List of cartographers

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[[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
*[[Hecataeus of Miletus]], Greek [[Anatolia]] (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early [[ethnographer]]
*[[Dicaearchus]], [[Magna Graecia]] (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
*[[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,
*[[Hipparchus]], Greek [[Anatolia]] (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
*[[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
*[[Ptolemy]], [[Ptolemaic Egypt]] (c. 85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer
*[[Pei Xiu]] (224–271), Chinese geographer and cartographer
*[[Isidore of Seville]], [[Hispania]] (560–636)
*[[al-Khwārazmī]], [[Caliphate]] (9th century), [[medieval Persian cartographers|Persian cartographer]], geographer, and polymath.
*[[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]]
*[[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]]
*[[al-Idrisi]], Sicily (1100–1166), [[medieval Arab cartographers|Arab cartographer]], geographer and traveller
*[[Maximus Planudes]], Byzantine Empire (13th century), a monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy
*[[Pietro Vesconte|Petrus Vesconte]], [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] cartographer, author of the oldest signed [[Portolan chart]] (1311)
*[[Angelino Dulcert]] (14th century), author of the earliest known [[Majorca]]n portolan charts of the Mediterranean

==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)
*[[Benedetto Bordone]] (Venetian Republic 1460–1551)
*[[Sebastian Cabot (explorer)|Sebastian Cabot]] (1476–1557), [[Venetian Republic|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), 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 (explorer)|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)
*[[Olaus Magnus]] (Olof Månsson) (Sweden, 1490–1557), published [[Carta Marina]] in 1539
*[[Gabriel de Valseca]] (15th century), Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
*{{ill|Grazioso Benincasa|it|vertical-align=sup}} (15th century), from [[Ancona]], author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean

==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)
*[[Hernando de los Ríos Coronel]] (1559–1621?), cosmographer and cartographer, mapped Taiwan (Isla Hermosa), Luzon and part of the Chinese coast.
*[[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
*[[Anders Bure]] (Sweden, 1571 – 1646), founder of Swedish cartography
*[[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)
*[[Jan Van Hanswijk]] (Netherlands, fl. 1594)
*[[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)
*[[Urbano Monti]] (Italy, 1544–1613)
*[[Jacques le Moyne]] (France, c. 1533–1588)
*[[Guillaume Le Testu]] (France, c. 1509–1573)
*[[Jacobus Pentius de Leucho]] (Italy)
*[[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)
*[[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."
*[[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 (cartographer)|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]]
*[[Bernardus Sylvanus]] (Italy)
*[[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
*[[Georg Braun]] (Germany, 1541–1622), [[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]]
*[[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]]<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>
*[[Greenville Collins]] (British, 1643–1694)
*[[Vincenzo Coronelli]] (Venetian, 1650–1718)
*[[Guillaume Delisle]] (French, 1675–1726)
*[[Petter Gedda]] (Sweden, 1661–1697)
*[[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)
*{{ill|Henry Popple|fr}} (England, 16xx–1743)
*[[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]] ({{aka}} Cassini I, Italy & France, 1625–1712)
*[[Jacques Cassini]] (a.k.a. Cassini II, France, 1677–1756)

