List of Cartographers - Before 1400

Before 1400

• Anaximander, Greek Anatolia, (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world
• Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
• Dicaearchus, Greece (c. 350 BC–285 BC), philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician, author
• Eratosthenes, Ptolemaic Egypt, (276 BC–194 BC) a Greek scientist, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer
• Hipparchus, Greece, (190 BC–120 BC), astronomer, cartographer, geographer
• Marinus of Tyre, Roman Syria (c. 70 AD–130 AD) Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography.
• Ptolemy, Ptolemaic Egypt, (c. 85–165), a Greek astronomer, cartographer, geographer
• Isidore of Seville, Hispania (560–636)
• Al-Idrisi, Sicily (1100–1166), Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller.
• Liu An, China (179 BC–122 BC), geographer, cartographer, author of the Huainanzi
• Petrus Vesconte, Genoese cartographer, author of the oldest signed Portolan chart (1311)
• Shen Kuo, China (1031–1095), a polymath scientist and statesman, author of the Dream Pool Essays, which included a large atlas of China and foreign regions, and also made a three-dimensional raised-relief map.
• Su Song, China (1020–1101), horologist and engineer; as a Song Dynasty diplomat, he used his knowledge of cartography and map-making to solve territorial border disputes with the rival Liao Dynasty
• Angelino Dulcert (14th century) author of the earliest known majorcan portolan charts of the Mediterranean