- Robson Lowe
John Harry Robson Lowe, Robbie to his friends, was a professional philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer. He is regarded by philatelists as the father of postal history, having published many definitive works on the subject and having introduced the term in his first major book "Handstruck Postage Stamps of the Empire 1680-1900" in 1948.
- Jacqueline Caurat
Jacqueline Caurat is a retired French television presenter and journalist. After some movie appearances during the 1940's and 1950's, she became in 1953 one of the speakerine on the ORTF first channel. She is known as the presenter and coproducer of "Télé-Philatélie", a 22-year running TV show about philately. She did this show with her husband Jacques Mancier. She interviewed great philatelists like Rainier III of Monaco, …
- Jean de Sperati
Jean de Sperati (1884-1957) was a French forger who had to expose his own stamp forgeries. In 1942, when Sperati sent a package of supposedly valuable stamps to a stamp dealer in Lisbon, French customs seized it. They charged him with trying to avoid customs payments and took him to court. In court, French criminologist Edmond Locard testified that the stamps were at least worth 223,400 French francs.
- Jacques-Jean Barre
Jean-Jacques Barre (3 August 1793 in Paris-10 June 1855 in Paris) was the general engraver at the Monnaie de Paris between 1842 and 1855. In this position, he engraved and designed French medals, bank notes and postage stamps. He is named "Jean-Jacques Barre" in numismatic publications and "Jacques-Jean Barre" in philatelic ones. From the late 1840's until 1855, he created the first two French postage stamp designs: the Ceres series and Napoleon III series.
- Jal Cooper
Jal Manekji Cooper, FRGS (d. 1972), was a celebrated Indian philatelist, and a recognized expert and authenticator of the postage stamps and postal history of India. Cooper was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of several important philatelic handbooks. Cooper was both a stamp dealer and a collector. Living in Bombay (present day Mumbai), he was associated with other great philatelists like C. D. Desai, N. D. Cooper, …
- André Buzin
André Buzin is a Belgian artist who paints animals and flowers. He is known on the philatelic scene for the Birds series, a definitive stamp series of Belgium. Buzin designed his first stamps for Zaire in 1984. In Africa, he also created some stamp series for Mauritania and Rwanda. Almost all depicted local animals, but he designs stamps for the 1984 Summer Olympics. His major series have been issuing by Belgian Post.
- Alfred Lichtenstein
Alfred F. Lichtenstein (6 August 1876 - 24 February 1947, both in New York City) is one of the most famous American philatelists.
- Jean-Pierre Mangin
Jean-Pierre Mangin is a French philatelist specialized in finding error in the design of postage stamps. He wrote a bilingual world guide of "Errors on stamps". Member of the French Académie de philatélie since 4 June 1994, he presides the European Academy of Philately for a 2000-2007 mandate. He currently writes a monthly column in French magazine "L'Écho de la timbrologie" about errors on stamps found by the readers.
- Greg Deeter
Gregory K. Deeter is a stamp collector, sports car collector, high powered rocketry enthusiast (certified L2 with Tripoli), and ZZ Top live concert recording collector from Houston Texas. Mr. Greg Deeter was born on June 27th 1968 in Modesto California. He is the founder of Boomspeed.Com (1999) and PicBuddy.Com (2006), both web hosting providers focused on image hosting. In 1996, Deeter was at the center of a Usenet controversy involving the commercial trade of stamps.
- Lovrenc Košir
Lovrenc Košir, also Laurenz Koschier (29 July 1804 in Spodnja Lusa, Austria (now Slovenia) – 7 August 1879 in Vienna) was an Austrian public servant, who worked in Ljubljana. Besides Rowland Hill and James Chalmers he is said to be the inventor of the postage stamp. In 1835, five years before the introduction of the first stamp in Great Britain, …
- Jean de Bast
Jean De Bast is a Belgian postage stamps draughtsman and engraver. After a very complete artistic training (drawing, painting, engraving ...), he joined in 1907 the National Postage Stamps Printing-house in Mechelen. Going up step by step in the hierarchy, he finished there his career in 1945, as a senior foreman. His first works in philately are, in 1919, the drawing of the famous series “Helmeted King” and, in 1922, …
- Wei-Liang Chow
Wei-Liang Chow was a Chinese mathematician, known for his work in algebraic geometry. He was a student in the USA, graduating from the University of Chicago in 1931. In 1932 he attended the University of Göttingen, then transferring to Leipzig where he worked with van der Waerden. They produced a series of joint papers on intersection theory, …
- C. D. Desai
Chunnilal Devkaran Nanjee, known as "Desai" was a leading figure among Indian financiers of the twentieth century. As well, he has a place in the first rank of students of Indian philately.
- Nelson S. Bond
Nelson Slade Bond (November 23 1908 - November 4 2006) was an American author who wrote extensively for magazines, radio, television and the stage. Bond created science fiction and fantasy, as well as sports and crime fiction. His published fiction is mainly short stories, most of which appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Many were published in "Blue Book" magazine. He is particularly noted for his "Lancelot Biggs" series of stories.
- L. T. Rose-Hutchinson
L. T. Rose-Hutchinson (d. 1948) was a philatelist and postal historian. Rose-Hutchinson collected postage stamps for most of his life, joining the Royal Philatelic Society in 1900 and the Postal History Society in 1940. During his Service career he spent most of his time in India, where he purchased collections and accumulations of stamps. Later he purchased most of the notable "Mackenzie-Grieve" collection.
- Henry Ellis Harris
Henry Ellis (H.E.) Harris was a leading philatelist and stamp dealer. Through his company, H.E. Harris & Co., Harris popularized philately for many Americans, especially children. Harris began selling stamps at the age of 14 and eventually built one of the largest stamp businesses in the world. Harris used the radio show "Ivory Stamp Club of the Air", and its host, "Captain Tim" Healy, to promote stamp collecting and his company.
