List of origamists
An origamist is a person who is associated with the art of origami. Some notable origamists are:
- Didier Boursin
- 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
- Eric Joisel - French wet-folder renowned for his life-like masks
- Satoshi Kamiya - One of the youngest geniuses of the origami field
- 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"
- Robert J. Lang - Author of many Origami books including the new benchmark Origami Design Secrets
- Marc Kirschenbaum - known for his instrumentalist designs
- 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 16 books on origami
- Duy Nguyen- master artist who wrote a lot of origami books
- Samuel Randlett - helped design and popularize the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagramming system
- Nick Robinson - origami artist and author of over a dozen books on origami
- Leonor Rosser - Origami presenter for television
- Jeremy Shafer - California origamian entertainer who folds whimsical designs
- Yuri Shumakov - origami artist and author of many Origami CDs and books, together with Katrin Shumakov they known for their magical paper kingdoms called Oriland
- Katrin Shumakov - origami artist and author of many Origami CDs and books, together with Yuri Shumakov they known for their magical paper kingdoms called Oriland
- Hojyo Takashi - An expert in the human figure and box pleating
- 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.
- Nicolas Terry - French artist known for his unique, cartoonish style
- 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
- Issei Yoshino - famed for his multimodular Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops skeletons
- Akira Yoshizawa - reinvented modern origami. Created the modern repertoire of folding symbols