List of cartographers

Before 1400

• Anaximander, Greek Anatolia, first to attempt making a map of the known world
• Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia, geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
• Dicaearchus, Magna Graecia, philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
• Ende, Spain, illustrator, cartographer, nun
• Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt, Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer
• Gyōki, Japan, Buddhist monk, cartographer, surveyor, and civil engineer,
• Hipparchus, Greek Anatolia, astronomer, cartographer, geographer
• Liu An, China, geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi
• Marinus of Tyre, Roman Syria, Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography
• Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt, Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer
• Pei Xiu, Chinese geographer and cartographer
• Isidore of Seville, Hispania
• al-Khwārazmī, Caliphate, Persian cartographer, geographer, and polymath.
• Su Song, China, 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, 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
• al-Idrisi, Sicily, Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller
• Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire, a monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy
• Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart
• Angelino Dulcert, author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean

15th century

• Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin
• Martin Behaim
• Benedetto Bordone
• Sebastian Cabot, Venetian explorer
• Erhard Etzlaub
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Henricus Martellus Germanus
• Donnus Nicholas Germanus
• Fra Mauro
• Piri Reis, author of the Kitab-ı Bahriye
• Johannes Ruysch, explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter
• Hartmann Schedel
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Johannes Werner, refined and promoted the Werner map projection
• Martin Waldseemüller
• Olaus Magnus , published Carta Marina in 1539
• Gabriel de Valseca, Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
• , from Ancona, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean

16th century

• Giovanni Battista Agnese, Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases
• Hacı Ahmet, Ottoman Tunisian cartographer, translated 16th c. map into Turkish for the Ottoman Empire.
• Peter Apian, also known as Peter Bienewitz, German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection
• Philipp Apian
• Joost Janszoon Bilhamer
• Hernando de los Ríos Coronel, cosmographer and cartographer, mapped Taiwan, Luzon and part of the Chinese coast.
• Willem Janszoon Blaeu, father of Joan Blaeu
• Giovanni Battista Boazio, mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America
• Anders Bure, founder of Swedish cartography
• Jacob Roelofs van Deventer
• Fernão Vaz Dourado, Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem
• Oronce Finé
• Gemma Frisius
• Jan Van Hanswijk
• Martin Helwig
• Augustin Hirschvogel
• Lopo Homem, co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known Miller Atlas
• Diogo Homem, cartographer, son of Lopo Homem
• Jodocus Hondius
• Johannes Honterus
• Gerard de Jode
• Urbano Monti
• Jacques le Moyne
• Guillaume Le Testu
• Jacobus Pentius de Leucho
• Gerardus Mercator
• Sebastian Münster
• Abraham Ortelius, generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas
• Petrus Plancius
• Diego Gutiérrez 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
• Pedro Reinel, author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart
• Jorge Reinel, Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel
• Diogo Ribeiro, author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator
• Sebastião Lopes, Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer
• Christopher Saxton
• John Speed
• Fernando Álvares Seco, signed the oldest known map of Portugal, reproduced in various editions of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
• Bernardus Sylvanus
• Luís Teixeira, author of an important atlas of Brazil
• Bartolomeu Velho, cosmographer and cartographer
• Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, driver, cartographer
• Edward Wright (mathematician), mathematician and cartographer
• Georg Braun, cartographer

17th century

• Pieter van der Aa
• João Teixeira Albernaz I, prolific cartographer, son of Luís Teixeira
• João Teixeira Albernaz II, Portuguese cartographer
• Pedro Teixeira Albernaz, Portuguese cartographer author of an important atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and a map of Portugal
• Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, French cartographer who created first descriptive map of Ukraine
• François Berthelot, cartographer of the Mediterranean Sea
• Johannes Blaeu
• Emanuel Bowen, engraver and map maker
• Greenville Collins
• Vincenzo Coronelli
• Guillaume Delisle
• Petter Gedda
• Hessel Gerritsz, cartographer for the VOC
• Isaak de Graaff, cartographer for the VOC
• Johann Homann, geographer
• Henricus Hondius
• Willem Hondius
• Johannes Janssonius
• Johannes van Keulen
• Joannes de Laet
• Michael van Langren
• Alain Manesson Mallet
• Matthäus Merian Sr. and Jr.
• David de Meyne
• Herman Moll
• Robert Morden
• Giovan Battista Nicolosi
• Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop, cartographer, mathematician and astronomist
• Jean-Baptiste Nolin
• John Ogilby
• Nicolas Sanson
• Peter Schenk the Elder
• Johannes Vingboons, cartographer and aquarellist
• Georg Matthäus Vischer, cartographer, topographer and engraver
• Claes Jansz Visscher
• Nicolaes Visscher I
• Frederik de Wit
• Nicolaes Witsen, diplomat, cartographer, writer and mayor of Amsterdam
• Giovanni Cassini
• Jacques Cassini

