Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci

male, deceased (1512)
Cartographer, From florence, explorer, Italian, Indies, cartography
'Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 -February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages...
Abraham Ortelius

Abraham Ortelius

male, deceased (1598)
Cartographer, Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum, from Antwerp, Belgium, Grampian Mountains, Gilles Hooftman, Firth of Clyde
Abraham Ortelius appeared before the end of 1572; twenty-five editions came out before Ortelius' death in 1598; and several others were published...
James Cook

James Cook

male, deceased (1779)
explorer, From Middlesbrough, Explorer of Australia, Royal Navy, endeavour, MeRchAnT NavY…Cartographer
Captain James Cook FRS RN (27 October 1728 (O.S.) – 14 February 1779) was an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. Ultimately rising to th...
Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator

male, deceased (1594)
Mercator chart, Leuven alumni before 1968, Duchy of Cleves, 's-Hertogenbosch, duchy of Julich, Rupelmonde…Cartographer
Gerardus Mercator was a Flemish cartographer. He was born in Rupelmonde in East Flanders in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation to parents...
John Ogilby

John Ogilby

male, deceased (1676)
Cartographer, Great Fire of London, King's Bench, lord deputy, dancing master, Master of the Revels
John Ogilby (November 1600 - September 4, 1676) was a Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer. He is known best for his Britannia Atlas of...
John Rocque

John Rocque

male, deceased (1762)
Irish ten pound, Series B Banknotes, Painshill Park, Claremont, Wilton House, parterre…Cartographer
John Rocque was a surveyor and cartographer. He moved to England in 1709 with his parents, who were French Huguenot émigrées. He became a go...

Lewis Evans

male, deceased (1756)
date of death unknown, Date of birth unknown, welsh, Surveyor, American, Geographer…Cartographer
Lewis Evans (c.1700-1756), Welsh colonial surveyor and geographer. Lewis Evans was born in Caernarfonshire,Wales. He travelled to the British...

Martin Waldseemüller

male
Indies, Freiburg im Breisgau, Wolfenweiler, Cosmographiae, Terra Incognita, Radolfzell…Cartographer
Martin Waldseemüller was a German cartographer. He was born in Freiburg im Breisgau (his mother was from Radolfzell) and studied at the University o...
John Speed

John Speed

male, deceased (1629)
Cartographer, Fulke Greville, Scale of Passes, Farndon, Cheshire, Historie of Great Britaine, The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
John Speed (1542-1629) was a historian, now best remembered as the cartographer whose maps of English counties are often found framed in homes...
Jodocus Hondius

Jodocus Hondius

male, deceased (1611)
dutch, From Ghent, engraver, belgian, flemish, flanders…Cartographer
Jodocus Hondius (October 14, 1563-February 12, 1612), sometimes called Jodocus Hondius the Elder to distinguish him from his son) was a Flemish...