List of origamists

An origamist or an origamian is a person who is associated with the art of origami. Some notable origamists / origamians are:

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• Jay Ansill – composer and folk musician who also wrote The Origami Sourcebook

C

• Mel Cowley - British Origamist working in the UK. In 2014 founded The Little Paper Flower Shop . Creates original Origami Flower Bouquets and uses Origami Paper Cranes as symbols of Good Luck & Long Life in much of her work

D

• Martin Demaine and Erik Demaine – father-and-son team who manipulate flat paper into swirling forms.

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• Peter Engel – author of several origami books including Origami from Angelfish to Zen, 10-Fold Origami: Fabulous Paperfolds You Can Make in Just 10 Steps!, and Origami Odyssey

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• Tomoko Fuse (布施 知子) – famous for boxes and unit origami

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• Ilan Garibi – Israeli origami artist and designer
• Alice Gray – co-founder of the non-profit Friends of the Origami Center in New York

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• Robert Harbin – popularised origami in Britain; also presented a series of short programmes entitled Origami, made by Thames Television for ITV
• Jacob Hashimoto – created a large-scale paper mobile at Mary Boone Gallery
• David A. Huffman – American electrical engineer
• Tom Hull – American mathematics professor
• Humiaki Huzita – formulated the first six of the Huzita–Hatori axioms

J

• Eric Joisel – French wet-folder renowned for his lifelike masks, including those of fellow origami enthusiasts

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• Satoshi Kamiya – one of the youngest geniuses of the origami field (born 1981)
• 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"
• Marc Kirschenbaum – known for his instrumentalist designs

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• Robert J. Lang – author of many Origami books including the new benchmark Origami Design Secrets; formerly a laser physicist at NASA before quitting in 2001 and committing to origami full-time
• David Lister – founding member of the British Origami Society

M

• Sipho Mabona – Swiss and South African origami master who created a life-size elephant from a single piece of paper.
• Jun Maekawa – software engineer, mathematician, and origami artist known for popularizing the method of utilizing crease patterns in designing origami models
• Matthew T. Mason – American roboticist who developed the first origami folding robot, demonstrating advances in difficult manipulation tasks
• Ligia Montoya – Argentine paper-folder who played a crucial role in establishing paper-folding as an international movement
• John Montroll – probably the most prolific Western artist and author of over 40 books on origami
• Jeannine Mosley – best known for her origami models created from business cards, including the Menger Sponge. She has developed mathematical techniques for designing and analyzing curved origami models.

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• Lillian Rose Vorhaus Kruskal Oppenheimer – American origami pioneer whose birthday (October 24) is one of the World Origami Days.

R

• Samuel Randlett – helped design and popularize the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagramming system
• Nick Robinson – professional origami artist and author of over one hundred books on origami

S

• James Sakoda – author of Modern Origami
• Jeremy Shafer – professional entertainer and origamist based in Berkeley, California

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• Florence Temko – pioneer in spreading origami in the United States
• Norio Torimoto – Japanese origami artist based in Sweden since the 1970s

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• Kōshō Uchiyama – Sōtō priest, origami master, and abbot of Antai-ji near Kyoto, Japan, and author of more than twenty books on Zen Buddhism and origami
• Miguel de Unamuno – Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher who devised many new models and popularized origami in Spain and South America.

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• Makoto Yamaguchi – Chairperson of Origami House
• Akira Yoshizawa – reinvented modern origami and created the modern repertoire of folding symbols