Milton Santos was a Brazilian geographer and professor. He was born on May 3rd, 1926, in Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia. He helped to develop critical geography, a way of thinking about the world around us and how we are affected by it. Milton was awarded the Vautrin Lud Prize, the “Nobel Prize for Geography”! See how his childhood shaped his way of thinking and made him fight for a better world.