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, Greece (circa 350 BC-285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
 * Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt, (276 BC-194 BC) a Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer


 * Guido of Pisa, Italy (? - 1169) Guido is widely known as the "Father of Geographic Encyclopedias".
 * Hipparchus, Greece, (190 BC-120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
 * Isidore of Seville, Spain (560-636)
 * Al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100-1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.
 * Liu An, China (179 BC-122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi
 * Marinus of Tyre (ca. 70 - 130 A.D.) was a Phoenician geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography.
 * Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt, (circa 85-165), a Greek astronomer, cartographer, geographer
 * Agathodaemon, native of Alexandria, Egypt and contributor to Ptolemy's Geographia.
 * Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)
 * Shen Kuo, China (1031-1095), a 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
 * Angelino Dalorto or Angelino Dulcert (14th century) author of the earliest known majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean

15th century

 * Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436 – 1507)
 * Benedetto Bordone Italy (1460 - 1551)
 * Sebastian Cabot (1476-1557), Italian explorer
 * Erhard Etzlaub (1460 – 1532)
 * Henricus Martellus Germanus (Italy, fl. 1480-1496)
 * Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460-1475)
 * Fra Mauro (Venice, c.1459)
 * Piri Reis/Hadji Muhammad (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 (Italy, 1454 – 1512)
 * Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c.1470 – c.1521/1522)
 * Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466 – 1528) refined and promoted the Werner map projection
 * Gabriel de Valseca (15th century), Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
 * Grazioso Benincasa (15th century), Venetian (?), author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean

16th century
Abraham Ortelius
 * Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500 - 1564) Italian cartogapher, author of numerous nautical atlases
 * 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, Flanders, 1508 - 1555)
 * Martin Helwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)
 * Lopo Homem (? - 1565) - Portuguese cartographer co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known Miller Atlas
 * Diogo Homem (1521 - 1576) - Portuguese cartographer, son of Lopo Homem
 * Jodocus Hondius (Flanders, England, Netherlands, 1563 - 1612)
 * Gerard de Jode (Netherlands,Flanders, 1509 - 1591)
 * Jacques le Moyne (France, ca. 1533 - 1588)
 * Guillaume Le Testu (France, ca. 1509 - 1573)
 * Gerardus Mercator (Flanders, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)
 * Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488 – 1552)
 * Abraham Ortelius, (Flanders, 1527 - 1598) - Generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas
 * Petrus Plancius, (Netherlands, 1552 - 1622)
 * Timothy Pont, (Scotland, 1565 - 1614)
 * Pedro Reinel (? - c. 1542) - Portuguese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart
 * Jorge Reinel (c. 1502 - c. 1572) - Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel
 * Diego Ribero (Portugal, ? - Sevilha, 1533) - Portuguese cartographer, author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)
 * Sebastião Lopes (16th century) - Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer
 * Christopher Saxton, (England, born c 1540)
 * John Speed, (England, 1542 - 1629)
 * Fernando Ýlvares Seco (? - ?) - Portuguese cartographer, who signed the oldest known map of Portugal, reproduced in various editions of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
 * Luís Teixeira (? - ?) - Portuguese cartographer, author of an important Atlas of Brasil
 * Bartolomeu Velho (? - 1568) - Portuguese 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 (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, son of Luís Teixeira, who was cosmographer major of the kingdom
 * Pedro Teixeira Albernaz (c. 1565 - 1662) Portuguese cartographer author of an important atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and a map of Portugal (1656
 * Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596 - 1673)
 * 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 Graaf (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, died 1703)
 * Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop (Netherlands, 1610 - 1682), cartographer, mathematician and astronomist
 * John Ogilby (Scotland, 1600 - 1676)
 * Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600 - 1667)
 * Peter Schenk (Germany, 1660 - 1718/19)
 * Johannes Vingboons (Netherlands, 1616/17 - 1670) cartographer and aquarellist
 * Claes Jansz Visscher (Netherlands, 1587 - 1652)
 * Nicolaes Visscher (Netherlands, 1618 - 1679)
 * Frederik de Wit (Netherlands, 1610/16 - 1698)
 * Nicolaes Witsen (Netherlands, 1641 - 1717) diplomat, cartographer, writer and mayor of Amsterdam

