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George Washington
George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War against the British Empire. He is commonly known as the Father of His Country for his role in bringing about American independence.
Marie Tharp
American oceanographer and cartographer (1920–2006)
Fanny Bullock Workman
American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer (1859–1925)
Jay Gould
American railroad magnate and financier (1836-1892)
William Henry Holmes
American academic, painter and illustrator (1846-1933)
Arthur H. Robinson
American geographer (1915-2004)
William H. Emory
Union Army general (1811-1887)
John Mitchell
colonial American doctor and botanist (1711-1768)
Karen Wynn Fonstad
American cartographer, academic (1945–2005)
Bradford Washburn
American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (1910–2007)
Waldo R. Tobler
American geographer (1930–2018)
Simeon De Witt
American geographer and surveyor general
William Robert Shepherd
American cartographer and historian (1871–1934)
Bernard Romans
Dutch-American navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer (1741-1784)
Arthur Carl Victor Schott
German-American artist, topographical engineer, cartographer, botanist and geologist (1814–1875)
Irene Fischer
Austrian mathematician (1907-2009)
Jo Mora
American artist, photographer and writer (1876-1947)
John Paul Goode
American cartographer (1862-1932)
Erwin Raisz
Hungarian-born American cartographer
George Wheeler
American cartographer (1842-1905)
Raleigh E. Colston
American general (1825–1896)
Jedediah Hotchkiss
Confederate Army officer cartographer, and topographer (1828–1899)
Henry Pelham
American born British-Irish painter and engraver (1749-1806)
Osborn Maitland Miller
Scottish-American cartographer, surveyor, photographer and botanical collector
Bob Waldmire
American artist
Kate Edwards
American geographer
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
Grafton Tyler Brown
American artist and cartographer (1841-1918)