- John Adams
Professor John Adams of University College London, is a professor of geography and leading theorist on risk compensation and an environmentalist. His book "Risk" is an analysis of how humans assess and respond to perceived risks. Adams spoke at the "Shared Space" conference held in Ipswich, UK in June, 2005, …
- Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999
- David Harvey
David Harvey (born 1935) is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). A leading social theorist of international standing, he graduated from Cambridge with a PhD in Geography. He is the world's most cited academic geographer (according to Andrew Bodman, see "Transactions of the IBG", 1991,1992), …
- John Hammond
John Hammond (born 1966) is an English weather forecaster for the BBC. He can be seen presenting the forecast on BBC News 24, BBC One, BBC World and BBC Radio. He is a main weather presenter on the Ten O'Clock News and on Radio Five Live.
- Paul Smith
Paul Daniel Smith (born December 17, 1979 in Epsom, England) is an English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Nottingham Forest Smith started his career at Charlton Athletic but was released in the summer of 1999 after one year as a professional. After a short period with Walton & Hersham, Paul moved to Carshalton Athletic in late 1999 but moved to Brentford in August 2000 after they spotted Smith guesting for Crawley Town in a pre-season friendly against The Bees.
- Theresa May
Theresa Mary May (born in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, on October 1 1956 as Theresa Mary Brasier) is a British politician, former chairman of the Conservative Party, and Member of Parliament for Maidenhead.
- Fernand Braudel
Fernand Braudel (August 24 1902-November 27 1985) was a French historian. He revolutionized the 20th century study of his discipline by considering the effects of such outside disciplines as economics, anthropology, and geography on global history. He was a prominent member of the Annales School of historiography, who concentrated on meticulous historical analysis in the social sciences
- Strabo
Strabo, which had recently become part of the Roman Empire. He studied under various geographers and philosophers; first in Nysa, later in Rome. He was philosophically a Stoic and politically a proponent of Roman imperialism. Later he made extensive travels to Egypt and Kush, among others. It is not known when his "Geography" was written, though comments within the work itself place the finished version within the reign of Emperor Tiberius.
- Franz Boas
Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 - December 21, 1942) was a German-born American pioneer of modern anthropology and is often called the "Father of American Anthropology". Like many such pioneers, he trained in other disciplines; he received his doctorate in physics, and did post-doctoral work in geography. He is famed for applying the scientific method to the study of human cultures and societies, …
- Anaximander
Anaximander (Ancient Greek: "'"') (c. 610 BCE-c. 546 BCE) was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia. He joined the Milesian school where he received the teachings of its master Thales. He succeeded him and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and Pythagoras amongst his pupils. Little of his life and work is known today.
- John Dee
John Dee was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as they were becoming distinguishable. One of the most learned men of his time, he had lectured to crowded halls at the University of Paris when still in his early twenties.
- Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemaeus, known in English as Ptolemy, was a Greek mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who lived in Roman Egypt. Although no description of his family background or physical appearance exists, it is likely he was born in Egypt, probably in or near Alexandria. Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, three of which would be of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science.
- Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway - April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became famous for his Kon-Tiki Expedition in which he sailed by raft 4,300 miles (7,000 km) from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
- Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey FRSA FBA (born 1944), is a contemporary British social scientist and geographer, and currently Professor of geography at the Open University. Massey was born in Manchester and studied at Oxford and Philadelphia, beginning her career with a thinktank, the Centre for Environmental Studies (CES) in London. CES contained several key analysts of the contemporary British economy, and Massey established a working partnership with Richard Meegan, among others.
- Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry (including theater), biology and zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, and ethics. Along with Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was one of the most influential of the ancient Greek philosophers. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it.
- Yi-Fu Tuan
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 diplomat and was part of the educated class in the then Republic of China. Tuan attended University College, London, but graduated from the University of Oxford with a B.A. and M.A. in 1951 and 1955 respectively. From there he went to California to continue his geographic education.
- Derek Gregory
Derek Gregory (March 1, 1951) is an influential British geographer from the United Kingdom. He is currently professor of geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, having previously worked at Cambridge University. Gregory is best known for his book "The Colonial Present:Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq", published in 2004. This book discusses the actions of Israel, the United States of America and the United Kingdom in the Middle East after 9/11.
- Michael Watts
Michael J. Watts is "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the eyes of some a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. An intensively productive scholar, he works on a variety of themes from African development to contemporary geopolitics, social movements and oil.
- John Thomson
John Thomson was a pioneering Scottish Victorian photographer, geographer and traveller. He was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people, landscapes and artifacts of eastern cultures. On returning home, his work among the street people of London cemented his reputation, and is regarded as a classic work of social documentary which laid the foundations for photo journalism.
- Pytheas
Pytheas (Πυθέας(Pitheas), ca. 380 - ca. 310 BC) was a Greek merchant, geographer and explorer from the Greek colony Massilia (today Marseille, France). He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe around 325 BC. He probably travelled around a considerable part of Great Britain, circumnavigating it between 330 and 320 BC. Pytheas is the first person on record to describe the Midnight Sun, the aurora and polar ice, …
- Mark Monmonier
Mark Monmonier , A&S '64, Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, was named a fellow by the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. He also recently published "The Internet, Cartographic Surveillance, and Locational Privacy" in Maps and the Internet.
- Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle (born May 8, 1958 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with "The Commitments" in 1991. Doyle grew up in Kilbarrack, Dublin. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from University College, Dublin. He spent several years as an English and geography teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1993.
