The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 67 Geographers, 2 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 11th most number of Geographers behind Italy and Netherlands.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Geographers of all time. This list of famous Iranian Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ibn Khordadbeh (820 - 912)
With an HPI of 64.12, Ibn Khordadbeh is the most famous Iranian Geographer. His biography has been translated into 35 different languages on wikipedia.
Abu'l-Qasim Ubaydallah ibn Abdallah ibn Khordadbeh (Arabic: ابوالقاسم عبیدالله ابن خرداذبه; 820/825–913), commonly known as Ibn Khordadbeh (also spelled Ibn Khurradadhbih; ابن خرددة), was a high-ranking bureaucrat and geographer of Persian descent in the Abbasid Caliphate. He is the author of the earliest surviving Arabic book of administrative geography.
2. Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203 - 1283)
With an HPI of 59.20, Zakariya al-Qazwini is the 2nd most famous Iranian Geographer. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Zakariyya' al-Qazwini (full name: Abū Yaḥyā Zakariyyāʾ ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī, Arabic: أبو يحيى زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود القزويني), also known as Qazvini (Persian: قزوینی), (born c. 1203 in Qazvin, Iran and died 1283), was a cosmographer and geographer. He belonged to a family of jurists originally descended from Anas bin Malik (a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad) which had been well established in Qazvin long before al-Qazwini was born. His most famous work is the ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʾib al-mawjūdāt (lit. 'Wonders of the Creation and Unique [phenomena] of the Existence'), a seminal work in cosmography. He is also the author of the geographical dictionary Āthār al-bilād wa-akhbār al-ʿibād (lit. 'Monuments of the Lands and Historical Traditions about Their Peoples').
Pantheon has 2 people classified as geographers born between 820 and 1203. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geographers include Ibn Khordadbeh and Zakariya al-Qazwini. As of April 2022, 1 new geographers have been added to Pantheon including Ibn Khordadbeh.
