Authors of books about Origami

Akira Yoshizawa - reinvented modern origami. Created the modern repertoire of folding symbols
Robert J. Lang - Author of many Origami books including the new benchmark Origami Design Secrets
Peter Engel - influential origami artist and theorist
Tomoko Fuse - famous for boxes and unit origami
Robert Harbin - popularised origami in Britain; also presented a series of short programmes entitled Origami, made by Thames Television for ITV
Kunihiko Kasahara - devised a standardized method for creating many modular polyhedra
John Montroll - probably the most prolific Western artist and author of over 16 books on origami
Nick Robinson - origami artist and author of over a dozen books on origami
Toshikazu Kawasaki - Japanese mathematician famous for his Iso-area folding theory and his many geometric folds, including Kawasaki's "Rose"
Makoto Yamaguchi
Jeremy Shafer - California origamian entertainer who folds whimsical designs
Satoshi Kamiya - One of the youngest geniuses of the origami field
Nicolas Terry - French artist known for his unique, cartoonish style
Issei Yoshino - famed for his multimodular Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops skeletons
Marc Kirschenbaum - known for his instrumentalist designs
Didier Boursin

From : Wikipedia