The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Portugal
This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 67 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 24th most number of Geographers behind Denmark and China.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Geographers of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho (1869 - 1959)
With an HPI of 50.12, Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho is the most famous Portuguese Geographer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, GCTE, GCC (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkaɾluʒ ˈvjeɣɐʒ ˈɣaɣu koˈtĩɲu]; 17 February 1869 – 18 February 1959), generally known simply as Gago Coutinho, was a Portuguese geographer, cartographer, naval officer, historian and aviator. An aviation pioneer, Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral were the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air, in a journey from March to June 1922, started in Lisbon, Portugal, and finished in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using a seaplane variant of the British reconnaissance biplane Fairey III. In June 2022, the centenary of the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic, it was announced that Faro Airport will officially change its name to Gago Coutinho Airport.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as geographers born between 1869 and 1869. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geographers include Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho.
