At the moment, this register contains 97 famous geodesists.
This register contains only persons, which did geodetic work as a principle occupation and can be regarded as
geodesists in the narrower sense.
Sorry, this register is incomplete
and also biased towards german and european geodesists.
However, for missing persons we failed to investigate the data.
| Name↓↑ | born↓↑ | deceased↓↑ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altamimi, Zuheir ★ | JOR/F | 1958/01/15 | Karak (JOR) | ||
| Baarda, Willem ★ | NL | 1917/07/20 | Leeuwarden | 2005/01/02 | |
| Baeyer, Johann Jacob | D | 1794/11/05 | Müggelheim | 1885/09/10 | Berlin |
| Bauernfeind, Karl Maximilian von | D | 1818/11/28 | Arzberg (Upper Franconia) | 1894/08/03 | Feldafing |
| Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm | D | 1784/07/22 | Minden | 1846/03/17 | Königsberg (East Prussia) |
| Beutler, Gerhard ★ | CH | 1946/03/24 | Bern | ||
| Bjerhammar, Arne ★ | S | 1917/09/15 | Båstad | 2011/02/06 | |
| Boucher, Claude | F | 1949/07/08 | Troyes | ||
| Bouguer, Pierre | F | 1698/02/16 | Le Croisic | 1758/08/15 | Paris |
| Bošković, Rugjer Josip | CR | 1711/05/18 | Dubrovnik | 1787/02/12 | Milan |
| Bretterbauer, Kurt | A | 1929/01/31 | Vienna | 2009/02/26 | Bad Vöslau |
| Bruhns, Karl-Christian | D | 1830/11/22 | Plön | 1881/07/25 | Leipzig |
| Bruns, Ernst Heinrich | D | 1848/09/04 | Berlin | 1919/09/23 | Leipzig |
| Böder, Volker | D | 1965/06/20 | Rotenburg /Wümme | 2012/09/01 | Basel |
| Cassini, Jacques | F | 1677/02/18 | Paris | 1756/04/16 | Thury-en-Valois |
| Cassini de Thury, César François | F | 1714/06/17 | Thury-sous-Clermont | 1784/09/04 | Paris |
| Clairaut, Alexis-Claude | F | 1713/05/03 | Paris | 1765/05/17 | Paris |
| Clarke, Alexander Ross | GB | 1828/12/16 | Reading (Berkshire) | 1914/02/11 | Reigate (Surrey) |
| Dietrich, Reinhard ★ | D | 1949/09/24 | Weitenhagen near Greifswald | ||
| Draheim, Heinz | D | 1915/11/05 | Schönfeld (Pomerania) | 2012/04/25 | |
| Drewes, Herrmann | D | 1944/04/26 | Breddorf | ||
| Dufour, Guillaume-Henri | CH | 1787/09/15 | Konstanz | 1875/07/14 | Geneva |
| Everest, George | GB | 1790/06/04 | Crickhowell (Wales) | 1866/12/01 | London |
| Fröhlich, Hans | D | 1947/06/25 | Plettenberg | 2016/02/17 | St.Augustin |
| Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich | D | 1777/04/30 | Brunswick | 1855/02/23 | Göttingen |
| Grafarend, Erik W. ★ | D | 1939/10/30 | Essen | 2020/12/08 | Stuttgart |
| Groten, Erwin | D | 1935/06/28 | St. Wendel | ||
| Großmann, Walter ★ | D | 1897/03/06 | Norden | 1980/10/13 | Hamburg |
| Hayford, John Fillmore | USA | 1868/05/19 | Rouses Point (NY) | 1925/03/10 | Evanston (Ill) |
| Heck, Bernhard | D | 1951/04/14 | Au am Rhein | ||
| Hein, Günther W. | D | 1949/04/05 | |||
| Heiskanen, Veikko Aleksanteri | FI | 1895/07/23 | Kangaslampi | 1971/10/23 | Helsinki |
| Heitz, Siegfried | D | 1929/09/09 | Berlin | 2020/12/31 | Berlin |
| Helmert, Friedrich Robert | D | 1843/07/31 | Freiberg (Saxony) | 1917/06/15 | Potsdam |
| Hopfner, Friedrich | A | 1881/10/28 | Trautenau (Bohemia) | 1949/09/05 | Hintersteiner See |
| Hotine, Martin | GB | 1898/06/17 | London | 1968/11/12 | Surrey |
| Ilk, Karl Heinz | D | 1944/07/23 | |||
| Jordan, Wilhelm | D | 1842/03/01 | Ellwangen (Württemberg) | 1899/04/17 | Hanover |
| Kahmen, Heribert | D | 1940/03/23 | Senne | ||
| Kleusberg, Alfred | D | 1949/10/03 | Ellingen | ||
| Kneissl, Max ★ | D | 1907/09/09 | 1973/09/15 | Munich | |
| Koch, Karl-Rudolf | D | 1935/07/30 | Hilchenbach | ||
| Korth, Wilfried | D | 1959/02/28 | 2019/04/19 | Potsdam | |
| Krarup, Torben ★ | DK | 1919/03/02 | Odder | 2005/11/24 | |
| Krasovsky, Feodosy | RUS | 1878/09/26 | Galich | 1948/10/01 | Moscow |
