WAaron Rathborne was an English land surveyor who wrote a major text on surveying. Rathborne may have trained under the London mathematician John Goodwyn. He was involved in the Jacobean surveys of crown lands in Yorkshire, Cumberland, Durham, and Lincolnshire, and Suffolk.
WRobert Hyde Colebrooke was a British infantry officer in India who conducted early surveys in Bengal and Mysore before becoming Surveyor General of Bengal, a position he held from 1788 to 1794 succeeding Alexander Kyd.
WJohn Collins was an influential Deputy Surveyor General in the Province of Canada shortly after it was captured by the British.
WFrederik Christian von Meley was a Danish customs officer and surveyor.
WThomas Harrison was the first Government Surveyor of Jamaica. His maps have become an important historical resource for the island.
WInō Tadataka was a Japanese surveyor and cartographer. He is known for completing the first map of Japan using modern surveying techniques.
WJean Baptiste François Joseph de Warren or John Warren was an army captain and later Lieutenant Colonel with Her Majesty's 33rd Regiment of Foot, East India Company in India, surveyor and amateur astronomer. While working as a surveyor in the Great Trigonometrical Survey he rediscovered what became the Kolar Gold Fields and in later life he documented Indian astronomy and time-keeping in his book Kala Sankalita.