Dai Zhen

Dai Zhen

male, deceased (1777)
Dai Zhen was a notable scholar of the Qing Dynasty from Xiuning in Anhui province. A versatile scholar, he made great contributions to mathematics,...

Bernhardus Varenius

male, deceased (1650)
Bernhardus Ernhard Varen Varenius (born 1622 in Hitzacker (near Lüneburg), Germany; died 1650) was a German geographer. His early years (from 1...

Jovan Cvijić

male, deceased (1927)
Jovan Cvijić was a Serbian geographer, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences, and rector of the University of Belgrade.
Andres Tarand

Andres Tarand

male, 69 years old
Andres Tarand (born 11 January 1940 in Tallinn), is an Estonian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party,...

Peter Dwyer

male
Dr. Peter Dwyer is a member of the School of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne. He is credited as...

James Maury

male
Reverend James Maury was born in Dublin, Ireland was Matthew Fontaine Maury's grandfather, the young Thomas Jefferson's teacher in his "Classical...
Sarah A. Radcliffe

Sarah A. Radcliffe

female
Dr. Sarah A. Radcliffe is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge. She is an editor at the Progress in Human...
Christian Zeller

Christian Zeller

male, deceased (1899)
Julius Christian Johannes Zeller (24 June 1822, Mühlhausen am Neckar - 31 May 1899, Cannstatt) was a German mathematician. Originally trained in m...
Rafe de Crespigny

Rafe de Crespigny

male, 73 years old
Dr Rafe de Crespigny (full name: Richard Rafe Champion de Crespigny; born 1936) is a retired Adjunct Professor with the China and Korea Centre,...
Vanessa Collingridge

Vanessa Collingridge

female
Vanessa Collingridge is an author and broadcaster. She is the youngest of five children born in Oxfordshire to a Scottish mother and half Irish...