# List of cartographers

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[Cartography](/source/Cartography) is the study of map making and, **cartographers** are map makers.

## Before 1400

Modern rendering of [Anaximander](/source/Anaximander)'s 6th-century BC world map

[Ptolemy](/source/Ptolemy)'s 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century)

- [Anaximander](/source/Anaximander), Greek [Anatolia](/source/Anatolia) (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world

- [Dicaearchus](/source/Dicaearchus), [Magna Graecia](/source/Magna_Graecia) (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author

- [Angelino Dulcert](/source/Angelino_Dulcert) (14th century), author of the earliest known [Majorcan](/source/Majorca) portolan charts of the Mediterranean

- [Ende](/source/Ende_(artist)), Spain (c. 1000 AD), illustrator, cartographer, nun

- [Eratosthenes](/source/Eratosthenes), [Ptolemaic Egypt](/source/Ptolemaic_Egypt) (276 BC–194 BC), Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer

- [Gyōki](/source/Gy%C5%8Dki), Japan (668–749), Buddhist monk, cartographer, surveyor, and civil engineer,

- [Hecataeus of Miletus](/source/Hecataeus_of_Miletus), Greek [Anatolia](/source/Anatolia) (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early [ethnographer](/source/Ethnographer)

- [Hipparchus](/source/Hipparchus), Greek [Anatolia](/source/Anatolia) (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer

- [al-Idrisi](/source/Al-Idrisi), Sicily (1100–1166), [Arab cartographer](/source/Medieval_Arab_cartographers), geographer and traveller

- [Isidore of Seville](/source/Isidore_of_Seville), [Hispania](/source/Hispania) (560–636)

- [al-Khwārazmī](/source/Al-Khw%C4%81razm%C4%AB), [Caliphate](/source/Caliphate) (9th century), [Persian cartographer](/source/Medieval_Persian_cartographers), geographer, and polymath

- [Liu An](/source/Liu_An), China (179 BC–122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the *[Huainanzi](/source/Huainanzi)*

- [Marinus of Tyre](/source/Marinus_of_Tyre), [Roman Syria](/source/Roman_Syria) (c. AD 70–130), Greek[1] geographer, [cartographer](/source/Cartographer) and [mathematician](/source/Mathematician), who founded mathematical geography

- [Pei Xiu](/source/Pei_Xiu) (224–271), Chinese geographer and cartographer

- [Maximus Planudes](/source/Maximus_Planudes), Byzantine Empire (13th century), monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy

- [Ptolemy](/source/Ptolemy), [Ptolemaic Egypt](/source/Ptolemaic_Egypt) (c. 85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer

- [Shen Kuo](/source/Shen_Kuo), China (1031–1095), [polymath](/source/Polymath) scientist and statesman, author of the *[Dream Pool Essays](/source/Dream_Pool_Essays)*, which included a large [atlas](/source/Atlas) of China and foreign regions, and also made a [three-dimensional](/source/Three-dimensional_space) [raised-relief map](/source/Raised-relief_map)

- [Su Song](/source/Su_Song), China (1020–1101), [horologist](/source/Horologist) and engineer; as a [Song dynasty](/source/Song_dynasty) diplomat, he used his knowledge of cartography and map-making to solve territorial border disputes with the rival [Liao dynasty](/source/Liao_dynasty)

- [Pietro Vesconte](/source/Pietro_Vesconte), [Genoese](/source/Republic_of_Genoa) cartographer, author of the oldest signed [Portolan chart](/source/Portolan_chart) (1311)

## 15th century

First world map of [Piri Reis](/source/Piri_Reis)

[Martin Behaim](/source/Martin_Behaim)'s 1492 world map

- [Jacobus Angelus](/source/Jacobus_Angelus), [Florence](/source/Republic_of_Florence), translated Ptolemy into Latin c. 1406

- [Martin Behaim](/source/Martin_Behaim) (Germany, 1436–1507)

- [Grazioso Benincasa](/source/Grazioso_Benincasa) [[it](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grazioso_Benincasa)] (15th century), from [Ancona](/source/Ancona), author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean

- [Benedetto Bordone](/source/Benedetto_Bordone) (Venetian Republic 1460–1551)

- [Sebastian Cabot](/source/Sebastian_Cabot_(explorer)) (1476–1557), [Venetian](/source/Venetian_Republic) explorer

- [Leonardo da Vinci](/source/Leonardo_da_Vinci) (Italy, 1452–1519)

- [Gabriel de Valseca](/source/Gabriel_de_Valseca) (15th century), Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean

- [Erhard Etzlaub](/source/Erhard_Etzlaub) (1460–1532)

- [Donnus Nicholas Germanus](/source/Donnus_Nicholas_Germanus) (Germany, fl. 1460–1475)

- [Henricus Martellus Germanus](/source/Henricus_Martellus_Germanus) (Germany, fl. 1480–1496)

