List of cartographers
Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.
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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)
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)
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
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
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)
- Joseph de Ferraris (1726 - 1814), Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands
- 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.
19th century
- John James Abert (1788-1863)
- George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)
- Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903)
- 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
- Erwin Raisz (1893 - 1968)
- 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)
20th century
- Erik Arnberger (1917 - 1987)
- Jacques Bertin (1918- )
- Roger Brunet (1931- )
- John Paul Goode (1862-1932)
- Günther Hake (1922 - 2000)
- Richard Edes Harrison (1901-1994)
- George F. Jenks (1916 - 1996)
- Edgar Lehmann (1905 - 1990)
- Rudi Ogrissek (1926 - 1999)
- Arno Peters (1916-2002)
- Arthur H. Robinson (1915 - 2004)
- John C. Sherman (1916 - 1996)
- Waldo R. Tobler (1930- )
- Richard Saul Wurman (1936-)
21st century
- Mike Reagan
- Jay Foreman
- Sally Hermansen
- Alexander Kent
- Tom Patterson
Cartography organizations
- British Cartographic Society
- NACIS North American Cartographic Information Society
- Society of Cartographers Society of Cartographers
- Swiss Society of Cartography
- Washington Map Society
See also
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