==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]]
*[[John Senex]] (1690–1740), engraver, publisher, surveyor and geographer to Queen Anne<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101025085/ John Senex]</ref>
*[[John Lodge Cowley]], cartographer, mathematician and geographer
*[[Agostino Codazzi]] (Italy, 1793–1858)
* [[Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres]] (1721–1824), created [[Atlantic Neptune]]
*[[Giambattista Albrizzi|Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi]] (Venice, 1698–1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
*[[Sieur le Rouge]] map c. 1740<ref>{{cite web |url=http://prestwidge.com/river/jamaica1746leRouge.html |title=La Jamaique |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001011559/http://prestwidge.com/river/jamaica1746leRouge.html |archive-date=1 October 2009 }}</ref>
*[[John Gibson (cartographer)]], 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), 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 de Vargas Machuca]] (Spain, 1730–1802)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://viaf.org/viaf/27152759/#L%C3%B3pez_de_Vargas_Machuca,_Tom%C3%A1s,_1731-1802.|title = López de Vargas Machuca, Tomás, 1731-1802|work = VIAF.org}}</ref>
*[[Lourenco Homem da Cunha d’Eca]], created {{lang|pt|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
*[[Catharina Buijs]] (1714–1781), Dutch [[Cartography|cartographer]] for the [[Dutch East India Company]]
*[[Dimitrie Cantemir]] (Moldavia and Russia, 1673–1723)
*[[César-François Cassini de Thury]] (a.k.a. Cassini III, France, 1714–1784)
*[[Dominique, comte de Cassini|Jean-Dominique Cassini]] (a.k.a. Cassini IV, France, 1748–1845)
*[[Edme Mentelle]] (France, 1730–1816)
*[[Pierre Gilles Chanlair]] (France, 1758–1817)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire (1758–1817)|url=https://data.bnf.fr/en/15288394/pierre-gilles_chanlaire/|access-date=2020-10-23|website=data.bnf.fr}}</ref>
*[[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]]
*[[Joseph de Ferraris]] (1726–1814), Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands
*[[Matthew Flinders]] (British, 1774–1814), [[Royal Navy]] officer; circumnavigated Australia and made exploration of the Australian coastline
*[[Joseph Marx Baron von Liechtenstern]] (Austria, 1765–1828)
*[[Louis Feuillée]] (France, 1660–1732)
*[[Björn Gunnlaugsson]] (Iceland, 1788–1876)
*[[Fielding Lucas, Jr.]] (c. 1781–1854), of the Lucas Brothers, [[Baltimore]], US
*[[J. Flyn]] "New and Correct Plan of London", 1770
*[[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>
*[[Thomas Jefferys]] (England, c. 1710–1771), geographer of King [[George III of the United Kingdom]]
*[[William Faden]] (England, 1749–1836), successor to Thomas Jefferys
*[[Pierre Jacotin]] (France, 1765–1829)
*[[Murdoch Mackenzie (cartographer)|Murdoch McKenzie]] (Scotland, died 1797)
*[[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)
*[[Carlton Osgood]] (United States, †1816)
*[[Adriaan Reland]] (Netherlands, 1676–1718), linguist and cartographer
*[[Thomas Richardson (cartographer)|Thomas Richardson]] (Scotland)
*[[Robert de Vaugondy|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)
*[[Jacob Swart]] (Netherlands, 1796–1866)
*[[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)
*[[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"<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>
*[[Friedrich Christoph Müller]] (Germany, 1751–1808)
*[[Philippe Vandermaelen]] (Belgium, 1795–1869)
*[[Alexander Wilbrecht]] (Russia, 1757–1823), geographer of the Geographic Department of the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty
*[[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
*[[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==
[[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]]
* [[Carlo de Candia]] (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.
*[[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)
*[[Eugenia Wheeler Goff]] (United States, 1844–1922), combined history, resources, and geography
*[[Leslie George Bullock]] (1895–1971)
*[[Bernard J. S. Cahill]] (1867–1944), inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world
*[[George Comer]] (1858–1937)
*[[John Paul Goode]] (1862–1932), created the "Evil Mercator" and ''Goode’s World Atlas''
*[[Hermann Haack]] (Germany, 1872–1966)
*[[Eduard Imhof]] (1895–1986), oversaw the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, the atlas used in [[Switzerland|Swiss]]
*[[James Ireland Craig]] (1868–1952), inventor of the [[Craig retroazimuthal projection]], otherwise known as the ''Mecca projection''
*[[J. H. Colton]] (United States, 1800–1893)
*[[Carl Diercke]] (1842–1913)
*[[Max Eckert-Greifendorff]] (Germany, 1868–1938)
*[[Percy Fawcett]] (1867–1925), British explorer of South America
*[[Matthew Fontaine Maury]] (United States, 1806–1873), [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy officer]]; also oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator
*[[Matsuura Takeshirō]] (Japan, 1818–1888), explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian.
*[[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>
*[[Charles F. Hoffmann]] (Germany/United States, 1838–1913)
*[[James Gardner (surveyor)|James Gardner]]
*[[Charles E. Goad]] (1848 – 1910), English Canadian cartographer and pioneer of [[Goad map|insurance maps]]
*[[William Hughes (geographer)]] FRGS (1818 – 21 May 1876), English geographer, mapmaker, cartographer and author.
*[[Gwynneth de Candia Vaughan]] (England 1879 - ?), British cartographer, mapmaker in the Australian territories.
*[[Jones, James Felix|Felix Jones]] (England, 1813–1878)
*[[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)
*[[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)
*[[Daniel Alfred Sanborn]] (United States, 1827–1883), founder of the prolific insurance map provider [[Sanborn maps|Sanborn Map Company]]
*[[William Schmollinger]] (''fl''. 1830s)
*[[William R. Shepherd]] (1871–1934)
*[[Yuly Shokalsky]] (Russia, 1856–1940), also oceanographer and geographer
*[[Karl Spruner von Merz]] (Germany, 1803–1892)
*[[John Tallis|John Tallis and Company]] (England, 1838–1851)
*[[Nicolas Auguste Tissot]] (France, 1824–1897), devised [[Tissot's indicatrix]]
*[[Shanawdithit]] (Canada, c. 1801–1829), created maps depicting the movement [[Beothuk]] people in Newfoundland
*[[Edward A. Vincent]] (England/United States, c. 1825–27 November 1856), [[cartographer]], [[civil engineer]], architect
*[[Nain Singh Rawat]] (India, 1830–1882), [[Cartography of India|Cartographer and explorer]]
*[[Emmor Cope|Cope, Emmor B]]: [[Gettysburg Battlefield]] cartographer and first [[Gettysburg National Military Park]] superintendent
*[[Alexandre Vuillemin]] (France, 1812–1880)
*[[Ruth Taylor White]] (United States 1899 – ?), creator of pictorial maps of the United States
*[[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)