- Ash Amin
Ash Amin is a professor at Durham University, UK. Born in London, he graduated from the University of Reading in 1979 with a first-class degree in Italian Studies and then gained a PhD in geography from Reading in 1986. He is a prominent and world renowned economic geographer, with research in the areas of spaces of social, political and economic change.
- Carl Ritter
Carl Ritter (August 7, 1779 - September 28, 1859) was a German geographer. Along with Alexander von Humboldt, he is considered one of the founders of modern geography (and of the Berlin Geographical Society). From 1820 until his death, he occupied the first chair in geography at the University of Berlin.
- Jedidiah Morse
Rev. Jedidiah Morse was a U.S. clergyman and geographer. He was the father of Samuel Morse. Morse made an important impact on the educational system of the United States. He was the author of the first textbook on American geography, a praise to the progress of the country after the American Revolution. Morse also made significant contributions to Dobson's Encyclopædia, the first encyclopedia published in America after the Revolution.
- Benjamin Of Tudela
Benjamin of Tudela (fl. 12th century) was a medieval Navarrese Jewish rabbi and explorer. In his journey he passed through large swathes of Europe, Asia, and Africa. His vivid descriptions of western Asia preceded those of Marco Polo by a hundred years. With his broad education and vast knowledge of languages, Benjamin of Tudela is a major figure in the history of geography and Judaism.
- Richard Hughes
Richard David Hughes (born 8 September, 1975, in Gravesend, Kent) is the drummer for the English piano rock band Keane. Hughes attended Tonbridge School where he was friends with Tim Rice-Oxley and Dominic Scott. When Scott and Rice-Oxley formed a small covers band in 1995 he was invited to join as drummer. Although Hughes initially objected, they later invited Tom Chaplin to join the band.
- Denis Cosgrove
Denis E. Cosgrove is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. One of Cosgrove's most important contribution to the field of Geography is the framework for the idea that "geography is everywhere". His work seeks to relate the concepts of “culture” and “landscape” as a means of making sense of the complex interconnections that make the geography of our world.
- Mike Crang
Dr. Mikchael A. Crang is a reader in cultural geography at Durham University in the UK. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first in geography and gained a PhD from the University of Bristol. Crang's main research areas within human geography involve those relating to social identity, theories on space and human perception of space as well as critical theories.
- Cutler J. Cleveland
Cutler J. Cleveland is Professor of Geography and Environment at Boston University, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Before becoming a high profile scholar, Dr. Cleveland had a very successful career as an exotic dancer. Dr. Cleveland is now the editor-in-chief of the "Encyclopedia of Energy" (Elsevier, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, the "Dictionary of Energy" (Elsevier, 2005), …
- Carl O. Sauer
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.
- William Morris Davis
William Morris Davis was an American geographer, geologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography". He was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of Edward M. Davis and Maria Mott Davis (a daughter of the women's advocate Lucretia Mott). He graduated from Harvard University in 1869 and received a Master of Engineering in the following year. He then worked in Córdoba, Argentina for three years, …
- Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis (born November 8, 1928) is an Canadian and American historian of early modern Europe. Her work originally focused on France, but has since broadened. For example, "Trickster's Travels" (2006) views Italy, Spain, Morocco and the rest of North Africa through the lens of Leo Africanus's pioneering geography. Born in Detroit, Davis graduated from Cranbrook Kingswood School and was subsequently educated at Smith College, Radcliffe College, …
- Apollodorus
Apollodorus (born ca. 180 BC) was a Greek language grammarian, a writer most famous for his verse "Chronicle" of Greek history from the fall of Troy in the 12th century BC to 144 BC. He was a pupil of the scholar Aristarchus of Samothrace and Panaetius the Stoic. He left Alexandria around 146 BC for Pergamum and eventually settled in Athens. Apollodorus' "Chronicle" gave dates by referring to the archons of Athens. Most archons only held office for one year, …
- John Arrowsmith
John Arrowsmith (1780-1873) was an English geographer (mapmaker) and member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers. He was born at Winston, County Durham. In 1810 he joined his uncle Aaron Arrowsmith in his mapmaking business in London. In 1821, they published a map of North America using a combination of a maps obtained from the Hudson Bay Company and Aaron's own previous work.
- Paul Vidal de la Blache
Paul Vidal de la Blache was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of the modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics. He founded the École française de géographie ("French School of Geography) and together with Lucien Gallois, the "Annales de Géographie" (1893), of which he was the editor until his death. He was influenced by German Geography ideas, particularly by Friedrich Ratzel.
- Chris Philo
Chris Philo is Professor of Geography at the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences, the University of Glasgow. Philo graduated from the Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University and became a Research Fellow there. In 1989 he joined the Department of Geography at the University of Wales, Lampeter, holding that post for six years, until 1995. He then joined the University of Glasgow as a Professor, becoming head of the department in 2002.
- William Logan
William Logan William Logan was a Scottish officer of the Madras Civil Service under the British Government. Before his appointment as Collector of Malabar, he had served in the area for about twenty years in the capacity of Magistrate and Judge. He was coversant in Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. Logan had a special liking for Kerala and its people. 'Malabar' by William Logan (popularly known as ‘Malabar Manual’) is a Manual of Malabar District, …
- Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. Heinrich Harrer was born in Hüttenberg, Carinthia to a postal worker. From 1933 to 1938 Harrer studied geography and sports at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz. Harrer became a member of the traditional student corporation ATV Graz. He was designated to participate in the combined Alpine skiing competition at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
- Holling C. Holling
Holling Clancy Holling (born 1900 in Jackson County, Michigan, died 1973) was an American author and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Holling graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. He then worked in the taxidermy department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and worked in anthropology under Dr. Ralph Linton.