List of cartographers

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Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.

1 Before 1400
2 15th century
3 16th century
4 17th century
5 18th century
6 19th century
7 20th century
8 21st century
9 Cartography organizations
10 See also

[edit] Before 1400

Dicaearchus (Greece, circa 350 B.C. - circa 285 B.C.), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
Hipparchus, (Greece, 190 B.C. - 120 B.C.), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
Isidore of Seville (Spain, 560 - 636)
Ptolemy, (Ptolemaic Egypt, Greece, circa 85 - circa 165), astronomer, cartographer, geographer'
Al-Idrisi (Sicily, 1100-1166) Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.
Petrus Vesconte Genovese cartographer, author of the oldest signed portulan-chart (1311)

[edit] 15th century

Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436 – 1507)
Erhard Etzlaub (1460 – 1532)
Henricus Martellus Germanus (Italy, fl. 1480-1496)
Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460-1475)
Fra Mauro (Venice, c.1459)
Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488 – 1552)
Piri Reis/Hadji Muhammad (Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire, 1465 – 1554/1555)
Hartmann Schedel (Germany, 1440 – 1514)
Amerigo Vespucci (Italy, 1454 – 1512)
Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c.1470 – c.1521/1522)
Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466 – 1528) refined and promoted the Werner map projection
Diogo Ribeiro (Portugal, ? - Sevilha, 1533) Portuguese cartographer, author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)

[edit] 16th century

Pedro Reinel (? - c. 1542) Portuguese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart
Jorge Reinel (c. 1502 - c. 1572) Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel
Peter Apian (1495 - 1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection
Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500 - 1564) Italian cartogapher, author of numerous nautical atlases
Fernão Vaz Dourado (c. 1520 - c. 1580) Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem
Lopo Homem (? - 1565) Portuguese cartographer co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known Miller Atlas
Diogo Homem (1521 - 1576) Portuguese cartographer, son of Lopo Homem
Philipp Apian (1531-1589)
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571 - 1638)
Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596 - 1673)
Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, 1508 - 1555)
Martin Heilwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)
Jodocus Hondius, (Flanders, England, Netherlands, 1563 - 1612)
Henricus Hondius (Netherlands, 1597 - 1651)
Jan Janssonius (Netherlands, 1588 - 1664)
Gerard de Jode (Flanders, 1509 - 1591)
Gerardus Mercator (Flanders, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)
A. Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1593 - 1650)
Abraham Ortelius, (Flanders, 1527 - 1598)
Petrus Plancius, (Netherlands, 1552 - 1622)
Timothy Pont, (Scotland, 1565 - 1614)
John Speed, (England, 1542 - 1629)
Christopher Saxton, (England, born c 1540)
Álvaro Seco (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, who signed the oldest known map of Portugal, reproduced in various editions of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Luís Teixeira (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, author of an important Atlas of Brasil

[edit] 17th century

John Ogilby (1600 - 1676) English cartographer, best known for his itinerary maps
Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi (Venice, 1698 – 1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
Vincenzo Coronelli (1650 – 1718)
Guillaume Delisle (1675 – 1726), cartographer
Johann Homann (Germany, 1664 – 1724), geographer
Johannes van Keulen, cartographer, founder of Firm of Van Keulen
Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1621 – 1687)
Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600 – 1667)
Robert Morden (England, died 1703)
Peter Schenk (1660 – 1718/1719)
Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau (died 1743)
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676 – 1747)
Matthias Seutter (1678 – 1757)
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 – 1706)
João Teixeira Albernaz (? - ?) Portuguese cartographer, son of Luís Teixeira, who was cosmographer major of the kingdom
Pedro Teixeira Albernaz (c. 1565 - 1662) Portuguese cartographer author of an important atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and a map of Portugal (1656

[edit] 18th century

Jean Baptiste d'Anville - (1697 - 1782) French cartographer
Thomas Jefferys (c. 1710 - 1771) Geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
Johann Friedrich Endersch (Germany, fl. 1755)
Colonel Robert Erskine (1735 - 1780) Geographer and Surveyor-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
John Rocque (England, 1709 - 1762)
Simeon De Witt (1756 - 1834) Successor to Robert Erskine and Surveyor-General of the State of New York
Lucas, Fielding Jr. (c. 1781—1854) Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, USA
Thomas Richardson - Scottish
James Cook (Captain RN) (1728 – 1779) navigator and naval chart maker
Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)
John Mitchell (1711 - 1768) Colonial British American mapmaker.
James Wilson (1763 – 1835) First globe maker in the US.

[edit] 19th century

George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)
Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)
Paul Diercke (1874 - 1937)
Matthew Fontaine Maury, (1806-1873) American, USN, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, educator.
Max Eckert-Greifendorff (1868 - 1938)
Hermann Haack (1872 - 1966)
Charles F. Hoffmann
Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986)
Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
Thomas Moule (England, 1784 - 1851)
John Tallis and Company (England, 1838 - 1851)
Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856 - 1940)
Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France)
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (France)
Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795 - 1869)