Lopo Homem (16th century) was a Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer.
His earliest known work is a world map, discovered in London in 1930. In Florence there is another world map dated 1554, and Lisbon's National Library has also a navigation chart (which before 1910 was in the Palácio das Necessidades, having belonged to Charles I of Portugal). Scholar Armando Cortesão's "Cartography and Portuguese cartographers in the fifteenth and sixteenth" includes an extensive section devoted to Lopo Homem.
- 1519 world map - surrounded by the four winds in the extremities, with relatively scarce naming in Latin: in Africa are identified only the regions of Libya, Ethiopia and Guinea, and Americas is identified as "Mundus Novus Brazil", linked to the Asian continent by an imaginary continent identified generically as "Mundus Novus".
- 1519 - Terra Brasilis - part of the "Miller Atlas", attributed to Lopo Homem - currently in the French National Library in Paris. This is a chart handwritten on parchment, with detailed nomenclature in Latin (146 name