# List of cartographers

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, Magna Graecia (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
* Ende, Spain (c. 1000 AD), illustrator, cartographer, nun
* Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt (276 BC–194 BC), Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer
* Gyōki, Japan (668–749), Buddhist monk, cartographer, surveyor, and civil engineer,
* Hipparchus, Greek Anatolia (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
* Liu An, China (179 BC–122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi
* Marinus of Tyre, Roman Syria (c. AD 70–130), Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography
* Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer
* Pei Xiu (224–271), Chinese geographer and cartographer
* Isidore of Seville, Hispania (560–636)
* al-Khwārazmī, Caliphate (9th century), Persian cartographer, geographer, and polymath.
* 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
* Shen Kuo, China (1031–1095), 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
* al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller
* Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire (13th century), a monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy
* Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)
* Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean

## 15th century

* Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin c. 1406
* Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436–1507)
* Benedetto Bordone (Venetian Republic 1460–1551)
* Sebastian Cabot (1476–1557), Venetian explorer
* Erhard Etzlaub (1460–1532)
* Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519)
* Henricus Martellus Germanus (Germany, fl. 1480–1496)
* Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460–1475)
* Fra Mauro (Venice, c. 1459)
* Piri Reis (Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire, 1465–1554/1555), author of the Kitab-ı Bahriye
* Johannes Ruysch (Netherlands, c. 1466–1530), explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter
* Hartmann Schedel (Germany, 1440–1514)
* Amerigo Vespucci (Republic of Florence, 1454–1512)
* Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466–1528), refined and promoted the Werner map projection
* Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c. 1470–c. 1521/1522)
* Olaus Magnus (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490–1557), published Carta Marina in 1539
* Gabriel de Valseca (15th century), Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
* Grazioso Benincasa (15th century), from Ancona, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean

## 16th century

* Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564), Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases
* Hacı Ahmet, Ottoman Tunisian cartographer, translated 16th c. map into Turkish for the Ottoman Empire.
* Peter Apian (1495–1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz, German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection
* Philipp Apian (1531–1589)
* Joost Janszoon Bilhamer (Netherlands, 1541–1590)
* Hernando de los Ríos Coronel (1559–1621?), cosmographer and cartographer, mapped Taiwan (Isla Hermosa), Luzon and part of the Chinese coast.
* 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
* Anders Bure (Sweden, 1571 – 1646), founder of Swedish cartography
* Jacob Roelofs van Deventer (Netherlands, c. 1510/15–1575)
* Fernão Vaz Dourado (India, c. 1520–c. 1580), Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem
* Oronce Finé (France, 1494–1555)
* Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma) (Netherlands, 1508–1555)
* Jan Van Hanswijk (Netherlands, fl. 1594)
* Martin Helwig (Germany, 1516–1574)
* Augustin Hirschvogel (Germany, 1503–1553)
* Lopo Homem (Portugal?–1565), co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known Miller Atlas
* Diogo Homem (Portugal 1521–1576), cartographer, son of Lopo Homem
* Jodocus Hondius (Netherlands, 1563–1612)
* Johannes Honterus (Transylvania, 1498–1549)
* Gerard de Jode (Netherlands, 1509–1591)
* Urbano Monti (Italy, 1544–1613)
* Jacques le Moyne (France, c. 1533–1588)
* Guillaume Le Testu (France, c. 1509–1573)
* Jacobus Pentius de Leucho (Italy)
* Gerardus Mercator (Netherlands, 1512–1594)
* Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488–1552)
* Abraham Ortelius (France, 1527–1598), generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas
* Petrus Plancius (Netherlands, 1552–1622)
* Diego Gutiérrez (Spain, ?) published a map entitled Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio with printer Hieronymus Cock. First map with toponym "California" and first appearance of a word for "Appalachia," as the term "Apalchen."
* Timothy Pont (Scotland, 1565–1614)
* Pedro Reinel (Portugal ?–c. 1542), author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart
* Jorge Reinel (Portugal c. 1502–c. 1572), Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel
* Diogo Ribeiro (Portugal, ?–Sevilha, 1533), author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)
* Sebastião Lopes (Portugal 16th century), Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer
* Christopher Saxton (England, born c. 1540)
* John Speed (England, 1542–1629)
* Fernando Álvares Seco (Portugal?–?), signed the oldest known map of Portugal, reproduced in various editions of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
* Bernardus Sylvanus (Italy)
* Luís Teixeira (Portugal ?–?), author of an important atlas of Brazil
* Bartolomeu Velho (Portugal ?–1568), cosmographer and cartographer
* Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (Netherlands, 1533/34–1605/06), driver, cartographer
* Edward Wright (mathematician) (England, 1561–1615), mathematician and cartographer
* Georg Braun (Germany, 1541–1622), cartographer