- [Olaus Magnus](/source/Olaus_Magnus) (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490–1557), published *[Carta Marina](/source/Carta_Marina)* in 1539

- [Fra Mauro](/source/Fra_Mauro) (Venice, c. 1459)

- [Piri Reis](/source/Piri_Reis) (Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire, 1465–1554/1555), author of the *[Kitab-ı Bahriye](/source/Kitab-%C4%B1_Bahriye)*

- [Johannes Ruysch](/source/Johannes_Ruysch) (Netherlands, c. 1466–1530), explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter

- [Hartmann Schedel](/source/Hartmann_Schedel) (Germany, 1440–1514)

- [Amerigo Vespucci](/source/Amerigo_Vespucci) ([Republic of Florence](/source/Republic_of_Florence), 1454–1512)

- [Martin Waldseemüller](/source/Martin_Waldseem%C3%BCller) (Germany, c. 1470–c. 1521/1522)

- [Johannes Werner](/source/Johannes_Werner) (Germany, 1466–1528), refined and promoted the Werner [map projection](/source/Map_projection)

## 16th century

Battista Agnese's 1544 world map

[Jodocus Hondius](/source/Jodocus_Hondius)' *Leo Belgicus* (1611)

[Gerardus Mercator](/source/Gerardus_Mercator)'s 1587 world map

World map from the *[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum](/source/Theatrum_Orbis_Terrarum)* by [Abraham Ortelius](/source/Abraham_Ortelius)

- [Giovanni Battista Agnese](/source/Battista_Agnese) (c. 1500–1564), [Genoese](/source/Republic_of_Genoa), cartographer, author of numerous [nautical atlases](/source/Portolan)

- [Hacı Ahmet](/source/Hac%C4%B1_Ahmet), [Ottoman Tunisian](/source/Ottoman_Tunisia) cartographer, translated 16th-c. map into Turkish for the [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire)

- [Peter Apian](/source/Peter_Apian) (1495–1552), also known as [Peter Bienewitz](/source/Peter_Bienewitz), German geographer and [astronomer](/source/Astronomer), author of the [Apianus projection](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apianus_projection&action=edit&redlink=1)

- [Philipp Apian](/source/Philipp_Apian) (1531–1589)

- [Joost Janszoon Bilhamer](/source/Joost_Janszoon_Bilhamer) (Netherlands, 1541–1590)

- [Willem Janszoon Blaeu](/source/Willem_Blaeu) (Netherlands, 1571–1638), father of [Joan Blaeu](/source/Joan_Blaeu)

- [Giovanni Battista Boazio](/source/Giovanni_Battista_Boazio), mapped Sir [Francis Drake](/source/Francis_Drake)'s voyage to the West Indies and America

- [Georg Braun](/source/Georg_Braun) (Germany, 1541–1622), [cartographer](/source/Cartographer)

- [Anders Bure](/source/Anders_Bure) (Sweden, 1571–1646), founder of Swedish cartography

- [Hernando de los Ríos Coronel](/source/Hernando_de_los_R%C3%ADos_Coronel) (1559–1621?), cosmographer and cartographer, mapped Taiwan (Isla Hermosa), Luzon and part of the Chinese coast

- [Jacob Roelofs van Deventer](/source/Jacob_Roelofs_van_Deventer) (Netherlands, c. 1510/15–1575)

- [Fernão Vaz Dourado](/source/Fern%C3%A3o_Vaz_Dourado) (India, c. 1520–c. 1580), Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by [Lopo Homem](/source/Lopo_Homem)

- [Oronce Finé](/source/Oronce_Fin%C3%A9) (France, 1494–1555)

- [Gemma Frisius](/source/Gemma_Frisius) (or Reiner Gemma) (Netherlands, 1508–1555)

- [Diego Gutiérrez](/source/Diego_Guti%C3%A9rrez_(cartographer)) (Spain, ?), published a map entitled *[Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio](/source/Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio)* with printer [Hieronymus Cock](/source/Hieronymus_Cock); first map with [toponym](/source/Toponym) "[California](/source/California)" and first appearance of a word for "[Appalachia](/source/Appalachia)," as the term "Apalchen"

- [Jan Van Hanswijk](/source/Jan_Van_Hanswijk) (Netherlands, fl. 1594)

- [Martin Helwig](/source/Martin_Helwig) (Germany, 1516–1574)

- [Augustin Hirschvogel](/source/Augustin_Hirschvogel) (Germany, 1503–1553)

- [Diogo Homem](/source/Diogo_Homem) (Portugal 1521–1576), cartographer, son of [Lopo Homem](/source/Lopo_Homem)

- [Lopo Homem](/source/Lopo_Homem) (Portugal?–1565), co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known [Miller Atlas](/source/Miller_Atlas)

- [Jodocus Hondius](/source/Jodocus_Hondius) (Netherlands, 1563–1612)

- [Johannes Honterus](/source/Johannes_Honterus) (Transylvania, 1498–1549)

