Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers.

Before 1400

• 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, Greece (circa 350 BC-285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
• Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt, (276 BC-194 BC) a Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer
• Hipparchus, Greece, (190 BC-120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
• Isidore of Seville, Spain (560-636)
• Al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100-1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.
• Liu An, China (179 BC-122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi
• Marinus of Tyre (ca. 70 - 130 A.D.) was a Phoenician geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography.
• Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt, (circa 85-165), a Greek astronomer, cartographer, geographer
• Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)
• Shen Kuo, China (1031-1095), a 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
• Angelino Dalorto or Angelino Dulcert (14th century) author of the earliest known majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean

15th century

• Martin Behaim (Germany, 1436 ? 1507)
• Benedetto Bordone Italy (1460 - 1551)
• Sebastian Cabot (1476-1557), Italian explorer
• Erhard Etzlaub (1460 ? 1532)
• Henricus Martellus Germanus (Italy, fl. 1480-1496)
• Donnus Nicholas Germanus (Germany, fl. 1460-1475)
• Fra Mauro (Venice, c.1459)
• Piri Reis/Hadji Muhammad (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 (Italy, 1454 ? 1512)
• Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, c.1470 ? c.1521/1522)
• Johannes Werner (Germany, 1466 ? 1528) refined and promoted the Werner map projection
• Gabriel de Valseca (15th century), majorcan, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean
• Grazioso Benincasa (15th century), venezian (?), author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean

16th century

• Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500 - 1564) Italian cartogapher, author of numerous nautical atlases
• Peter Apian (1495 - 1552), also known as Peter Bienewitz German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection
• Philipp Apian (1531-1589)
• Joost Jansz. 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) cartographer
• Fernão Vaz Dourado (India, c. 1520 - c. 1580) Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem
• Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, 1508 - 1555)
• Martin Heilwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)
• 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
• Bartolomeu Velho (? - 1568) Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer
• Jodocus Hondius, (Flanders, England, Netherlands, 1563 - 1612)
• Gerard de Jode (Flanders, 1509 - 1591)
• Gerardus Mercator (Flanders, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)
• Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488 ? 1552)
• Abraham Ortelius, (Flanders, 1527 - 1598)
• Petrus Plancius, (Netherlands, 1552 - 1622)
• Timothy Pont, (Scotland, 1565 - 1614)
• 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
• Diego Ribero (Portugal, ? - Sevilha, 1533) Portuguese cartographer, author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)
• Sebastião Lopes (16th century) Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer
• Christopher Saxton, (England, born c 1540)
• John Speed, (England, 1542 - 1629)
• Fernando Álvares 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
• Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (Netherlands, 1533/34 - 1605/06) driver, cartographer

17th century

• 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
• Johannes Blaeu (Netherlands, 1596 - 1673)
• Vincenzo Coronelli (1650 – 1718)
• Guillaume Delisle (1675 – 1726)
• Hessel Gerritsz (Netherlands, 1581 - 1632), cartographer for the VOC
• Isaak de Graaf (Netherlands, 1668 - 1743), cartographer for the VOC
• Johann Homann (Germany, 1664 – 1724), geographer
• Henricus Hondius (Netherlands, 1597 - 1651)
• Johannes Janssonius (Netherlands, 1588 - 1664)
• Johannes van Keulen (Netherlands, 1654 - 1715)
• 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)
• Dirk Rembrantsz van Nierop (Netherlands, 1610 - 1682), cartographer, mathematician and astronomist
• John Ogilby (Scotland, 1600 - 1676)
• Nicolas Sanson (France, 1600 – 1667)
• Peter Schenk (1660 – 1718/1719)
• Johannes Vingboons (Netherlands, 1616/1670) cartographer and aquarellist
• Nicolaes Witsen (Netherlands, 1641 - 1717) diplomat, cartographer, writer and mayor of Amsterdam

