List of cartographers

Cartography is the study of map making and **cartographers** are map makers.

## Before 1400
's 6th century BC world map]]
's 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century)]]
*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), 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
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's 1492 world map]]
*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
' *Leo Belgicus* (1611)]]
's 1587 world map]]
'' by Abraham Ortelius]]
*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
 and Johannes Blaeu's 1606–26 world map]]
's *A new map of the whole world with the trade winds* (1736)]]
's 1670 world map]]
*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 maker
*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
: ''Carte réduite de l'océan septentrional...*, from: *L'hydrographie françoise*, Paris 1766]]
: *Troisième partie de la carte d'Asie, contenant la Sibérie, et quelques autres parties de la Tartarie'', Paris (1753)]]
 V&A Museum no. E.352-1944]]
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*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 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 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
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*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
's 1913 map of Southampton Island]]
 of the Earth]]

*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

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