Cartographer Name Generator

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Generate cartographer names for mapmakers, surveyors and chart sellers, from Ilse Meridian and Master Quillon Hale to Brother Anselm of the Scriptorium, plus map shop signs like The Compass Rose.

About cartographer names

A cartographer's name usually tells you two things: where the mapmaker comes from and which part of the trade they work in. Most entries here carry the craft in a title, a byname, a surname or a shop sign, so you get Master Quillon Hale, Ilse Meridian, Tobias Leadline and Brother Anselm of the Scriptorium rather than names that could belong to anyone.

The styles follow the history of mapmaking. Renaissance scholars Latinized their names, which is how Gerard de Kremer became Gerardus Mercator, so the list has figures like Wendelinus Sylvanus, Cosmographus. Dutch and Flemish entries use the patronymics of the Amsterdam chart trade, as in Cornelis Pietersz van Hoorn. Arabic and Persian names add a trade or home-town byname, Chinese and Japanese names put the family name first, and naval entries wear a rank or a pilot's title. Twenty-four entries are real historical mapmakers, named in the FAQ below; the rest are meant as fictional characters.

For fantasy tables there are elf, dwarf, gnome and halfling mapmakers, guild ranks from apprentice to guildmaster, and frontier survey crews with nicknames like "Plumb Bob" Barlow. About sixty entries are chart-house and guild signs such as The Compass Rose and Hale and Daughter, Chartmakers, ready to hang over your cartographer's door.

How to choose cartographer names

  • Decide what the map is for before you name its maker. A harbor chart suggests a pilot or a naval officer such as Lieutenant Josiah Fathom, Hydrographer, while a map of a whole kingdom suggests a court title like Surveyor General Sir Edmund Larch.
  • Match the name style to the culture of your setting and keep it consistent. A Dutch-style port wants patronymics such as Cornelis Pietersz van Hoorn, and a monastery wants a Brother, a Sister or a Dom.
  • Give the mapmaker one tell beyond the name: a specialty, a famous mistake or a region they refuse to draw. Bynames like Bertrand Here-Be-Dragons and Garrick of the Missing Island already hint at one.
  • Pair a person with a sign. Name the cartographer first, then pick a shop or guild name from the list so players know where to go to buy, copy or correct a map.
  • For a real map shop, print studio or online store, treat the sign names as starting points and search business registers and domains yourself before you commit.

Frequently asked questions

Which names on this list are real historical cartographers?

Twenty-four of them: Claudius Ptolemy, Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Anaximander of Miletus, Marinus of Tyre, Muhammad al-Idrisi, Pei Xiu, Abraham Cresques, Fra Mauro, Martin Waldseemüller, Sebastian Münster, Piri Reis, Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Christopher Saxton, Petrus Plancius, Jodocus Hondius, John Speed, Willem Blaeu, Joan Blaeu, Nicolas Sanson, Vincenzo Coronelli, Guillaume Delisle, Ino Tadataka and Kim Jeong-ho. Every other name is written for fictional characters and shops.

What is a good name for a cartographer NPC in D&D?

Pick the ancestry first, then a name with one mapmaking word in it. Aelisandre Starchart suits an elf, Brunhild Stonegauge a dwarf who measures mine levels, and Fizzwick Thimblescale a gnome who sells pocket maps. Add a shop sign such as Meridian & Quill so the party remembers where the maps come from.

Can I use these for a map shop or cartography store name?

Yes. About sixty entries are shop, chart-house and guild signs, for example The Compass Rose, Vellum & Fathom and The Unrolled World, and a family name from the list works too, in the pattern of Hale and Daughter, Chartmakers. The names are free to use, but we have not compared them with existing businesses, so search your local business register and the domain before you print a sign.

What is the difference between a cartographer, a surveyor and a hydrographer?

A surveyor measures the land, a hydrographer measures coasts, depths and tides, and a cartographer turns those measurements into a finished map or chart. In practice one person often did all three jobs, which is why the list mixes titles like Deputy Surveyor Cyrus Hadlock, Hydrographer Lucius Penrose and Egidius Fontanus the Chartmaker.

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A: 55 names

  • "Azimuth" Annie Lachance
  • Abbot Radulf's Mapmaker
  • Abigail Stonor, Daughter of the Workshop
  • Abraham Cresques
  • Abraham Ortelius
  • Abraham Segers the Cutter of Plates
  • Adnan al-Hurmuzi, Pilot of the Gulf
  • Adriaen Maes, Sworn Land Measurer
  • Adrik Shaftsounder
  • Aelisandre Starchart
  • Aeltje Pieters, Map Colorist
  • Aert Cornelisz Bontekoe
  • Agostino Traverso

A, continued

  • Agrimensor Vicente Balaguer
  • Agrimensore Camillo Perotti
  • Akiyama Takamasa, Harbor Chart Copyist
  • Alaric Portolan
  • Aldric Who Walked It Twice
  • Alpine Club Mapmaker Edwin Scafell
  • Alston Twiddlekey
  • Ambrose Farthing-Scale
  • Ambrosius Campanus
  • Amrynn Rootpath
  • Anaximander of Miletus
  • Andreas Parisiensis, Geographus Regius
  • Anna Regina Hollweck, Illuministin
  • Annetje Roelofs of the Waterside

A, continued

  • Ansel of the Thirteenth Sheet
  • Anthonie Verhoeven
  • Antonius Hispalensis, Pilot Major
  • Anwar al-Naqqash
  • Anzolo Vianello, Copyist of Isolarios
  • Apollonia Rivia, Engraver's Widow
  • Apprentice Bartlemy Finch
  • Apprentice Colm Reddy
  • Apprentice Sunny Quickfoot
  • Apprentice Wren Tallow
  • Araminta Soundings
  • Arannis Greenledger
  • Ardashir Naqqash of Herat
  • Arent Thijsz Hoogland, Sworn Surveyor

