The Most Famous

GEOGRAPHERS from Switzerland

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This page contains a list of the greatest Swiss Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 86 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.

Top 1

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 52.27, Arnold Henry Guyot is the most famous Swiss Geographer.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.

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

People

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

Deceased Swiss Geographers

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