List of cartographers
Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.
Before 1400
- al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller
- al-Khwārazmī, Caliphate (9th century), Persian cartographer, geographer, and polymath.
- Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world
- Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean
- Dicaearchus, Greece (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
- Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt (276 BC–194 BC), Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer
- Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
- Hipparchus, Greece (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
- Isidore of Seville, Hispania (560–636)
- Liu An, China (179 BC–122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi
- Marinus of Tyre, Roman Syria (c. AD 70–130), Greek[1] geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography
- Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire (13th century), a monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy
- Pei Xiu (224-271), Chinese geographer and cartographer
- Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)
- Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer
- 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 raised-relief map
- 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
15th century
- Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin c. 1406
- Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436–1507)
- Benedetto Bordone (Venetian Republic (1460–1551)
- Sebastian Cabot (1476–1557), 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)
- Johannes Ruysch (Netherlands, c 1466–1530), explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter
- Hartmann Schedel (Germany, 1440–1514)
- 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)
- Gabriel de Valseca (15th century), Majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
- Grazioso Benincasa (15th century), Venetian (?), author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
16th century
- Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564), Genoese, cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases
- Hacı Ahmet, Tunisian 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Jacques le Moyne (France, ca. 1533–1588)
- Guillaume Le Testu (France, ca. 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)
- 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 (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
17th century
- 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[2][3]
- Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596–1673)
- Vincenzo Coronelli (Venetian, 1650–1718)
- Guillaume Delisle (French, 1675–1726)
- Petter Gedda (Sweden, 1661–1697)
- Hessel Gerritsz (Netherlands, 1581–1632), cartographer for the VOC
- Isaak de Graaff (Netherlands, 1668–1743), cartographer for the VOC
- Johann Homann (Germany, 1664–1724), geographer
- Henricus Hondius (Netherlands, 1597–1651)[4]
- 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)
- Herman Moll (Germany?/England, 1654–1732)
- Robert Morden (England, died 1703)
- Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop (Netherlands, 1610–1682), cartographer, mathematician and astronomist
- Jean-Baptiste Nolin (France, c.1657–1708)
- John Ogilby (Scotland, 1600–1676)
- 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 (a.k.a. Cassini I, Italy & France, 1625–1712)
- Jacques Cassini (a.k.a. Cassini II, France, 1677–1756)
18th century
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- John Senex (1690–1740), engraver, publisher, surveyor and geographer to Queen Anne[5]
- John Lodge Cowley, cartographer, mathematician and geographer
- Emanuel Bowen (1693/4–1767), engraver and map maker[6]
- Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres (1721–1824), created Atlantic Neptune
- Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi (Venice, 1698–1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
- Sieur le Rouge map c1740[7]
- John Gibson (cartographer), map c. 1758[8]
- 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 (Spain, 1730–1802)
- Lourenco Homem da Cunha d’Eca, created 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
- Dimitrie Cantemir (Moldavia and Russia, 1673–1723)
- César-François Cassini de Thury (a.k.a. Cassini III, France, 1714–1784)
- Jean-Dominique Cassini (a.k.a. Cassini IV, France, 1748–1845)
- Edme Mentelle (France, 1730–1816)
- Pierre Gilles Chanlair (France, 1758–1817)[9]
- James Cook (Captain 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
- Johann Friedrich Endersch (Germany, fl. 1755)
- 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
- Joseph Marx Baron von Liechtenstern (Austria, 1765–1828)
- Louis Feuillée (France, 1660–1732)
- J. Flyn "New and Correct Plan of London", 1770
- Samuel Gustaf Hermelin (Sweden, 1744–1820)[10]
- Thomas Jefferys (England, c. 1710–1771), geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
- William Faden (England, 1749–1836), successor to Thomas Jefferys
- Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)
- John Mitchell (1711–1768), colonial British American mapmaker
- Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (England, 1792–1855)
- Carlton Osgood (United States, †1816)
- Adriaan Reland (Netherlands, 1676–1718), linguist and cartographer
- Thomas Richardson (Scotland)
- 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)
- 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"[11]
- Friedrich Christoph Müller (Germany, 1751–1808)
- Alexander Wilbrecht (Russia, 1757–1823), geographer of the Geographic Department of the Cabinet of Her Imperial Majesty
- 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