## 17th century

* Pieter van der Aa (Netherlands, 1659–1733)
* João Teixeira Albernaz I (Portugal, died c. 1664), prolific cartographer, son of Luís Teixeira
* João Teixeira Albernaz II (Portugal, died c. 1699), Portuguese cartographer
* Pedro Teixeira Albernaz (Portugal, c. 1595–1662), Portuguese cartographer author of an important atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and a map of Portugal (1656)
* Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (France, c. 1600–1673), French cartographer who created first descriptive map of Ukraine
* François Berthelot (France), cartographer of the Mediterranean Sea
* Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596–1673)
* Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), engraver and map maker
* Greenville Collins (British, 1643–1694)
* Vincenzo Coronelli (Venetian, 1650–1718)
* Guillaume Delisle (French, 1675–1726)
* Petter Gedda (Sweden, 1661–1697)
* Hessel Gerritsz (Netherlands, 1581–1632), cartographer for the VOC
* Isaak de Graaff (Netherlands, 1668–1743), cartographer for the VOC
* Johann Homann (Germany, 1664–1724), geographer
* Henricus Hondius (Netherlands, 1597–1651)
* Willem Hondius (Netherlands, 1598–1652/58)
* Johannes Janssonius (Netherlands, 1588–1664)
* Johannes van Keulen (Netherlands, 1654–1715)
* Joannes de Laet (Netherlands, 1581–1649)
* Michael van Langren (Netherlands, 1600–1675)
* Alain Manesson Mallet (France, 1630–1706)
* Matthäus Merian Sr. (Switzerland, 1593–1650) and Jr. (Switzerland, 1621–1687)
* David de Meyne (Netherlands, c. 1569–1620)
* Herman Moll (Germany?/England, 1654–1732)
* Robert Morden (England, 1650–1703)
* Giovan Battista Nicolosi (Italy, 1610–1670)
* Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop (Netherlands, 1610–1682), cartographer, mathematician and astronomist
* Jean-Baptiste Nolin (France, c.1657–1708)
* John Ogilby (Scotland, 1600–1676)
* Henry Popple [fr] (England, 16xx–1743)
* Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600–1667)
* Peter Schenk the Elder (Germany, 1660–1718/19)
* Johannes Vingboons (Netherlands, 1616/17–1670), cartographer and aquarellist
* Georg Matthäus Vischer (Austria, 1628–1696), cartographer, topographer and engraver
* Claes Jansz Visscher (Netherlands, 1587–1652)
* Nicolaes Visscher I (Netherlands, 1618–1679)
* Frederik de Wit (Netherlands, 1610/16–1698)
* Nicolaes Witsen (Netherlands, 1641–1717), diplomat, cartographer, writer and mayor of Amsterdam
* Giovanni Cassini (a.k.a. Cassini I, Italy & France, 1625–1712)
* Jacques Cassini (a.k.a. Cassini II, France, 1677–1756)

