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Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla (1734-1790) was a Spanish cartographer and geographer. Initially trained in Madrid, he was sent to Paris with another promising student, Tomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca, to study under Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville. They worked together on a map of the Gulf of Mexico, published in 1755. Cano y Olmedilla is best known for his monumental eight-sheet map of South America (Mapa Geografico de America Meridional), published in Madrid in 1775 and made at the bequest of the Marquis de Grimaldi. Cruz Cano y Olmedilla's name appears on a number of other maps and charts published in eighteenth-century Spain, most notably on the maps in Torfino de San Miguel's Atlas Maritimo de Espana.