Editing List of cartographers (section)

==16th century==
[[File:1544 Battista Agnese Worldmap.jpg|thumb|right|Battista Agnese's 1544 world map]]
[[File:Leo Belgicus.jpg|thumb|right|[[Jodocus Hondius]]' ''Leo Belgicus'' (1611)]]
[[File:Mercator World Map.jpg|thumb|right|[[Gerardus Mercator]]'s 1587 world map]]
[[File:Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, by Abraham Ortelius, World, 1572.jpg|thumb|World map from the ''[[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum]]'' by [[Abraham Ortelius]]]]
*[[Battista Agnese|Giovanni Battista Agnese]] (c. 1500–1564), [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]], cartographer, author of numerous [[Portolan|nautical atlases]]
*[[Hacı Ahmet]], [[Ottoman Tunisia]]n cartographer, translated 16th c. map into Turkish for the [[Ottoman Empire]].
*[[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)
*[[Hernando de los Ríos Coronel]] (1559–1621?), cosmographer and cartographer, mapped Taiwan (Isla Hermosa), Luzon and part of the Chinese coast.
*[[Willem Blaeu|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
*[[Anders Bure]] (Sweden, 1571 – 1646), founder of Swedish cartography
*[[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, 1508–1555)
*[[Jan Van Hanswijk]] (Netherlands, fl. 1594)
*[[Martin Helwig]] (Germany, 1516–1574)
*[[Augustin Hirschvogel]] (Germany, 1503–1553)
*[[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]] (Netherlands, 1563–1612)
*[[Johannes Honterus]] (Transylvania, 1498–1549)
*[[Gerard de Jode]] (Netherlands, 1509–1591)
*[[Urbano Monti]] (Italy, 1544–1613)
*[[Jacques le Moyne]] (France, c. 1533–1588)
*[[Guillaume Le Testu]] (France, c. 1509–1573)
*[[Jacobus Pentius de Leucho]] (Italy)
*[[Gerardus Mercator]] (Netherlands, 1512–1594)
*[[Sebastian Münster]] (Germany, 1488–1552)
*[[Abraham Ortelius]] (France, 1527–1598), generally recognized as the creator of the first modern [[atlas]]
*[[Petrus Plancius]] (Netherlands, 1552–1622)
*[[Diego Gutiérrez (cartographer)|Diego Gutiérrez]] (Spain, ?) published a map entitled ''[[Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio]]'' with printer [[Hieronymus Cock]]. First map with [[toponym]] "[[California]]" and first appearance of a word for "[[Appalachia]]," as the term "Apalchen."  
*[[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 (cartographer)|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]]
*[[Bernardus Sylvanus]] (Italy)
*[[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
*[[Georg Braun]] (Germany, 1541–1622), [[cartographer]]