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

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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

  • Cheryl Ganz, Former National Postal Museum curator and Zeppelin mail collector
  • 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
  • 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

  • Włodzimierz Rachmanow, Polish philatelist
  • 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

See also

  • Topical stamp collecting
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References

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