The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from China
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 86 Geographers, 1 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the 23rd most number of Geographers behind Yemen, and Denmark.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Geographers of all time. This list of famous Chinese Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yi-Fu Tuan (1930 - 2022)
With an HPI of 53.85, Yi-Fu Tuan is the most famous Chinese Geographer. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Yi-Fu Tuan (Chinese: 段義孚; December 5, 1930 – August 10, 2022) was a Chinese-born American geographer and writer. He was one of the key figures in human geography and arguably the most important originator of humanistic geography.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Chinese geographers born between 1930 and 1930. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Chinese geographers include Yi-Fu Tuan.
