Известные геодезисты (Тюмень, Тобольск)
- Pythagoras 580–490 BC, ancient Greece
- Eratosthenes 276–194 BC, ancient Greece
- Hipparchus c. 190–120 BC, ancient Greece
- Posidonius c. 135–51 BC, ancient Greece
- Claudius Ptolemy c. AD 83–168, Roman Empire (Roman Egypt)
- Al-Ma'mun 786–833, Baghdad (Iraq/Mesopotamia)
- Abu Rayhan Biruni 973–1048, Khorasan (Iran/Samanid Dynasty)
- Muhammad al-Idrisi 1100–1166, (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, Leiden (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)
- Roger Joseph Boscovich 1711–1787, (Rome/ Berlin/ Paris)
- Ino Tadataka 1745–1818, (Tokyo)
- Georg von Reichenbach 1771–1826, Bavaria (Germany)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749–1827, Paris (France)
- Adrien Marie Legendre 1752–1833, Paris (France)
- Johann Georg von Soldner 1776–1833, Munich (Germany)
- George Everest 1790–1866 (England and India)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 1784–1846, Königsberg (Germany)
- Heinrich Christian Schumacher 1780–1850 (Germany & Estonia)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777–1855, Göttingen (Germany)
- Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve 1793–1864, Dorpat and Pulkovo (Russian Empire)
- J. H. Pratt 1809–1871, London (England)
- Friedrich H. C. Paschen 1804–1873, Schwerin (Germany)
- Johann Benedikt Listing 1808–1882 (Germany)
- Johann Jacob Baeyer 1794–1885, Berlin (Germany)
- Sir George Biddell Airy 1801–1892, Cambridge & London
- Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind 1818–1894, Munich (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, Barcelona (Spain)
- Henri Poincaré 1854–1912, Paris (France)
- Alexander Ross Clarke 1828–1914, London (England)
- Charles Sanders Peirce 1839–1914 (United States)
- Friedrich Robert Helmert 1843–1917, Potsdam (Germany)
- Heinrich Bruns 1848–1919, Berlin (Germany)
- Loránd Eötvös 1848–1919 (Hungary)
Twentieth century
- John Fillmore Hayford, 1868–1925, (US)
- Feodosy Nikolaevich Krasovsky, 1878–1948, (Russian Empire, USSR)
- Alfred Wegener, 1880–1930, (Germany and Greenland)
- William Bowie, 1872–1940, (US)
- Friedrich Hopfner, 1881–1949, Vienna, (Austria)
- Tadeusz Banachiewicz, 1882–1954, (Poland)
- Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz, 1887–1966, (Netherlands)
- Martin Hotine, 1898–1968, (England)
- Yrjö Väisälä, 1889–1971, (Finland)
- Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen, 1895–1971, (Finland and US)
- Karl Ramsayer, 1911–1982, Stuttgart, (Germany)
- Harold Jeffreys, 1891–1989, London, (England)
- Reino Antero Hirvonen, 1908–1989, (Finland)
- Mikhail Sergeevich Molodenskii, 1909–1991, (Russia)
- Maria Ivanovna Yurkina, 1923-2010, (Russia)
- Guy Bomford, 1899-1996, (India?)
- Hellmut Schmid, 1914–1998, (Switzerland)
- William M. Kaula, 1926–2000, Los Angeles, (US)
- John A. O'Keefe, 1916–2000, (US)
- Thaddeus Vincenty, 1920–2002, (Poland)
- Willem Baarda, 1917–2005, (Netherlands)
- Irene Kaminka Fischer, 1907–2009, (US)
- Arne Bjerhammar, 1917–2011, (Sweden)
- Karl-Rudolf Koch 1935, Bonn, (Germany)
- Helmut Moritz, 1933, Graz, (Austria)
- Petr Vaníček, 1935, Fredericton, (Canada)
- Erik Grafarend, 1939, Stuttgart, (Germany)
Unlisted
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See also: Category:Geodesists.