A, continued

  • Arnau Fuster of the City of Mallorca
  • Arpenteur Firmin Desroches
  • Arpenteur Juré Mathurin Bellanger
  • Arriaga and Heirs, Pilots' Charts
  • Asma al-Falakiyya
  • Astruc Vidal, Master of Sea Charts
  • At the Sign of the Gilded Astrolabe
  • Aubrenne Shoreline
  • Audhild Vaultplotter
  • Augustin Charpentier-Lavigne, Graveur
  • Augustinus Salmanticensis, Cosmographus
  • Aulus Caesennius Tiro, Keeper of the Bronze Forma
  • Axeman Big Olaf Lindqvist
  • Ayyub al-Fasi the Geographer

B: 60 names

  • "Backsight" Ben Yarrow
  • "Baseline" Billy Garrity
  • "Benchmark" Bess Whitlow
  • "Blaze" Briggs the Line Cutter
  • Baern Addlestone, Sworn Adit-Measurer
  • Bahman Kashani
  • Bar Pilot Caleb Wainwright
  • Bardryn Faultline
  • Barent Gerritsz Stuurman
  • Barnaby Scalebar
  • Barometer Man Lyle Fenton
  • Bartholomaeus Textor
  • Bastiaen de Ruyck
  • Battistina Tassara, Chartmaker's Widow
  • Bematist Glaukias the Step-Counter

B, continued

  • Benedetto Bruzzone
  • Benedick Shorely
  • Benedictus Trevirensis
  • Berenguer Gual
  • Bernat Morey the Bruixoler
  • Berrian of the Seven Rivers Map
  • Bertrand Here-Be-Dragons
  • Bianca Repetto
  • Bilal ibn Yusuf al-Tunisi
  • Bimble Sprocketrule
  • Blanca Pons of the Compass Workshop
  • Boatswain's Mate Dan Lockyer, Sounding Party
  • Boddle Nibsharp
  • Border Pacer Edda Kell
  • Bortolo Scarpa

B, continued

  • Boundary Commissioner Lucinda Farr
  • Boundary Pillar Inspector Hamish Loudon
  • Brannoch Lanternlight
  • Breena Lensgrind
  • Bria Hillcrest
  • Brites Travassos, Colorist to the Armazém
  • Brother Aelred the Parchmenter
  • Brother Anselm of the Scriptorium
  • Brother Aubert of the Tidal Island
  • Brother Bernard of the Wheel Map
  • Brother Colman, Scribe of the Itineraries
  • Brother Cuthbert, Keeper of the Great Map
  • Brother Dunstan of the Pilgrim Roads
  • Brother Eadric the Sea-Monster Painter
  • Brother Edmer of the Chart Cell

B, continued

  • Brother Fergal of the T and O
  • Brother Godric of Holy Isle
  • Brother Hamo, Keeper of the Tithe Maps
  • Brother Ivo of the Compass Window
  • Brother Jerome of the East-Up Map
  • Brother Leofric, Ruler of Lines
  • Brother Noll, Apprentice of the Map Room
  • Brother Osric the Margin-Painter
  • Brother Oswin the Grey, Chartmaker of the Abbey
  • Brother Tancred of the Outremer Roads
  • Brother Thurstan the Quill-Cutter
  • Brother Wilfrid of the Inkhorn
  • Brother Wulfric the Wanderer's Scribe
  • Brotherhood of the Measured Mile
  • Brunhild Stonegauge

C: 67 names

  • "Cairn" Karen Ostlund
  • "Cornerstone" Cora Dunphy
  • Cade Hedgerow, Parish Mapper
  • Cai Bingwen, Keeper of the Map Scrolls
  • Caladwen Seafoam-Limner
  • Callie Thistlefield
  • Camel Corps Sketcher Basil Windrush
  • Canon Baldwin, Measurer of Glebe Lands
  • Canon Hugh, Terrier Clerk
  • Cao Xiulan
  • Capitão Engenheiro Duarte Vilhena
  • Caravan Mapkeeper Zuleika Sand
  • Carlin Fiddlescope

C, continued

  • Carmela Ferrigno
  • Cartographer and Clockmaker Fennimore Gault
  • Cartographer Errant Lorcan Madigan
  • Cartographer of the Ninth Legion, Varro Pollio
  • Cartographer's Apprentice Pip Mossop
  • Cartographer-General Sir Osbert Fane
  • Casparus Sartorius, Chalcographus
  • Catalina Echeverri of the Chart House
  • Catharina Fabricia
  • Catharina Vermeiren of the Lombard Bridge
  • Cecily Planisphere
  • Chainman "Long Link" Dobbs
  • Chancellor of Maps Benedict Arkwright

C, continued

  • Chapter of Map-Painters and Gilders
  • Charity Pennyfeather, Mounter of Wall Maps
  • Charmides the Coast-Describer
  • Chart-Boy Tibb
  • Chartcarver Thorek Obsidianrule
  • Chartroom Yeoman Seth Polwhele
  • Chen Mingde of the Bureau of Maps
  • Chevalier Armand de Brissac, Géographe du Roi
  • Chief Computer Nilmani Chatterjee
  • Christoffel Hermansz Ooms
  • Christopher Saxton
  • Christophorus Aquila
  • Claes Willemsz Kuyper
  • Claudius Ptolemy

C, continued

  • Clemency Dividers
  • Clemens Pragensis, Mathematicus
  • College of Geometers and Boundary-Keepers
  • Colonel Montague Raikes, Superintendent of Surveys
  • Commander Ewan Gillespie of the Coast Survey
  • Commander Rufus Nancarrow of the Survey Sloop
  • Company of Sworn Land Measurers
  • Compass Tester Fabian Sloe
  • Constance Headland
  • Contourer Alban Stott
  • Cordula Sylvana
  • Corisande of the Dotted Line
  • Cornelis Pietersz van Hoorn

C, continued

  • Cornelius Brugensis, Cosmographus
  • Corporal Amos Tidmarsh, Heliotrope Party
  • Corwin Latitude
  • Cosmógrafo Mayor Rodrigo Zubieta
  • Cosmógrafo-mor Henrique Figueira
  • Cosmographer Royal Ambrose Thackwell
  • Countess Sidonie Laurent, Geographer in Exile
  • County Surveyor Horace Pettibone
  • Court Cartographer Hu Zhenghua
  • Court Mapmaker Lin Wenyuan
  • Coxswain Dunnet of the Sounding Boat
  • Crispin Benchley
  • Crown Draftsman Octavian Pym
  • Cui Mingyuan

