Influential Geographers

 

Please Note:  This is only a partial list, but is a good starting point nonetheless. The categories (physical, urban, etc.) should be considered only general approximations of the nature of a person's work in geography. The rest is for you to discover!

 

Quick links to categories:  Cartography/Remote Sensing/GIS, Cultural Ecology/Resource Management, Cultural/Human/Ethnic, Economic/Development, Education, Geographic Thought/Philosophy, Historical, Political, Physical, Social Theory, Regional Studies, Behavioral/Perception, Theoretical/Mathematical, Urban, Women’s Studies/Gender, Others

 

Names in red have been claimed.

 

Cartography/ Remote Sensing/GIS

John (Jack) Estes

Michael Goodchild

John R. Jensen

Mei-Po Kwan

Mark Monmonier

Erwin Raisz (BB-vol. 6)

Arthur Robinson

Edward J. Taaffe

Norman Thrower

Waldo Tobler

Dana Tomlin

Roger Tomlinson

David Woodward

 

Cultural Ecology/Resource Management

Harlan Barrows

Harold C. Brookfield

Karl Butzer

Judith Carney

Susan Cutter

William Denevan

Jared Diamond

William Doolittle

Susanna Hecht

Robert Kates

George Perkins Marsh

James Parsons

Paul Robbins

T. Griffith Taylor (BB-vol. 3)

Billy Lee Turner II

Michael Watts

Gilbert F. White

 

Cultural/Human/Ethnic

James Allen

Kay Anderson

Daniel Arreola

Dmitry Nikolaevich (D.N.) Anuchin (BB-vol. 2)

Jean Brunhes

Vidal de la Blache

James Duncan

Ruth Wilson Gilmore [ethnicity, social justice]

Susan Hardwick

John Brinckerhoff (J.B.) Jackson

Terry G. Jordan

Fred Kniffen

Lily Kong

Don Mitchell

Ines Miyares

Carl O. Sauer

Wilbur Zelinsky

 

Economic/Development

Nikolay N. Baranskiy (BB-vol. 10)

Brian J.L. Berry

George G. Chisholm

Amy Glasmeier

J. Paul Goode (BB-vol. 8)

Harold Innis

Walter Isard

Walter Kollmorgen

Duane Marble

Kavita Pandit

J. Russell Smith

Johann Heinrich Von Thünen

 

Education

Sarah Bednarz

Barry Bishop

Richard Boehm

Harm de Blij

Kenneth Foote

Charles F. Gritzner

A. David Hill

Mark Jefferson

Salvatore [Sam] J. Natoli

William Pattison

Christopher L. Salter

 

Geographic Thought/Philosophy

Anne Buttimer

Gary Dunbar

Clarence Glacken

Richard Hartshorne

Preston James (BB-vol. 11)

R. J. [Ron] Johnston

Immanuel Kant (BB-vol. 4)

Fred Lukermann

Geoffrey Martin

Ellen Semple (BB-vol. 8)

Neil Smith

John Kirtland Wright

 

Historical

Albert Perry (A.P.) Brigham (BB-vol. 2

Ralph Brown (BB-vol. 9)

Andrew Clark

Michael P. Conzen

H. Clifford (H.C.) Darby

Carville Earle

Richard Francaviglia

Cole Harris

John Jakle

Jeanne Kay

David Lowenthal

Donald Meinig

Karen Morin

Petr P. S. Tyan-Shanski

Robert C. West

David Wishart

 

Political

John Agnew

Isaiah Bowman (BB-vol. 1)

Jean Gottman

Halford Mackinder (BB-vol. 9)

Sallie Marston

Richard Morrill

John O’Loughlin

Gearóid Ó Tuathail (Gerard Toal)

Friederich Ratzel (BB-vol. 11)

Nicholas Spykman

Lynn Staeheli

Samuel Van Valkenburg

Immanuel Wallerstein

Derwent Whittlesey

 

Physical/Geomorphology/Climate

Wallace Atwood (BB-vol. 3)

Lev Semenovich (L.S.) Berg (BB-vol. 5)

William Morris Davis (BB-vol. 5)

Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev (BB-vol. 4)

Nevin M. Fenneman (BB-vol. 10)

Grove K. Gilbert (BB-vol. 1)

Alfred Hettner (BB-vol. 6)

Vladimir Köppen

Melvin Marcus

Emmanuel de Martonne

Tom McKnight

Albrecht Penck (BB-vol. 7)

Rollin D. Salisbury (BB-vol. 6)

Mary Somerville (BB-vol. 2)

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (BB-vol. 3)

Arthur Strahler

C. Warren Thornthwaite

Alexander Voeikov (BB-vol. 2)

Alfred Russel Wallace (BB-vol. 8)

 

Social Theory

Audrey Kobayahsi

Michel Foucault

David Harvey

Henri LeFebevre

Richard Peet

Neil Smith

Edward Soja

Richard Walker

 

Regional Studies

Andrew J. Herbertson (BB-vol. 3)

Robert S. Platt (BB-vol. 3)

Joseph Spencer

Glenn Trewartha

 

Behavioral/Perception

Reginald Golledge

Peter Gould

Yi-Fu Tuan

Julian Wolpert

 

Theoretical/Mathematical

William Bunge

Leslie Curry

William L. Garrison

Arthur Getis

Torsten Hägerstrand

 

Urban/Urban Planning/Land Use

John S. Adams

John R. Borchert

Walter Christaller (BB-vol. 7)

Charles Colby (BB-vol. 6)

Patrick Geddes (BB-vol. 2)

Patricia Gober

Harold Mayer

Allan R. Pred

L. Dudley Stamp

Edward Ullman

David Ward

 

Women’s Studies/Gender

Millicent Todd Bingham (BB-vol. 11) [literature]

Mona Domosh [cultural/historical; urban]

Susan Hanson [urban; economic]

Cindi Katz [social theory; society and space]

Martha Krug-Genthe [geographic education]

Hildegard Binder Johnson [historical; geographic education]

Victoria Lawson [economic; political]

Doreen Massey [regional development; globalization]

Linda McDowell [economic]

Janice Monk [social; cultural]

Marion Newbigin [Europe; biology; animal geography]

Judy Olson [GIS; cartography]

Risa Palm [hazards]

Gillian Rose [visual culture]

 

 

Others

Benedict Anderson

Pierre Bourdieu

Lawrence A. Brown

William Cronon

Stuart Hall

David Lowenthal

Gilbert H. Grosvenor

Peter Haggett

John Fraser Hart

Ellsworth Huntington

Mikhail V. Lomonosov (BB-vol. 6)

John Wesley Powell

élisée Réclus (BB-vol. 3)

Carl Ritter (BB-vol. 5)

Raymond Williams

Alexander von Humboldt

 

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