The Most Famous

GEOLOGISTS from Mongolia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Mongolian Geologists. The pantheon dataset contains 90 Geologists, 1 of which were born in Mongolia. This makes Mongolia the birth place of the 19th most number of Geologists behind Sweden, and Finland.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mongolian Geologists of all time. This list of famous Mongolian Geologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Rinchen Barsbold (1935 - 2025)

With an HPI of 54.46, Rinchen Barsbold is the most famous Mongolian Geologist.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Rinchen Barsbold (Mongolian: Ринченгийн Барсболд, Rinchyengiin Barsbold; 21 December 1935 – 28 August 2025) was a Mongolian paleontologist, geologist and an expert in vertebrate paleontology and Mesozoic stratigraphy. He based most of his work within the Institute of Geology at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Barsbold was instrumental in the discovery and recovery of the Mongolian dinosaur fossil record. His work has helped to form a more modern understanding of the later stages of dinosaur evolution in Eurasia.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Mongolian geologists born between 1935 and 1935. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Mongolian geologists include Rinchen Barsbold.

Deceased Mongolian Geologists

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