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Geographers and cartographers

Abraham Ortelius
16th-century cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer
Arno Peters
German historian and filmmaker
Carl Ritter
German geographer (1779-1859)
Charles Marie de La Condamine
French explorer, geographer, and mathematician (1701-1774)
Clements Markham
British geographer (1830–1916)
Cosmas Indicopleustes
6th-century Greek traveller and merchant
Don Walsh
American oceanographer
George Everest
British surveyor and geodesist
Gerardus Mercator
16th-century geographer, cosmographer and cartographer
Guillaume Delisle
17th and 18th-century French cartographer
Halford Mackinder
English geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy
Heinrich Harrer
Austrian mountaineer and author (1912–2006)
Jacques Piccard
Swiss oceanographer (1922–2008)
James Gall
British priest
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
Jodocus Hondius
Flemish and Dutch engraver and cartographer (1563–1612)
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel
Martin Behaim
German cartographer
Martin Waldseemüller
German cartographer
Matthias Ringmann
German cartographer
Muhammad al-Idrisi
Muslim geographer (1100–1165)
Oronce Fine
French mathematician and cartographer (*1494 – †1555)
Pausanias (geographer)
2nd-century AD Greek geographer
Piri Reis
Turkish admiral and cartographer
Pomponius Mela
1st century AD Roman geographer
Strabo
Greek geographer, philosopher and historian
Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
Wladimir Köppen
Russian–German meteorologist (1846–1940)
Yaqut al-Hamawi
12th and 13th-century Arab bibliographer and geographer