List of cartographers

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

Before 1400

thumb|right|Modern rendering of Anaximander's 6th-century BC world map

thumb|right|Ptolemy'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
Dicaearchus, Magna Graecia (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean
Ende, Spain (), 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,
Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
Hipparchus, Greek Anatolia (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller
Isidore of Seville, Hispania (560–636)
al-Khwārazmī, Caliphate (9th century), Persian cartographer, geographer, and polymath
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
Pei Xiu (224–271), Chinese geographer and cartographer
Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire (13th century), monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy
Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer
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
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
Pietro Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)

15th century

thumb|right|First world map of Piri Reis

thumb|right|Martin Behaim's 1492 world map

Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin
Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436–1507)
(15th century), from Ancona, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
Benedetto Bordone (Venetian Republic 1460–1551)
Sebastian Cabot (1476–1557), Venetian explorer
Leonardo da Vinci (Italy, 1452–1519)
Gabriel de Valseca (15th century), Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
Erhard Etzlaub (1460–1532)
Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460–1475)
Henricus Martellus Germanus (Germany, fl. 1480–1496)
Olaus Magnus (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490–1557), published Carta Marina in 1539
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)
Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c. 1470–c. 1521/1522)
Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466–1528), refined and promoted the Werner map projection

16th century

thumb|right|Battista Agnese's 1544 world map

thumb|right|Jodocus Hondius' Leo Belgicus (1611)

thumb|right|Gerardus Mercator's 1587 world map

thumb|World map from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius

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)
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
Georg Braun (Germany, 1541–1622), cartographer
Anders Bure (Sweden, 1571–1646), founder of Swedish cartography
Hernando de los Ríos Coronel (1559–1621?), cosmographer and cartographer, mapped Taiwan (Isla Hermosa), Luzon and part of the Chinese coast
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)
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"
Jan Van Hanswijk (Netherlands, fl. 1594)
Martin Helwig (Germany, 1516–1574)
Augustin Hirschvogel (Germany, 1503–1553)
Diogo Homem (Portugal 1521–1576), cartographer, son of Lopo Homem
Lopo Homem (Portugal?–1565), co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known Miller Atlas
Jodocus Hondius (Netherlands, 1563–1612)
Johannes Honterus (Transylvania, 1498–1549)
Gerard de Jode (Netherlands, 1509–1591)
Joan Martines (Messina, Sicily, died 1591)
Urbano Monti (Italy, 1544–1613)
Jacques le Moyne (France, c. 1533–1588)
Guillaume Le Testu (France, c. 1509–1573)
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)
Jorge Reinel (Portugal c. 1502–c. 1572), Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel
Pedro Reinel (Portugal ?–c. 1542), author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart
Diogo Ribeiro (Portugal, ?–Sevilha, 1533), author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)
Christopher Saxton (England, born c. 1540)
John Speed (England, 1542–1629)
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 (England, 1561–1615), mathematician and cartographer

17th century

thumb|right|Willem Blaeu and Johannes Blaeu's 1606–1626 world map

thumb|Herman Moll's A new map of the whole world with the trade winds (1736)

thumb|right|Frederik de Wit'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
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 makerEmanuel Bowen
Giovanni Cassini ( Cassini I, Italy & France, 1625–1712)
Jacques Cassini (a.k.a. Cassini II, France, 1677–1756)
Greenville Collins (British, 1643–1694)
Vincenzo Coronelli (Venetian, 1650–1718)
Guillaume Delisle (French, 1675–1726)
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)
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)
Anna van Westerstee Beek (Netherlands, 1657–1717), Dutch cartographer, produced city and battle maps
Frederik de Wit (Netherlands, 1610/16–1698)
Nicolaes Witsen (Netherlands, 1641–1717), diplomat, cartographer, writer and mayor of Amsterdam

18th century

thumb|200px|right|Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Carte réduite de l'océan septentrional..., from: L'hydrographie françoise, Paris 1766

thumb|right|200px|Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Troisième partie de la carte d'Asie, contenant la Sibérie, et quelques autres parties de la Tartarie, Paris (1753)

thumb|200px|Plan du Jardin & Vue des Maisons de Chiswick, 1736, by John Rocque V&A Museum no. E.352-1944

250px|thumbnail|right|A survey of Boston Harbor from Atlantic Neptune by Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres

