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The following is a list of notable human geographers.

Alexander von Humboldt andCarl Ritter – considered to be among the founders of modern geography

• Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), one of the founders of modern geography. he traveled extensively and pioneered empirical research methods that would later develop primarily intobiogeography andphysical geography but also anticipatedpopulation geography andeconomic geography.Humboldt University of Berlin is named after von Humboldt and his brotherWilhelm von Humboldt.
• Carl Ritter (1779–1859), considered to be one of the founders of modern geography and first chair in geography at theHumboldt University of Berlin, also noted for his use of organic analogy in his works.^[1]
• Xavier Hommaire de Hell (1812–1848), research in Turkey, southern Russia and Persia
• Élisée Reclus (1830–1905), known for his monumental 19 volumeThe Earth and Its Inhabitants, he coined the termsocial geography and his thinking anticipated thesocial ecology andanimal rights movements, where he advocatedanarchism andveganism as part of an ethical life.
• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), one of the first radical geographers, he was a proponent ofanarchism and notable for his introduction of the concept ofmutual aid.
• Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904),environmental determinist, invented the termLebensraum
• Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918), founder of the French School ofgeopolitics andpossibilism.
• SirHalford John Mackinder (1861–1947), author ofThe Geographical Pivot of History, co-founder of theLondon School of Economics, along with theGeographical Association.
• Jovan Cvijić (1865–1927), a Serbian geographer and a world-renowned scientist. He started his scientific career as a geographer and geologist, and continued his activity as an anthropogeographer and sociologist.
• Carl O. Sauer (1889–1975), critic ofenvironmental determinism and proponent ofcultural ecology.
• Walter Christaller (1893–1969), economic geographer and developer of thecentral place theory.
• Richard Hartshorne (1899–1992), scholar of the history and philosophy of geography.
• Torsten Hägerstrand (1916–2004), key figure in thequantitative revolution andregional science, developer oftime geography and indirect contributor to aspects ofcritical geography.
• Milton Santos (1926–2001), winner of theVautrin Lud Prize in 1994, one of the most important geographers in South America.
• Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018), developer of theFirst law of geography.^[2]
• Gamal Hamdan (1928–1993), an Egyptian thinker, intellect and professor of geography. Best known forThe Character of Egypt, Studies of the Arab World, and The Contemporary Islamic World Geography, which form a trilogy on Egypt's natural, economic, political and cultural character and its position in the world.
• Yi-Fu Tuan (1930–2022), key figure behind the development of humanist and phenomenological geography and the most prominentChinese-American geographer. Recipient of theVautrin Lud Prize in 2012.
• David Harvey (born 1935), world's most cited academic geographer and winner of theLauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, also noted for his work incritical geography and critique ofglobal capitalism.
• Evelyn Stokes (1936–2005). Professor of geography at theUniversity of Waikato inNew Zealand. Known for recognizing inequality with marginalised groups including women andMāori using geography.
• Allen J. Scott (born 1938), winner ofVautrin Lud Prize in 2003 and the Anders Retzius Gold medal 2009; author of numerous books and papers on economic and urban geography, known for his work on regional development, new industrial spaces, agglomeration theory, global city-regions and the cultural economy.
• Edward Soja (1941–2015), noted for his work on regional development, planning and governance, and postmodern geographies, along with coining the termssynekism and postmetropolis.
• Doreen Massey (1944–2016), key scholar in the space and places ofglobalization and its pluralities, winner of theVautrin Lud Prize.
• Denis Cosgrove (1948–2008), Alexander von Humboldt Professor of geography atUCLA in California. Specialized in cultural geography and landscapes.
• Michael Watts, Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• Nigel Thrift (born 1949), developer ofnon-representational theory.^[3]
• Derek Gregory (born 1951), famous for writing on the Israeli, U.S. and UK actions in the Middle East after 9/11, influenced byEdward Said and has contributed work onimagined geographies.
• Cindi Katz (born 1954), who writes onsocial reproduction and the production of space. Writing onchildren's geographies, place and nature, everyday life and security.
• Gillian Rose (born 1962), most famous for her critique:Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge (1993), which was one of the first moves towards a development offeminist geography.

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