This is a list of philatelists, persons notable for their contributions to philately.
John Barefoot, publisher of the Barefoot Catalogue
Oscar Berger-Levrault
Kasimir Bileski
Gustave Caillebotte
Samuel Chapman, Mexico
Daniel Cooper, founder and first president of Philatelic Society of London
Jal Cooper
Gerald Davis
C.D. Desai
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
Bill Gross, third person to form a complete 19th century US collection.
George Higlett
Arthur Hind
Hiroyuki Kanai, Mauritius collection
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, "father of postal history"
John Luff
James A. Mackay
Fred Melville
Foil A. Miller
Jean-Baptiste Moens, "father of philately"
Walter Morley
Edwin Müller
Douglas Myall
Frank F. Olney (1851–1903), Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island and president of the American Philatelic Association for three terms
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
Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, collector of medical stamps
Robert Zoellner, One of two people to form a complete U.S. collection
