The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Iraq
This page contains a list of the greatest Iraqi Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 67 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Iraq. This makes Iraq the birth place of the 15th most number of Geographers behind Sweden and Libya.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iraqi Geographers of all time. This list of famous Iraqi Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ya'qubi (801 - 898)
With an HPI of 63.17, Ya'qubi is the most famous Iraqi Geographer. His biography has been translated into 36 different languages on wikipedia.
ʾAbū l-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his nisba al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab Muslim geographer.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as geographers born between 801 and 801. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geographers include Ya'qubi.