D: 36 names

  • "Dead Reckoning" Dan Harkness
  • "Dry Wash" Wes Coyle
  • Dabbledob Foldout
  • Dagna Deepreckoner
  • Dame Ottoline Fenwick-Shaw
  • Dame Philippa Staunton, Hydrographer to the Crown
  • Daniel Antverpiensis, Chalcographus
  • Daniel van Middelburg, Sea-Chart Seller
  • Dara Balkhi of the Observatory
  • Davy Dividers
  • Decimus Arrius Capito
  • Delineante Rosalía Montaner

D, continued

  • Delve-Surveyor Harnok Plumbline
  • Demaratos the Bematist
  • Deng Yuzhen, Woodblock Cutter
  • Deputy Surveyor Cyrus Hadlock
  • Dirck Adriaensz Schellinger
  • Doctor Balthasar Pontanus
  • Dom Ambrose, Armarius of Ashcombe
  • Dom Gervase, Abbey Surveyor
  • Dom Ignatius, Corrector of Coastlines
  • Dom Marcellus the Elder, Scriptor
  • Dom Odo the Rubricator
  • Dom Placid of the Mountain Cloister

D, continued

  • Dominicus Ragusinus the Portolan Master
  • Don Álvaro de Montiel, Cosmographer to the Crown
  • Doña Inés de Villalonga, Royal Engraver of Maps
  • Dong Shouzhi of the Grand Canal Maps
  • Dorian Theodolite
  • Dorn Halfpace the Tunnel Pacer
  • Draftsman First Class Wilfred Oakshott
  • Draftsman Wendell Oakes
  • Drusilia Starsounding
  • Du Kangnian
  • Dunstan Half-League
  • Dwarven Cartographer Brolga Flintrule

E: 26 names

  • Edrick Never-Lost
  • Egidius Fontanus the Chartmaker
  • Elarinde of the Thousand Coastlines
  • Elder Mapkeeper Anthuriel
  • Eldeth Lanternrule
  • Eldon Millwater, Lane Measurer
  • Elias Lipsiensis, Geographus
  • Elionor Puig, Illuminator of Portolans
  • Ellywick Inkpot
  • Elowyn of the Wandering Legend
  • Elsa Gyllenkrok of the Survey Office
  • Elspeth Pinfold
  • Elven Cartographer Sylvaris Dawnledger

E, continued

  • Emeric Fathomley
  • Enseigne Lucien Kerbrat, Ingénieur Hydrographe
  • Erasmus Molitor, Geographus
  • Eratosthenes of Cyrene
  • Erevan of the Twilight Traverse
  • Esme of the Red Roads
  • Estêvão Calado, Sworn Pilot
  • Eudora of the Coast-Sailing Book
  • Eva Rosina Kindlimann of the Map Press
  • Evander Legend
  • Evert Roelofsz, Stuurman
  • Expedition Cartographer Ingrid Solheim
  • Ezekiel Pomfret, Globe-Maker

F: 38 names

  • Faelar of the Long Count
  • Falkrunn Galleryplan
  • Faris al-Khattat
  • Father Kyrillos, Painter of the Three Continents
  • Father Makarios of the Cliff Monastery, Map Painter
  • Father Ronan of the Western Isles
  • Faunalyn of the Birchbark Atlas
  • Feldmesser Veit Hunziker
  • Fellowship of the Far Edge
  • Feng Lanying
  • Fenwick Sisters, Colorists and Map Menders
  • Ferdinand Reckoner

F, continued

  • Fiammetta Rinaldeschi of the Globe Workshop
  • Field Examiner Mabel Thirkettle
  • Field Notes Clerk Tobias Rudd
  • Finellen Marblegrid
  • Finnan Applecross
  • Fira North-by-Feel
  • First Pen Leofwen Garde
  • Firuz Nishapuri the Geometer
  • Fizzwick Thimblescale
  • Flagman Jesse Tolliver
  • Floris Verschuere
  • Földmérő István Kerekes
  • Fra Agostino of the Sea Charts

F, continued

  • Fra Benedetto of the Lagoon Cloister
  • Fra Mauro
  • Fra Ruggero of the Harbor Friary
  • Fra Tommaso the Portolan Copyist
  • Frans Jacobsz Timmerman
  • Free Chartmaker Melisande Rooke
  • Freiherr Kaspar von Lindenau, Surveyor of the Electorate
  • Friar Nicholas the Measurer of Fields
  • Friar Silvanus the Stargazer
  • Fridericus Ingolstadiensis, Mathematicus
  • Fujikawa Shichirobei, Road Measurer
  • Fur-Post Mapmaker Magnus Isbister
  • Furukawa Morishige

G: 51 names

  • Gabriel Serra the Younger
  • Gaius Novius Fronto the Gromaticus
  • Galathir Moonplot
  • Gao Ziqing, Gazetteer Compiler
  • Garret Duskmeadow the Pony-Road Mapper
  • Garrick of the Missing Island
  • Geertruyd van Hoorn of the Coloring Room
  • Gennaro Scognamiglio of the Arsenal Map Room
  • Geodesist Ivan Arkadyevich Belousov
  • Geometer Ulrich Aeschbacher
  • Geometra Kacper Zaremba
  • Géomètre Blaise Courtemanche

G, continued

  • Georg Friedrich Löwenich, Formschneider
  • Georgius Noribergensis the Globe-Maker
  • Gerardus Mercator
  • Gerrit Hendricksz Bleeker
  • Giacomo Bozzo the Vellum Dealer
  • Gideon Landfall
  • Gilder to the Guild Marius Coyne
  • Gillis Vermeiren of Antwerp
  • Gisbertus Lupinus the Engraver
  • Glacier Mapper Annelise Brunner
  • Glade-Scribe Irhaen
  • Glim Tickertape the Odometer Gnome
  • Gnaeus Blossius Sabinus of the Itinerarium

G, continued

  • Godwin Paces
  • Golnar Isfahani of the Paper Bazaar
  • Govert van der Meer, Landmeter
  • Grand Duke's Topographer Lorenzo Castellani
  • Gregorius Silvius of the Astrolabe
  • Grenda Pickmark, Mapper of Collapses
  • Greta of the Folded Corner
  • Grietje Jansdochter, Paper Stainer
  • Guild Archivist Bellamy Crook
  • Guild Cartographer Tamsyn Reeve
  • Guild Courier Swift Annis
  • Guild Examiner Sorrel Vane
  • Guild Factor Lucretia Marlowe