18th century

• John James Abert, headed the Corps of Topographical Engineers for 32 years and organized the mapping of the American West
• Anders Åkerman, first globemaker in Sweden
• John Arrowsmith, member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers
• Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, also artist and longtime strategic advisor to Napoleon
• John Senex, engraver, publisher, surveyor and geographer to Queen Anne
• John Lodge Cowley, cartographer, mathematician and geographer
• Agostino Codazzi
• Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, created Atlantic Neptune
• Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi, publisher of illustrated books and maps
• Sieur le Rouge, map c. 1740
• John Gibson (cartographer), map c. 1758
• Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, chief cartographer to the French navy
• William Bligh, Ships Master during the infamous Bounty mutiny and noted free-hand cartographer
• Rigobert Bonne, Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at Depot de la Marine
• Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
• Don Tomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca
• Lourenco Homem da Cunha d’Eca, created Carta militar das principaes estradas de Portugal, 1808
• Abel Buell, published the first map of the new United States created by an American
• Catharina Buijs, Dutch cartographer for the Dutch East India Company
• Dimitrie Cantemir
• César-François Cassini de Thury
• Jean-Dominique Cassini
• Edme Mentelle
• Pierre Gilles Chanlair
• James Cook , navigator and naval chart maker
• Simeon De Witt, successor to Robert Erskine and Surveyor-General of the State of New York
• Louis Isidore Duperrey
• Johann Friedrich Endersch
• Colonel Robert Erskine, geographer and Surveyor-General of the Continental Army during the American Revolution
• Joseph de Ferraris, Austrian cartographer of the Austrian Netherlands
• Matthew Flinders, Royal Navy officer; circumnavigated Australia and made exploration of the Australian coastline
• Joseph Marx Baron von Liechtenstern
• Louis Feuillée
• Björn Gunnlaugsson
• Fielding Lucas, Jr., of the Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, US
• J. Flyn "New and Correct Plan of London", 1770
• Samuel Gustaf Hermelin
• Thomas Jefferys, geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
• William Faden, successor to Thomas Jefferys
• Pierre Jacotin
• Murdoch McKenzie
• John Mitchell, colonial British American mapmaker
• Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
• Robert Moresby
• Thomas Moule
• Carlton Osgood
• Adriaan Reland, linguist and cartographer
• Thomas Richardson
• Dider Robert de Vaugondy
• John Rocque
• David Watson, surveyed Scotland post 1747 to produce The Duke of Cumberland's Map
• William Roy
• William Mudge
• Thomas Frederick Colby
• Matthäus Seutter
• Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von Schmettau
• Matthias Seutter
• Jacob Swart
• Inō Tadataka, Surveyor and cartographer who completed the first surveyed map of Japan
• David Thompson
• Daniel-Charles Trudaine
• Philip Johan von Strahlenberg
• Thomas Kitchin, 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
• Philippe Vandermaelen
• Alexander Wilbrecht, geographer of the Geographic Department of the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty
• Emma Willard, women's rights activist and education reformer
• James Wilson, first maker of globes in the United States
• George Washington, first president of the United States; cartographer
• Henri Michelot, Marseilles, France, hydrographer and pilot of the Royal Galley

