周立三(1910年9月出生),浙江杭州人。系中国科学院地学部学部委员。1933年毕业于中山大学地理系,后在广西大学任教。1948年被派赴美国威斯康星大学研究生院进修。在旧中国,曾任职于陆军测量总局边疆历史地图编辑委员会、国立编译馆等。解放后,历任中国科学院地理研究所副所长、中国科学院南京地理研究所副所长、所长、名誉所 Zhou Lisan (born in September 1910), Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Department of Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1933 graduated from Zhongshan University Department of geography, after teaching in Guangxi University. In 1948 was sent to the University of Wisconsin Graduate School. In old China, he worked at the editorial board of the Frontier Historical Map of the Army Survey and Mapping Administration, the National Compilation and Translation Museum, and so on. After the liberation, served as deputy director of the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography, CAS deputy director, director, honorary