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The Most Famous

GEOGRAPHERS from Switzerland

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This page contains a list of the greatest Swiss Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 67 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Switzerland. This makes Switzerland the birth place of the 28th most number of Geographers behind Luxembourg and Finland.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Swiss Geographers of all time. This list of famous Swiss Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Arnold Henry Guyot (1807 - 1884)

With an HPI of 42.59, Arnold Henry Guyot is the most famous Swiss Geographer.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Arnold Henry Guyot ( ghee-OH) (September 28, 1807 – February 8, 1884) was a Swiss-American geologist and geographer.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as geographers born between 1807 and 1807. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased geographers include Arnold Henry Guyot.

Deceased Geographers

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