G, continued

  • Guild of Wayfinders and Limners
  • Guild Pilot Torvald Rennick
  • Guild Treasurer Nicodemus Ware
  • Guildhall of the Road Measurers
  • Guildhouse of the Free Cartographers
  • Guildmaster Orlan Truepenny
  • Guillaume Delisle
  • Guillem Sureda, Mestre de Cartes de Navegar
  • Gulielmus Cantabrigiensis
  • Gunnloda Seamtracer
  • Guo Hongzhi, Grid-Map Draftsman
  • Gurdis Lodefinder
  • Gwenllian of the Upland Sheets

H: 45 names

  • "Half-Chain" Hobie Reese
  • Hadrian Bearing
  • Hafsa bint Sulayman al-Halabiyya
  • Hale and Daughter, Chartmakers
  • Halueth Canopy-Reader
  • Halvard the Cartographer of Fjords
  • Hamid ibn Tahir al-Mawsili
  • Harbek's-Daughter Ingra Rockledger
  • Harbormaster's Chartwright Ciaran Doole
  • Hayami Gorobei
  • Hayami Kiku, Colorist of Province Maps
  • He Boyan the Scroll Painter
  • Head Chainman Luther Voss
  • Hedwig Eleonore Brandis, Engraver of Cartouches
  • Helja Gritscale

H, continued

  • Hendrick de Graaf the Chart Engraver
  • Hendrika Oostwoud, Atlas Binder
  • Henna of the Inland Sea Sheet
  • Henricus Fabricius the Mapmaker
  • Henrietta Lodestone
  • Her Majesty's Topographer Lavinia Crewe
  • Here Be Dragons, Maps Bought and Sold
  • Herennia Prisca, Copyist of Road Lists
  • Hermolaos the Shadow-Measurer
  • Herr Vermessungsrat Albrecht Tiefenbach
  • Hesper Rhumbline
  • Hester the Triangulist
  • Hieronymus Faber of the Globe
  • High Charter Lathiel Evermark
  • Hill-Shading Artist Hanabusa Yoshiko

H, continued

  • Hillegond Dircksdochter
  • Hirano Genzaemon of the Castle-Town Maps
  • Hisham ibn Rafi al-Gharnati
  • Hlin Bedrockmap
  • Hob the Coastline
  • Hofmathematiker Leopold Reinsperger
  • Homestead Platmaker Etta Varnum
  • Honoré Sicard, Hydrographe
  • Horatio Leeward
  • Horiuchi Yasutomo
  • House of Quill and Compass
  • Hushang Kermani
  • Huybert van Leiden the Engraver
  • Hydrographer Lucius Penrose
  • Hydrographer's Clerk Silas Balfour

I: 20 names

  • Idony of the Ninth Draft
  • Idris ibn Harun al-Qurtubi
  • Ielenia Farmeasure
  • Ignatius Plat
  • Ilse Meridian
  • Ilvarenne the Leaf-Mapper
  • Imperial Geographer Vasily Dobrynin
  • Imperial Surveyor Shen Jingyi
  • Imran ibn Dawud al-Halabi
  • Inagaki Chubei

I, continued

  • Ingeniero Geógrafo Leopoldo Aranguren
  • Ingenieur-Geograph Wilhelm Stoltenberg
  • Ingénieur-Géographe Honoré Lachapelle
  • Ink-Grinder Mott
  • Ino Tadataka
  • Instrument Man Clyde Haverford
  • Isaack Leendertsz Buys
  • Isaura Tidewell
  • Itinerant Mapmender Joss Wanderwell
  • Iwasaki Shigekata, Woodblock Map Carver

J: 30 names

  • Jabez Thornycroft, Engraver of Hills
  • Jabir al-Mallah of Aden
  • Jacob Wouters the Compass Maker
  • Jacobus Lusitanus, Pilot and Cosmographer
  • Jacopo Tagliapietra, Engraver on Copper
  • Jago Quadrant
  • Jalal ibn Rashid al-Misri
  • Jan Dircksz Roos, Pilot and Chartmaker
  • Jeanne-Marguerite Vasseur, Enlumineuse
  • Jebeddo Spyglass-Mender
  • Jerrold of the Hollow Earth Map
  • Jessamy Inkwell
  • Jiang Dewei
  • Joan Blaeu
  • Jodocus Hondius

J, continued

  • Johann Caspar Zollikofer the Atlas Publisher
  • Johann Jakob Ettlinger, Landmesser
  • John Speed
  • Jonas Leidensis
  • Joris Goossens the Plate Cutter
  • Jory the Unrolled
  • Josephus Patavinus
  • Journeyman Cartographer Dov Ashkenaz
  • Journeyman Pell Arrowsmith-Reed
  • Journeyman Rhys Penhallow
  • Journeywoman Kitty Ransome
  • Journeywoman Linnet Ashgrove
  • Judith Maes, Engraver's Daughter
  • Jungle Traverse Officer Hugh Standish
  • Junior Leveler Jem Ockley

K: 23 names

  • Kallisto the Star-Reader
  • Kang Xuewen, Copyist of Sea Routes
  • Karel Vermeulen of Bruges
  • Katagiri Koretada
  • Katarzyna Bielska, Engraver's Partner
  • Kathra Underway
  • Kaveh Bukhari, Painter of Routes
  • Kawamura Chiyo, Keeper of the Map Blocks
  • Kawamura Tarobei
  • Keeper of the Master Sheets Devorah Lunt
  • Kellen Dimblescratch

K, continued

  • Kessel and Sons, Globes and Atlases
  • Kester Blotter
  • Kettil Tunnelwright
  • Khalid al-Rassam of Aleppo
  • Khusraw Marvazi
  • Khwaja Rustam Tabrizi
  • Kim Jeong-ho
  • Kinoshita Denbei, Chain-Bearer to the Survey
  • Kong Lingwen
  • Königlicher Landmesser Gottfried Aschenbach
  • Kubota Sukeyuki of the Astronomy Office
  • Kyr Manolis of Candia, Chart Copyist

