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
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