The Most Famous
Geographers from Libya
This page contains a list of the greatest Libyans Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 86 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Libya. This makes Libya the birth place of the 13th most number of Geographers behind Poland and Sweden.
Top 1 Geographers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Libyans Geographers of all time. This list of famous Libyans Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Eratosthenes
276 BC - 194 BC
HPI 85.80101 langsEratosthenes is most famous for measuring the circumference of the Earth by comparing the shadows of two sticks in two different locations.
