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

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.

15th century

• 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

16th century

• 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)

17th century

• 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)

18th century

• 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.

19th century

• 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)

20th century

• Erik Arnberger (1917 - 1987)
• Jacques Bertin (1918- )
• Roger Brunet (1931- )
• Günther Hake (1922 - 2000)
• George F. Jenks (1916 - 1996)
• Edgar Lehmann (1905 - 1990)
• Rudi Ogrissek (1926 - 1999)
• Erwin Raisz (1893 - 1968)
• Arthur H. Robinson (1915 - 2004)
• John C. Sherman (1916 - 1996)
• Waldo R. Tobler (1930- )

21st century

• Mike Reagan
• Jay Foreman
• Sally Hermansen

Cartography organizations

• British Cartographic Society
• Society of Cartographers
• NACIS North American Cartographic Information Society
• Swiss Society of Cartography
• Ordnance Survey (United Kingdom)

See also

• History of cartography

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