20th-century geographers

Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)

Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)

Soviet academic (1912-1992)

Serbian scientist (1865–1927)

Chinese-American geographer (1930-2022)

President of Paraguay (1897-1966)

Brazilian physician, writer and activist against world hunger (1908–1973)

Irish geographer (1938-2017)

Finnish geographer (1882-1956)

Japanese educator (1871-1944)

Estonian writer (1912-1977)

Estonian geographer and economist (1902–1978)

French professor (1869-1930)

American urban planner (1940–2015)

Australian geographer (1883–1965)

Finnish writer, poet, geographer and teacher (1893–1952)

Soviet soil scientist and geographer (1905-1985)

Brazilian geographer (1926-2001)

Spanish geographer and writer (1888-1976)

Russian geographer (1881-1963)

Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic ice researcher (1918-1999)

glaciologist

Czechoslovak geographer

Finnish geologist (1895-1981)

Spanish poet who wrote in Galician

Brazilian historian (1907-1990)

Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Geography at Penn State University (1932-2000)

Israeli geographer (1900–1988)

professor (1948-2008)

Slovene geographer (1890–1966)

Swiss geologist (1917–2003)

geographer, urban and land change scientist and professor at Yale University

Romanian writer (1900–1968)

Geographer and Circumnavigators of the globe (1889–1978)

geographer from Singapore

American geographer (1904-1953)

New Zealand geographer

Portuguese geographer (1911-1997)

Soviet geomorphologist and geologist (1905–1980)

stepfather of Barack Obama (1935–1987)

Finnish engineer, geologist, diplomat and professor (1881–1948)

Serbian and Macedonian geographer and anthropologist

Romanian sociologist and demographer

American geologist

Russian linguist

Spanish teacher

Historian and educator, Minister of Education of the Republic of China (1901-1985)

botanist (1896-1981)

Australian geographer (1932-2008)

Teacher, geographer (1893-1981)

Argentine cartographer and historian (1920–2007)

Australian military officer (1890–1972); Victoria Cross recipient

Indian geographer (1903-1989)

Chilean botanist, agricultural engineer and ecologist (1919-1997)

Hungarian geographer (1845–1917)

Japanese businessman and photographer (1881–1933)

Egyptian scholar (1928-1993)

Israeli geographer

Romanian geographer and writer (1885-1935)

German-Austrian explorer of Arabia (1885–1979)