Cartography is the study of map making and
cartographers are map makers.
Before 1400
- Anaximander, Greek Anatolia, (610 BC-546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world
- Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC-476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
- Dicaearchus, Greece (circa 350 BC-285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
- Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt, (276 BC-194 BC) a Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer
- Hipparchus, Greece, (190 BC-120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
- Isidore of Seville, Spain (560-636)
- Al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100-1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.
- Liu An, China (179 BC-122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi
- Marinus of Tyre (ca. 70 - 130 A.D.) was a Phoenician geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography.
- Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt, (circa 85-165), a Greek astronomer, cartographer, geographer
- Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)
- Shen Kuo, China (1031-1095), a polymath scientist and statesman, author of the Dream Pool Essays, which included a large atlas of China and foreign regions, and also made a three dimensional raised-relief map.
- Su Song, China (1020-1101), horologist and engineer; as a Song Dynasty diplomat, he used his knowledge of cartography and map-making to solve territorial border disputes with the rival Liao Dynasty
- Angelino Dalorto or Angelino Dulcert (14th century) author of the earliest known majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean
15th century
- Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436 – 1507)
- Benedetto Bordone Italy (1460 - 1551)
- Sebastian Cabot (1476-1557), Italian explorer
- Erhard Etzlaub (1460 – 1532)
- Henricus Martellus Germanus (Italy, fl. 1480-1496)
- Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460-1475)
- Fra Mauro (Venice, c.1459)
- Piri Reis/Hadji Muhammad (Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire, 1465 – 1554/1555)
- Johannes Ruysch (Netherlands, c 1466 - 1530) explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter
- Hartmann Schedel (Germany, 1440 – 1514)
- Amerigo Vespucci (Italy, 1454 – 1512)
- Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c.1470 – c.1521/1522)
- Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466 – 1528) refined and promoted the Werner map projection
- Gabriel de Valseca (15th century), majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
- Grazioso Benincasa (15th century), venezian (?), author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
16th century
- Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500 - 1564) Italian cartogapher, author of numerous nautical atlases
- Peter Apian (1495 - 1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection
- Philipp Apian (1531-1589)
- Joost Jansz. Bilhamer (Netherlands, 1541-1590)
- Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571 - 1638) - Father of Joan Blaeu
- Giovanni Battista Boazio (? - ?) mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America
- Jacob Roelofs van Deventer, (Netherlands, c 1510/15 - 1575) cartographer
- Fernão Vaz Dourado (India, c. 1520 - c. 1580) Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem
- Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, 1508 - 1555)
- Martin Heilwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)
- Lopo Homem (? - 1565) Portuguese cartographer co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known Miller Atlas
- Diogo Homem (1521 - 1576) Portuguese cartographer, son of Lopo Homem
- Bartolomeu Velho (? - 1568) Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer
- Jodocus Hondius, (Flanders, England, Netherlands, 1563 - 1612)
- Gerard de Jode (Flanders, 1509 - 1591)
- Gerardus Mercator (Flanders, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)
- Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488 – 1552)
- Abraham Ortelius, (Flanders, 1527 - 1598)
- Petrus Plancius, (Netherlands, 1552 - 1622)
- Timothy Pont, (Scotland, 1565 - 1614)
- Pedro Reinel (? - c. 1542) Portuguese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart
- Jorge Reinel (c. 1502 - c. 1572) Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel
- Diego Ribero (Portugal, ? - Sevilha, 1533) Portuguese cartographer, author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)
- Sebastião Lopes (16th century) Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer
- Christopher Saxton, (England, born c 1540)
- John Speed, (England, 1542 - 1629)
- Fernando Álvares Seco (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, who signed the oldest known map of Portugal, reproduced in various editions of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
- Luís Teixeira (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, author of an important Atlas of Brasil
- Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (Netherlands, 1533/34 - 1605/06) driver, cartographer
17th century
- João Teixeira Albernaz (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, son of Luís Teixeira, who was cosmographer major of the kingdom
- Pedro Teixeira Albernaz (c. 1565 - 1662) Portuguese cartographer author of an important atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and a map of Portugal (1656
- Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596 - 1673)
- Vincenzo Coronelli (1650 – 1718)
- Guillaume Delisle (1675 – 1726)
- Hessel Gerritsz (Netherlands, 1581 - 1632), cartographer for the VOC
- Isaak de Graaf (Netherlands, 1668 - 1743), cartographer for the VOC
- Johann Homann (Germany, 1664 – 1724), geographer
- Henricus Hondius (Netherlands, 1597 - 1651)
- Johannes Janssonius (Netherlands, 1588 - 1664)
- Johannes van Keulen (Netherlands, 1654 - 1715)
- Michael van Langren (Netherlands, 1600 - 1675)
- Alain Manesson Mallet (France, 1630 – 1706)
- Matthäus Merian Sr (Switzerland, 1593 - 1650) and Jr. ((Switzerland, 1621 - 1687)
- Herman Moll (Germany/England, 1654 – 1732)
- Robert Morden (England, died 1703)
- Dirk Rembrantsz van Nierop (Netherlands, 1610 - 1682), cartographer, mathematician and astronomist
- John Ogilby (Scotland, 1600 - 1676)
- Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600 – 1667)
- Peter Schenk (1660 – 1718/1719)
- Johannes Vingboons (Netherlands, 1616/1670) cartographer and aquarellist
- Nicolaes Witsen (Netherlands, 1641 - 1717) diplomat, cartographer, writer and mayor of Amsterdam
18th century
- Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi (Venice, 1698 – 1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
- Jean Baptiste d'Anville (France, 1697 - 1782)
- Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) Chief cartographer to the French navy
- Rigobert Bonne (France, 1727-1795)- Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at Depot de la Marine
- Abel Buell (1742 - 1822), published the first map of the new United States created by an American
- James Cook (Captain RN) (1728 – 1779) navigator and naval chart maker
- Simeon De Witt (1756 - 1834) Successor to Robert Erskine and Surveyor-General of the State of New York
- Johann Friedrich Endersch (Germany, fl. 1755)
- Colonel Robert Erskine (1735 - 1780) Geographer and Surveyor-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
- Joseph de Ferraris (1726 - 1814), Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands
- Thomas Jefferys (c. 1710 - 1771) Geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
- Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)
- John Mitchell (1711 - 1768) Colonial British American mapmaker.
- Carlton Osgood US mapmaker
- Thomas Richardson - Scottish
- John Rocque (England, 1709 - 1762)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau (1743 - 1806)
- Matthias Seutter (Germany, 1678 – 1757)
- Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676 – 1747)
19th century
- John James Abert (1788-1863)
- Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903)
- George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)
- Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793-1858)
- James Ireland Craig, Craig retroazimuthal projection.
- Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)
- Lucas, Fielding Jr. (c. 1781—1854) Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, USA
- Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) - Circumnavigated, Tasmania and Australia
- Matthew Fontaine Maury, (1806-1873) American, USN, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, educator.
- Björn Gunnlaugsson (Iceland, 1788 – 1876)
- Charles F. Hoffmann (1838 - 1913)
- Felix Jones (England, 1813 - 1878)
- Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
- Robert Moresby (England, 1794 - 1863)
- Thomas Moule (England, 1784 - 1851)
- John Tallis and Company (England, 1838 - 1851)
- Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856 - 1940)
- Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France, 1824 - 1897)
- Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795 - 1869)
- James Wilson (1763 – 1835) First globe maker in the US.
- Nain Singh Rawat: Indian cartographer.
20th century
21st century
Cartography organizations
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