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Harrison Donald Seaman Haverbeck or H.D.S. Haverbeck, FRPSL, RDP, was a noted philatelist and philatelic journalist, whose interests centered on India and Indian states, Tibet and Nepal.
Sir Edward Denny Bacon, KCVO was a British philatelist who helped with the enlargement and mounting of collections possessed by rich collectors of his time and became the curator of the Royal Philatelic Collection between 1913 and 1938.
Winthrop Smillie Boggs was a philatelist renowned for his expertise and philatelic writing.
James Richard William Purves – generally denoted in publications as J. R. W. Purves -- was an Australian lawyer and philatelist. His half century of work in Australian philately earned him the title “The personification of Australia in International Philately.”
Vincent Graves Greene was a Canadian philatelist, so prominent in the field of Canadian philately that he was often referred to as “Canada's Grand Old Man” by fellow philatelists.
John Robert Boker Jr., of New York City, was a philatelist who amassed some of the most prestigious collections of 19th century stamps ever seen by stamp collectors. Before his death in 2003, the Collectors Club of New York declared him, in 1996, to be the "outstanding philatelist of the last half of the twentieth century."
Dr. Soichi Ichida was a distinguished Japanese philatelist who specialized in studies of classic Japanese postage stamps and encouraged the collecting of Japanese stamps and Japanese postal history throughout the world.
Dr. Emilio Diena, was an Italian philatelist who specialized in the postage stamps of Italy and published substantial research on the subject. He was probably the best known Continental philatelist of his generation.
Robert Granville Stone, was an American philatelic scholar who devoted over fifty years to the study of certain specific segments of philately.
Paul Hilmar Jensen, was a Norwegian philatelist whose collections often won gold at philatelic shows, and whose work in community service in the field of philately was recognized by King Harald V of Norway.
Bertram William Henry Poole was an American student of philately, and wrote numerous monographs on various aspects of the hobby. He was well known as a respected philatelist in Great Britain before emigrating to the United States shortly before 1913.
Lester George Brookman, of Minnesota, was a stamp dealer who was an expert on 19th century United States postage stamps and postal history.
Stanley J. Luft of Golden, Colorado, is a philatelist who is an expert on the postal history of France.
Victor E. Engstrom was an American philatelist known for his knowledge and collections of stamps of Nordic countries.
Dr. Gregory B. Salisbury of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a noted philatelist named to the Hall of Fame by the American Philatelic Society.
Hugh Massey Clark, of New York City, was a noted philatelist and publisher. He was married to Theresa Maria Clark.
Mirosław Artur Bojanowicz was a Polish philatelist who settled in England after World War II and became a recognized expert on the stamps of Poland. He frequently served as a judge at international exhibitions and in 1966 was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists; Bojanowicz was one of very few professional philatelists to be accorded this honour.
Lionel William Fulcher B.Sc. (1865–1945) was a British philatelist who co-edited, with Stanley Phillips, Gibbons Stamp Monthly, was Vice President of the International Philatelic Union and was a key figure in the Fiscal Philatelic Society. He was an expert on the early stamps of Japan and also studied Venezuela, Peru, Nicaragua, Papal States and Norway.
