 | Aleksandr Afanasyev  orn: 11. July 1826
Died: 23. October 1871
Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Russian folklorist best known for his publication of Russian folktales.
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 | Andrew Lang orn: 31. March 1844, Selkirk
Died: 20. July, 1912, Banchory
He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology and is known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. |
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 | Charles Perrault orn: 12. January 1628
Died: 16. May 1703
He was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre and his the fairy tale. |
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 | Estella Canziani |
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 | Geoffrey Chaucer orn: 1343, London
Died: 25. October 1400
He was an English author, poet, philosopher and diplomat. |
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 | Giambattista Basile orn: 1566 or 1575
Died: 23. February 1632
He was an Italian poet, courtier, and fairy tale collector. |
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 | Giovanni Boccaccio orn: 16. June 1313
Died: 21. December 1375
She was an Italian author and poet. |
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| Giovanni Francesco Straparola orn: 1480, Caravaggio
Died: 1557, Venice
He was an Italian writer and fairy tale collector. |
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 | Hans Christian Andersen orn: 2. April 1805, Odense (Denmark)
Died: 4. August 1875, Copenhagen (Denmark)
H.C. Andersen was a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. |
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 | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm  acob Grimm
Born: 4. January 1785, Hanau
Died: 20. September 1863, Berlin
Wilhelm Grimm
Born: 24. February 1786, Hanau
Died: 16. December 1859, Berlin
The Brothers Grimm were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales.
They are probably the best known story tellers of novellas from Europe.
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| James Orchard Halliwell orn: 21. June 1820
Died: 3. January, 1889
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps is primarily known for his scholarship about the life and works of William Shakespeare, but he wrote extensively on a variety of literary subjects. He published mathematical treatises and histories of science. |
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 | Jeremiah Curtin orn: 6. September 1835, Milwaukee (Wisconsin)
Died: 14. December 1906, Vermont
Jeremiah Curtin was a linguist and folk tale collector from Milwaukee. |
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 | Johann Adolf Heyl orn: 11. February 1849, Brixen
Died: 13. May 1927, Innsbruck |
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| John Rhys |
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| Joseph Jacobs orn: 29. August 1854, Sydney
Died: 30 January 1916
He was a literary and a notable folklorist, creating several noteworthy collections of fairy tales. |
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| Karl Lyncker |
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 | Ludwig Bechstein orn: 24. November 1801, Weimar
Died: 14. May 1860, Meiningen
He was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales. |
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| Patrick Kennedy |
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 | Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe  eter Christen Asbjørnsen
Born: 1812
Died: 1885
Jørgen Engebretsen Moe
Born: 1813
Died: 1882
Asbjørnsen and Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore.
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| Svendt Grundtvig |
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| Theodor Vernaleken |
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| Thomas Frederick Crane orn: 1844
Died: 1927
He was an American folklorist. |
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