Hernando de Alarcón

male
spanish conquistador, spanish, Francisco Vasquéz de Coronado, Melchior Díaz, New Spain, Island of California…map
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, a Spanish navigator of the 16th century, noted for having led an early expedition to the peninsula of Baja California, m...

Jean-Étienne Guettard

male, deceased (1786)
Mineralogist, Geologist, plant, soil, French, Naturalist…map
Jean-Étienne Guettard, French naturalist and mineralogist, was born at Etampes. In boyhood, he gained a knowledge of plants from his grandfather, w...
Cline Paden

Cline Paden

male, deceased (2007)
Abilene Christian University, Church of Christ, from Texas, bermuda, missionary, el salvador…map
Cline Rex Paden (August 22, 1919 - May 26, 2007) was a prominent Church of Christ evangelist and missionary who, in 1962, founded what became the...
Johannes Stabius

Johannes Stabius

male
Renaissance humanist, Werner map projection, 17th century, scientist, Austrian, 16th century…map
Johannes Stabius (Johann Stab) (died 1522) was an Austrian cartographer of Vienna who developed, around 1500, the heart-shape (cordiform)...
Michael Hertz Associates

Michael Hertz Associates

male
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, abstract art, Nobu Siraisi, abstract design, mass transit system, Graphic design studios…map
Michael Hertz Associates (MHA) is a New York City graphic design firm, best known for its 1979 design of the New York City subway map and the...
Giovanni Lucio

Giovanni Lucio

male, deceased (1679)
De regno Dalmatiae et Croatiae, The Kingdom of Dalmatia and Croatia, Italian, dalmatia, map, croatian
Giovanni Lucio ; September, 1604 - January 11, 1679, was a historian from Dalmatia. His greatest and most famous work is "De regno Dalmatiae et...

William Arveson

male (Berkeley, California, United States)
University of California, Berkeley, completely positive map, University of California, Los Angeles, operator algebra, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, von-Neumann…map
William Arveson is a mathematician specializing in operator algebras. He is currently professor of Mathematics at the University of California,...

Dimitrija Čupovski

male, deceased (1940)
writer, macedonian, Russian, dictionary, monograph, macedonia…map
Dimitrija Čupovski was a Macedonian textbook writer and lexicographer. He is one of the founders of the of the Macedonian Literary Society and its P...

Eugène Michel Antoniadi

male, deceased (1944)
centimeter, telescope, Asia Minor, map, opposition, Astronomer
Eugène Michel Antoniadi was a Greek astronomer, born in Asia Minor, who spent most of his life in France. He was also known as Eugenios A...

Guido Of Ravenna

male, deceased (1169)
Geographer, historian, Entomologist, Italian, scientist, encyclopedia…map
Guido of Ravenna "?or Guido of Pisa?" (birth unknown - death July 9, 1169), geographer, entomologist and historian from Ravenna. Wrote e.g....