L: 55 names

  • "Longitude" Lou Castellaw
  • Lady Araminta Loxley of the Map Office
  • Lady Honoria Vane, Geographer to the Queen
  • Lady Rosamund Kettering, Mistress of the Globe Room
  • Lambert de Backer
  • Lambertus Curtius, Chorographus
  • Lancelot Uppingham, Land Surveyor and Valuer
  • Land Office Draftsman Hester Poole
  • Landmåler Jens Hvidtfeldt
  • Lantmätare Nils Bergström
  • Larch and Nephew, Estate Surveyors
  • Lavinia Tumblefold, Village Mapper
  • Layla al-Rassama

L, continued

  • Lead-and-Line Maggie Dow
  • Leadsman Long Tom Gurney
  • Leadsman Ned Shoalwater
  • Leonhardus Rivius
  • Leonie Contour
  • Lettering Hand Avis Tully
  • Levelman Zeke Arbogast
  • Levinus Lovaniensis
  • Liang Shuhua
  • Liberio Baldeschi of Ancona
  • Lieutenant Amos Kellaway
  • Lieutenant Cyprian Mole, Draftsman of Headlands
  • Lieutenant Gavin Raeburn, Surveyor of Lochs
  • Lieutenant Josiah Fathom, Hydrographer

L, continued

  • Lieutenant Rupert Eversleigh of the Engineers
  • Lieven Claeys, Map Colorist
  • Liftrasa Keystoneplan
  • Lijsbeth Verbrugge the Print Seller
  • Lilli Pinprick of the Tiny Maps
  • Linus Coastwise
  • Liriel Dawncompass
  • Lisle's Pocket Atlases
  • Lithographic Draftsman Otto Wendelin
  • Lods Anders Skaarup
  • Lollia Felicula of the Tabularium
  • Lord Chartmaster Evander Sayle
  • Lord Geographer Thaddeus Ormerod
  • Lord Surveyor Aldous Merrivale

L, continued

  • Lord Warden's Mapmaker Piers Aldridge
  • Loremaster Caerwyn Farsight
  • Lotse Hinrich Brodersen of the Elbe Mouth
  • Lu Zhiheng
  • Lucan Parchment
  • Lucinda Marrow, Cartographer to the Harbor Board
  • Lucius Fufius Secundus
  • Ludovicus Aquensis, Chorographus
  • Lunardo Ballarin
  • Luo Jiayu
  • Luqman al-Munajjim
  • Lysander Astrolabe
  • Lysandros, Maker of the Bronze Pinax
  • Lysanthir Brightdatum

M: 107 names

  • "Meander" Mack Driscoll
  • "Mule Compass" McAllister
  • Machteld van der Meer
  • Madeleine Féret, Engraver of Lettering
  • Maerten Jacobsz de Wael
  • Maestre Lope Mendiola, Chart Examiner
  • Maestro Cataldo Faranda of Messina
  • Maestro Lazzaro Parodi of Genoa
  • Maestro Tiberio Cardinali, Cosmografo
  • Maestro Zuane Busato of the Rialto
  • Maethor Skydrawn
  • Magdalena Sartoria
  • Magister Adrianus Insulanus

M, continued

  • Magister Conradus Montanus
  • Mahyar Razi
  • Maître Barthélemy Reynaud of Marseille
  • Maître Graveur Anselme Poitevin
  • Maître Hervé Quéméner, Deep-Sea Pilot
  • Major Aubrey Thistlewood of the Great Arc
  • Major Crispin Hollingworth, Frontier Reconnaissance
  • Makino Tokubei
  • Manius Egnatius Scaeva, Legion Surveyor
  • Mansur al-Muhandis
  • Manuchehr Yazdi, Measurer of Canals
  • Mapping Balloonist Aurélie Fontanges
  • Marcantonio Bellucci the Plate Engraver

M, continued

  • Marcus Rubrius Felix
  • Marda Two-Compass
  • Mardred Quartzline
  • Margaretha Montana, Colorist of Maps
  • Margrave's Geometer Dietmar Kessel
  • Marguerite Vellum
  • Maria Kunigunde Trautner, Briefmalerin
  • Marietta Trevisan, Colorist of Island Books
  • Marinus of Tyre
  • Maritge Claesdochter of the Chart Loft
  • Markscheider Christoph Bergauer
  • Marquise Clémence d'Aubry, Patron and Mapmaker
  • Martin Waldseemüller
  • Marwan ibn Zakariya al-Ishbili

M, continued

  • Maryam bint Idris al-Qurtubiyya
  • Master Attendant Roderick Baine
  • Master Cartographer Emmerich Stahl
  • Master Gauger Dolgrin Anvilmark
  • Master Limner Cassivel Dray
  • Master of the Plans Sir Ralph Nettleton
  • Master of the Royal Charts Godfrey Lisle
  • Master Quillon Hale
  • Master Surveyor Royal Anselm Greywether
  • Master Xu Chengzhi
  • Mate Jabez Scobie of the Tender
  • Mateu Estelrich
  • Matsuoka Fumi

M, continued

  • Matsuoka Rokuemon
  • Matthaeus Hortulanus, Agrimensor
  • Mattheus Lievensz de Coninck
  • Matthias Gnomon
  • Maud Ink-to-the-Elbows
  • Meester Joost Verbrugge, Kaartmaker
  • Meester Laurens Vinck, Landmeter
  • Meester Rombout Beeckman
  • Meester Wouter Peeters of Leuven
  • Mehrangiz Tabrizi
  • Meister Balthasar Krumbholz, Kupferstecher
  • Meister Lorenz Wackerbarth
  • Melchior Pistorius

M, continued

  • Melitta, Painter of the World Tablet
  • Meridian & Quill
  • Meriele Thornscale
  • Merla Brookbend, Riverbank Mapper
  • Mestre Gonçalo Taveira, Maker of Sea Charts
  • Midshipman Toby Carew, Chart Copyist
  • Milo Stilewalker
  • Minewarden Bofrik Granitehand
  • Mirabel Fuddlethwaite, Mapmender
  • Mirabelle Sextant
  • Mirethiel Horizonweaver
  • Mirza Bahram Shirazi
  • Mirza Shapur Qazvini
  • Miss Dorothea Lyall, Keeper of the Map Index