- [Gerard de Jode](/source/Gerard_de_Jode) (Netherlands, 1509–1591)

- [Joan Martines](/source/Joan_Martines) (Messina, Sicily, died 1591)

- [Urbano Monti](/source/Urbano_Monti) (Italy, 1544–1613)

- [Jacques le Moyne](/source/Jacques_le_Moyne) (France, c. 1533–1588)

- [Guillaume Le Testu](/source/Guillaume_Le_Testu) (France, c. 1509–1573)

- [Gerardus Mercator](/source/Gerardus_Mercator) (Netherlands, 1512–1594)

- [Sebastian Münster](/source/Sebastian_M%C3%BCnster) (Germany, 1488–1552)

- [Abraham Ortelius](/source/Abraham_Ortelius) (France, 1527–1598), generally recognized as the creator of the first modern [atlas](/source/Atlas)

- [Petrus Plancius](/source/Petrus_Plancius) (Netherlands, 1552–1622)

- [Timothy Pont](/source/Timothy_Pont) (Scotland, 1565–1614)

- [Jorge Reinel](/source/Jorge_Reinel) (Portugal c. 1502–c. 1572), Portuguese cartographer, son of [Pedro Reinel](/source/Pedro_Reinel)

- [Pedro Reinel](/source/Pedro_Reinel) (Portugal ?–c. 1542), author of the oldest signed Portuguese [nautical chart](/source/Nautical_chart)

- [Diogo Ribeiro](/source/Diogo_Ribeiro_(cartographer)) (Portugal, ?–Sevilha, 1533), author of the first known [planisphere](/source/Planisphere) with a graduated [Equator](/source/Equator) (1527)

- [Christopher Saxton](/source/Christopher_Saxton) (England, born c. 1540)

- [John Speed](/source/John_Speed) (England, 1542–1629)

- [Luís Teixeira](/source/Lu%C3%ADs_Teixeira) (Portugal, ?–?), author of an important atlas of [Brazil](/source/Brazil)

- [Bartolomeu Velho](/source/Bartolomeu_Velho) (Portugal, ?–1568), [cosmographer](/source/Cosmographer) and cartographer

- [Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer](/source/Lucas_Janszoon_Waghenaer) (Netherlands, 1533/34–1605/06), driver, cartographer

- [Edward Wright](/source/Edward_Wright_(mathematician)) (England, 1561–1615), [mathematician](/source/Mathematician) and cartographer

## 17th century

[Willem Blaeu](/source/Willem_Blaeu) and [Johannes Blaeu](/source/Johannes_Blaeu)'s 1606–1626 world map

[Herman Moll](/source/Herman_Moll)'s *A new map of the whole world with the trade winds* (1736)

[Frederik de Wit](/source/Frederik_de_Wit)'s 1670 world map

- [Pieter van der Aa](/source/Pieter_van_der_Aa) (Netherlands, 1659–1733)

- [João Teixeira Albernaz I](/source/Jo%C3%A3o_Teixeira_Albernaz_I) (Portugal, died c. 1664), prolific cartographer, son of [Luís Teixeira](/source/Lu%C3%ADs_Teixeira)

- [Pedro Teixeira Albernaz](/source/Pedro_Teixeira_Albernaz) (Portugal, c. 1595–1662), Portuguese cartographer author of an important atlas of the [Iberian Peninsula](/source/Iberian_Peninsula) and a map of Portugal (1656)

- [Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan](/source/Guillaume_Le_Vasseur_de_Beauplan) (France, c. 1600–1673), French cartographer who created first descriptive map of [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine)[2][3]

- [François Berthelot](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Berthelot) (France), cartographer of the Mediterranean Sea

- [Johannes Blaeu](/source/Johannes_Blaeu) (Netherlands, 1596–1673)

- [Emanuel Bowen](/source/Emanuel_Bowen) (1693/4–1767), engraver and map maker[4]

- [Giovanni Cassini](/source/Giovanni_Cassini) (a.k.a. Cassini I, Italy & France, 1625–1712)

- [Jacques Cassini](/source/Jacques_Cassini) (a.k.a. Cassini II, France, 1677–1756)

- [Greenville Collins](/source/Greenville_Collins) (British, 1643–1694)

- [Vincenzo Coronelli](/source/Vincenzo_Coronelli) (Venetian, 1650–1718)

- [Guillaume Delisle](/source/Guillaume_Delisle) (French, 1675–1726)

- [Hessel Gerritsz](/source/Hessel_Gerritsz) (Netherlands, 1581–1632), cartographer for the [VOC](/source/Dutch_East_India_Company)

- [Isaak de Graaff](/source/Isaak_de_Graaff) (Netherlands, 1668–1743), cartographer for the VOC

- [Johann Homann](/source/Johann_Homann) (Germany, 1664–1724), geographer

- [Henricus Hondius](/source/Hendrik_Hondius_II) (Netherlands, 1597–1651)[5]

