List of Cartographers - 16th Century

16th Century

• Giovanni Battista Agnese (c. 1500–1564) Genoese cartographer, author of numerous nautical atlases
• Peter Apian (1495–1552) – Also known as Peter Bienewitz German geographer and astronomer, author of the Apianus projection
• Philipp Apian (1531–1589)
• Joost Janszoon Bilhamer (Netherlands, 1541–1590)
• Willem Janszoon Blaeu (Netherlands, 1571–1638) – Father of Joan Blaeu
• Giovanni Battista Boazio (?–?) – Mapped Sir Francis Drake's voyage to the West Indies and America
• Jacob Roelofs van Deventer, (Netherlands, c 1510/15–1575)
• Fernão Vaz Dourado (India, c. 1520–c. 1580) – Portuguese cartographer of the school initiated by Lopo Homem
• Oronce Finé (France, 1494–1555)
• Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma) (Netherlands, Ned Flanders, 1508–1555)
• Martin Helwig (Germany, 1516–1574)
• Lopo Homem (Portugal?–1565) – Co-author, with the Reinel family, of the well-known Miller Atlas
• Diogo Homem (Portugal 1521–1576) – Cartographer, son of Lopo Homem
• Jodocus Hondius (Flanders, England, Netherlands, 1563–1612)
• Johannes Honterus (Transylvania, 1498–1549)
• Gerard de Jode (Netherlands,Flanders, 1509–1591)
• Jacques le Moyne (France, ca. 1533–1588)
• Guillaume Le Testu (France, ca. 1509–1573)
• Gerardus Mercator (Flanders, Netherlands, 1512–1594)
• Sebastian Münster (Germany, 1488–1552)
• Abraham Ortelius, (Flanders, 1527–1598) – Generally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas
• Petrus Plancius, (Netherlands, 1552–1622)
• Timothy Pont, (Scotland, 1565–1614)
• Pedro Reinel (Portugal ?–c. 1542) – Author of the oldest signed Portuguese nautical chart
• Jorge Reinel (Portugal c. 1502–c. 1572) – Portuguese cartographer, son of Pedro Reinel
• Diogo Ribeiro (Portugal, ?–Sevilha, 1533) – Author of the first known planisphere with a graduated Equator (1527)
• Sebastião Lopes (Portugal 16th century) – Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer
• Christopher Saxton, (England, born c 1540)
• John Speed, (England, 1542–1629)
• Fernando Álvares Seco (Portugal?–?) – Signed the oldest known map of Portugal, reproduced in various editions of Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
• Luís Teixeira (Portugal ?–?) – Author of an important Atlas of Brazil
• Bartolomeu Velho (Portugal ?–1568) – cosmographer and cartographer
• Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (Netherlands, 1533/34–1605/06) – Driver, cartographer
• Edward Wright (mathematician) (England, 1561–1615) – Mathematician and cartographer