| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Anaximander |
Philosopher |
c. 609 BC |
c. 546 BC |
First to develop a cosmology |
| Louis Alexandre Berthier |
Military |
20-Feb-1753 |
1-Jun-1815 |
Napoleon's chief of staff |
| George Phillips Bond |
Astronomer |
20-May-1825 |
17-Feb-1865 |
Father of astrophotography |
| Sebastian Cabot |
Explorer |
1476 |
1557 |
16th century Italian/English explorer |
| Jacques Dominique Cassini |
Astronomer |
30-Jun-1748 |
18-Oct-1845 |
Director, Observatoire de Paris |
| James Cook |
Explorer |
27-Oct-1728 |
14-Feb-1779 |
Explorer of the South Pacific |
| George Everest |
Explorer |
4-Jul-1790 |
1-Dec-1866 |
Namesake of Mt. Everest |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss |
Mathematician |
30-Apr-1777 |
23-Feb-1855 |
Perhaps the greatest German mathematician |
| Eusebio Kino |
Religion |
10-Aug-1645 |
15-Mar-1711 |
Jesuit missionary to Mexico |
| Gerard Mercator |
Cartographer |
5-Mar-1512 |
2-Dec-1594 |
The Mercator Projection |
| Sebastian Münster |
Cartographer |
20-Jan-1488 |
23-May-1552 |
Cosmographia Universalis |
| Abraham Ortelius |
Cartographer |
14-Apr-1527 |
4-Jul-1598 |
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum atlas |
| Ptolemy |
Astronomer |
c. 87 AD |
c. 150 AD |
Egyptian geographer and astronomer |
| Martin Waldseemuller |
Cartographer |
1475 |
1522 |
Put America on the map |
