The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Morocco
This page contains a list of the greatest Moroccan Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 86 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Morocco. This makes Morocco the birth place of the 26th most number of Geographers behind Japan, and Switzerland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Moroccan Geographers of all time. This list of famous Moroccan Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yves Lacoste (b. 1929)
With an HPI of 58.48, Yves Lacoste is the most famous Moroccan Geographer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Yves Lacoste (born 7 September 1929), is a French geographer, known for his political commitment and contributions to geopolitics. Born in Rabat, Morocco, the son of a geologist, Jean Lacoste, and a librarian, he spent his childhood in the city before continuing his secondary education at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux (Seine) and his higher education at the Sorbonne. After obtaining his post-graduate diploma on the geomorphology of the Rharb plain in Morocco, Lacoste passed the agrégation in geography in 1952. He began his teaching career at the Lycée Bugeaud in Algiers. A member of the French Communist Party and the Algerian Communist Party, he became actively involved in anti-colonial struggles. In 1955, forced to return to France by the principal of Lycée Bugeaud, Lacoste left the PCF in disagreement with its policy in Algeria. He became a member of the executive board of the Committee for the Independence of Europe. Parallel to his political activities, he continued his research in geography, notably on underdevelopment and the history of the Maghreb. As an assistant at the Institut de Géographie de Paris, Lacoste published several authoritative textbooks. In 1979, he obtained his doctorate with a thesis entitled "Unity and Diversity of the Third World". In 1989, he founded the Centre de recherches et d'analyses de géopolitiques, now the Institut français de géopolitique.Lacoste stands out for his innovative approaches to geography, integrating natural and political constraints into his analyses.He also published the journal Hérodote Internationally recognized, he was awarded the Vautrin-Ludd prize in 2000 for his contribution to geography.Throughout his career, Lacoste continued to teach and appear in the media on geopolitical issues. Close to socialism, he expresses critical views on the Islamist movement and defends secularism.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Moroccan geographers born between 1929 and 1929. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Moroccan geographers include Yves Lacoste. As of April 2024, 1 new Moroccan geographers have been added to Pantheon including Yves Lacoste.
