List of philatelists

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• 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

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• 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{{cite news|title=City and Vicinity: Philatelic Honour|date=November 12, 1951|newspaper=Brantford Expositor|location=Brantford, Ontario|page=6|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-expositor-crocker-1951/123276090/|access-date=May 28, 2023|archive-date=April 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425184524/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-expositor-crocker-1951/123276090/|url-status=live}}

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• 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{{cite web|url=https://stamps.org/HOF-2000 |title=Hall of Fame - 2000-2004 |publisher=American Philatelic Society |date=1999 |accessdate=2017-05-22}}

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

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

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• Cheryl Ganz, Former National Postal Museum curator and Zeppelin mail collector{{cite news |title=National Postal Museum Chief Curator Cheryl Ganz to retire |publisher=Linns Stamp News |date=19 February 2014 |url=https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/2014/february/national-postal-museum-chief-curator-cheryl-ganz-t.html |access-date=7 January 2019 }}
• Edward Stanley Gibbons, British dealer
• Arthur William Sinclair Gray[http://www.prestigephilately.com/auction207/207_full_catalogue.pdf The Arthur Gray KGV Collection] was an Australian known for his collection of "Kangaroo and Map" stamps[http://www.smh.com.au/money/investing/redhot-roo-stamps-20130115-2cr0y.html Red-hot 'roo stamps.] James Cockington, The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 January 2013.
• John Edward Gray
• Colonel Green
• Bill Gross, third person to form a complete 19th-century US collection

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• Abraham Hatfield, signer of Roll of Distinguished Philatelists[http://www.abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011], Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819000841/http://abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Archived here.] and plater of the New York Postmaster's Provisional{{cite web |last1=Hatcher |first1=James Brush |title=Flashback: The New York Postmaster's Stamp of 1845 |url=https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-new-york-postmasters-stamp-of-1845/ |website=Collectors Weekly |accessdate=7 July 2018}}
• George Higlett
• Heinrich Himmler{{Cite episode |series=Hitler's Circle of Evil |title="Heroes & Misfits" |series-link=Hitler's Circle of Evil |network=Netflix |season=1 |number=1 |time=19:14 |quote=Himmler, an avid diary writer and stamp collector, had been a sickly child.}}
• Arthur Hind

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• Hiroyuki Kanai, Mauritius collection
• Anatoly Karpov{{cite web|url=https://www.davidfeldman.com/2011/09/newsletter-september-2011/ |title=Belgium collection formed by Anatoly Karpov |publisher=David Feldman |work=Newsletter |date=September 2011 |accessdate=2017-05-22 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.watch-clone.com/articles/c4.html |title=Anatoly Karpov: The Owner of the Unique Stamp Collection |publisher=Watch-Clone.com |accessdate=28 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218055011/http://www.watch-clone.com/articles/c4.html |archivedate=18 February 2011 }}
• George V of the United Kingdom, royal collector
• Adolph Koeppel

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• Pierre Langlois
• Henry G. Lapham, Grand Award at the 1936 Third International Philatelic Exhibition{{cite journal |last1=Bierman |first1=Stanley, M., M.D. |title=Henry G. Lapham: United States Primitives Extraordinaire |journal=U.S. Philatelic Classics Society |date=1988 |volume=40 |issue=4 |page=6 |url=http://chronicle.uspcs.org/pdf/Chronicle_140/17729.pdf |accessdate=7 July 2018}}
• H. Dormer Legge
• Alfred Lichtenstein{{cite web|url=https://stamps.org/HOF-1946 |title=Hall of Fame - 1946-1949 |publisher=American Philatelic Society |date=1999 |accessdate=2017-05-22}}
• James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, formed massive philatelic library{{cite web|url=https://stamps.org/HOF-1941 |title=Hall of Fame - 1941 |publisher=American Philatelic Society |date=1999 |accessdate=2017-05-22 }}
• George Ward Linn, founder of Linn's Weekly Stamp News
• Robson Lowe, "father of postal history"{{cite web|url=https://stamps.org/HOF-1995 |title=Hall of Fame - 1995-1999 |publisher=American Philatelic Society |date=1999 |accessdate=2017-05-22 }}
• John Luff

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• James A. Mackay
• Fred Melville
• Foil A. Miller
• Jean-Baptiste Moens, "father of philately"
• Hedley Adams Mobbs
• Walter Morley
• Edwin Müller{{cite web|url=https://stamps.org/HOF-1970 |title=Hall of Fame - 1970-1974 |publisher=American Philatelic Society |date=1999 |accessdate=2017-05-22 }}
• Douglas Myall

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• Frank F. Olney (1851–1903), Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island and president of the American Philatelic Association for three terms{{cite journal|title=Frank F. Olney|journal=The American Journal of Philately|date=1 Oct 1903|page=353|accessdate=20 May 2015|publisher=The Scott Stamp and Coin Co|location=New York, NY|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUA9AQAAMAAJ&dq=frank+f.+olney+mayor&pg=PA353}}

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• Alfred Potiquet, first stamp catalogue

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• Włodzimierz Rachmanow, Polish philatelist
• Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, collector of medical stamps
• Ayn Rand{{cite web|url=http://www.ellensplace.net/ar_stamp.html |title=Why I Like Stamp Collecting - 1971 |publisher=Minkus Stamp Journal |accessdate=2009-01-13 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315081507/http://www.ellensplace.net/ar_stamp.html |archivedate=2014-03-15 }}
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential collector{{cite web|url=https://stamps.org/HOF-1942 |title=Hall of Fame - 1942-1945 |publisher=American Philatelic Society |date=1999 |accessdate=2017-05-22 }}
• L.T. Rose-Hutchinson
• Stuart Rossiter{{cite web |title=Stuart Rossiter MA, FRGS, FRPSL. (1923 – 1982) |publisher=Rossiter Trust |date=2014 |url=http://www.rossitertrust.com/StuartRossiter.shtml |accessdate=2017-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410021737/http://www.rossitertrust.com/StuartRossiter.shtml |archive-date=2012-04-10 |url-status=dead }}
• Gary Ryan

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• 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{{cite web |title=Who Was Who in British Philately |publisher=British Philatelic Trust |date=2015 |url=http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter#S |accessdate=2017-05-22 }}
• William Carlos Stone, revenues and philatelic literature

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• Thomas Tapling
• Charlotte Tebay, early female philatelist

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• Leon Norman Williams

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• Robert Zoellner, one of two people to form a complete U.S. collection{{cite web |last=Miller |first=Staphen |title=Robert Zoellner, Alpine Associates Founder, Dies at 82 |publisher=Bloomberg News |date=2014-12-31 |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-31/robert-e-zoellner-founder-of-arbitrage-firm-alpine-dies-at-82.html |accessdate=2017-05-22 }}

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Philatelists