List of origamists

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

A

 * 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.

E

 * 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

F

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

G

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

H

 * 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

K

 * 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

L

 * 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.

O

 * 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
 * Srirangaraj - professional origamian based in Bengaluru, India

T

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

U

 * 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.

Y

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