List of cartographers

{{Short description|none}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} [[Cartography]] is the study of map making and, '''cartographers''' are map makers.

==Before 1400== [[File:Anaximander world map (mul).svg|thumb|right|Modern rendering of [[Anaximander]]'s 6th-century BC world map]] [[File:PtolemyWorldMap.jpg|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 [[Majorca]]n portolan charts of the Mediterranean *[[Ende (artist)|Ende]], Spain ({{Circa|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, *[[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), [[medieval Arab cartographers|Arab cartographer]], geographer and traveller *[[Isidore of Seville]], [[Hispania]] (560–636) *[[al-Khwārazmī]], [[Caliphate]] (9th century), [[medieval Persian cartographers|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), Greek<ref>Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (ed.): "Marinus", ''[[Brill's New Pauly]]'', Brill, 2010: M. of Tyre (Μαρῖνος; Marînos), Greek geographer, 2nd century AD</ref> 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 space|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]], [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] cartographer, author of the oldest signed [[Portolan chart]] (1311)

==15th century== [[File:Piri reis world map 01.jpg|thumb|right|First world map of [[Piri Reis]]]] [[File:Carte behaim.JPG|thumb|right|[[Martin Behaim]]'s 1492 world map]] *[[Jacobus Angelus]], [[Republic of Florence|Florence]], translated Ptolemy into Latin {{c.|lk=no|1406}} *[[Martin Behaim]] (Germany, 1436–1507) *{{ill|Grazioso Benincasa|it|vertical-align=sup}} (15th century), from [[Ancona]], author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean *[[Benedetto Bordone]] (Venetian Republic 1460–1551) *[[Sebastian Cabot (explorer)|Sebastian Cabot]] (1476–1557), [[Venetian Republic|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== [[File:1544 Battista Agnese Worldmap.jpg|thumb|right|Battista Agnese's 1544 world map]] [[File:Leo Belgicus.jpg|thumb|right|[[Jodocus Hondius]]' ''Leo Belgicus'' (1611)]] [[File:Mercator World Map.jpg|thumb|right|[[Gerardus Mercator]]'s 1587 world map]] [[File:Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, by Abraham Ortelius, World, 1572.jpg|thumb|World map from the ''[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]]'' by [[Abraham Ortelius]]]] *[[Battista Agnese|Giovanni Battista Agnese]] (c. 1500–1564), [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]], cartographer, author of numerous [[Portolan|nautical atlases]] *[[Hacı Ahmet]], [[Ottoman Tunisia]]n 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 Blaeu|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 (cartographer)|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 (cartographer)|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 (mathematician)|Edward Wright]] (England, 1561–1615), [[mathematician]] and cartographer

