Raoul Blanchard

Raoul Blanchard
Born4 September 1877
Orleans, France
Died24 March 1965 (1965-03-25) (aged 87)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationGeographer
Known forFather of modern geography in Québec
HonoursNational Order of the Legion of Honor, CNRS gold medal, Broquette-Gonin prize, Charles P. Daly medal, Honorary doctorate from Laval University

Raoul Blanchard (4 September 1877 – 24 March 1965) was a French geographer. He taught at the University of Grenoble from 1906 and devoted most of his research to Alpine and Canadian geography.