page_title: List of cartographers
section_title: 20th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of cartographers / 20th century
caption_attribution_description: English: A map of Southampton Island, Hudson Bay, Canada
context_page_description: Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.
context_section_description: 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)
caption: George Comer's 1913 map of Southampton Island
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