Geographers Geographers Abraham ben Jacob, better known under his Arabic name of Ibrahim ibn Yaqub was a 10th century Sephardi Jew, a traveller, merchant and chronicler from Moorish-ruled Ṭurṭūšah in Al-Andalus. Between 965 and 971 he travelled throughout Western and Central Europe. The memoirs and commentaries of this travel were later published in Abu Abdullah al-Bakri's Book of Highways and of Kingdoms. His work is best known as the first reliable description of the Polish state ruled by Mieszko I. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abraham ben Jacob"
Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Orthellius, Abraham Ortels, Abraham Wortels) ( April 14, 1527 - 1598) was a cartographer and geographer, credited as the creator of the modern atlas. He was born in Antwerp in modern Belgium. A member of the influential Ortelius family of Augsburg, he traveled extensively in Europe. He is specifically known to have traveled throughout the Seventeen Provinces; south and west Germany (e.g., 1560, 1575-1576); France (1559-1560); England and Ireland (1571), and Italy (1578, and perhaps twice or thrice between 1550 and 1558). ...more on Wikipedia about "Abraham Ortelius"
Abu Abdullah al-Bakri ( 1014– 1094) ( Arabic: أبو عبد الله البكري) was a Spanish- Arab geographer and historian. He was born in Huelva, the son of the governor of the province. Al-Bakri spent his entire life in Spain, living in Cordova, and never travelled to the locations of which he wrote. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abu Abdullah al-Bakri"
Alexander Dalrymple ( July 24, 1737 – June 19, 1808) was a Scottish geographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander Dalrymple"
Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596 – 1665) was a Dutch- German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major celestial atlas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andreas Cellarius"
Anton Melik ( January 1, 1890 – June 8, 1966) was a Slovene geographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anton Melik"
Artur Gavazzi ( October 14, 1861 – March 12, 1944) was a Croatian geographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Artur Gavazzi"
August Meitzen ( 1822 – 1910) was a German geographer widely acknowledged as the founder of rural settlement geography. Meitzen was the Prussian special commissioner for land consolidation, concerned with redrawing property lines so as to reduce farm fragmentation. ...more on Wikipedia about "August Meitzen"
Bernhardus Ernhard Varen Varenius (born 1622 in Hitzacker (near Lüneburg), Germany; died 1650) was a German geographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernhardus Varenius"
Carl Ortwin Sauer ( December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer. He was born in Warrenton, Missouri and graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1915. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957 and was instrumental in the early development of the geography graduate school at Berkeley. One of his most well known works was Agricultural Origins and Dispersals(1952). ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl O. Sauer"
Cheng-Siang Chen is a famous geographer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chen Cheng-Siang Chen"
David Harvey (b. 1935) is a Marxist geographer. He is the world's most cited academic geographer, and the author of many books and essays that have been central to the development of geography as a discipline. His work has also contributed to broader social and political debate, particularly in the development of urban studies which, he argues, must draw on geography and the study of space. His career has seen him move through three areas of geographical enquiry. While excelling at each, he is best known for 35 years of commitment to Marxism and radical geography. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Harvey (geographer)"
Élisée Reclus ( March 15, 1830 - July 4, 1905) was a French geographer and anarchist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Élisée Reclus"
Ellen Churchill Semple ( January 8, 1863, Louisville, Kentucky – May 8, 1933, West Palm Beach, Florida) was an American geographer. She was a prominent supporter of environmental determinism, a theory that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture. Semple studied with German geographer Friedrich Ratzel before coming to teach at Clark University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ellen Churchill Semple"
Eratosthenes (Ερατοσθένης) ( 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him 'Beta' because he was the second best in the world in many subjects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eratosthenes"
Friedrich Ratzel ( August 30, 1844, Karlsruhe, Baden – August 9, 1904, Ammerland) was a German geographer and ethnographer, notable for coining the term Lebensraum ("living space"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Friedrich Ratzel"
Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) is an international honor society in geography. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gamma Theta Upsilon"
Guido of Ravenna ?or Guido of Pisa? (birth unknown – death July 9, 1169), geographer, entomologist and historian from Ravenna. Wrote e.g. Géographica, the encyklopedia including maps of Italy and the world. One map dated to 1119 A.D. refers to some earlier maps ("Anonymous Geographer from Ravenna") from the Crusading Age. His knowledge seems to be unknown outside Italy until 19th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guido of Ravenna"
Harm de Blij (pronounced "duh BLAY") is one of the world's most prominent geographers. He's recognizable to Americans as the former geography editor on ABC's " Good Morning America." He is a former editor of National Geographic magazine and the author of several books, including "Why Geography Matters." ...more on Wikipedia about "Harm de Blij"
Heinrich Kiepert ( July 31, 1818 - April 21, 1899), German geographer, was born at Berlin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heinrich Kiepert"
Hipparchus ( Greek Ἳππαρχος) (ca. 190 BC – ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hipparchus (astronomer)"
Honorius Augustodunensis (died c. 1151) was a very popular 12th century Christian theologian who wrote prolifically on many subjects. He wrote in a non-scholastic manner, with a lively style, and his works were approachable for the lay community in general. He was, therefore, something of a popularizer of clerical learning. ...more on Wikipedia about "Honorius Augustodunensis"
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta ( Arabic: أبوعبدﷲ محمد إبن بطوطة) (born February 24, 1304; year of death uncertain, possibly 1368 or 1377) was born in Tangier, Morocco during the time of Merinid Sultanate rule in the Islamic calendar year 703, into a Berber family. He was a Sunni Islamic scholar and jurisprudent from the Maliki Madhhab (a school of Fiqh, or Sunni Islamic law), and at times a Qadi or judge. However, he is best known as an extensive traveller or explorer, whose account documents his travels and side-excursions over a period of almost thirty years, covering some 73,000 miles (117,000 km). This journeying covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, extending also to present-day India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia and China, a distance readily surpassing that of his prior, near-contemporary and traveller Marco Polo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ibn Battuta"
Abu'l Qasim Ubaid'Allah ibn Khordadbeh ( Persian: أبوالقسيم عويدﷲ إبن خردادبه)(c. 820 – 912 CE) was a Muslim geographer and bureaucrat of the 800's CE. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ibn Khordadbeh"
Jack Dangermond is the co-founder and president of ESRI, a privately-held Geographic Information Systems software company that is headquartered in Redlands, California. In 1969, he co-founded ESRI with his wife, Laura. Originally, the company concentrated on land use analysis, but increasingly focused on developing GIS software. ESRI became a leader in the GIS industry during the 1980s and remains dominant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jack Dangermond" I wish I had a http://www.shortopedia.com.
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