## 18th century

* John James Abert (United States, 1788–1863), headed the Corps of Topographical Engineers for 32 years and organized the mapping of the American West
* Anders Åkerman (Sweden, 1721/23–1778), first globemaker in Sweden
* John Arrowsmith (England, 1790–1873), member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers
* Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (France, 1761–1824), also artist and longtime strategic advisor to Napoleon
* John Senex (1690–1740), engraver, publisher, surveyor and geographer to Queen Anne
* John Lodge Cowley, cartographer, mathematician and geographer
* Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793–1858)
* Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721–1824), created Atlantic Neptune
* Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi (Venice, 1698–1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
* Sieur le Rouge map c. 1740
* John Gibson (cartographer), map c. 1758
* Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772), chief cartographer to the French navy
* William Bligh (England, 1754–57 December 1817), Ships Master during the infamous Bounty mutiny and noted free-hand cartographer
* Rigobert Bonne (France, 1727–1795), Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at Depot de la Marine
* Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (France, 1697–1782)
* Don Tomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca (Spain, 1730–1802)
* Lourenco Homem da Cunha d’Eca, created Carta militar das principaes estradas de Portugal, 1808
* Abel Buell (1742–1822), published the first map of the new United States created by an American
* Catharina Buijs (1714–1781), Dutch cartographer for the Dutch East India Company
* Dimitrie Cantemir (Moldavia and Russia, 1673–1723)
* César-François Cassini de Thury (a.k.a. Cassini III, France, 1714–1784)
* Jean-Dominique Cassini (a.k.a. Cassini IV, France, 1748–1845)
* Edme Mentelle (France, 1730–1816)
* Pierre Gilles Chanlair (France, 1758–1817)
* 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
* Louis Isidore Duperrey (French, 1786–1865)
* 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
* Matthew Flinders (British, 1774–1814), Royal Navy officer; circumnavigated Australia and made exploration of the Australian coastline
* Joseph Marx Baron von Liechtenstern (Austria, 1765–1828)
* Louis Feuillée (France, 1660–1732)
* Björn Gunnlaugsson (Iceland, 1788–1876)
* Fielding Lucas, Jr. (c. 1781–1854), of the Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, US
* J. Flyn "New and Correct Plan of London", 1770
* Samuel Gustaf Hermelin (Sweden, 1744–1820)
* Thomas Jefferys (England, c. 1710–1771), geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
* William Faden (England, 1749–1836), successor to Thomas Jefferys
* Pierre Jacotin (France, 1765–1829)
* Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)
* John Mitchell (1711–1768), colonial British American mapmaker
* Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (England, 1792–1855)
* Robert Moresby (England, 1794–1863)
* Thomas Moule (England, 1784–1851)
* Carlton Osgood (United States, †1816)
* Adriaan Reland (Netherlands, 1676–1718), linguist and cartographer
* Thomas Richardson (Scotland)
* Dider Robert de Vaugondy (France, 1688–1766)
* John Rocque (England, 1709–1762)
* David Watson, surveyed Scotland post 1747 to produce The Duke of Cumberland's Map
* William Roy (England, 1726–1790)
* William Mudge (England, 1762–1820)
* Thomas Frederick Colby (England, 1784–1852)
* Matthäus Seutter (Germany, 1678–1757)
* Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von Schmettau (1743–1806)
* Matthias Seutter (Germany, 1678–1757)
* Jacob Swart (Netherlands, 1796–1866)
* Inō Tadataka (Japan, 1745–1818), Surveyor and cartographer who completed the first surveyed map of Japan
* David Thompson (British–Canadian, 1770–1857)
* Daniel-Charles Trudaine (France, 1703–1769)
* Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676–1747)
* Thomas Kitchin (1718–1784), London-based cartographer and engraver of maps of England, greater Europe, and parts of the British Empire.; at one time held the titles "Senior Hydrographer to His Majesty" and "Senior Engraver to His Royal Highness the Duke of York"
* Friedrich Christoph Müller (Germany, 1751–1808)
* Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795–1869)
* Alexander Wilbrecht (Russia, 1757–1823), geographer of the Geographic Department of the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty
* Emma Willard (United States, 1787–1870), women's rights activist and education reformer
* James Wilson (United States, 1763–1835), first maker of globes in the United States
* George Washington (United States of America, 1732–1799), first president of the United States; cartographer
* Henri Michelot (France, born c. 1664), Marseilles, France, hydrographer and pilot of the Royal Galley