M, continued

  • Mistress Dorcas Whitlock, Map Colorist
  • Mistress Engraver Solveig Aune
  • Mistress Nerys Calloway of the Guild Charts
  • Mistress of Pigments Odalys Verne
  • Miyake Munetada
  • Mizutani Kyuemon the Pilgrim-Road Mapmaker
  • Monsieur Achille Garnerin, Topographe
  • Morgran Stoneknot
  • Morikawa Naotaka of the Northern Coast Maps
  • Mother Edith of the Long Gallery
  • Mother Legend
  • Moundsman Silas Granger
  • Mountain Guild Surveyor Ansgard Fell

M, continued

  • Mr. Archibald Fennimore, Civil Assistant
  • Mr. Barnaby Lugg, Keeper of the Chart Locker
  • Mr. Colin Urquhart, Admiralty Draftsman
  • Mr. Horatio Blenkinsop, Compiler of Gazetteers
  • Mr. Hugh Pascoe, Master's Mate and Draftsman
  • Mr. Obadiah Stapleton, Copperplate Printer
  • Mr. Septimus Cragg, Printseller and Map Mounter
  • Mr. Zachary Mudd, Road-Book Compiler
  • Mrs. Mehitabel Crowe of the Print Rooms
  • Mrs. Temperance Aldous, Stationer of Charts
  • Mu'allim Said al-Yamani
  • Muhammad al-Idrisi
  • Mulla Kamran Munajjim
  • Munir al-Siqilli of the Royal Diwan

N: 26 names

  • "Never-Lost" Lottie Brannigan
  • Nadira Qureshi, Caravan Cartographer
  • Naevius the Centuriator
  • Naevys Windrose
  • Nafisa al-Khattata
  • Nagai Seibei
  • Nagai Shizu of the Print Shop
  • Nakagawa Masanori
  • Name-Book Collector Padraig Mulhern
  • Nasir ibn Salim al-Bahri
  • Nathaniel Quince, Estate Mapper
  • Navigating Officer Elspeth Kinnear
  • Nedda Wayside

N, continued

  • Neeltje Willemsdochter Kuyper
  • Nettie Smudge
  • Niccolosa Ghiglione of the Harbor Arcade
  • Nicolas Sanson
  • Nikandros, Geometer of the Harbor
  • Nimriel Quillshade
  • Nishimura Hisanori of the Rope and Compass
  • Noguchi Kanemitsu
  • Nordak the Level-Headed
  • North by Ink
  • Novice Piers, Grinder of Pigments
  • Nuno Fragoso of the Padrão
  • Nyx Cogglepin, Pocket-Atlas Maker

O: 31 names

  • "Old Declination" Dekker
  • Oberto Rebora, Chart Painter
  • Octavia Northing
  • Oda Corkscrew, Burrow Surveyor
  • Odette Longitude
  • Odile Fontaine, Cartographer of Caves
  • Okabe Jinzaemon, Domain Surveyor
  • Okudaira Yaemon, Painter of Sea Roads
  • Old Barendd Echo-Counter
  • Old Cartographer Bexley

O, continued

  • Old Corwen's Daughter, Who Draws for Him
  • Old Fenn Wrong-Way-Round
  • Old Groma Maecius
  • Old Master Fang of the Hundred Li Grid
  • Old Master Sakakibara of the Folding Maps
  • Old Meridian Meg
  • Old Soundings Ferris
  • Old Tobit the Correction
  • Olivier van den Bosch, Landmeter
  • Ondoril the Unhurried

O, continued

  • Onishi Shigenobu, Province Map Painter
  • Opperstuurman Klaas Dekker
  • Order of the True Bearing
  • Orsik Slatechart
  • Orsola Busato
  • Osborn Gatepost
  • Osgood Traverse
  • Ottilia Fontana of the Print Shop
  • Ottilie the Scale-Keeper
  • Ould's Map Stall on the Bridge
  • Oyama Harutaka

P: 51 names

  • "Plumb Bob" Barlow
  • "Portage" Pierre Lafleur
  • Packer and Sketch-Man Jim Halvorsen
  • Pan Jingming
  • Pantaleo Canale
  • Parchment & Plumb
  • Parisa Shirazi the Illuminator
  • Party Chief Augusta Renshaw
  • Parviz Samarqandi
  • Pascoe Brothers, Sea Charts and Rutters
  • Pathwarden Orendel Mistvale
  • Pei Xiu

P, continued

  • Peng Shiyi, Frontier Mapmaker
  • Pennywhistle Quillspring
  • Pere Riera of the Sea Consulate
  • Pernel Longstrider
  • Pernille Rasmusdatter, Chart Colorist
  • Perrin Footpath
  • Perrine Le Tellier the Print Colorist
  • Petronella Stylus
  • Petrus Plancius
  • Peverell and Pupil, Cartographers
  • Philippa Azimuth
  • Philippus Oxoniensis
  • Piero Boscolo

P, continued

  • Pieter de Smet, Globe Maker
  • Pilot Angus Moncrieff
  • Pilot Apprentice Kit Sandercock
  • Pilot Enoch Tregarthen of the Estuary
  • Pilot Major Ysabel Arana
  • Pilote Yann Le Goff of the Iroise
  • Piloto Íñigo de Urrutia
  • Piloto Mayor Baltasar Arriaga
  • Piloto-mor Vasco Carvalhal
  • Piri Reis
  • Plane-Table Operator Rufus Stedman
  • Plane-Tabler Mustafa Rahimtoola
  • Pol the Careful Hand

P, continued

  • Polar Draftsman Aksel Thorvaldsen-Lie
  • Praxilla of the Library Map Room
  • Premier Géographe Étienne Vaugirard
  • Prince-Bishop's Surveyor Matthias Oberlin
  • Prior Aldhelm the Copyist
  • Prioress Agnes of the Painted World
  • Professor Hildegard Frenzel, Geodesist
  • Professor Orryn Nackleby
  • Proof-Reader Jocelyn Farrow
  • Prudence Garlick the Lettering Engraver
  • Publius Nonius Macer, Measurer of the Colony
  • Pundit Bhuwan Chand Pant, Route Surveyor
  • Purser Clement Voss, Amateur Hydrographer