- [Willem Hondius](/source/Willem_Hondius) (Netherlands, 1598–1652/58)

- [Johannes Janssonius](/source/Johannes_Janssonius) (Netherlands, 1588–1664)

- [Johannes van Keulen](/source/Johannes_van_Keulen) (Netherlands, 1654–1715)

- [Joannes de Laet](/source/Joannes_de_Laet) (Netherlands, 1581–1649)

- [Michael van Langren](/source/Michael_van_Langren) (Netherlands, 1600–1675)

- [Alain Manesson Mallet](/source/Alain_Manesson_Mallet) (France, 1630–1706)

- [Matthäus Merian](/source/Matth%C3%A4us_Merian) Sr. (Switzerland, 1593–1650) and Jr. (Switzerland, 1621–1687)

- [David de Meyne](/source/David_de_Meyne) (Netherlands, c. 1569–1620)

- [Herman Moll](/source/Herman_Moll) (Germany?/England, 1654–1732)

- [Robert Morden](/source/Robert_Morden) (England, 1650–1703)

- [Giovan Battista Nicolosi](/source/Giovan_Battista_Nicolosi) (Italy, 1610–1670)

- [Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop](/source/Dirck_Rembrantsz_van_Nierop) (Netherlands, 1610–1682), cartographer, mathematician and astronomist

- [Jean-Baptiste Nolin](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Nolin) (France, c.1657–1708)

- [John Ogilby](/source/John_Ogilby) (Scotland, 1600–1676)

- [Nicolas Sanson](/source/Nicolas_Sanson) (France, 1600–1667)

- [Peter Schenk the Elder](/source/Peter_Schenk_the_Elder) (Germany, 1660–1718/19)

- [Johannes Vingboons](/source/Johannes_Vingboons) (Netherlands, 1616/17–1670), cartographer and aquarellist

- [Georg Matthäus Vischer](/source/Georg_Matth%C3%A4us_Vischer) (Austria, 1628–1696), cartographer, topographer and engraver

- [Claes Jansz Visscher](/source/Claes_Jansz_Visscher) (Netherlands, 1587–1652)

- [Nicolaes Visscher I](/source/Nicolaes_Visscher_I) (Netherlands, 1618–1679)

- [Anna van Westerstee Beek](/source/Anna_van_Westerstee_Beek) (Netherlands, 1657–1717), Dutch cartographer, produced city and battle maps

- [Frederik de Wit](/source/Frederik_de_Wit) (Netherlands, 1610/16–1698)

- [Nicolaes Witsen](/source/Nicolaes_Witsen) (Netherlands, 1641–1717), diplomat, cartographer, writer and mayor of Amsterdam

## 18th century

[Jacques-Nicolas Bellin](/source/Jacques-Nicolas_Bellin): *Carte réduite de l'océan septentrional...*, from: *L'hydrographie françoise*, Paris 1766

[Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Bourguignon_d'Anville): *Troisième partie de la carte d'Asie, contenant la Sibérie, et quelques autres parties de la Tartarie*, Paris (1753)

Plan du Jardin & Vue des Maisons de Chiswick, 1736, by [John Rocque](/source/John_Rocque) V&A Museum no. E.352-1944

A survey of [Boston Harbor](/source/Boston_Harbor) from [Atlantic Neptune](/source/Atlantic_Neptune) by Colonel [Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres](/source/Joseph_Frederick_Wallet_DesBarres)

- [John James Abert](/source/John_James_Abert) (United States, 1788–1863), headed the [Corps of Topographical Engineers](/source/Corps_of_Topographical_Engineers) for 32 years and organized the mapping of the [American West](/source/American_West)

- [Anders Åkerman](/source/Anders_%C3%85kerman) (Sweden, 1721/23–1778), first [globemaker](/source/Globe) in Sweden

- [John Arrowsmith](/source/John_Arrowsmith_(cartographer)) (England, 1790–1873), member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers

- [Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe](/source/Louis_Albert_Guislain_Bacler_d'Albe) (France, 1761–1824), also artist and longtime strategic advisor to [Napoleon](/source/Napoleon)

- [Agostino Codazzi](/source/Agostino_Codazzi) (Italy, 1793–1858)

- [John Lodge Cowley](/source/John_Lodge_Cowley), cartographer, mathematician and geographer

- [Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres](/source/Joseph_Frederick_Wallet_DesBarres) (1721–1824), created [Atlantic Neptune](/source/Atlantic_Neptune)

- [John Gibson](/source/John_Gibson_(cartographer)), map c. 1758[6]

- [Jacques-Nicolas Bellin](/source/Jacques-Nicolas_Bellin) (1703–1772), chief cartographer to the French navy

- [William Bligh](/source/William_Bligh) (England, 1754–57 December 1817), Sship's master during the infamous Bounty mutiny and noted free-hand cartographer

- [Rigobert Bonne](/source/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](/source/Jean_Baptiste_Bourguignon_d'Anville) (France, 1697–1782)