- Johann Peter Haseney
Johann Peter Haseney was a German engraver. Haseney came in young years to Munich, where he worked as an engraver with the Seitz company. There it manufactured different drafts for stamps. He engraved the first German stamp, the One Kreuzer black ("Schwarzer Einser") of Bavaria. nds:Johann Peter Haseney
- Rienk Feenstra
Rienk Feenstra (1920--2005) was an international expert in Greek philately, writing and editing key reference books in this area, especially on the stamps and postal history of Crete. Feenstra was Chairman of the Hellenic Philatelic Society of Netherlands for 6 years and then its Honorary Chairman. He was awarded the Resistance medal, was a knight of the Oranje-Nassau order and received numerous awards for his philatelic writing.
- Erkki Pulliainen
Erkki Ossi Olavi Pulliainen (b. June 23rd, 1938) is a Finnish politician and member of Finnish Parliament, representing the Green League. He was first elected to the parliament in 1987. Since 1985 he has been a member of the city council of Oulu. Pulliainen has also held positions of trust in numerous scientific and political organisations. Pulliainen was born in Varkaus, Finland. He has a Ph.D. in zoology and a master's degree in agriculture and forestry.
- George Carlyle Marler
George Carlyle Marler, PC (September 14, 1901 - April 10, 1981) was a politician, notary and philatelist in Quebec, Canada. He served as Liberal leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1948 to 1953, after Liberal leader Adélard Godbout lost the 1948 election, and also narrowly lost his own Westmount-Saint-Georges seat. Marler had earlier served as a federal MP and as a member of Montreal's city council.
- Wolfgang Heidenfeld
Wolfgang Heidenfeld (May 29 1911 - August 3 1981) was a chess player. Heidenfeld was born in Berlin. He was forced to move from Germany to South Africa because he was a Jew. There, he won the South African Chess Championship eight times, and he represented South Africa in the Chess Olympiad in 1958. Besides chess-playing he was also a writer, door to door salesman, journalist, and designer of crossword puzzles.
- Josh Simon
Josh Simon is a senior systems administrator, project manager, and technical writer. He served on 5 LISA program committees and was an external reader and reviewer. He was appointed to the SAGE Executive Committee in 2002, and was the chair of and project coordinator for the SAGE Web Committee until early 2004. He's written summary writeups for several USENIX Annual Technical Conferences and LISA conferences, as well as coordinated others' writeups for publication in ;login: for several years.
- Clifford C. Cole
Cole was a world-famous stamp dealer who, for over half a century, helped build most of the great collections of his time. He went to work as a stamp dealer in the 1920s, and by the mid-1930s had established his own business, which prospered greatly. During the next half-century “Ezra Cole, Nyack, N.Y.” bought and sold U.S. and Confederate rarities. Cole was president of the ASDA, a governor of the Collectors Club of New York and president of the Association for Stamp Exhibitions.
- Bruce
I can be silly and nerdy, but I'm basically a nice guy.
- Ariel Weeks
I like museums and the symphony...almost as much as miniature golf. I I love the beauty of the pristinely clean midwest....I love the deliciously dirty and flavorful New York City. I love intellectuals who can talk for hours about ultimately nothing..I love raunchy people who can talk for minutes about something gravely important. I love slapstick....I love dry wit. One day I would love to own a Lexus SUV....which I will park next to my Scout.
- Jay Guha
IF YA' WANNA BE BAD YA' GOTTA BE GOOD.
- Kyle Pimenta
I've lived in CA (Sacramento area) since moving from South Africa December '95. I recently graduated from UC Davis with a double major in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Philosophy (2005). I plan to enter med school in 2 yrs...pediatrics (I love kids). I have a seemingly endless supply of energy. Seriously, I can play hard for hours on end.
- Raghuram Natarajan
ask me....
- Kay
- Theresa
Just finished a Bachelor of Arts in Ancient History and History and will be commencing with my honours in Ancient History this year. YAY! Will graduate May 11. I am still staying at home-who wouldn't if they were studying?! Still in South Auckland, but I don't really see many of the old crew from O.C. I guess we stay in touch by text messaging:) This thing says to describe myself...I don't know where to start.
- Vinay
I guess I'am still discovering myself. I feel at the end of each day I'am a new person with new thoughts and new experiences. I love travelling and meeting people. I beleive in "work while u work and play while u travel ;-) "...I do enjoy going to clubs and bars occasionally. I don't beleive in being somebody's IDEAL...Everyone has the rights to make an ass of themselves. You can't let the world judge you too much u know. Family is my biggest treasure.
- Felix
I look like Luke Perry nga midget.
- Christopher
I feel that the headline and tone of my answers should leave one with an idea of who I am. That's a lie.. who the hell am I and why are you trying to figure me out via myspace? Orange juice right after brushing is yummy! Remember, we are the music makers, we are the dreamers of dreams. I got my party pants on... what are you wearing?
- Kyle
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- Brian
While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free. -Eugene V. Debs.
- James
trying to cope with the haunting anxiety of there constantly being too much of everything, yet never enough.
- Vera
I take a lot risk in my personal life, sometimes it costs too much, but it seems to be the only way to live life to the full.
- Khennjo-' Deles
Just ask me if you're interested to know... :)
- Reny Lumban Toruan
Introvert but once you know me I can be restlessly making jokes of everything. I'm still growing and learning about myself as a person. My passion is to decorate (one day I'm going back to school to learn interior design). My career goal is to open my own business/franchise in retail business. Newsflash: In fact, I am going back to school to study retail buying/management/merchandising. I found my true calling there.
- Kaustubh Kale
Not really a narcissist... You could ask my friends, or become a friend to find out for yourself.