List of cartographers

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

Cartographers

Some important early and famous cartographers:

Martin Behaim, (1436-1507)
Joan Blaeu
Guillaume Delisle, (1675-1726), cartographer
Frederick DeWitt
Johann Friedrich Endersch (Germany, fl. 1755)
Martin Heilwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)
Zacharias Heym
Johann Homann, (Germany, 1664 - 1724), geographer
Henricus Hondius
Jodocus Hondius, (1563-1612)
Hipparchus, (Greece, 190 B.C - 120 B.C), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986)
Isidore of Seville (Spain, 560 - 636)
Jan Janssonius (Norway ?, 1588 - 1664)
Thomas Jefferys Geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom
Peter Kozler, (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
Gerardus Mercator (Belgium, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)
A. Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1593 - 1650)
Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1621 - 1687)
Sebastian Muenster (Germany, 1488 - 1552)
Abraham Ortelius, (Belgium, 1527 - 1598), Belgian cartographer
Ptolemy, (Ptolemaic Egypt, Greece, circa 85 - circa 165), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
Hartmann Schedel (Germany)
John Speed (England, 1542 - 1629)
Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, circa 1470 - circa 1521/1522)