This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 67 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.
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.
With an HPI of 50.79, Yi-Fu Tuan is the most famous Chinese Geographer. His biography has been translated into 19 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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as geographers born between 1930 and 1930. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geographers include Yi-Fu Tuan.