Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes

male
Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for...

David Harvey

male, 74 years old
David Harvey (born 1935) is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). A leading...
Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

male, deceased (1859)
(September 14, 1769, Berlin – May 6, 1859, Berlin) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ph...
Strabo

Strabo

deceased (24)
Strabo, which had recently become part of the Roman Empire. He studied under various geographers and philosophers; first in Nysa, later in Rome. He...
Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

male, 72 years old
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works...
Hipparchus

Hipparchus

male
Hipparchus (Greek ; ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born...

Neil Smith

male
Neil Smith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography and Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate...
Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius

male, deceased (1598)
Abraham Ortelius appeared before the end of 1572; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' death in 1598; and several others were published...
John Adams

John Adams

male
Professor John Adams of University College London, is a professor of geography and leading theorist on risk compensation and an environmentalist....
Yi-Fu Tuan

Yi-Fu Tuan

male, 78 years old
Yi-Fu Tuan, born 5 December 1930) is a Chinese-American geographer. Tuan was born in 1930 in Tientsin, China. He was the son of a middle-class...