18th century

 * Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi (Venice, 1698 – 1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
 * Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (France, 1697 - 1782)
 * Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) Chief cartographer to the French navy
 * 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
 * César-François Cassini de Thury (France, 1714 – 1784)
 * Jean-Dominique Cassini (France, 1748 – 1845)
 * 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
 * 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
 * Louis Feuillée (France, 1660 – 1732)
 * Thomas Jefferys (England, c. 1710 - 1771) Geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
 * Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)
 * John Mitchell (1711 - 1768) Colonial British American mapmaker.
 * Carlton Osgood (United States, †1816)
 * Adriaan Reland (Netherlands, 1676 - 1718), linguist & cartographer
 * Thomas Richardson - Scottish
 * Dider Robert de Vaugondy (France, 1688 - 1766)
 * John Rocque (England, 1709 - 1762)
 * Matthäus Seutter (Germany, 1678 - 1757)
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau (1743 - 1806)
 * Matthias Seutter (Germany, 1678 – 1757)
 * Daniel-Charles Trudaine (France, 1703 – 1769)
 * Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676 – 1747)
 * Alexander Wilbrecht (Russia, 1757 – 1823) Geographer of The Geographic Department of the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty

19th century

 * John James Abert (United States, 1788 - 1863)
 * Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (France, 1761 – 1824)
 * Henry Peter Bosse (Germany/United States, 1844 - 1903)
 * George Bradshaw (England, 1801 - 1853)
 * Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793 - 1858)
 * James Ireland Craig, Craig retroazimuthal projection.
 * Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)
 * Louis Isidore Duperrey (France, 1786 – 1865)
 * Lucas, Fielding Jr. (c. 1781—1854) Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, USA
 * Matthew Flinders ( 16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) - Circumnavigated, Tasmania and Australia
 * Matthew Fontaine Maury, (1806-1873) American, USN, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, educator.
 * Björn Gunnlaugsson (Iceland, 1788 – 1876)
 * Charles F. Hoffmann (Germany/United States, 1838 - 1913)
 * Pierre Jacotin (France, 1765 – 1829)
 * Felix Jones (England, 1813 - 1878)
 * Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
 * Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (France, 1816 - 1889)
 * Robert Moresby (England, 1794 - 1863)
 * Thomas Moule (England, 1784 - 1851)
 * John Tallis and Company (England, 1838 - 1851)
 * Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856 - 1940)
 * Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France, 1824 - 1897)
 * Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795 - 1869)
 * James Wilson (1763 – 1835) First globe maker in the US.
 * Nain Singh Rawat: Indian cartographer.

20th century

 * Erik Arnberger (1917 - 1987)
 * Jacques Bertin (France, 1918- )
 * Roger Brunet (1931- )
 * Bernard J.S. Cahill (1867-1944) - Inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world
 * George Comer (1858 – 1937)
 * James Ireland Craig (1868-1952) - Inventor of the Craig retroazimuthal projection, otherwise known as the Mecca projection
 * John Paul Goode (1862-1932) - Created the "Evil Mercator" and Goode’s World Atlas
 * Max Eckert-Greifendorff (Germany, 1868 - 1938)
 * Hermann Haack (Germany, 1872 - 1966)
 * Günther Hake (1922 - 2000)
 * Richard Edes Harrison (1901-1994)
 * Tom Harrisson (1911-1976)
 * Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986) - Oversaw the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, the atlas used in Swiss high schools from 1932 until 1976
 * George F. Jenks (1916 - 1996)
 * Elrey Borge Jeppesen (1907-1996)
 * Edgar Lehmann (1905 - 1990)
 * John P. Snyder (1926-1997) - Developed the Space oblique mercator projection
 * Rudi Ogrissek (1926 - 1999)
 * Erwin Raisz (1893 - 1968) Authored the first English text on cartography in 1938. Famous for his elegant hand-drawn maps and his influence in standardizing cartography as a science in the 20th century.
 * Arthur H. Robinson (1915 - 2004) - Wrote the influential textbook Elements of Cartography and developed the Robinson Projection
 * William R. Shepherd (1871 - 1934)
 * John C. Sherman (1916 - 1996)
 * Bradford Washburn (1910-2007)
 * David Woodward (1942-2004)

21st century

 * Tom Patterson - Cartographer for the National Park Service, creator of Natural Earth
 * Nikolas Schiller (1980- ) - Arabesque maps composed of kaleidoscopic aerial photographs
 * Dr. E. Lee Spence, (1947- ) - Pioneer underwater archaeologist, decorative, historical maps showing shipwreck locations
 * Waldo R. Tobler (1930- ) - Developed the First law of geography
 * Denis Wood (1945- ) - Artist, author, and former professor of Design at North Carolina State University

Cartography organizations

 * International Cartographic Association (ICA)
 * British Cartographic Society
 * Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS)
 * NACIS North American Cartographic Information Society
 * Croatian Cartographic Society
 * Society of Cartographers
 * Swiss Society of Cartography
 * Washington Map Society
 * National Geographic Society
 * German Society of Cartography
 * Austrian Cartographic Commission of the Austrian Geographic Society