The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Japan
This page contains a list of the greatest Japanese Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 67 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Japan. This makes Japan the birth place of the 20th most number of Geographers behind Afghanistan and Serbia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Japanese Geographers of all time. This list of famous Japanese Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Inō Tadataka (1745 - 1818)
With an HPI of 51.96, Inō Tadataka is the most famous Japanese Geographer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Inō Tadataka (伊能 忠敬, February 11, 1745 - May 17, 1818) was a Japanese surveyor and cartographer. He is known for completing the first map of Japan using modern surveying techniques.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as geographers born between 1745 and 1745. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geographers include Inō Tadataka.
