List of origamists
Introduction 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''
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
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
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