (born 1926)

John Brown (1797–1861)

Conrad Malte-Brun

William Bunge

Philip Burden

Sir Richard Francis Burton, Royal Geographical Society

C

Manuel Castells

Richard Cathcart

Andreas Cellarius

Samuel de Champlain

Chen Cheng-Siang Chen

George Chisholm

Richard Chorley

Walter Christaller (Germany 1893–1969)

Václav Cílek (Czech Republic, born 1955)

A. Rees Clark

Claudius Clavus (Claudus Claussøn Swart)

Philip Cluwer

Denis Cosgrove (England 1948–2008)

John Antony Cramer

George Cressey

James Croll

Mike Crang

Jovan Cvijić (Serbia 1865–1927)

D

Alexander Dalrymple

Jack Dangermond

William Morris Davis (US, 1850–1934)

Frank Debenham

John Dee (England, 1527–1608)

Félix Delamarche (France)

Jared Diamond (US, 1937)

Dicaearchus (Greece, c. 350–285 BC)

Peter Dicken

Frans Dieleman

Al-Dinawari (828–898)

Vasily V. Dokuchaev

William E. Doolittle

E

William Gordon East

Eratosthenes (Greece, 276–194 BC)

Lewis Evans

George Everest

F

Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th century)

Ghazi Falah

Ibn al-Faqih (10th century)

Abu al-Fida (Abulfeda) (Syria, 1273–1331)

J. Keith Fraser

Gemma Frisius (Netherlands, 1508–1555)

Masahisa Fujita

G

Alfons Gabriel

Johann Georg August Galletti

Paul Gallez

Francis Galton

Henry Gannett

Luis García Sáinz (Spain, 1894–1965)

Abu Said Gardezi (died 1061)

William Garrison

Artur Gavazzi (Croatia, Slovenia, 1861–1944)

Johann Gottlieb Georgi

John Alan Glennon

Johann Georg Gmelin

Reginald G. Golledge

Michael Frank Goodchild (born 1944)

Jean Gottman

Peter Gould

Derek Gregory

Lev Gumilev

Arnold Henry Guyot

H

Mohammad Reza Hafeznia (Iran)

Toni Hagen

Torsten Hägerstrand (Sweden, 1916–2004)

Peter Haggett

Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229)

Hamdani (893-945)

Cole Harris

Richard Hartshorne (United States, 1899–1992)

David Harvey (United States, Britain, born 1935)

Henri Hauser

Karl Haushofer

Ibn Hawqal (died after 977)

Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (Iraq, 965-1039)

Zheng He

John Heap

Sven Hedin (Sweden, 1865–1952)

Gamal Hemdan (Egypt, 1928–1993)

Alfred Hettner

Hipparchus (Greece, 190-120 BC)

Filip Hjulström (Sweden, 1092-1982)

Thomas Holdich

John Holmes

Johann Homann (Germany, 1664–1724)

J.F. Horrabin

Robert E. Horton

Carl Humann

Alexander von Humboldt (Germany, 1769–1859)

Ellsworth Huntington

Thomas Hutchins

I

Muhammad al-Idrisi (Dreses) (Islamic Spain, 1100–1166)

Cosmas Indicopleustes

J

Jane Jacobs

Kim Jeong-ho

Alexander Keith Johnston (1804-1871)

Alexander Keith Johnston (1844-1879)

Ron J. Johnston

Ibn Jubayr (1145–1217)

K

Felix Philipp Kanitz

Mahmud al-Kashgari (1005–1102)

Robert Kates

Ibn Khordadbeh (820-912)

Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (780-850)

Heinrich Kiepert

Richard Kiepert

Al-Kindi (Alkindus) (801-873)

Peter Knight

Grigorios Konstantas (1753-1844)

Peter Kozler

Stepan Krasheninnikov

Peter Kropotkin

L

Yves Lacoste

Joannes de Laet

William Lambton

Marcia Langton

Philippe Le Billon

Peirce F. Lewis

Liu An (China, 177-122 BC)

