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 (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author Ende, Spain (c. 1000 AD), illustrator, cartographer, nun Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt (276 BC–194 BC), Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer Hipparchus, Greece (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer Liu An, China (179 BC–122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi Marinus of Tyre, Roman Syria (c. AD 70–130), Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 85–165), Greek astronomer, cartographer, and geographer Pei Xiu (224–271), Chinese geographer and cartographer Isidore of Seville, Hispania (560–636) al-Khwārazmī, Caliphate (9th century), Persian cartographer, geographer, and polymath. 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 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 al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller Maximus Planudes, Byzantine Empire (13th century), a monk credited with restoring the texts and maps of Ptolemy Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311) Angelino Dulcert (14th century), author of the earliest known Majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean
15th century
Jacobus Angelus, Florence, translated Ptolemy into Latin
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), from Ancona, author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean