List of Cartographers
Scientists List
cartographers are map makers, Cartography is the study of map making.
| Cartographers Name | During | Place | Achievement/ Occupation |
| Dicaearchus | circa(350–285) BC | Messana in Sicily | first to use geographical coordinates |
| Hipparchus | 190 B.C. - 120 B.C. | Nicaea (Turkey) | did astronomical observations in the period from 147 BC to 127 BC |
| Isidore of Seville | 560 - 636 | Cartagena, Spain | involved in the conversion of the royal Visigothic Arians to Catholicism |
| Ptolemy | circa (85-165) | Ptolemais Hermiou | mathematician, geographer, astronomer, astrologer |
| Al-Idrisi | 1100-1166 | North Africa | Arab geographer, cartographer and traveller |
| Philipp Apian | 1495 - 1552 | Ingolstadt | German mathematician and medic |
| Martin Behaim | 1436 - 1507 | Nuremberg | German navigator and geographer to the King of Portugal. |
| Erhard Etzlaub | 1460 - 1532 | Erfurt, Germany. | astronomer, geodesist, cartographer, instrument maker and physician. |
| Sebastian Mnster | 1488 - 1552 | Ingelheim, Mainz | His work, the Cosmographia from 1544 was the earliest German description of the world |
| Piri Reis | 1465 - 1554 | Turkey. | Ottoman-Turkish admiral, geographer and cartographer |
| Hartmann Schedel | 1440 - 1514 | Bavaria | German physician, humanist and historian |
| Amerigo Vespucci | 1454 - 1512 | Florence, Italy | known for Demonstrating New World was not Asia but | previously-unknown fourth continent |
| Martin Waldseemller | circa (1470 - 1521) | Freiburg im Breisgau | credited with the first recorded usage of the word America, on the 1507 map Universalis Cosmographia |
| Johan Blaeu | 1599 - 1673 | Alkmaar, Netherlands | well-known for its traditional cheese market (cultural center in netherlands) |
| Willem Blaeu | 1571 - 1638 | Dutch | Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher. |
| Martin Heilwig | 1516 - 1574 | Nysa, Poland | In 1561 he copper-etched a map, a single-sheet cartouche of Silesia |
| Henricus Hondius | 1597 - 1651 | Flanders, Netherlands | engraver and cartographer |
| Jodocus Hondius, | 1563 - 1612 | Wakken, West Flanders. | known for his early maps of the New World and Europe |
| Jan Janssonius | 1588 - 1664 | Arnhem, Netherlands | Dutch cartographer |
| Gerard de Jode | 1509 - 1591 | Nijmegen, Netherlands, | worked for Gastaldi's map and other maps of the world |
| Gerardus Mercator | 1512 - 1594 | Rupelmonde in East Flanders | Flemish cartographer |
| A. Matthus Merian | 1593 - 1650 | Basel, Switzerland | notable Swiss engraver. |
| Abraham Ortelius, | 1527 - 1598 | Antwerp, Belgium | recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas. |
| John Speed | 1542 - 1629 | Farndon, England | historian |
| Vincenzo Coronelli | 1650 - 1718 | Venice | Franciscan monk, an Italian cosmographer. |
| Guillaume Delisle, | 1675 - 1726 | Paris | French cartographer who lived in Paris. |
| Johann Homann, | 1664 - 1724 | Oberkammlach, Bavaria | German geographer and cartographer |
| Peter Schenk | 1660 - 1718 | Wuppertal, Germany | created mostly maps, historical sights and scenes. |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Karl | died 1743 | Berlin, Germany | royal Prussian Lieutenant-General |
| Matthias Seutter | 1678 - 1757 | Southern Germany. | German map publishers of the 18th century |
| Johann Friedrich | 1755 | Royal Prussia | Royal Mathematician to King Augustus III of Poland. |
| Thomas Jefferys | 1710 - 1771 | North America. | published maps of several English counties |
| George Bradshaw | 1801 - 1853 | Windsor Bridge, Lancashire | printer, publisher, originator of the railway timetable. |
