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, Magna Graecia (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
 * Gyōki, Japan (668–749), Buddhist monk, cartographer, surveyor, and civil engineer,
 * Hipparchus, Greek Anatolia (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

 * Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin c. 1406
 * 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), 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)
 * Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466–1528), refined and promoted the Werner map projection
 * Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c. 1470–c. 1521/1522)
 * Olaus Magnus (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490–1557), published Carta Marina in 1539
 * 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

 * 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)
 * Hernando de los Ríos Coronel (1559–1621?), cosmographer and cartographer, mapped Taiwan (Isla Hermosa), Luzon and part of the Chinese coast.
 * 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
 * Anders Bure (Sweden, 1571 – 1646), founder of Swedish cartography
 * 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)
 * Jan Van Hanswijk (Netherlands, fl. 1594)
 * 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, c. 1533–1588)
 * Guillaume Le Testu (France, c. 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)
 * 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."
 * 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
 * Georg Braun (Germany, 1541–1622), 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
 * François Berthelot (France), cartographer of the Mediterranean Sea
 * Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596–1673)
 * Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), engraver and map maker
 * Greenville Collins (British, 1643-1694)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Henry Popple (England, 16xx–1743)
 * 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 (a.k.a. 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
 * 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
 * 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 c. 1740
 * 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 Carta militar das principaes estradas de Portugal, 1808
 * 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)
 * 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, US
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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

 * Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786
 * Carlo de Candia (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.
 * 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)
 * Eugenia Wheeler Goff (United States, 1844–1922), combined history, resources, and geography
 * 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
 * Matsuura Takeshirō (Japan, 1818–1888), explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian.
 * Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842–1922), American producer of pictorial maps
 * Charles F. Hoffmann (Germany/United States, 1838–1913)
 * James Gardner
 * Charles E. Goad (1848 – 1910), English Canadian cartographer and pioneer of insurance maps
 * William Hughes (geographer) FRGS (1818 – 21 May 1876), English geographer, mapmaker, cartographer and author.
 * Gwynneth de Candia Vaughan (England 1879 - ?), British cartographer, mapmaker in the Australian territories.
 * 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
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Daniel Alfred Sanborn (United States, 1827–1883), founder of the prolific insurance map provider Sanborn Map Company
 * William Schmollinger (fl. 1830s)
 * 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, c. 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 pictorial 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 São Paulo, tactile cartographer
 * 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– )
 * 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
 * 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)
 * Samuel Herbert Maw (1881-1952), architect, delineator and cartographer of Canada
 * Kate McLean (United Kingdom) Best 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 and created the Monmonier Algorithm. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University
 * Mark Newman (1968– ), developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method
 * 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
 * Jacques Pervititch (Turkey, 1877–1945), creator of series of insurance maps of Istanbul
 * Barbara Petchenik (1939–1992), first woman to serve as Vice President of the International Cartographic Association
 * 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
 * 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, 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
 * Judith Tyner (United States, born 1939), professor emerita of geography at California State University, Long Beach
 * Ludwig von der Vecht (Deutschland, 1854–1919), cartographer of German colonies
 * 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)