List of Cartographers - 15th Century

15th Century

• 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/Hadji Muhammad (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), Venetian (?), author of several portolan charts of the Mediterranean