George Sandys

George Sandys

male, deceased (1644)
George Sandys (March 2, 1578 - March 1644), English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York....
Jimmy Lee

Jimmy Lee

male
Jimmy Lee is a Korean American journalist. He served as managing editor of KoreAm Journal from 1999 to 2007. Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and...
Nicolas Sanson

Nicolas Sanson

male, deceased (1667)
Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) was a French cartographer, wrongly termed by some the creator of French geography. He was born of an old Picardy family...
Ibn Jubayr

Ibn Jubayr

male, deceased (1217)
Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217) was an Arab-Spanish geographer, traveler, and poet.
Anton Melik

Anton Melik

male, deceased (1966)
Anton Melik was a Slovene geographer. Melik was born in a village Črna vas ("Black Village"), south of Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary, (today S...

Timothy F. Ball

male
Timothy Francis Ball, Ph.D., is a retired university professor and global warming skeptic. He heads the Natural Resources Stewardship Project and...

Aaron Arrowsmith

male, deceased (1823)
Aaron Arrowsmith (1750-1823) was an English geographer (mapmaker) and member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He moved to Soho Square,...
Al Hamdani

Al Hamdani

male
Mohammed al-Hassan al-Hamdani was one of the most important medieval scholars of Yemen. The biographic data of al-Hamdani is hardly well-known...
Brian Connell

Brian Connell

male
Brian David Connell, a New Zealand politician, has represented the New Zealand National Party in the New Zealand Parliament since 2002. Born in the...
Halford John Mackinder

Halford John Mackinder

male, deceased (1947)
Sir Halford John Mackinder PC (February 15 1861 - March 6 1947), was an English geographer and geopolitician. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's...