Editing Geographer (section)

==Notable geographers==<!-- Please respect chronological order -->
{{Main|List of geographers|List of Graeco-Roman geographers}}
[[File:Gerardus Mercator3.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Gerardus Mercator]]]]
* [[Alexander von Humboldt]] (1769–1859)&nbsp;– published ''[[Cosmos (Humboldt)|Cosmos]]'' and founder of the sub-field biogeography.
* [[Arnold Henry Guyot]] (1807–1884)&nbsp;– noted the structure of glaciers and advanced understanding in [[Glacial motion|glacier motion]], especially in fast ice flow.
* [[Carl O. Sauer]] (1889–1975)&nbsp;– cultural geographer.
* [[Carl Ritter]] (1779–1859)&nbsp;– occupied the first chair of geography at Berlin University.
* [[David Harvey]] (born 1935)&nbsp;– Marxist geographer and author of theories on spatial and urban geography, winner of the [[Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud|Vautrin Lud Prize]].
* [[Doreen Massey (geographer)|Doreen Massey]] (1944–2016)&nbsp;– scholar in the space and places of [[globalization]] and its pluralities; winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
* [[Edward Soja]] (1940–2015)&nbsp;– worked on regional development, planning and governance and coined the terms [[synekism]] and postmetropolis; winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
* [[Ellen Churchill Semple]] (1863–1932)&nbsp;– first female president of the [[American Association of Geographers]].
* [[Jovan Cvijić]] (1865–1927)&nbsp;– Serbian geographer, geologist, sociologist and human geographer; father of the karst geomorphology
* [[Eratosthenes]] ({{circa|276|195/194 BC}})&nbsp;– calculated the size of the Earth.
* [[Ernest Burgess]] (1886–1966)&nbsp;– creator of the [[concentric zone model]].
* [[Gerardus Mercator]] (1512–1594)&nbsp;– cartographer who produced the [[Mercator projection]]
* [[John Francon Williams]] (1854–1911) – author of ''The Geography of the Oceans''.
* [[Karl Butzer]] (1934–2016)&nbsp;– German-American geographer, cultural ecologist and environmental archaeologist.
* [[Michael Frank Goodchild]] (born 1944)&nbsp;– GIS scholar and winner of the RGS founder's medal in 2003.
* [[Milton Santos]] (1926–2001)&nbsp;– became known for his pioneering works in several branches of geography, notably urban development in developing countries.
* [[Muhammad al-Idrisi]] ({{Langx|ar|أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي|links=no}}; Latin: Dreses) (1100–1165)&nbsp;– author of Nuzhatul Mushtaq.
* [[Nigel Thrift]] (born 1949)&nbsp;– originator of [[non-representational theory]].
* [[Paul Vidal de La Blache]] (1845–1918)&nbsp;– founder of the French school of geopolitics, wrote the principles of human geography.
* [[Ptolemy]] ({{Circa|100|170}})&nbsp;– compiled Greek and Roman knowledge into the book ''[[Geographia]]''.
* [[Radhanath Sikdar]] (1813–1870)&nbsp;– calculated the height of [[Mount Everest]].
* [[Roger Tomlinson]] (1933 – 2014)&nbsp;– the primary originator of modern [[geographic information systems]]. 
* [[Halford Mackinder]] (1861–1947)&nbsp;– co-founder of the [[London School of Economics]], [[Geographical Association]].
* [[Strabo]] (64/63 BC&nbsp;– {{Circa|AD 24}})&nbsp;– wrote ''[[Geographica]]'', one of the first books outlining the study of geography.
* [[Waldo Tobler]] (1930–2018)&nbsp;– coined the [[Tobler's first law of geography|first law of geography]].
* [[Walter Christaller]] (1893–1969)&nbsp;– human geographer and inventor of [[central place theory]].
* [[William Morris Davis]] (1850–1934)&nbsp;– father of American geography and developer of the [[cycle of erosion]].
* [[Yi-Fu Tuan]] (1930–2022)&nbsp;– Chinese-American scholar credited with starting [[Critical geography|humanistic geography]] as a discipline.