## 19th century

* Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786
* Carlo de Candia (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.
* John Bartholomew the elder(26 April 1805 – 8 April 1861), Scottish cartographer and engraver.
* Henry Peter Bosse (Germany/United States, 1844–1903), also photographer and civil engineer
* Abraham Bradley Jr. (1767–1838), created first postal road maps of the United States
* George Bradshaw (England, 1801–1853)
* Eugenia Wheeler Goff (United States, 1844–1922), combined history, resources, and geography
* Leslie George Bullock (1895–1971)
* Bernard J. S. Cahill (1867–1944), inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world
* George Comer (1858–1937)
* John Paul Goode (1862–1932), created the "Evil Mercator" and Goode’s World Atlas
* Hermann Haack (Germany, 1872–1966)
* Eduard Imhof (1895–1986), oversaw the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, the atlas used in Swiss
* James Ireland Craig (1868–1952), inventor of the Craig retroazimuthal projection, otherwise known as the Mecca projection
* J. H. Colton (United States, 1800–1893)
* Carl Diercke (1842–1913)
* Max Eckert-Greifendorff (Germany, 1868–1938)
* Percy Fawcett (1867–1925), British explorer of South America
* Matthew Fontaine Maury (United States, 1806–1873), U.S. Navy officer; also oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator
* Matsuura Takeshirō (Japan, 1818–1888), explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian.
* Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842–1922), American producer of pictorial maps
* Charles F. Hoffmann (Germany/United States, 1838–1913)
* James Gardner
* Charles E. Goad (1848 – 1910), English Canadian cartographer and pioneer of insurance maps
* William Hughes (geographer) FRGS (1818 – 21 May 1876), English geographer, mapmaker, cartographer and author.
* Gwynneth de Candia Vaughan (England 1879 - ?), British cartographer, mapmaker in the Australian territories.
* Felix Jones (England, 1813–1878)
* Florence Kelley (United States, 1859–1932), political reformer, director of the Chicago portion of the Hull House Maps and Papers
* Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824–1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer
* Lilian Lancaster (1852–1939), British creator of anthropomorphic maps
* Rudolf Leuzinger (Switzerland, 1826–1896), known for mountain landscapes and geologic forms and the first to produce terrain maps in color lithography.
* Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (France, 1816–1889)
* Heinrich Theodor Menke (Germany, 1819–1892)
* August Heinrich Petermann (18 April 1822 – 25 September 1878), German cartographer
* George Philip (1800–1882), cartographer, map publisher and founder of the publishing house George Philip & Son Ltd.
* Erwin Raisz (1893–1968)
* Daniel Alfred Sanborn (United States, 1827–1883), founder of the prolific insurance map provider Sanborn Map Company
* William Schmollinger (fl. 1830s)
* William R. Shepherd (1871–1934)
* Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856–1940), also oceanographer and geographer
* Karl Spruner von Merz (Germany, 1803–1892)
* John Tallis and Company (England, 1838–1851)
* Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France, 1824–1897), devised Tissot's indicatrix
* Shanawdithit (Canada, c. 1801–1829), created maps depicting the movement Beothuk people in Newfoundland
* Edward A. Vincent (England/United States, c. 1825–27 November 1856), cartographer, civil engineer, architect
* Nain Singh Rawat (India, 1830–1882), Cartographer and explorer
* Cope, Emmor B: Gettysburg Battlefield cartographer and first Gettysburg National Military Park superintendent
* Alexandre Vuillemin (France, 1812–1880)
* Ruth Taylor White (United States 1899 – ?), creator of pictorial maps of the United States
* John Francon Williams FRGS (1854–4 September 1911), editor, journalist, writer, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor.
* Fanny Bullock Workman (United States, 1859–1925), geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer
* James Wyld (England, 1812–1887)
* Hatsusaburō Yoshida (Japan, 1884–1955)

