List of philatelists
# List of philatelists

This is a list of philatelists, persons notable for their contributions to philately.

* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## B

* David Beech MBE FRPSL, "Former President of the Royal Philatelic Society London, Head Curator of the Philatelic Collection of the British Library"
* Oscar Berger-Levrault
* Kasimir Bileski
* Ferdinand of Bulgaria

## C

* Gustave Caillebotte
* Samuel Chapman, Mexico
* Daniel Cooper, founder and first president of Philatelic Society of London
* Jal Cooper
* J. Howard Crocker, life member of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada

## D

* Paul Darke, founder of the largest recorded collection of disability themed stamps in the world
* Gerald Davis
* C.D. Desai
* Emilio Diena, ancient Italian state specialist

## E

* Robert Brisco Earée, Album Weeds
* Edward B. Evans, "Major Evans"

## F

* David Feldman
* Adelaide Lucy Fenton, early female philatelist
* Philipp von Ferrary

## G

* Edward Stanley Gibbons, British dealer
* Arthur William Sinclair Gray was an Australian known for his collection of "Kangaroo and Map" stamps
* John Edward Gray
* Colonel Green
* Bill Gross, third person to form a complete 19th-century US collection

## H

* Abraham Hatfield, signer of Roll of Distinguished Philatelists and plater of the New York Postmaster's Provisional
* George Higlett
* Heinrich Himmler
* Arthur Hind

## K

* Hiroyuki Kanai, Mauritius collection
* Anatoly Karpov
* George V of the United Kingdom, royal collector
* Adolph Koeppel

## L

* Pierre Langlois
* Henry G. Lapham, Grand Award at the 1936 Third International Philatelic Exhibition
* H. Dormer Legge
* Alfred Lichtenstein
* James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, formed massive philatelic library
* George Ward Linn, founder of Linn's Weekly Stamp News
* Robson Lowe, "father of postal history"
* John Luff

## M

* James A. Mackay
* Fred Melville
* Foil A. Miller
* Jean-Baptiste Moens, "father of philately"
* Hedley Adams Mobbs
* Walter Morley
* Edwin Müller
* Douglas Myall

## O

* Frank F. Olney (1851–1903), Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island and president of the American Philatelic Association for three terms

## P

* Alfred Potiquet, first stamp catalogue

## R

* Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, collector of medical stamps
* Ayn Rand
* Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential collector
* L.T. Rose-Hutchinson
* Stuart Rossiter
* Gary Ryan

## S

* Lawrence L Shenfield, Confederate postal history
* Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lanka's greatest philatelist
* Paul Skinner, Head Curator of the Philatelic Collection of the British Library
* Evelyn Arthur Smythies
* William Carlos Stone, revenues and philatelic literature

## T

* Thomas Tapling
* Charlotte Tebay, early female philatelist

## W

* Leon Norman Williams

## Z

* Robert Zoellner, one of two people to form a complete U.S. collection
