List of Philatelists

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

• Oscar Berger-Levrault
• Kasimir Bileski
• Gustave Caillebotte
• Samuel Chapman, of Mexico
• Daniel Cooper, founder and first president of Philatelic Society of London
• Jal Cooper
• Gerald Davis
• C.D. Desai
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, collector of medical stamps
• Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lanka's greatest philatelist
• Emilio Diena, ancient Italian state specialist
• Robert Brisco Earée, album weeds
• Edward B. Evans, "Major Evans"
• David Feldman
• Adelaide Lucy Fenton, early female philatelist
• Ferdinand of Bulgaria
• Philipp von Ferrary
• George V of the United Kingdom, royal collector
• Edward Stanley Gibbons, British dealer
• John Edward Gray
• Colonel Green
• George Higlett
• Arthur Hind
• Hiroyuki Kanai, of Mauritius
• Anatoly Karpov
• Adolph Koeppel
• Pierre Langlois
• 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, the "father of postal history"
• John Luff
• James A. Mackay
• Fred Melville
• Jean-Baptiste Moëns, the "father of philately"
• Walter Morley
• Edwin Müller
• Douglas Myall
• Alfred Potiquet, first stamp catalogue
• Ayn Rand
• L. T. Rose-Hutchinson
• Stuart Rossiter
• Gary Ryan
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential collector
• Lawrence L Shenfield, Confederate postal history
• Evelyn Arthur Smythies
• Richard Stevens, Mexico revenue catalog
• William Carlos Stone, revenues and philatelic literature
• Thomas Tapling
• Charlotte Tebay, early female philatelist
• Leon Norman Williams
• Robert Zoellner, only complete US collection
• Syed Ziaur Rahman, medical philatelist