19th century

• Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786
• Carlo de Candia, Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.
• John Bartholomew the elder, Scottish cartographer and engraver.
• Henry Peter Bosse, also photographer and civil engineer
• Abraham Bradley Jr., created first postal road maps of the United States
• George Bradshaw
• Eugenia Wheeler Goff, combined history, resources, and geography
• Leslie George Bullock
• Bernard J. S. Cahill, inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world
• Ambrose F. Church, mapmaker in Nova Scotia, Canada
• George Comer
• John Paul Goode, created the "Evil Mercator" and Goode’s World Atlas
• Hermann Haack
• Eduard Imhof, oversaw the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, the atlas used in Swiss
• James Ireland Craig, inventor of the Craig retroazimuthal projection, otherwise known as the Mecca projection
• J. H. Colton
• Carl Diercke
• Max Eckert-Greifendorff
• Percy Fawcett, British explorer of South America
• Matthew Fontaine Maury, U.S. Navy officer; also oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator
• Matsuura Takeshirō, explorer, cartographer, writer, painter, priest, and antiquarian.
• Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler, American producer of pictorial maps
• Charles F. Hoffmann
• James Gardner
• Charles E. Goad, English Canadian cartographer and pioneer of insurance maps
• William Hughes (geographer) FRGS, English geographer, mapmaker, cartographer and author.
• Gwynneth de Candia Vaughan, British cartographer, mapmaker in the Australian territories.
• Felix Jones
• Florence Kelley, political reformer, director of the Chicago portion of the Hull House Maps and Papers
• Peter Kozler, lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer
• Lilian Lancaster, British creator of anthropomorphic maps
• Rudolf Leuzinger, known for mountain landscapes and geologic forms and the first to produce terrain maps in color lithography.
• Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun
• Heinrich Theodor Menke
• August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer
• George Philip, cartographer, map publisher and founder of the publishing house George [Philip & Son Ltd.]
• Erwin Raisz
• Daniel Alfred Sanborn, founder of the prolific insurance map provider Sanborn Map Company
• William Schmollinger
• William R. Shepherd
• Yuly Shokalsky, also oceanographer and geographer
• Karl Spruner von Merz
• John Tallis and Company
• Nicolas Auguste Tissot, devised Tissot's indicatrix
• Shanawdithit, created maps depicting the movement Beothuk people in Newfoundland
• Edward A. Vincent, cartographer, civil engineer, architect
• Nain Singh Rawat, Cartographer and explorer
• Cope, Emmor B: Gettysburg Battlefield cartographer and first Gettysburg National Military Park superintendent
• Alexandre Vuillemin
• Ruth Taylor White, creator of pictorial maps of the United States
• John Francon Williams FRGS, editor, journalist, writer, geographer, historian, cartographer and inventor.
• Fanny Bullock Workman, geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer
• James Wyld
• Hatsusaburō Yoshida

20th century

• Jacques Bertin
• Josef Breu
• Cynthia Brewer, developed ColorBrewer, professor at Penn State University
• Roger Brunet
• Emanuela Casti, formalized a semiotic theory of geographic maps
• Danny Dorling, developed circular cartograms
• Marion A. Frieswyk, first female intelligence cartographer in the Central Intelligence Agency
• Ruth Rhoads Lepper Gardner, cartographer of the Maine coast
• Richard Edes Harrison
• Tom Harrisson
• George F. Jenks
• Elrey Borge Jeppesen
• Ingrid Kretschmer
• Samuel Herbert Maw, architect, delineator and cartographer of Canada
• Kate McLean Best known for creating olfactory maps of cities
• Jess Miller, artist, photographer, and cartographer of rural Arkansas
• Mark Monmonier, wrote How to Lie with Maps and created the Monmonier Algorithm. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University
• Mark Newman, developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method
• Rafael Palacios, prolific map-drawer for major US publishers
• Phyllis Pearsall, creator of the Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas
• Jacques Pervititch, creator of series of insurance maps of Istanbul
• Edward Ayearst Reeves, British geographer, astronomer, and cartographer
• Arthur H. Robinson, wrote the influential textbook Elements of Cartography and developed the Robinson projection
• Abbas Sahab, Iranian cartographer, produced the first atlas of the Persian Gulf
• Paula Scher, graphic designer, painter
• Nikolas Schiller, Arabesque maps composed of kaleidoscopic aerial photographs
• Erwin Schneider, Austrian mountaineer and cartographer
• Jessamine Shumate
• Kira B. Shingareva, first person to successfully map the dark side of the moon
• John P. Snyder, developed the space oblique Mercator projection
• Dr. E. Lee Spence, pioneer underwater archaeologist, decorative, historical maps showing shipwreck locations
• Marie Tharp, oceanographic cartographer, co-created the first scientific map of the ocean floor with Bruce Heezen
• Norman J. W. Thrower, professor at UCLA and author who was known for work in geography, surveying practices, and history
• Waldo R. Tobler, developed the first law of geography
• Bradford Washburn
• Denis Wood, artist, author, and former professor of design at North Carolina State University
• David Woodward