Alexander von Humboldt
He was the first to suggest the theory that the landmasses of Latin America and Africa had been at one time connected.
Carl Ritter
He was especially famous for a nineteen-volume work that explained how earth’s physical structure influenced human activities.
He firmly believed that the physical nature of the earth affected how history unfolded.
Élisée Reclus
Reclus came up with the term social geography and wrote a 19-volume work entitled The Earth and Its Inhabitants.
Evelyn Stokes
a New Zealand geographer who worked for the inclusion of marginalized groups, especially women and the Maori people of New Zealand.
Walter Christaller
a German, produced groundbreaking work on urban space, studying how towns and cities interact with each other.
Doreen Massey
English geographer Massey worked with ideas on how poverty and wealth were determined by place, and she also specialized in Marxist and feminist geographies.