Title: List of cartographers Content: 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 (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 *Hipparchus, Greece (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), GreekHubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (ed.): "Marinus", Brill's New Pauly, Brill, 2010: M. of Tyre (Μαρῖνος; Marînos), Greek geographer, 2nd century AD 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 *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) *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) *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== thumb|right|Battista Agnese's 1544 world map *Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564), Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases *Hacı Ahmet, 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) *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) *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) *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, ca. 1533–1588) *Guillaume Le Testu (France, ca. 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) *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 ==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 *Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596–1673) *Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), engraver and map makerEmanuel Bowen *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) *Herman Moll (Germany?/England, 1654–1732) *Robert Morden (England, 1650–1703) *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 (England, 16xx-1743, see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Popple) *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 ( 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 *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 AnneJohn Senex *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 c1740 *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 , 1808 *Abel Buell (1742–1822), published the first map of the new United States created by an American *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, USA *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) *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== *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 *George Bradshaw (England, 1801–1853) *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 *Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842–1922), American producer of pictorial maps *Charles F. Hoffmann (Germany/United States, 1838–1913) *William Hughes (geographer) FRGS (1818 – 21 May 1876) was an English geographer, mapmaker, cartographer and author. *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 *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) *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, ca. 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 pictoral 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 Sao Paulo, tactile mapping cartographer *Jacques Bertin (France, 1918–2010) *Josef Breu (Austria, 1914–1998) *Cynthia Brewer (United States, 1957– ), developed ColorBrewer, professor and department head 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– ), first female intelligence cartographer in the Central Intelligence Agency *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) *Jess Miller (United States, 1988– ), artist, photographer, and cartographer of rural Arkansas *Mark Newman (1968– ), developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion- based method *Ruth Rhoads Lepper Gardner (United States, 1905–2011), cartographer of the Maine coast *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 *Barbara Petchenik (1939–1992), first woman to serve as Vice President of the International Cartographic Association *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 *Waldo R. Tobler (1930–2018), developed the first law of geography *Judith Tyner (United States, 1939– ), professor of Geography at California State University, Long Beach *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) *Vineesh V, Assistant Professor of Geography, Directorate of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala, India is a notable Online Geographer and a Web Cartographer and well known for his contribution. Since 2011 and still flourishing. ==Related pages== * Early world maps * History of cartography * Piri Reis map * Cartography * Maps *Ancient world maps *Documents on the Persian Gulf's name *:Category:Cartography organizations *:Category:Historians of cartography