- [Abel Buell](/source/Abel_Buell) (1742–1822), published the first map of the new United States created by an American

- [Catharina Buijs](/source/Catharina_Buijs) (1714–1781), Dutch [cartographer](/source/Cartography) for the [Dutch East India Company](/source/Dutch_East_India_Company)

- [Dimitrie Cantemir](/source/Dimitrie_Cantemir) (Moldavia and Russia, 1673–1723)

- [Jean-Dominique Cassini](/source/Dominique%2C_comte_de_Cassini) (a.k.a. Cassini IV, France, 1748–1845)

- [César-François Cassini de Thury](/source/C%C3%A9sar-Fran%C3%A7ois_Cassini_de_Thury) (a.k.a. Cassini III, France, 1714–1784)

- [Thomas Frederick Colby](/source/Thomas_Frederick_Colby) (England, 1784–1852)

- [James Cook](/source/James_Cook) (Captain [RN](/source/Royal_Navy)) (1728–1779), navigator and naval chart maker

- [Simeon De Witt](/source/Simeon_De_Witt) (1756–1834), successor to Robert Erskine and surveyor-general of the State of New York

- [Louis Isidore Duperrey](/source/Louis_Isidore_Duperrey) (French, 1786–1865)

- [Johann Friedrich Endersch](/source/Johann_Friedrich_Endersch) (Germany, fl. 1755)

- [Colonel Robert Erskine](/source/Robert_Erskine_(inventor)) (1735–1780), [geographer](/source/Geographer) and surveyor-general of the [Continental Army](/source/Continental_Army) during the [American Revolution](/source/American_Revolution)

- [William Faden](/source/William_Faden) (England, 1749–1836), successor to Thomas Jefferys

- [Joseph de Ferraris](/source/Joseph_de_Ferraris) (1726–1814), Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands

- [Louis Feuillée](/source/Louis_Feuill%C3%A9e) (France, 1660–1732)

- [Matthew Flinders](/source/Matthew_Flinders) (British, 1774–1814), [Royal Navy](/source/Royal_Navy) officer; circumnavigated Australia and made exploration of the Australian coastline

- [Björn Gunnlaugsson](/source/Bj%C3%B6rn_Gunnlaugsson) (Iceland, 1788–1876)

- [Samuel Gustaf Hermelin](/source/Samuel_Gustaf_Hermelin) (Sweden, 1744–1820)[7]

- [Pierre Jacotin](/source/Pierre_Jacotin) (France, 1765–1829)

- [Thomas Jefferys](/source/Thomas_Jefferys) (England, c. 1710–1771), geographer of King [George III of the United Kingdom](/source/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom)

- [Thomas Kitchin](/source/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"[8]

- [Fielding Lucas, Jr.](/source/Fielding_Lucas%2C_Jr.) (c. 1781–1854), of the Lucas Brothers, [Baltimore](/source/Baltimore), US

- [Murdoch McKenzie](/source/Murdoch_Mackenzie_(cartographer)) (Scotland, died 1797)

- [Edme Mentelle](/source/Edme_Mentelle) (France, 1730–1816)

- [Henri Michelot](/source/Henri_Michelot) (France, born c. 1664), Marseilles, France, hydrographer and pilot of the Royal Galley

- [John Mitchell](/source/John_Mitchell_(geographer)) (1711–1768), colonial British American mapmaker

- [Thomas Livingstone Mitchell](/source/Thomas_Livingstone_Mitchell) (England, 1792–1855)

- [Robert Moresby](/source/Robert_Moresby) (England, 1794–1863)

- [Thomas Moule](/source/Thomas_Moule) (England, 1784–1851)

- [William Mudge](/source/William_Mudge) (England, 1762–1820)

- [Friedrich Christoph Müller](/source/Friedrich_Christoph_M%C3%BCller) (Germany, 1751–1808)

- [Carlton Osgood](/source/Carlton_Osgood) (United States, †1816)

- [Adriaan Reland](/source/Adriaan_Reland) (Netherlands, 1676–1718), linguist and cartographer

- [Thomas Richardson](/source/Thomas_Richardson_(cartographer)) (Scotland)

- [John Rocque](/source/John_Rocque) (England, 1709–1762)

- [William Roy](/source/William_Roy) (England, 1726–1790)

- [John Senex](/source/John_Senex) (1690–1740), engraver, publisher, surveyor and geographer to Queen Anne[9]

- [Matthäus Seutter](/source/Matth%C3%A4us_Seutter) (Germany, 1678–1757)

- [Philip Johan von Strahlenberg](/source/Philip_Johan_von_Strahlenberg) (1676–1747)

- [Inō Tadataka](/source/In%C5%8D_Tadataka) (Japan, 1745–1818), Surveyor and cartographer who completed the first surveyed map of Japan

- [David Thompson](/source/David_Thompson_(explorer)) (British–Canadian, 1770–1857)

