List of philatelists

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

• Stanley B. Ashbrook
• Adrien Aron

• John David Baker
• John Barefoot
• Ralph Barry
• Julius Bartels
• Oscar Berger-Levrault
• Lester Brookman
• Jean-François Brun
• Maurice Burrus

• Gustave Caillebotte
• Roger Calves
• Alfred Caspary
• Carroll Chase
• Michèle Chauvet
• Daniel Cooper
• Jal Cooper

• Louise Boyd Dale
• Gerald Davis
• Lionel Edward Dawson
• Sebastien Delcampe
• C.D.Desai
• Gérard Desarnaud
• Yves Maxime Danan
• Sir Ernest de Silva - Sri Lanka's Greatest Philatelist
• Percy Doane

• Clarence Eagle
• Robert Brisco Earée - Album Weeds
• Edward B. Evans - "Major Evans"

• Agathon Fabergé
• Adelaide Lucy Fenton
• Ferdinand of Bulgaria
• Philipp von Ferrary

• George V of the United Kingdom - royal collector
• Edward Stanley Gibbons - British dealer
• John Edward Gray
• Georges Guyaux
• Colonel Green

• Calvet M. Hahn
• M. Georges Herpin - coined "philately"
• Herman Herst, Jr.
• John R. Hill, Jr.
• Arthur Hind
• Clifton Howes

• Henri Janton
• Max Johl

• Anatoly Karpov
• Beverly King
• Eugene Klein
• A. C. Kline - first American catalog
• Edward Knapp

• Justin Lallier
• Pierre B. Langlois
• Ken Lawrence
• J. A. Legrand
• James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford - massive literature library

• Alfred Lichtenstein
• Robson Lowe – the father of Postal history
• John Luff

• Denys Martin
• Arthur Maury
• Edward Mason
• Charles Mekeel
• Frederick John Melville
• Otto Carl Alfred Moschkau
• Jean-Baptiste Moëns

• Mel Nathan
• Mortimer Neinken

• Charles Pack
• Elliott Perry
• Charles J. Phillips
• Stanley Phillips
• Stanley M. Piller
• Alfred Potiquet - first stamp catalog
• Dale Pulver
• J R W Purves - Australian philately

• Adolpf Reinheimer
• Charles Richards
• William R. Ricketts
• L. T. Rose-Hutchinson
• Gary Ryan
• Franklin D. Roosevelt - presidential collector

• Wade Saadi
• John Walter Scott - Scott catalog
• Alexander J. Séfi
• Charles Severn
• Eveleen Severn
• Robert A. Siegel
• Evelyn Arthur Smythies
• Corneille Soeteman
• Hugh Southgate
• Charles Starnes
• Major James Starr - Chinese dragons, airmails
• William Stone

• Thomas Tapling
• S. Allan Taylor
• John K. Tiffany
• Ferdinand Marie Trifet

• James Vanderlinden

• Jerome Wagshal
• Weill brothers
• Leon Norman Williams
• Philip Wohlsiefer
• Willard Wylie

• Robert Zoellner - only complete US collection