==20th century==
[[File:Southampton Island 1913.jpg|thumb|right|125px|[[George Comer]]'s 1913 map of [[Southampton Island]]]]
[[File:robinson-projection.jpg|thumb|175px|right|A [[Robinson projection]] of the [[Earth]]]]

*[[Regina Araújo de Almeida]] (Brazil, 1949– ), professor of geography at the [[University of São Paulo]], [[Tactile cartography|tactile cartographer]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Women Who Shaped the World |url=https://futuremaps.com/blog/the-women-who-shaped-the-world |website=Future Maps |access-date=3 July 2019}}</ref>
*[[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– )
*[[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
*[[Emily Garfield]], (1987– ), cartographic artist
*[[Günther Hake]] (1922–2000)
*[[Richard Edes Harrison]] (1901–1994)
*[[Tom Harrisson]] (1911–1976)
*[[George F. Jenks]] (1916–1996)
*[[Elrey Borge Jeppesen]] (1907–1996)
*[[Ingrid Kretschmer]] (1939–2011)
*[[Toy Lasker]] (United States, 1919–2011), creator and editor of Flashmaps guidebooks
*[[Edgar Lehmann]] (1905–1990)
*[[Samuel Herbert Maw]] (1881–1952), architect, [[architectural delineator|delineator]] and cartographer of [[Canada]]
*[[Kate McLean]] (United Kingdom) Best 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'' and created the Monmonier Algorithm. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, [[Syracuse University]]
*[[Mark Newman]] (1968– ), developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method
*[[Rudi Ogrissek]] (1926–1999)
*[[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]]
*[[Barbara Petchenik]] (1939–1992), first woman to serve as Vice President of the [[International Cartographic Association]]
*[[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
*[[Joni Seagar]] (United States 1954– ), professor of geography at the [[University of Vermont]]
*[[Nikolas Schiller]] (1980– ), [[Arabesque (European art)|Arabesque]] maps composed of [[kaleidoscope|kaleidoscopic]] [[aerial photographs]]
*[[John C. Sherman]] (1916–1996)
*[[Jessamine Shumate]] (1902–1990)
*[[Kira B. Shingareva]] (Russia, 1938–2013), first person to successfully map the dark side of the moon
*[[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]]
*[[Judith Tyner]] (United States, born 1939), professor emerita of geography at [[California State University, Long Beach]]
*[[Ludwig von der Vecht]] (Deutschland, 1854–1919), cartographer of German colonies
*[[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)
*[[Hannah Feldman (cartographer)]] (2001–)
*[[Betsy Barthold (cartographer)]] (2000–)
*[[Gabrielle Puente (cartographer)]] (2001–)

==See also==

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

==References==

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