- [Daniel-Charles Trudaine](/source/Daniel-Charles_Trudaine) (France, 1703–1769)

- [Philippe Vandermaelen](/source/Philippe_Vandermaelen) (Belgium, 1795–1869)

- [Dider Robert de Vaugondy](/source/Robert_de_Vaugondy) (France, 1688–1766)

- [George Washington](/source/George_Washington) (United States, 1732–1799), first president of the U.S.; cartographer

- [Emma Willard](/source/Emma_Willard) (United States, 1787–1870), women's rights activist and education reformer

- [James Wilson](/source/James_Wilson_(globe_maker)) (United States, 1763–1835), first maker of [globes](/source/Globe) in the United States

## 19th century

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

Moule's map of the [hundreds](/source/Hundred_(country_subdivision)) of [Monmouthshire](/source/Monmouthshire_(historic)), c. 1831

A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by [Yuly Shokalsky](/source/Yuly_Shokalsky)

- [Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786](/source/Robert_Aitken's_new_Parish_Atlas_of_Ayrshire._1829.)

- [John Bartholomew the elder](/source/John_Bartholomew_the_elder) (26 April 1805 – 8 April 1861), Scottish cartographer and engraver

- [Henry Peter Bosse](/source/Henry_Peter_Bosse) (Germany/United States, 1844–1903), also photographer and civil engineer

- [Abraham Bradley Jr.](/source/Abraham_Bradley_Jr.) (1767–1838), created first postal road maps of the United States

- [George Bradshaw](/source/George_Bradshaw) (England, 1801–1853)

- [Bernard J. S. Cahill](/source/Bernard_J._S._Cahill) (1867–1944), inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world

- [Ambrose F. Church](/source/Ambrose_F._Church) (died 1920), mapmaker in Nova Scotia, Canada

- [J. H. Colton](/source/J._H._Colton) (United States, 1800–1893)

- [George Comer](/source/George_Comer) (1858–1937)

- [Emmor Cope](/source/Emmor_Cope), [Gettysburg Battlefield](/source/Gettysburg_Battlefield) cartographer and first [Gettysburg National Military Park](/source/Gettysburg_National_Military_Park) superintendent

- [James Ireland Craig](/source/James_Ireland_Craig) (1868–1952), inventor of the [Craig retroazimuthal projection](/source/Craig_retroazimuthal_projection), otherwise known as the *Mecca projection*

- [Carl Diercke](/source/Carl_Diercke) (1842–1913)

- [Max Eckert-Greifendorff](/source/Max_Eckert-Greifendorff) (Germany, 1868–1938)

- [Percy Fawcett](/source/Percy_Fawcett) (1867–1925), British explorer of South America

- [Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler](/source/Thaddeus_Mortimer_Fowler) (1842–1922), American producer of [pictorial maps](/source/Pictorial_maps)[10]

- [James Gardner](/source/James_Gardner_(surveyor))

- [Charles E. Goad](/source/Charles_E._Goad) (1848–1910), English Canadian cartographer and pioneer of [insurance maps](/source/Goad_map)

- [Eugenia Wheeler Goff](/source/Eugenia_Wheeler_Goff) (United States, 1844–1922), combined history, resources, and geography

- [John Paul Goode](/source/John_Paul_Goode) (1862–1932), created the "Evil Mercator" and *Goode’s World Atlas*

- [Hermann Haack](/source/Hermann_Haack) (Germany, 1872–1966)

- [Charles F. Hoffmann](/source/Charles_F._Hoffmann) (Germany/United States, 1838–1913)

- [William Hughes](/source/William_Hughes_(geographer)) FRGS (1818 – 21 May 1876), English geographer, mapmaker, cartographer and author

- [Eduard Imhof](/source/Eduard_Imhof) (1895–1986), oversaw the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, the atlas used in [Swiss](/source/Switzerland)

- [Florence Kelley](/source/Florence_Kelley) (United States, 1859–1932), political reformer, director of the Chicago portion of the Hull House Maps and Papers

- [Peter Kozler](/source/Peter_Kozler) (Slovenia, 1824–1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer

- [Lilian Lancaster](/source/Lilian_Lancaster_(cartographer)) (1852–1939), British creator of anthropomorphic maps

- [Rudolf Leuzinger](/source/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](/source/Victor_Adolphe_Malte-Brun) (France, 1816–1889)

- [Matsuura Takeshirō](/source/Matsuura_Takeshir%C5%8D) (Japan, 1818–1888), explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian

- [Matthew Fontaine Maury](/source/Matthew_Fontaine_Maury) (United States, 1806–1873), [U.S. Navy officer](/source/United_States_Navy); also oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator

- [Heinrich Theodor Menke](/source/Heinrich_Theodor_Menke) (Germany, 1819–1892)

- [August Heinrich Petermann](/source/August_Heinrich_Petermann) (18 April 1822 – 25 September 1878), German cartographer

- [George Philip](/source/George_Philip_(cartographer)) (1800–1882), cartographer, map publisher and founder of the publishing house [George Philip & Son Ltd.](/source/George_Philip_%26_Son_Ltd.)