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
Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793–1858)
John Lodge Cowley, cartographer, mathematician and geographer
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721–1824), created Atlantic Neptune
John Gibson, map c. 1758
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772), chief cartographer to the French navy
William Bligh (England, 1754–57 December 1817), Sship's 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)
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)
Jean-Dominique Cassini (a.k.a. Cassini IV, France, 1748–1845)
César-François Cassini de Thury (a.k.a. Cassini III, France, 1714–1784)
Thomas Frederick Colby (England, 1784–1852)
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
William Faden (England, 1749–1836), successor to Thomas Jefferys
Joseph de Ferraris (1726–1814), Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands
Louis Feuillée (France, 1660–1732)
Matthew Flinders (British, 1774–1814), Royal Navy officer; circumnavigated Australia and made exploration of the Australian coastline
Björn Gunnlaugsson (Iceland, 1788–1876)
Samuel Gustaf Hermelin (Sweden, 1744–1820)
Pierre Jacotin (France, 1765–1829)
Thomas Jefferys (England, c. 1710–1771), geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
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"
Fielding Lucas, Jr. (c. 1781–1854), of the Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, US
Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)
Edme Mentelle (France, 1730–1816)
Henri Michelot (France, born c. 1664), Marseilles, France, hydrographer and pilot of the Royal Galley
John Mitchell (1711–1768), colonial British American mapmaker
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (England, 1792–1855)
Robert Moresby (England, 1794–1863)
Thomas Moule (England, 1784–1851)
William Mudge (England, 1762–1820)
Friedrich Christoph Müller (Germany, 1751–1808)
Carlton Osgood (United States, †1816)
Adriaan Reland (Netherlands, 1676–1718), linguist and cartographer
Thomas Richardson (Scotland)
John Rocque (England, 1709–1762)
William Roy (England, 1726–1790)
John Senex (1690–1740), engraver, publisher, surveyor and geographer to Queen AnneJohn Senex
Matthäus Seutter (Germany, 1678–1757)
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676–1747)
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)
Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795–1869)
Dider Robert de Vaugondy (France, 1688–1766)
George Washington (United States, 1732–1799), first president of the U.S.; cartographer
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

19th century

thumb|right|Abraham Bradley's U.S. postal route map of 1804

right|thumb|200px|Moule's map of the hundreds of Monmouthshire, c. 1831

thumb|200px|A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Yuly Shokalsky

Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786
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)
Bernard J. S. Cahill (1867–1944), inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world
Ambrose F. Church (died 1920), mapmaker in Nova Scotia, Canada
J. H. Colton (United States, 1800–1893)
George Comer (1858–1937)
Emmor Cope, Gettysburg Battlefield cartographer and first Gettysburg National Military Park superintendent
James Ireland Craig (1868–1952), inventor of the Craig retroazimuthal projection, otherwise known as the Mecca projection
Carl Diercke (1842–1913)
Max Eckert-Greifendorff (Germany, 1868–1938)
Percy Fawcett (1867–1925), British explorer of South America
Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842–1922), American producer of pictorial maps
James Gardner
Charles E. Goad (1848–1910), English Canadian cartographer and pioneer of insurance maps
Eugenia Wheeler Goff (United States, 1844–1922), combined history, resources, and geography
John Paul Goode (1862–1932), created the "Evil Mercator" and Goode’s World Atlas
Hermann Haack (Germany, 1872–1966)
Charles F. Hoffmann (Germany/United States, 1838–1913)
William Hughes FRGS (1818 – 21 May 1876), English geographer, mapmaker, cartographer and author
Eduard Imhof (1895–1986), oversaw the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, the atlas used in Swiss
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)
Matsuura Takeshirō (Japan, 1818–1888), explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian
Matthew Fontaine Maury (United States, 1806–1873), U.S. Navy officer; also oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator
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)
Nain Singh Rawat (India, 1830–1882), cartographer and explorer
Daniel Alfred Sanborn (United States, 1827–1883), founder of the prolific insurance map provider Sanborn Map Company
William Schmollinger (fl. 1830s)
Shanawdithit (Canada, c. 1801–1829), created maps depicting the movement Beothuk people in Newfoundland
William R. Shepherd (1871–1934)
Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856–1940), also oceanographer and geographer
Karl Spruner von Merz (Germany, 1803–1892)
John Tallis (England, 1838–1851)
Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France, 1824–1897), devised Tissot's indicatrix
Edward A. Vincent (England/United States, c. 1825–27 November 1856), cartographer, civil engineer, architect
Alexandre Vuillemin (France, 1812–1880)
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

thumb|right|125px|George Comer's 1913 map of Southampton Island

thumb|175px|right|A Robinson projection of the Earth

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– )
Eila Campbell (1915–1994), English geographer and cartographer
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
Richard Edes Harrison (1901–1994)
Tom Harrisson (1911–1976)
George F. Jenks (1916–1996)
Elrey Borge Jeppesen (1907–1996)
Ingrid Kretschmer (1939–2011)
Samuel Herbert Maw (1881–1952), architect, delineator and cartographer of Canada
Kate McLean (United Kingdom), 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; created the Monmonier Algorithm; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University
Mark Newman (1968– ), developed area-contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method
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
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
Nikolas Schiller (1980– ), Arabesque maps composed of kaleidoscopic aerial photographs
Erwin Schneider (1906–1987), Austrian mountaineer and cartographer
Kira B. Shingareva (Russia, 1938–2013), first person to successfully map the dark side of the moon
Jessamine Shumate (1902–1990)
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
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)