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)
• 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 (1571 - 1638)
• Johannes Blaeu (1596 - 1673)
• Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, 1508 - 1555)
• Martin Heilwig (Germany, 1516 - 1574)
• Jodocus Hondius, (1563 - 1612)
• Henricus Hondius (1597 - 1651)
• Jan Janssonius (Netherlands, 1588 - 1664)
• Gerard de Jode (1509 - 1591)
• Gerardus Mercator (Belgium, Netherlands, 1512 - 1594)
• A. Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1593 - 1650)
• Abraham Ortelius, (Belgium, 1527 - 1598), Belgian cartographer
• John Speed (England, 1542 - 1629)

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 Kleulen , cartographer, founder of Firm of Van Kleulen
• Matthäus Merian (Switzerland, 1621 – 1687)
• Peter Schenk (1660 – 1718/1719)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Schmettau (died 1743)
• Matthias Seutter (1678 – 1757)

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.

• Simeon De Witt (1756 - 1834) Successor to Robert Erskine and Surveyor-General of the State of New York

19th Century

• George Bradshaw (1801 - 1853)
• Carl Diercke (1842 - 1913)
• Paul Diercke (1874 - 1937)
• Max Eckert-Greifendorff (1868 - 1938)
• Hermann Haack (1872 - 1966)
• Eduard Imhof (1895 - 1986)
• Peter Kozler (Slovenia, 1824 - 1879), lawyer, geographer, politician, manufacturer.
• Thomas Moule (England, 1784 - 1851)
• Nicolas Auguste Tissot (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- )

Cartography Organisations

• British Cartographic Society
• NACIS North American Cartographic Information Society
• Ordnance Survey (United Kingdom)