List of cartographers

Before 1400

al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller

al-Khwārazmī, Caliphate (9th century), Persian cartographer, geographer, and polymath.

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

Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean

Dicaearchus, Greece (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author

Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt (276 BC–194 BC), Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer

Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer

Hipparchus, Greece (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer

Isidore of Seville, Hispania (560–636)

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

Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire (13th century), a monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy

Pei Xiu (224-271), Chinese geographer and cartographer

Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)

Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer

Shen Kuo, China (1031–1095), polymath scientist and statesman, author of the Dream Pool Essays, which included a large atlas of China and foreign regions, and also made a three-dimensional raised-relief map

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

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)

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)

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

Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564), Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases

Hacı Ahmet, Tunisian cartographer, translated 16th c. map into Turkish for the Ottoman Empire.

Peter Apian (1495–1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz, German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection

Philipp Apian (1531–1589)

Joost Janszoon Bilhamer (Netherlands, 1541–1590)

Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571–1638), father of Joan Blaeu

Giovanni Battista Boazio, mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America

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)

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)

Jacques le Moyne (France, ca. 1533–1588)

Guillaume Le Testu (France, ca. 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)

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

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

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

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 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)

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 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 Senex (1690–1740), engraver, publisher, surveyor and geographer to Queen Anne

John Lodge Cowley, cartographer, mathematician and geographer

Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), engraver and map maker

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 c1740

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 (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

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

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

Joseph Marx Baron von Liechtenstern (Austria, 1765–1828)

Louis Feuillée (France, 1660–1732)

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

Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)

John Mitchell (1711–1768), colonial British American mapmaker

Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (England, 1792–1855)

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)

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)

Alexander Wilbrecht (Russia, 1757–1823), geographer of the Geographic Department of the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty

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

John James Abert (United States, 1788–1863), headed the Corps of Topographical Engineers for 32 years and organized the mapping of the American West

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

Henry Peter Bosse (Germany/United States, 1844–1903), also photographer and civil engineer

George Bradshaw (England, 1801–1853)

James Wyld (England, 1812–1887)

Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793–1858)

J. H. Colton (United States, 1800–1893)

James Ireland Craig, Craig retroazimuthal projection

Carl Diercke (1842–1913)

Louis Isidore Duperrey (French, 1786–1865)

Fielding Lucas, Jr. (c. 1781–1854), of the Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, USA

Matthew Flinders (British, 1774–1814), Royal Navy officer; circumnavigated Australia and made exploration of the Australian coastline

Matthew Fontaine Maury (United States, 1806–1873), U.S. Navy officer; also oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator

Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842–1922), American producer of pictorial maps

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)

Heinrich Theodor Menke (Germany, 1819–1892)

Robert Moresby (England, 1794–1863)

Thomas Moule (England, 1784–1851)

Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856–1940), also oceanographer and geographer

Karl Spruner von Merz (Germany, 1803–1892)

Jacob Swart (Netherlands, 1796–1866)

John Tallis and Company (England, 1838–1851)

David Thompson (British–Canadian, 1770–1857)

Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France, 1824–1897), devised Tissot's indicatrix

Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795–1869)

Edward A. Vincent (England/United States, c. 1825–27 November 1856), cartographer, civil engineer, architect

James Wilson (United States, 1763–1835), first maker of globes in the United States

Nain Singh Rawat: Indian cartographer

Cope, Emmor B: Gettysburg Battlefield cartographer and first Gettysburg National Military Park superintendent

Alexandre Vuillemin (France 1812–1880)

Percy Fawcett (1867–1925), British explorer of South America

20th century

Erik Arnberger (1917–1987)

Eduardo Canabrava Barreiros (Brazil, 1908–1981)

Jacques Bertin (France, 1918–2010)

Josef Breu (Austria, 1914–1998)

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)

Rafael Palacios (1905–1993), prolific map-drawer for major US publishers

Erwin Raisz (1893–1968)

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)

Jessamine Shumate (1902–1990)

Marie Tharp (1920–2006), oceanographic cartographer

Bradford Washburn (1910–2007)

David Woodward (1942–2004)

21st century

Danny Dorling (1968– ), developed circular cartograms

Mark Newman (1968– ), developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method

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

Justin O'Beirne (1984– ), developed Apple Maps cartography, and pioneer in cartography as a means of map usability