David Livingstone

M

Halford John Mackinder (UK, 1861–1947)

Ahmad Bin Majid (born 1432)

Conrad Malte-Brun

Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun

Kenneth Mason

Doreen Massey

Abu al-Hasan 'Alī al-Mas'ūdī (896-956)

Otto Maull

Megasthenes

Simion Mehedinți (Romania, 1868–1962)

D. W. Meinig

August Meitzen (Germany 1822-1910)

Anton Melik (Slovenia, 1890–1966)

Alfred Merz

Nicolae Milescu

Don Mitchell

Mark Monmonier

Jedidiah Morse

Michael Mortimore

William G. Moseley

Hamdollah Mostowfi (1281–1349)

Al-Muqaddasi (945-1000)

N

Christophe Neff

Joseph Nicollet

Pedro Nunes

O

Erich Obst

Vladimir Obruchev

Patrick O'Flanagan

Miles Ogborn

Kenneth Olwig

Gearóid Ó Tuathail

P

Joseph Partsch

Pasqualetti

Patrick Geddes

Pausanias (Greece, fl. c. 150)

Albrecht Penck

Walther Penck

Daniel Philippidis (c. 1750-1832)

Chris Philo

Marco Polo

Posidonius (Greece 135-51 BCE)

Allan Pred

John Robert Victor Prescott

Nikolai Przhevalsky

Pseudo-Scymnus

Ptolemy (Roman Egypt, c. 85 - 165)

Pytheas (Greece, fl. c. 360 BC)

R

Sarah A. Radcliffe

Friedrich Ratzel

Amin Razi (Persia, 16th century)

Elisee Reclus

Piri Reis (Turkey, 1465–1554)

James Rennell

Orlando Ribeiro (Portugal, 1911–1997)

Ferdinand Baron Von Richthofen (19th century)

Carl Ritter (Germany, 1779–1859)

Arthur H. Robinson

Joseph Rock

Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs

Bernard Romans

Thomas E. Ross

William Roy

Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (Islamic Spain, 1126–1198)

Ibn Rustah (Persia, died 903)

S

David Sadler

Milton Santos (Brazil, 1926—2001)

Saskia Sassen

Carl Sauer (US, 1889—1975)

Fred K. Schaefer (Berlin, Germany 1904-US, 1953)

Kurt Scharlau

Henry Schoolcraft

Leopold von Schrenck

Allen J Scott

Scymnus

Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky

Ellen Churchill Semple

Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton

Shen Kuo (China, 1031–1095)

Yuly Shokalsky

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (Persia, 980-1037)

Paul Allen Siple

Andrew Sluyter

Neil Smith

Richard_G_Smith

Edward Soja (Spain, 1942)

Su Song (China, 1020–1101)

Oskar Spate

John Speke, Royal Geographic Society

Evelyn Stokes (New Zealand, 1936–2005)

Strabo (Roman Empire, Greece, c. 63/64 - c. 24 BC)

Ulf Strohmayer

T

Andres Tarand (Estonia, born 1940)

Ralph Stockman Tarr

Peter J. Taylor

Nigel Thrift

Johann Heinrich von Thünen (Germany, 1783–1850)

Waldo R. Tobler

Wilhelm Tomaschek

Roger Tomlinson

George Trebeck

Emil Trinkler

Carl Troll

Yi-Fu Tuan (United States, China, born 1930)

Billie Lee Turner II

Marinos of Tyre

U

Edward Ullman

V

Paul Vidal de la Blache (France, 1845–1918)

Vasily Dokuchaev

W

Alfred Russel Wallace

Richard Waller

Michael Watts

Alfred Weber (Germany, 1868–1958)

Alfred Lothar Wegener

Gilbert F. White

Alan Wilson

Charles W. J. Withers

Denis Wood (United States, born 1945)

John Kirtland Wright

X

Xu Xiake

Y

Naomasa Yamasaki

Ya'qubi (died 897)

Z

Wilbur Zelinsky (United States, born 1921)

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann

Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz (Germany, 1881-1908)