| Krüger, Johann Heinrich Louis | D | 1857/09/21 | Elze | 1923/06/01 | Elze |
| Kuntz, Eugen | D | 1925/03/06 | Klingen | 1998/02/05 | Karlsruhe |
| Ledersteger, Karl | A | 1900/11/11 | Vienna | 1972/09/24 | Vienna |
| Lelgemann, Dieter | D | 1939/08/31 | Essen | 2017/08/18 | Berlin |
| Lohrmann, Wilhelm Gotthelf | D | 1796/01/31 | Dresden | 1840/02/20 | Dresden |
| Marussi, Antonio | I | 1908/10/12 | Trieste | 1984/04/24 | Trieste |
| Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis | F | 1698/09/28 | Saint-Jouan- des-Guérets (Brittany) | 1759/07/27 | Basel |
| Molodenskii, Mikhail | RUS | 1909/06/16 | Epifan | 1991/11/12 | |
| Moritz, Helmut ★ | A | 1933/11/01 | Graz | 2022/10/21 | |
| Mueller, Ivan Istvan ★ | USA | 1930/01/09 | Budapest | 2023/04/12 | |
| Mälzer, Hermann | D | 1925/04/19 | Ponitz | 2018/08/20 | Karlsruhe |
| Müller, Jürgen | D | 1962/03/13 | |||
| Nagel, Christian August | D | 1821/05/17 | Grünberg near Dresden | 1903/10/23 | Dresden |
| Neuner, Hans-Berndt | D/A | 1975/08/19 | Bukarest | ||
| Niemeier, Wolfgang | D | 1949/04/21 | |||
| Pelzer, Hans | D | 1936/01/20 | Velbert | 2006/04/20 | Hanover |
| Peschel, Karl Horst | D | 1909/09/29 | Dresden | 1989/04/11 | Dresden |
| Picard, Jean-Félix | F | 1620/07/21 | La Flèche | 1682/07/12 | Paris |
| Pizzetti, Paolo | I | 1868/07/24 | Parma | 1918/04/14 | Pisa |
| Ramsayer, Karl | D | 1911/09/29 | Schwäbisch Gmünd | 1982/12/24 | near Stuttgart |
| Reichenbach, Georg von | D | 1771/08/24 | Durlach /Baden | 1826/05/21 | Munich |
| Reigber, Christoph ★ | D | 1939/07/08 | Wroclaw | ||
| Rizos, Chris | AUS | 1952/10/16 | |||
| Rummel, Reiner ★ | D | 1945/12/03 | Landshut | ||
| Sansò, Fernando ★ | I | 1945/05/06 | Milan | ||
| Schmitt, Günther | D | 1944/10/26 | Sobernheim (Nahe) | ||
| Schneider, Manfred | D | 1935/08/20 | Regensburg | 2016/03/31 | Regensburg |
| Schnädelbach, Klaus | D | 1934/10/02 | Altenburg | ||
| Schreiber, Oskar | D | 1829/02/17 | Stolzenau | 1905/07/14 | Hanover |
| Schuh, Harald ★ | D | 1956/02/27 | Heidelberg | ||
| Schuh, Wolf-Dieter | A | 1957/06/20 | Güssing | ||
| Schwarz, Klaus-Peter | D/CA | 1938/02/01 | Königsberg | 2012/01/20 | Calgary |
| Schödlbauer, Albert | D | 1934/11/23 | Munich | ||
| Seeber, Günter | D | 1941/02/10 | Rastenburg | ||
| Seeger, Hermann | D | 1933/09/16 | Westerloy | 2015/12/09 | |
| Sideris, Michael G. | GR/CA | 1958/08/16 | Pireaus (GR) | ||
| Sigl, Rudolph | D | 1928/03/16 | Munich | 1998/01/08 | |
| Soldner, Johann Georg von | D | 1776/07/16 | Feuchtwangen | 1833/05/13 | Munich |
| Staiger, Rudolf | D | 1956/03/19 | |||
| Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von | D | 1793/04/15 | Altona | 1864/11/23 | Pulkowo |
| Sünkel, Hans | A | 1948/10/04 | Rottenmann (Styria) | ||
| Teunissen, Peter J.G. ★ | NL | 1957/10/09 | Owerri (Nigeria) | ||
| Torge, Wolfgang ★ | D | 1931/06/04 | Laubusch | ||
| Tscherning, Carl Christian ★ | DK | 1942/05/21 | Copenhagen | 2014/10/24 | Copenhagen |
| Vaníček, Petr | CZ/CA | 1935/07/18 | Sušici (CZ) | ||
| Vening-Meinesz, Felix Andries | NL | 1887/07/30 | Den Haag | 1966/08/10 | Amersfoort |
| Vermeer, Martin | NL/FI | 1953/01/27 | Hardinxveld | ||
| Wenzel, Hans-Georg | D | 1945/02/03 | Hahnenklee | 1999/11/11 | Wennigsen (Deister) |
| Wild, Heinrich | CH | 1877/11/15 | Mitlödi (Kanton Glarus) | 1951/12/26 | Baden (Kanton Aargau) |
| Witte, Bertold | D | 1937/01/17 | Essen | ||
| Wolf, Helmut ★ | D | 1910/05/02 | Werdau | 1994/06/06 | |
| Wunderlich, Thomas Alexander | A | 1955/05/01 | Vienna | ||
★ marks awardees of the Levallois Medal, the Guy Bomford Prize, the Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal, the Vening Meinesz Medal or the Helmert Votive Medal.