Q: 10 names

  • "Quarter Corner" Quincy Slade
  • Qasim al-Iskandarani, Chart Painter
  • Qian Yuanbo
  • Qiu Shaotang
  • Queen's Mapwright Rowena Stroud
  • Quenlas Starfathom
  • Quillon the Inkstained
  • Quintus Tettius Niger, Librator of the Aqueduct
  • Quirijn Maertensz Spranger
  • Quorrin Halfinch

R: 32 names

  • Rafel Amat
  • Ragnhild Coast-Counter
  • Railroad Locating Engineer Thea Lindgren
  • Ramon Alomar, Painter of Wind Roses
  • Rangrim Twelve-Fathom
  • Raphael Easting
  • Rashid al-Hasib
  • Ravanelle Dewline
  • Rear Chainman Abner Stokes
  • Reconnaissance Sketcher Dolores Vega

R, continued

  • Reef Pilot Isaiah Bodden
  • Relief Modeler Franz Xaver Oberhuber
  • Ren Guangzu of the Yellow River Works
  • Reynier van Damme, Chartmaker
  • Riswynn Cairnsetter
  • River Pilot Josephine Thibodeaux
  • Road Warden's Sketcher Hal Brindle
  • Rodman Eli Pruitt
  • Rollo of the Torn Sheet
  • Roondar Clockwise
  • Rosalind Compass

R, continued

  • Rosie Milestone
  • Royal Chorographer Isidore Blount
  • Royal Draftsman Kazimierz Wolan
  • Royal Globemaker Erasmus Twine
  • Royal Hydrographer Marguerite Duquesne
  • Royce the Rescaler
  • Rui Pestana the Roteiro Writer
  • Runemapper Hilda Ironstylus
  • Rurik Deepsurvey
  • Rutilius of the Twentieth Milestone
  • Ruvaen Trueline

S: 83 names

  • "Section Line" Sam Purdy
  • "Sixty-Six Feet" Hank Lowry
  • "Solar Compass" Sol Abernethy
  • Sabine Cartouche
  • Safiyya bint Mansur
  • Sailing Master Abel Trennick
  • Sailing Master Thaddeus Rook
  • Salim al-Rubban of Sohar
  • Salma al-Katiba of Cordoba
  • Salomon van Vlissingen
  • Samuel Tubingensis the Geometer
  • Sannl Copperdividers
  • Sapper Davy Unsworth, Chain and Staff

S, continued

  • Sara Goossens the Colorist
  • Sawada Tsunenori
  • Sebastian Münster
  • Second Draftsman Emrys Hollin
  • Second Master Giles Tapscott
  • Seluvien the Tidewatcher
  • Senior Surveyor Brigid Stonehouse
  • Seraphina Greenhollow of the Downs Survey Stall
  • Seraphine Almanac
  • Serjeant Isaac Pallister, Hill Sketcher
  • Sextus Varius Paetus
  • Shalindra Glimmerscale
  • Ship's Cartographer Leocadia Mendez
  • Shirai Tadayoshi

S, continued

  • Shirin Naqqash
  • Sib the Margin-Doodler
  • Sieur Gaspard Monteil, Ingénieur du Roi
  • Sigismundus Lapidanus, Mathematicus
  • Signalman Wat Tolliver, Station Pointer
  • Silent Marit, Who Maps the Marsh
  • Simão Quaresma, Pilot of the India Run
  • Simon Vulcanius
  • Simone Dagnino, Maker of Sailing Charts
  • Sinan al-Katib
  • Sindri Gearlegend
  • Sir Alaric Pendlebury, Warden of the Meridian
  • Sir Auberon Quayle, Delineator of Estates
  • Sir Florian Tregothnan, Measurer of the Realm

S, continued

  • Sir Hector Maule, Inspector of Fortress Plans
  • Sir Ignatius Roper, Surveyor of the King's Highways
  • Sir Jocelyn Wetherby, Geometer Royal
  • Sir Lionel Fairweather, Astronomer and Geographer
  • Sir Peregrine Ashdown, Keeper of the King's Maps
  • Sir Wymond Carteret, Keeper of the Sea Atlas
  • Sister Aldith, Illuminator of Coasts
  • Sister Bertrada, Mixer of Vermilion
  • Sister Clothilde of the Map Chest
  • Sister Ermengard the Gilder
  • Sister Gisela of the Jerusalem Map
  • Sister Hildegund of the Vellum Room
  • Sister Mechthild the Limner
  • Sister Radegund of the Blue Ink

S, continued

  • Sister Wynflaed of the Needle and Thread Map
  • Six-Inch Sheet Reviser Cuthbert Lowe
  • Siyavash Hamadani the Mapmaker
  • Snowshoe Topographer Remy Gauthier
  • Society of Honest Scales
  • Song Huiying
  • Sorrelind the Patient Hand
  • Sosandra, Scribe of Harbors and Distances
  • Soveliss Reedpen, Apprentice Limner
  • Stake Driver Ansel Buck
  • Station Hand and Sketch-Mapper Jack Corrigan
  • Stephanus Basiliensis, Typographus
  • Stock-Route Surveyor Alf Trenwith
  • Stonescribe Eberk Halvarsson

S, continued

  • Su Wanqing, Colorist of Silk Maps
  • Sub-Surveyor Gopal Krishna Negi
  • Sugimura Kichibei the Map Publisher
  • Sugimura Tome
  • Sulayman ibn Yahya al-Falaki
  • Sun Deming of the Astronomical Bureau
  • Sunniva Fine-Nib
  • Surveying Officer Honor Trelawny
  • Surveyor General Sir Edmund Larch
  • Surveyor of the Crown Lands Miles Trevanion
  • Susanna Dorothea Pfeilschmidt
  • Sworn Measurer Aldous Kemp
  • Sylmae Riverscribe
  • Symon Aertsz Vos

