| 地质学家 | dì zhì xué jiā | geologist |  |
| 李四光 | Lǐ Sì guāng | Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese-trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration | |
| 竺可桢 | Zhú Kě zhēn | Zhu Kezhen (1890-1974), Chinese metereologist and geologist | |
| 热尔韦 | Rè ěr wéi | Gervais (name) / Paul Gervais (1816-1879), French geologist | |
| 李希霍芬 | Lǐ xī huò fēn | Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路|丝绸之路 | |
| 莫霍洛维奇 | Mò huò luò wéi qí | Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić / (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho | |
| 莱伊尔 | Lái yī ěr | Lyell (name) / Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Scottish geologist | |
| 里希特霍芬 | Lǐ xī tè huò fēn | Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 絲綢之路|丝绸之路 | |
