List of geodesists

• Pythagoras 580–490 BC (ancient Greece)^[1]
• Eratosthenes 276–194 BC (ancient Greece)
• Hipparchus c. 190–120 BC (ancient Greece)
• Posidonius c. 135–51 BC (ancient Greece)
• Menelaus of Alexandria c. AD 70–140 (ancient Greece)
• Claudius Ptolemy c. AD 83–168 Roman Empire (Roman Egypt
  )
• Al-Ma'mun 786–833 (Iraq/Mesopotamia)
• Samanid Dynasty
  )
• Arabia
  /Sicily)
• Regiomontanus 1436–1476 (Germany/Austria)
• Abel Foullon 1513–1563 or 1565 (France)
• Pedro Nunes 1502–1578 (Portugal)
• Gerhard Mercator 1512–1594 (Belgium/Germany)
• Snellius (Willebrord Snel van Royen) 1580–1626 (Netherlands)
• Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695 (Netherlands)
• Pierre Bouguer 1698–1758 (France & Peru)
• Pierre de Maupertuis
  1698–1759 (France)
• Alexis Clairaut 1713–1765 (France)
• Johann Heinrich Lambert 1728–1777 (France)
• Venetian Republic
  )
• Pierre Méchain 1744–1804 (France)
• Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749–1822 (France)
• Ino Tadataka
  1745–1818 (Japan)
• Georg von Reichenbach
  1771–1826 (Germany)
• Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749–1827 (France)
• Adrien-Marie Legendre 1752–1833 (France)
• Johann Georg von Soldner 1776–1833 (Germany)
• George Everest 1790–1866 (England/India)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
  1784–1846 (Germany)
• Heinrich Christian Schumacher 1780–1850 (Germany/Russian Empire)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855 (Germany)
• Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve
  1793–1864 (Russian Empire)
• Johann Jacob Baeyer 1794–1885 (Germany)
• George Biddell Airy 1801–1892 (England)
• Carl Christopher Georg Andræ
  1812–1893 (Denmark)
• Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind 1818–1894 (Germany)
• Wilhelm Jordan 1842–1899 (Germany)
• Hervé Faye 1814–1902 (France)
• George Gabriel Stokes
  1819–1903 (England)
• Carlos Ibáñez e Ibáñez de Ibero 1825–1891 (Spain)
• Henri Poincaré 1854–1912 (France)
• Alexander Ross Clarke 1828–1914 (England)
• Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914 (United States)
• Friedrich Robert Helmert 1843–1917 (Germany)
• Heinrich Bruns 1848–1919 (Germany)
• Loránd Eötvös 1848–1919 (Hungary)
• Otto Hilgard Tittmann 1850–1938 (United States)

B

• Tadeusz Banachiewicz, 1882–1954 (Poland)
• Michael Bevis, 1954 (England)
• Arne Bjerhammar, 1917–2011 (Sweden)
• Giovanni Boaga, 1902–1961 (Italy)
• Guy Bomford, 1899–1996 (England)
• William Bowie, 1872–1940 (United States)

C

• Éric Calais, 1964 (France)
• André-Louis Cholesky, 1875–1918 (France)
• Luís Cruls, 1848–1908 (Brazil)

D

• James de Graaff-Hunter, 1881–1967 (United Kingdom/British Empire)

F

• Irene Kaminka Fischer, 1907–2009 (United States)
• Buckminster Fuller, 1895–1983 (United States)

H

• John Fillmore Hayford, 1868–1925 (United States)
• Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen, 1895–1971 (Finland/United States)
• Reino Antero Hirvonen, 1908–1989 (Finland)
• Friedrich Hopfner, 1881–1949 (Austria)
• Martin Hotine, 1898–1968 (England)

J

• Harold Jeffreys, 1891–1989 (England)

K

• William M. Kaula, 1926–2000 (United States)
• Karl-Rudolf Koch 1935 (Germany)
• Feodosy Nikolaevich Krasovsky, 1878–1948 (Russian Empire/USSR)

L

• Walter Davis Lambert, 1879–1968 (United States)

M

• Mikhail Sergeevich Molodenskii, 1909–1991 (Russia)

O

• John A. O'Keefe, 1916–2000 (United States)

P

• Georges Perrier, 1872–1946 (France)

R

• Karl Ramsayer, 1911–1982 (Germany)

S

• Hellmut Schmid, 1914–1998 (Switzerland)

T

• Pierre Tardi, 1897–1972 (France)

V

• Yrjö Väisälä, 1889–1971 (Finland)
• Petr Vaníček, 1935 (Canada)
• Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz
  , 1887–1966 (Netherlands)
• Thaddeus Vincenty, 1920–2002 (Poland)

W

• Alfred Wegener, 1880–1930 (Germany/Greenland)
• Hans-Georg Wenzel 1949–1999 (Germany)
• Gladys West 1930 (United States)