List of origamists

An origamist is a person who is associated with the art of origami. Some notable origamists are:

• Peter Engel - influential origami artist and theorist
• Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子) - famous for boxes and unit origami
• Robert Harbin - popularised origami in Britain; also presented a series of short programmes entitled Origami, made by Thames Television for ITV
• Humiaki Huzita - Formulated the first six of the Huzita–Hatori axioms.
• Eric Joisel - French wet-folder renowned for his lifelike masks
• Satoshi Kamiya - One of the youngest geniuses of the origami field
• Kade Chan - Professional Hong Kong origami artist who specializes in designing origami monster characters, he designed his first origami "Fiery Dragon" in 2008 when he was 14.
• Kunihiko Kasahara - devised a standardized method for creating many modular polyhedra
• Toshikazu Kawasaki - Japanese mathematician famous for his Iso-area folding theory and his many geometric folds, including Kawasaki's "Rose"
• Michael G. LaFosse Origami designer and author of many books. Co-founder, with Richard L. Alexander, of Origamido® Studio and Origamido® Paper. Notable pioneers in the making of custom handmade papers for origami artists, and for their own, original origami creations.
• Robert J. Lang - Author of many Origami books including the new benchmark Origami Design Secrets
• Marc Kirschenbaum - known for his instrumentalist designs
• Sing-man Lee - Hong Kong paper-tearing artist who tears paper according to the order of strokes of the word.
• Ligia Montoya - Argentine paper-folder who played crucial role in establishing paper-folding as an international movement
• John Montroll - probably the most prolific Western artist and author of over 30 books on origami
• Samuel Randlett - helped design and popularize the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagramming system
• Nick Robinson - origami artist and author of over sixty books on origami
• Leonor Rosser - Origami presenter for television
• Jeremy Shafer - California origamian entertainer who folds whimsical designs
• Florence Temko - a pioneer in spreading origami in the United States, is the most prolific author on this subject. With 55 books to her credit on paperarts and folk crafts, she has been a strong influence on interesting beginners in the art of paperfolding.
• Miguel de Unamuno - Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher who devised many new models and popularized origami in Spain and South America in the early twentieth century.
• Makoto Yamaguchi
• Akira Yoshizawa - reinvented modern origami. Created the modern repertoire of folding symbols