18th century

• Giambattista (Giovanni Battista) Albrizzi (Venice, 1698 – 1777), publisher of illustrated books and maps
• Jean Baptiste d'Anville (France, 1697 - 1782)
• Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772) Chief cartographer to the French navy
• Rigobert Bonne (France, 1727-1795)- Royal Cartographer to France in the office of the Hydrographer at Depot de la Marine
• Abel Buell (1742 - 1822), published the first map of the new United States created by an American
• 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
• Thomas Jefferys (c. 1710 - 1771) Geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
• Murdoch McKenzie (Scotland, died 1797)
• John Mitchell (1711 - 1768) Colonial British American mapmaker.
• Carlton Osgood US mapmaker
• Thomas Richardson - Scottish
• John Rocque (England, 1709 - 1762)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau (1743 - 1806)
• Matthias Seutter (Germany, 1678 – 1757)
• Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676 – 1747)

19th century

• John James Abert (1788-1863)
• Henry Peter Bosse (1844-1903)
• George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)
• Agostino Codazzi (Italy, 1793-1858)
• James Ireland Craig, Craig retroazimuthal projection.
• Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)
• Lucas, Fielding Jr. (c. 1781?1854) Lucas Brothers, Baltimore, USA
• Matthew Flinders ( 16 March 1774 ? 19 July 1814) - Circumnavigated, Tasmania and Australia
• Matthew Fontaine Maury, (1806-1873) American, USN, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, educator.
• Björn Gunnlaugsson (Iceland, 1788 – 1876)
• Charles F. Hoffmann (1838 - 1913)
• Felix Jones (England, 1813 - 1878)
• Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
• Robert Moresby (England, 1794 - 1863)
• Thomas Moule (England, 1784 - 1851)
• John Tallis and Company (England, 1838 - 1851)
• Yuly Shokalsky (Russia, 1856 - 1940)
• Nicolas Auguste Tissot (France, 1824 - 1897)
• Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgium, 1795 - 1869)
• James Wilson (1763 – 1835) First globe maker in the US.
• Nain Singh Rawat: Indian cartographer.

20th century

• Erik Arnberger (1917 - 1987)
• Jacques Bertin (1918- )
• Roger Brunet (1931- )
• Bernard J.S. Cahill (1867-1944) Inventor of octahedral "Butterfly Map" of the world.
• George Comer (1858 ? 1937)
• John Paul Goode (1862-1932)
• 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)
• George F. Jenks (1916 - 1996)
• Elrey Borge Jeppesen (1907-1996)
• Edgar Lehmann (1905 - 1990)
• Rudi Ogrissek (1926 - 1999)
• Arno Peters (1916-2002)
• Erwin Raisz (1893 - 1968)
• Arthur H. Robinson (1915 - 2004)
• William R. Shepherd (1871 - 1934)
• John C. Sherman (1916 - 1996)
• Dr. E. Lee Spence, (born 1947), pioneer underwater archaeologist, decorative, historical maps showing shipwreck locations
• Waldo R. Tobler (1930- )
• Bradford Washburn (1910-2007)
• Denis Wood (1945- )
• David Woodward (1942-2004)
• Richard Saul Wurman (1936-)

21st century

• Philip W. Arnold Sr. (1916-)
• Daniel Nathan Stoddart (1967-)
• András Bogdanovits (1969-)
• James M. Shively (1970-) Cartographer for Michigan Center for Geographic Information
• Ildikó Bogdanovits (1975-)
• Alexander Kent
• Mike Reagan
• Tom Patterson - cartographer for the National Park Service, creator of Natural Earth
• Miloslav Drtina -Maps By Hand, www.mapsbyhand.com, Historical and Bird's Eye View Maps
• Nikolas Schiller ^[1][2][3] (1980-)

Cartography organizations

• International Cartographic Association (ICA)
• British Cartographic Society
• NACIS North American Cartographic Information Society
• Croatian Cartographic Society
• Society of Cartographers
• Swiss Society of Cartography
• Washington Map Society
• National Geographic Society
• German Society of Cartography
• Austrian Cartographic Commission of the Austrian Geographic Society

See also

• History of cartography
• List of geographers
• Ancient world maps

References

da:Kartograf de:Kartograf pt:Anexo:Lista de cartógrafos ru:?????? ??????????? sl:Seznam kartografov