List of cartographers

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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.

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, 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

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)
Pedro Nunes, (Portugal, 1502 - 1578)
Abraham Ortelius, (Flanders, 1527 - 1598)
Petrus Plancius, (Netherlands, (1552 - 1622)
John Speed, (England, 1542 - 1629)
Christopher Saxton, (England, born c 1540)

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)
Matthias Seutter (1678 – 1757)
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 – 1706)

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
James Wilson (1763 – 1835) First globe maker in the US.

George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)
Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)
Paul Diercke (1874 - 1937)
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)
Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France)
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (France)
Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795 - 1869)