With 67 biographies, Geographers are the 74th most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Anthropologists, Cricketers, and Lawyers.
Pantheon has 74 people classified as geographers born between 276 BC and 1944. Of these 74, 2 (2.70%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living geographers include David Harvey and Vaclav Smil. The most famous deceased geographers include Eratosthenes, Strabo, and Alexander von Humboldt. As of April 2022, 8 new geographers have been added to Pantheon including Ibn Khordadbeh, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, and Jan Janssonius.
276 BC - 194 BC
HPI: 84.59
64 BC - 23
HPI: 81.05
1769 - 1859
HPI: 79.92
1512 - 1594
HPI: 76.63
1100 - 1165
HPI: 73.68
1470 - 1554
HPI: 72.28
110 - 180
HPI: 72.16
1779 - 1859
HPI: 68.98
1790 - 1866
HPI: 68.88
1527 - 1598
HPI: 68.83
1470 - 1520
HPI: 68.01
1833 - 1905
HPI: 65.87
820 - 912
HPI: 64.12
1485 - 1557
HPI: 50.74
1588 - 1664
HPI: 50.56
1587 - 1652
HPI: 49.58
1675 - 1726
HPI: 48.62
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.57
1654 - 1732
HPI: 44.03
1882 - 1956
HPI: 43.73
Most geographers were born in Germany (10), United Kingdom (7), and United States (7). By city, the most common birth places were Saint Petersburg (3), Venice (2), and Paris (2).The most common death places of geographers were Germany (11), United States (9), and France (6). By city, these were Berlin (4), Paris (4), and Amsterdam (4).
The earliest biographies classified as geographers in Pantheon are Strabo, Artemidorus Ephesius, and Eratosthenes. The concentration of geographers was largest during the Newspaper Era, which lasted from 1700 to 1899. Some birth or death locations for earlier geographers are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Which Geographers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Geographers since 1700.
Geographers are found within the Science & Technology domain which also includes Biologists, Mathematicians, Physicists, Astronomers, and Chemists.