- John James Abert (United States, 1788–1863), headed the Corps of Topographical Engineers for 32 years and organized the mapping of the American West
- 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
- Henry Peter Bosse (Germany/United States, 1844–1903), also photographer and civil engineer
- George Bradshaw (England, 1801–1853)
- James Wyld (England, 1812–1887)
- Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793–1858)
- J. H. Colton (United States, 1800–1893)
- James Ireland Craig, Craig retroazimuthal projection
- Carl Diercke (1842–1913)
- Louis Isidore Duperrey (French, 1786–1865)
- Fielding Lucas, Jr. (c. 1781–1854), of the Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, USA
- Matthew Flinders (British, 1774–1814), Royal Navy officer; circumnavigated Australia and made exploration of the Australian coastline
- Matthew Fontaine Maury (United States, 1806–1873), U.S. Navy officer; also oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and educator
- Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842–1922), American producer of pictorial maps[12]
- Björn Gunnlaugsson (Iceland, 1788–1876)
- Charles F. Hoffmann (Germany/United States, 1838–1913)
- Pierre Jacotin (France, 1765–1829)
- Felix Jones (England, 1813–1878)
- Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824–1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer
- Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun (France, 1816–1889)
- Heinrich Theodor Menke (Germany, 1819–1892)
- Robert Moresby (England, 1794–1863)
- Thomas Moule (England, 1784–1851)
- Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856–1940), also oceanographer and geographer
- Karl Spruner von Merz (Germany, 1803–1892)
- Jacob Swart (Netherlands, 1796–1866)
- John Tallis and Company (England, 1838–1851)
- David Thompson (British–Canadian, 1770–1857)
- Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France, 1824–1897), devised Tissot's indicatrix
- Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795–1869)
- Edward A. Vincent (England/United States, c. 1825–27 November 1856), cartographer, civil engineer, architect
- James Wilson (United States, 1763–1835), first maker of globes in the United States
- Nain Singh Rawat: Indian cartographer
- Cope, Emmor B: Gettysburg Battlefield cartographer and first Gettysburg National Military Park superintendent
- Alexandre Vuillemin (France 1812–1880)
- Percy Fawcett (1867–1925), British explorer of South America
20th century
- Erik Arnberger (1917–1987)
- Eduardo Canabrava Barreiros (Brazil, 1908–1981)
- Jacques Bertin (France, 1918–2010)
- Josef Breu (Austria, 1914–1998)
- Roger Brunet (1931– )
- Bernard J. S. Cahill (1867–1944), inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world
- Leslie George Bullock (1895-1971)
- George Comer (1858–1937)
- James Ireland Craig (1868–1952), inventor of the Craig retroazimuthal projection, otherwise known as the Mecca projection
- John Paul Goode (1862–1932), created the "Evil Mercator" and Goode’s World Atlas
- Max Eckert-Greifendorff (Germany, 1868–1938)
- Hermann Haack (Germany, 1872–1966)
- Günther Hake (1922–2000)
- Richard Edes Harrison (1901–1994)
- Tom Harrisson (1911–1976)
- Eduard Imhof (1895–1986), oversaw the Schweizerischer Mittelschulatlas, the atlas used in Swiss high schools from 1932 until 1976
- George F. Jenks (1916–1996)
- Elrey Borge Jeppesen (1907–1996)
- Edgar Lehmann (1905–1990)
- John P. Snyder (1926–1997), developed the space oblique mercator projection
- Rudi Ogrissek (1926–1999)
- Rafael Palacios (1905–1993), prolific map-drawer for major US publishers
- Erwin Raisz (1893–1968)
- Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004), wrote the influential textbook Elements of Cartography and developed the Robinson projection
- William R. Shepherd (1871–1934)
- John C. Sherman (1916–1996)
- Jessamine Shumate (1902–1990)
- Marie Tharp (1920–2006), oceanographic cartographer
- Bradford Washburn (1910–2007)
- David Woodward (1942–2004)
21st century
- Danny Dorling (1968– ), developed circular cartograms
- Mark Newman (1968– ), developed area contiguous cartograms using a diffusion-based method
- Nikolas Schiller (1980– ), Arabesque maps composed of kaleidoscopic aerial photographs
- Dr. E. Lee Spence (1947– ), pioneer underwater archaeologist, decorative, historical maps showing shipwreck locations
- Waldo R. Tobler (1930– ), developed the first law of geography
- Denis Wood (1945– ), artist, author, and former professor of Design at North Carolina State University
- Justin O'Beirne (1984– ), developed Apple Maps cartography, and pioneer in cartography as a means of map usability
See also
- History of cartography
- List of geographers
- Ancient world maps
- Russian cartographers
- Category:Cartography organizations
- Category:Historians of cartography
References
- ^ Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider (ed.): "Marinus", Brill's New Pauly, Brill, 2010: M. of Tyre (Μαρῖνος; Marînos), Greek geographer, 2nd century AD
- ^ "General Depiction of the Empty Plains (in Common Parlance, the Ukraine) Together with its Neighboring Provinces". World Digital Library. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- ^ Borschak, Elie. "Beauplan, Guillaume Le Vasseur de". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- ^ "Venezuela with the Southern Part of New Andalusia". World Digital Library. 1612–1699. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ^ John Senex
- ^ Emanuel Bowen
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- ^ http://prestwidge.com/river/jamaica1762gibson.html
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- ^ Kitchen Map 1755
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