T: 85 names

  • "Trig Point" Trudy Maddox
  • "True North" Nell Hargis
  • Tahir ibn Mansur al-Kufi
  • Takeuchi Masakatsu
  • Taklinn of the Under-Roads Office
  • Tall Piet the Polder-Drawer
  • Tamsin Who Draws the Edges
  • Tang Meilin of the Map Pavilion
  • Tao Jingxuan, Mapmaker to the Prefect
  • Tariq al-Warraq of Basra
  • Tavariel Northneedle
  • Telegraph Route Mapper Angus McCrindle
  • Thabit al-Qayrawani
  • Thalion Wayfinder of the Silver Meridian

T, continued

  • Tharivol the Coast-Walker
  • The Blank Quarter Map Room
  • The Brass Dividers
  • The Cartographer's Arms
  • The Cartographer's Widow, Annis Peverell
  • The Cartouche
  • The Compass Rose
  • The Copper Plate
  • The Dotted Line
  • The Dragon in the Margin
  • The Edge of the Sheet
  • The Folded League
  • The Globe Maker's Daughter
  • The Gnomon and Globe

T, continued

  • The Honorable Cordelia Beauclerk, Map Limner
  • The Ink and Sextant
  • The Inked Coast
  • The King's Limner of Coasts, Jasper Quarrie
  • The Last Known Harbor
  • The Leeward Shore Print Room
  • The Lodestone and Lantern
  • The Mapmender
  • The Old Portolan
  • The Painted Sea Monster
  • The Pilot's Friend
  • The Rhumb Line Chart House
  • The Rolled Vellum
  • The Scale Bar

T, continued

  • The Sounding Lead
  • The Surveyor's Chain
  • The Thirteenth Sheet
  • The Uncharted Corner
  • The Unrolled World
  • The Wandering Legend
  • Theodoricus Coloniensis, Mensor
  • Theophilus Wragg, Maker of Dissected Maps
  • Thérèse Hardouin of the Rue Saint-Jacques
  • Theron the Periplus-Writer
  • Thessaly the Exact
  • Thijs Jorisz van Enkhuizen
  • Thiravel of the Vellum Grove
  • Thistle Underhaye, Hedge Cartographer

T, continued

  • Thomas Columbanus, Scriptor
  • Thomasina Waymark
  • Three Meridians Engraving House
  • Tian Guangyuan
  • Tiberius Ruler
  • Tidal Observer Selina Gatcombe
  • Tide Gauger Nathaniel Brine
  • Tidewatcher Ruth Kellaway
  • Tilemannus Avenarius, Agrimensor
  • Timaios of the Gnomon
  • Tindra Wobblecompass
  • Titus Vettius Celer, Mensor
  • Tobias Leadline
  • Tobias Nemorarius

T, continued

  • Tock Pendulane, Self-Folding Map Patentee
  • Toda Teruhisa, Temple Mapmaker
  • Tomás de Ibarguren, Pilot of the Indies Fleet
  • Topograaf Maarten Hoekstra of the Indies Survey
  • Topographer Ida Mae Colquitt
  • Torgga Chiselmark
  • Tower Observer Phineas Starling
  • Township Runner Josiah Beale
  • Transit Tom Kessler
  • Travok Cragmeasure
  • Trennick's Tide Tables and Charts
  • Triangulation Recorder Maude Ellery
  • Trijntje de Graaf
  • Tsukamoto Heizaemon, Measurer of Coasts
  • Two Poles Map Shop

U: 12 names

  • Uemura Mitsuhiro the Shogunal Surveyor
  • Ulfgar Tallycord
  • Uncle Rhumb
  • Under-Limner Fenella Marsh
  • Urbanus Ulmensis
  • Ursula Molitoris the Illuminator
  • Usta Orhan of Galata
  • Ustad Farhad Mohandes
  • Ustad Farrukh Isfahani
  • Ustad Ismail al-Asturlabi
  • Ustad Karim al-Massah
  • Ustad Nuh al-Tilimsani

V: 15 names

  • Vaelora Inkbough
  • Valentinus Mylius
  • Vault Clerk of Maps Orwen Pike
  • Vellum & Fathom
  • Verity Truecourse
  • Verna Tallgrass
  • Vethriel Longitude-Singer
  • Vettor Zennaro the Lagoon Surveyor
  • Veuve Boisselier, Seller of Maps and Globes
  • Vincentius Florentinus
  • Vincenzo Coronelli
  • Viscount Leander Sacheverell
  • Vistra Slabcarver
  • Volusia Secunda
  • Vondal of the Ninth Level

W: 21 names

  • "Wet Notebook" Pete Olney
  • "Witness Tree" Wilcox
  • Walburga Textoris
  • Warden of Scales Hugo Brandreth
  • Wat the Estimator
  • Waywocket Tumblegrid
  • Wei Changling
  • Wellby Hedgepace
  • Wendelinus Sylvanus, Cosmographus
  • Wessel of the Blank Quarter

W, continued

  • Whurbin Ropewalk
  • Widow Tregarthen's Chart Loft
  • Wijnand de Keyzer, Kaartmaker
  • Willem Blaeu
  • Willem Lambertsz Kool
  • Wind Rose Yard
  • Winifred Graticule
  • Wolfgangus Salisburgensis, Geometra
  • Worshipful Company of Chartwrights
  • Wrenn Paperwhistle
  • Wyndelle Greywake

X: 3 names

  • Xenokles, Measurer of Stadia
  • Xiao Yuanzhi of the Board of Works
  • Xie Ruolan, Painter of Rivers and Mountains

Y: 5 names

  • Yao Shaoqing, Draftsman of Prefecture Maps
  • Yoshikawa Sahei
  • Ysanne of the Last Known Shore
  • Ysolde Chartwright
  • Yuan Wenbin the Compass Reader

Z: 13 names

  • Zacharias Cracoviensis
  • Zaltariel Sunbearing
  • Zanna Brassdividers
  • Zayd al-Jughrafi
  • Zaynab bint Karim al-Warraqa
  • Zeger Baertsz
  • Zeměměřič Václav Hruška
  • Zemlemer Stepan Kuzmich Rybakov
  • Zeng Zhongwen
  • Zheng Yifan of the Coastal Charts
  • Zhou Yuanji, Mapper of the River Dikes
  • Zincographer Enid Barraclough
  • Zopyros of the Round Earth