The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Yemen
This page contains a list of the greatest Yemeni Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 86 Geographers, 1 of which were born in Yemen. This makes Yemen the birth place of the 21st most number of Geographers behind Serbia, and Japan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Yemeni Geographers of all time. This list of famous Yemeni Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani (893 - 945)
With an HPI of 54.25, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani is the most famous Yemeni Geographer. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī (Arabic: أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني, 279/280-333/334 A.H.; c. 893 – 947;) was an Arab Muslim geographer, chemist, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, from the tribe of Banu Hamdan, western 'Amran, Yemen. He was one of the best representatives of Islamic culture during the last period of the Abbasid Caliphate. His work was the subject of extensive 19th-century Austrian scholarship.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Yemeni geographers born between 893 and 893. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Yemeni geographers include Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani.