## 20th century

* Regina Araújo de Almeida (Brazil, 1949– ), professor of geography at the University of São Paulo, tactile cartographer
* Jacques Bertin (France, 1918–2010)
* Josef Breu (Austria, 1914–1998)
* Cynthia Brewer (United States, 1957– ), developed ColorBrewer, professor at Penn State University
* Roger Brunet (1931– )
* Emanuela Casti (1950– ), formalized a semiotic theory of geographic maps
* Danny Dorling (1968– ), developed circular cartograms
* Marion A. Frieswyk (United States, 1922–2021), first female intelligence cartographer in the Central Intelligence Agency
* Ruth Rhoads Lepper Gardner (United States, 1905–2011), cartographer of the Maine coast
* Emily Garfield, (1987– ), cartographic artist
* Günther Hake (1922–2000)
* Richard Edes Harrison (1901–1994)
* Tom Harrisson (1911–1976)
* George F. Jenks (1916–1996)
* Elrey Borge Jeppesen (1907–1996)
* Ingrid Kretschmer (1939–2011)
* Toy Lasker (United States, 1919–2011), creator and editor of Flashmaps guidebooks
* Edgar Lehmann (1905–1990)
* Samuel Herbert Maw (1881–1952), architect, delineator and cartographer of Canada
* Kate McLean (United Kingdom) Best known for creating olfactory maps of cities
* Jess Miller (United States, 1988– ), artist, photographer, and cartographer of rural Arkansas
* Mark Monmonier (United States, 1943– ), wrote How to Lie with Maps and created the Monmonier Algorithm. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University
* Mark Newman (1968– ), developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method
* Rudi Ogrissek (1926–1999)
* Rafael Palacios (1905–1993), prolific map-drawer for major US publishers
* Phyllis Pearsall (England, 1906–1996), creator of the Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas
* Jacques Pervititch (Turkey, 1877–1945), creator of series of insurance maps of Istanbul
* Barbara Petchenik (1939–1992), first woman to serve as Vice President of the International Cartographic Association
* Edward Ayearst Reeves (1862–1945), British geographer, astronomer, and cartographer
* Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004), wrote the influential textbook Elements of Cartography and developed the Robinson projection
* Abbas Sahab (1921–2000), Iranian cartographer, produced the first atlas of the Persian Gulf
* Paula Scher (United States, 1948– ), graphic designer, painter
* Joni Seagar (United States 1954– ), professor of geography at the University of Vermont
* Nikolas Schiller (1980– ), Arabesque maps composed of kaleidoscopic aerial photographs
* John C. Sherman (1916–1996)
* Jessamine Shumate (1902–1990)
* Kira B. Shingareva (Russia, 1938–2013), first person to successfully map the dark side of the moon
* John P. Snyder (1926–1997), developed the space oblique Mercator projection
* Dr. E. Lee Spence (1947– ), pioneer underwater archaeologist, decorative, historical maps showing shipwreck locations
* Marie Tharp (1920–2006), oceanographic cartographer, co-created the first scientific map of the ocean floor with Bruce Heezen
* Norman J. W. Thrower (1919–2002), professor at UCLA and author who was known for work in geography, surveying practices, and history
* Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018), developed the first law of geography
* Judith Tyner (United States, born 1939), professor emerita of geography at California State University, Long Beach
* Ludwig von der Vecht (Deutschland, 1854–1919), cartographer of German colonies
* Bradford Washburn (1910–2007)
* Denis Wood (United States, 1945– ), artist, author, and former professor of design at North Carolina State University
* David Woodward (1942–2004)
* Hannah Feldman (cartographer) (2001–)
* Betsy Barthold (cartographer) (2000–)
* Gabrielle Puente (cartographer) (2001–)