Harley J. Earl was an automotive stylist and engineer and industrial designer. He is most famous for his time at General Motors from 1927 until 1959. Earl was instrumental in establishing the industry or business of designing cars and the rules and principles behind the "Automobile Design" profession when none existed before in America. Basically, Harley Earl took the global automotive industry into the design business.

Giorgetto Giugiaro (August 7, 1938) is an Italian automobile designer. He was born in Garessio, province of Cuneo (Piedmont). He initiated the "folded paper" era of the 1970s where the cars were designed with straight lines and sharp edges. As well as a number of supercars, he is responsible for the design of some of the most popular everyday vehicles driven today. Giugiaro was the winner of the award of Car Designer of the Century in 1999.

Walter Maria de’Silva is a car designer from Italy, and currently in charge of all Volkswagen Group design. His long automotive career began in 1972 at Centro Stile FIAT, followed by nine years at I.DE.A Institute, before he was recruited by Alfa Romeo. By 1986, he was made in charge of Alfa's Centro Stile, a role he maintained until the late 1990s.

Ken Okuyama is an automobile designer who worked for Pininfarina designing or supervising projects such as the Enzo Ferrari and Ferrari P4/5. His given name is "Kiyoyuki Okuyama" (奥山清行) but goes by "Ken Okuyama" (ケン・オクヤマ) outside Japan. He was born in Yamagata City, Japan but now lives in Italy speaking Japanese, Italian and English fluently.

Michael Mauer is an automobile designer. He has worked with Mercedes SLK, SL, A class and Smart. He became head of the design department at Saab in April 2000. He came in too late to have any major impact on the design of the Saab 9-3, but he worked with the concept cars Saab 9-X and Saab 9-3X. He moved on to Porsche in July 2004.

Luc Donckerwolke is a Belgian car designer. Has a house in Peru and one in Brussels,Belgium. He was head of design at Lamborghini from 1998, where he was responsible for the Lamborghini Murciélago (2002) and Lamborghini Gallardo (2003) models. As of September 2005, Donckerwolke became SEAT Design Director overseeing the design of future SEAT models.

David Bache (14 June 1925-26 November 1994) was a British car designer. For much of his career he worked with Rover.

William (Bill) Towns (died 1994) was a British car designer. Towns began his training as a designer at Rootes in 1954, where he was mainly involved in the styling of seats and door handles. Later he was also involved with the styling of their Hillman Hunter. He moved to Rover in 1963 and worked there for David Bache and designed the body of the Rover-BRM gas turbine Le Mans car. In 1966 he left Rover to join Aston Martin as a seat designer, …

Tom Tjaarda ("Stevens Thompson Tjaarda van Starkenberg", born July 23, 1934), is an American automobile designer of Dutch origin. Tjaarda has worked for many well-known Italian coachbuilders, for instance Ghia, Pininfarina and Italdesign. Among his car designs the De Tomaso Pantera is probably the most renowned, but the Fiat 124 Spider and the De Tomaso Deauville are also Tjaarda-styled.

Leonardo Fioravanti (b. 1938) is an Italian automobile designer and CEO of Fioravanti Srl. He studied mechanical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, specializing in aerodynamics and car body design. Before founding Fioravanti Srl, he worked twenty-four years with Pininfarina, followed by a position at Ferrari and the director's role at the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo. Fioravanti designed the Ferrari Dino, the Ferrari Daytona, the Ferrari P5 and P6, …

Jason Castriota is an Italian automobile designer born in Brooklyn, New York. He currently holds the title of Design Team Leader at design studio, Pininfarina. He is responsible for such designs as the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, Maserati GranTurismo, the Maserati Birdcage 75th, as well as the Ferrari 612 Kappa. His most recent work is a restyled Enzo Ferrari for American car collector James Glickenhaus, the "Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina".

Ercole Spada (August 26, 1938) is an Italian automobile designer. His most notable designs were made in the 1960s, for the Zagato design studio house, where Spada was chief stylist. During this period some of the most notable sports cars by Aston Martin, Ferrari, Maserati, as well as Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Fiat and Lancia were clothed by Spada's designs. Spada earned a degree in Industrial Engineering from Istituto tecnico Feltrinelli in 1956.

David Ogle (died 1962) was a British industrial designer and car designer. He founded the design consultancy company Ogle Design in 1954. He was educated at Rugby School and briefly studied Law at University of Oxford. In 1940 he joined the Fleet Air Arm. He flew the Supermarine Seafire in operations in North Africa, the Mediterranean and in the south of France. He rose to the rank of Lt Commander and was awarded the DSC and the MBE.

Roy Axe is a British car designer. Axe started his career in 1959 with the Rootes Group where he progressed first to "chief stylist" and then to "design director". Rootes became part of Chrysler Europe in 1966. In 1982 Axe moved to British Leyland where he tookover as styling director from David Bache, and was responsible for the building of a new styling studio at their Canley, Coventry plant (opened 1982), and recruiting a new team.

Björn Envall, born in 1942, is an automobile designer and was head of the design department at Saab, until his retirement. He started his career at Saab as an apprentice, under Sixten Sason, in the 1960s, especially helping with the design of the Saab 99 and the ill-fated Saab Catherina sports car. In fact, after the failure of that design to be accepted by Saab, he designed (on paper only) a further and progressive two-seater, which was never built.

Donato Coco is an automobile designer, currently chief designer at Ferrari. Born in Italy, Coco studied architecture in Besançon, France, before taking a masters degree in vehicle design at the Royal College of Art in London. Coco rose to become chief designer for small cars at Citroën following a design competition in 1983. There, he oversaw the design of the Xsara Picasso, C2, C3, and C4. He was appointed to the Ferrari role on November 8, 2005, …

Eric Neale (b. 1910-09-26) is a British car designer.

Nathan Shedroff has been an experience designer for over twelve years. He focuses on developing experience and brand strategies for a variety of companies in print, digital, and on-line media, and through product design. He is a leader in experience design and several related disciplines, including information and interaction design.