- [Erwin Raisz](/source/Erwin_Raisz) (1893–1968)

- [Nain Singh Rawat](/source/Nain_Singh_Rawat) (India, 1830–1882), [cartographer and explorer](/source/Cartography_of_India)

- [Daniel Alfred Sanborn](/source/Daniel_Alfred_Sanborn) (United States, 1827–1883), founder of the prolific insurance map provider [Sanborn Map Company](/source/Sanborn_maps)

- [William Schmollinger](/source/William_Schmollinger) (*fl*. 1830s)

- [Shanawdithit](/source/Shanawdithit) (Canada, c. 1801–1829), created maps depicting the movement [Beothuk](/source/Beothuk) people in Newfoundland

- [William R. Shepherd](/source/William_R._Shepherd) (1871–1934)

- [Yuly Shokalsky](/source/Yuly_Shokalsky) (Russia, 1856–1940), also oceanographer and geographer

- [Karl Spruner von Merz](/source/Karl_Spruner_von_Merz) (Germany, 1803–1892)

- [John Tallis](/source/John_Tallis) (England, 1838–1851)

- [Nicolas Auguste Tissot](/source/Nicolas_Auguste_Tissot) (France, 1824–1897), devised [Tissot's indicatrix](/source/Tissot's_indicatrix)

- [Edward A. Vincent](/source/Edward_A._Vincent) (England/United States, c. 1825–27 November 1856), [cartographer](/source/Cartographer), [civil engineer](/source/Civil_engineer), architect

- [Alexandre Vuillemin](/source/Alexandre_Vuillemin) (France, 1812–1880)

- [John Francon Williams](/source/John_Francon_Williams) FRGS (1854–4 September 1911), editor, journalist, writer, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor

- [Fanny Bullock Workman](/source/Fanny_Bullock_Workman) (United States, 1859–1925), geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer

- [James Wyld](/source/James_Wyld) (England, 1812–1887)

- [Hatsusaburō Yoshida](/source/Hatsusabur%C5%8D_Yoshida) (Japan, 1884–1955)

## 20th century

[George Comer](/source/George_Comer)'s 1913 map of [Southampton Island](/source/Southampton_Island)

A [Robinson projection](/source/Robinson_projection) of the [Earth](/source/Earth)

- [Jacques Bertin](/source/Jacques_Bertin) (France, 1918–2010)

- [Josef Breu](/source/Josef_Breu) (Austria, 1914–1998)

- [Cynthia Brewer](/source/Cynthia_Brewer) (United States, 1957– ), developed [ColorBrewer](/source/ColorBrewer), professor at [Penn State University](/source/Penn_State_University)

- [Roger Brunet](/source/Roger_Brunet) (1931– )

- [Eila Campbell](/source/Eila_Campbell) (1915–1994), English geographer and cartographer

- [Emanuela Casti](/source/Emanuela_Casti) (1950– ), formalized a semiotic theory of geographic maps

- [Danny Dorling](/source/Danny_Dorling) (1968– ), developed circular [cartograms](/source/Cartogram)

- [Marion A. Frieswyk](/source/Marion_A._Frieswyk) (United States, 1922–2021), first female intelligence cartographer in the [Central Intelligence Agency](/source/Central_Intelligence_Agency)

- [Ruth Rhoads Lepper Gardner](/source/Ruth_Rhoads_Lepper_Gardner) (United States, 1905–2011), cartographer of the Maine coast

- [Richard Edes Harrison](/source/Richard_Edes_Harrison) (1901–1994)

- [Tom Harrisson](/source/Tom_Harrisson) (1911–1976)

- [George F. Jenks](/source/George_F._Jenks) (1916–1996)

- [Elrey Borge Jeppesen](/source/Elrey_Borge_Jeppesen) (1907–1996)

- [Ingrid Kretschmer](/source/Ingrid_Kretschmer) (1939–2011)

- [Samuel Herbert Maw](/source/Samuel_Herbert_Maw) (1881–1952), architect, [delineator](/source/Architectural_delineator) and cartographer of [Canada](/source/Canada)

- [Kate McLean](/source/Kate_McLean) (United Kingdom), known for creating olfactory maps of cities

- [Jess Miller](/source/Jess_Miller) (United States, 1988– ), artist, photographer, and cartographer of rural [Arkansas](/source/Arkansas)

- [Mark Monmonier](/source/Mark_Monmonier) (United States, 1943– ), wrote *How to Lie with Maps*; created the Monmonier Algorithm; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, [Syracuse University](/source/Syracuse_University)

- [Mark Newman](/source/Mark_Newman) (1968– ), developed area-contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method

- [Rafael Palacios](/source/Rafael_Palacios_(artist)) (1905–1993), prolific map-drawer for major US publishers