==17th century== [[File:1606 -26 Nova Blaeu mr.jpg|thumb|right|[[Willem Blaeu]] and [[Johannes Blaeu]]'s 1606–1626 world map]] [[File:Moll - A new map of the whole world with the trade winds.png|thumb|[[Herman Moll]]'s ''A new map of the whole world with the trade winds'' (1736)]] [[File:1670 Nova Orbis de Wit.JPG|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]]<ref name=WDL1>{{cite web|title=General Depiction of the Empty Plains (in Common Parlance, the Ukraine) Together with its Neighboring Provinces|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/79/|publisher=World Digital Library|access-date=20 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=Borschak>{{cite web|last=Borschak|first=Elie|title=Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur de|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CB%5CE%5CBeauplanGuillaumeLeVasseurde.htm|publisher=Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine|access-date=20 January 2013}}</ref> *[[François Berthelot]] (France), cartographer of the Mediterranean Sea *[[Johannes Blaeu]] (Netherlands, 1596–1673) *[[Emanuel Bowen]] (1693/4–1767), engraver and map maker<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101003035/ Emanuel Bowen]</ref> *[[Giovanni Cassini]] ({{aka}} 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 [[Dutch East India Company|VOC]] *[[Isaak de Graaff]] (Netherlands, 1668–1743), cartographer for the VOC *[[Johann Homann]] (Germany, 1664–1724), geographer *[[Hendrik Hondius II|Henricus Hondius]] (Netherlands, 1597–1651)<ref name="WDL3">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11337 |title = Venezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia |website = [[World Digital Library]] |date = 1612–1699 |access-date = 2013-10-25 }}</ref> *[[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== [[File:Bellin - Carte reduite de l'ocean septentrional.png|thumb|200px|right|[[Jacques-Nicolas Bellin]]: ''Carte réduite de l'océan septentrional...'', from: ''L'hydrographie françoise'', Paris 1766]] [[File:Anville - Troisieme partie de la carte d'Asie.jpg|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)]] [[File:Plan du Jardin et Vue des Maisons de Chiswick.jpg|thumb|200px|Plan du Jardin & Vue des Maisons de Chiswick, 1736, by [[John Rocque]] V&A Museum no. E.352-1944]] [[File:(A chart of Boston Bay) (2674893303).jpg|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 [[globe]]maker in Sweden *[[John Arrowsmith (cartographer)|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 (cartographer)|John Gibson]], map c. 1758<ref>{{cite web |url=http://prestwidge.com/river/jamaica1762gibson.html |title=A Correct Map of the Island of Jamaica |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006204826/http://prestwidge.com/river/jamaica1762gibson.html |archive-date=6 October 2011 |first = John|last = Gibson}}</ref> *[[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 [[Cartography|cartographer]] for the [[Dutch East India Company]] *[[Dimitrie Cantemir]] (Moldavia and Russia, 1673–1723) *[[Dominique, comte de Cassini|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 [[Royal Navy|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) *[[Robert Erskine (inventor)|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)<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web|title=Map of Sweden|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/1225/|publisher=World Digital Library|access-date=20 January 2013}}</ref> *[[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"<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/map/kitchenmap.html |title=Kitchen Map 1755 |access-date=26 September 2009 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092442/http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/map/kitchenmap.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[Fielding Lucas, Jr.]] (c. 1781–1854), of the Lucas Brothers, [[Baltimore]], US *[[Murdoch Mackenzie (cartographer)|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 (geographer)|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 (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 Anne<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101025085/ John Senex]</ref> *[[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 (explorer)|David Thompson]] (British–Canadian, 1770–1857) *[[Daniel-Charles Trudaine]] (France, 1703–1769) *[[Philippe Vandermaelen]] (Belgium, 1795–1869) *[[Robert de Vaugondy|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 (globe maker)|James Wilson]] (United States, 1763–1835), first maker of [[globe]]s in the United States

==19th century== [[File:USPostRoadMap1804.jpg|thumb|right|Abraham Bradley's U.S. postal route map of 1804]] [[File:Monmouthshire Hundreds.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Moule's map of the [[Hundred (country subdivision)|hundreds]] of [[Monmouthshire (historic)|Monmouthshire]], c. 1831]] [[File:Russian Empire Map.jpg|thumb|200px|A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by [[Yuly Shokalsky]]]] *[[Robert Aitken's new Parish Atlas of Ayrshire. 1829.|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]]<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/9575/ |title = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1902 |website = [[World Digital Library]] |year = 1902 |access-date = 2013-06-03 }}</ref> *[[James Gardner (surveyor)|James Gardner]] *[[Charles E. Goad]] (1848–1910), English Canadian cartographer and pioneer of [[Goad map|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 (geographer)|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 [[Switzerland|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 (cartographer)|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), [[United States Navy|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 (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), [[Cartography of India|cartographer and explorer]] *[[Daniel Alfred Sanborn]] (United States, 1827–1883), founder of the prolific insurance map provider [[Sanborn maps|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)

*[[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 [[cartogram]]s *[[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, [[architectural delineator|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 (artist)|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<ref>{{Cite web |title=Telescopic Alidade |url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_765754 |access-date=2024-03-14 |publisher=[[National Museum of American History]] |language=en}}</ref> *[[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 (European art)|Arabesque]] maps composed of [[kaleidoscope|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|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 C. Heezen|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 (cartographer)|David Woodward]] (1942–2004)

==See also==

*[[History of cartography]] *[[List of geographers]] *[[Ancient world maps]] *[[Russian cartographers]] *[[:Category:Cartography organizations]] *[[:Category:Historians of cartography]]

==References== <references />

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