- Eratosthenes (276BC - 194BC) - calculated the size of the Earth.
- Ptolemy (c.90–c.168) - compiled Greek and Roman knowledge into the book Geographia.
- Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) - innovative cartographer produced the mercator projection
- Alexander Von Humboldt (1769–1859) - Considered Father of modern geography, published the Kosmos and founder of the sub-field biogeography.
- Carl Ritter (1779-1859) - Considered Father of modern geography. Occupied the first chair of geography at Berlin University.
- Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884) - noted the structure of glaciers and advanced understanding in glacier motion, especially in fast ice flow.
- William Morris Davis (1850-1934) - father of American geography and developer of the cycle of erosion.
- Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845-1918) - founder of the French school of geopolitics and wrote the principles of human geography.
- Sir Halford John Mackinder (1861-1947) - Co-founder of the LSE, Geographical Association of which he later became president, Reading University and author of The Geographical Pivot of History and Heartland Theory.
- Walter Christaller (1893-1969) - human geographer and inventor of Central Place Theory.
- Yi-Fu Tuan (1930-) - Chinese-American scholar credited with starting Humanistic Geography as a discipline.
- David Harvey (1935-) - Marxist geographer and author of theories on spatial and urban geography.
- Michael Frank Goodchild (1944-) - prominent GIS scholar and winner of the RGS founder’s medal in 2003.
- Nigel Thrift (1949-) - originator of non-representational theory
Wikibit: Geographers of note
October 27th, 2007 | geography, wiki
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