- [Phyllis Pearsall](/source/Phyllis_Pearsall) (England, 1906–1996), creator of the [Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas](/source/Geographers'_A%E2%80%93Z_Street_Atlas)

- [Jacques Pervititch](/source/Jacques_Pervititch) (Turkey, 1877–1945), creator of series of insurance maps of [Istanbul](/source/Istanbul)

- [Edward Ayearst Reeves](/source/Edward_Ayearst_Reeves) (1862–1945), British geographer, astronomer, and cartographer[11]

- [Arthur H. Robinson](/source/Arthur_H._Robinson) (1915–2004), wrote the influential textbook *Elements of Cartography* and developed the [Robinson projection](/source/Robinson_projection)

- [Abbas Sahab](/source/Abbas_Sahab) (1921–2000), Iranian cartographer, produced the first atlas of the [Persian Gulf](/source/Persian_Gulf)

- [Paula Scher](/source/Paula_Scher) (United States, 1948– ), graphic designer, painter

- [Nikolas Schiller](/source/Nikolas_Schiller) (1980– ), [Arabesque](/source/Arabesque_(European_art)) maps composed of [kaleidoscopic](/source/Kaleidoscope) [aerial photographs](/source/Aerial_photographs)

- [Erwin Schneider](/source/Erwin_Schneider) (1906–1987), Austrian mountaineer and cartographer

- [Kira B. Shingareva](/source/Kira_B._Shingareva) (Russia, 1938–2013), first person to successfully map the dark side of the moon

- [Jessamine Shumate](/source/Jessamine_Shumate) (1902–1990)

- [John P. Snyder](/source/John_P._Snyder) (1926–1997), developed the [space oblique Mercator projection](/source/Space_oblique_mercator_projection)

- [Dr. E. Lee Spence](/source/Dr._E._Lee_Spence) (1947– ), pioneer underwater [archaeologist](/source/Archaeologist), decorative, historical maps showing shipwreck locations

- [Marie Tharp](/source/Marie_Tharp) (1920–2006), oceanographic cartographer, co-created the first scientific map of the ocean floor with [Bruce Heezen](/source/Bruce_C._Heezen)

- [Norman J. W. Thrower](/source/Norman_J._W._Thrower) (1919–2002), professor at [UCLA](/source/UCLA) and author who was known for work in geography, surveying practices, and history

- [Waldo R. Tobler](/source/Waldo_R._Tobler) (1930–2018), developed the [first law of geography](/source/First_law_of_geography)

- [Bradford Washburn](/source/Bradford_Washburn) (1910–2007)

- [Denis Wood](/source/Denis_Wood) (United States, 1945– ), artist, author, and former professor of design at [North Carolina State University](/source/North_Carolina_State_University)

- [David Woodward](/source/David_Woodward_(cartographer)) (1942–2004)

## See also

- [History of cartography](/source/History_of_cartography)

- [List of geographers](/source/List_of_geographers)

- [Ancient world maps](/source/Ancient_world_maps)

- [Russian cartographers](/source/Russian_cartographers)

- [Category:Cartography organizations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cartography_organizations)

- [Category:Historians of cartography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Historians_of_cartography)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (ed.): "Marinus", *[Brill's New Pauly](/source/Brill's_New_Pauly)*, Brill, 2010: M. of Tyre (Μαρῖνος; Marînos), Greek geographer, 2nd century AD

1. **[^](#cite_ref-WDL1_2-0)** ["General Depiction of the Empty Plains (in Common Parlance, the Ukraine) Together with its Neighboring Provinces"](http://www.wdl.org/en/item/79/). World Digital Library. Retrieved 20 January 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Borschak_3-0)** Borschak, Elie. ["Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur de"](http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CB%5CE%5CBeauplanGuillaumeLeVasseurde.htm). Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 20 January 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Emanuel Bowen](http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101003035/)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-WDL3_5-0)** ["Venezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia"](http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11337). *[World Digital Library](/source/World_Digital_Library)*. 1612–1699. Retrieved 25 October 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Gibson, John. ["A Correct Map of the Island of Jamaica"](https://web.archive.org/web/20111006204826/http://prestwidge.com/river/jamaica1762gibson.html). Archived from [the original](http://prestwidge.com/river/jamaica1762gibson.html) on 6 October 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-autogenerated1_7-0)** ["Map of Sweden"](http://www.wdl.org/en/item/1225/). World Digital Library. Retrieved 20 January 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Kitchen Map 1755"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092442/http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/map/kitchenmap.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/map/kitchenmap.html) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [John Senex](http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101025085/)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-WDL_10-0)** ["Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1902"](http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9575/). *[World Digital Library](/source/World_Digital_Library)*. 1902. Retrieved 3 June 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["Telescopic Alidade"](https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_765754). [National Museum of American History](/source/National_Museum_of_American_History). Retrieved 14 March 2024.

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