Bradford Washburn

Bradford Washburn

male, deceased (2007)
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. was an explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer extraordinaire. He was the director of the Boston Museum...
Michael Servetus

Michael Servetus

male, deceased (1553)
Michael Servetus (also Miguel Servet or Miguel Serveto; 29 September, 1511 - 27 October, 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician and humanist....
Robert Balling

Robert Balling

male
Robert C. Balling, Jr. is the former director of the Office of Climatology and is a professor of geography at Arizona State University. He received...

Helen Young

female
Helen Young is an English weather forecaster and television presenter. Born in Crawley, West Sussex, Young attended the Old Palace School in...

Nick Middleton

male
Nick Middleton is a physical geographer and supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He specialises in desertification. Nick Middleton...

William Barr

male
William (Bill) Barr is a Scottish historian now resident of Calgary, Canada, with a specific interest in the history of exploration of the Arctic,...
Ronald D. Liebowitz

Ronald D. Liebowitz

male
Ronald D. Liebowitz was appointed as the 16th president of Middlebury College in April 2004. He succeeded John M. McCardell Jr . , who stepped down...
Henry Schoolcraft

Henry Schoolcraft

male, deceased (1864)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793-December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of...
Tim Severin

Tim Severin

male, 69 years old
Tim Severin was born in India in 1940. While still a student of Geography and History at Tonbridge School and Oxford University he embarked on the...

Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen

female
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen is a Reader in Geography at the University of Hull. She has been editor of "Energy and Environment" since 1996. She is a...