Best Portolan

Juan de la Cosa was a Spanish navigator and cartographer who created the 1500 Mappa Mundi, the earliest surviving map to explicitly show the Americas.

Pedro Reinel was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer who created the first known signed portolan chart of the Indian Ocean and Atlantic in 1504.

Petrus Vesconte was a Genoese cartographer active around 1311 whose surviving portolan charts represent some of the earliest signed and dated maps of the medieval period.

Angelino Dulcert was a 14th-century cartographer known for his 1339 portolan chart, which is the oldest known map signed and dated by its creator from the Majorcan school.

Fernão Vaz Dourado was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer renowned for his highly detailed and decorated manuscript atlases of the Asian coastline from 1568.

Henricus Martellus was a 15th-century German cartographer working in Florence, known for his 1490 world map that influenced Columbus and later explorers.

Jehuda Cresques, son of Abraham Cresques, was a Majorcan cartographer who directed the Portuguese nautical chart workshop for Prince Henry the Navigator.

Grazioso Benincasa was a 15th-century Italian cartographer whose detailed manuscript portolan atlases and charts expertly documented the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts.

Lopo Homem was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer who was appointed royal cosmographer in 1517 and worked on the prestigious Miller Atlas around 1519.

Jorge Reinel was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer who, along with his father Pedro, produced the famous Miller Atlas in 1519 for King Manuel I of Portugal.

Joaquim Alves Gaspar is a Portuguese physicist and historian of cartography renowned for his mathematical analysis of medieval portolan charts and the cartometry of early nautical maps.

British cartographic historian and former Map Librarian at the British Library, known for authoritative scholarship on early printed maps and portolan charts.

Diego Homem was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer who worked in England and is famous for creating the lavishly decorated Queen Mary Atlas around 1558.

Albino de Canepa was a 15th-century Genoese cartographer notable for his 1489 manuscript portolan chart, which provided valuable early geographic data of the Atlantic coasts.

André Homem was a 16th-century Portuguese cosmographer who produced influential manuscript portolan charts, including a 1559 world map reflecting Iberian discoveries.

Pietro Coppo was a 16th-century Italian geographer whose early 1500s maps and isolarios provided some of the earliest detailed geographical records of the Balkans.