List of vexillologists
This is a list of vexillologists. Grace Rogers Cooper (1924–2004), former curator of textiles, Smithsonian Institution; former president (1983-1986) and first female president of NAVA; Whitney Smith Fellow (NAVA)(for an outstanding contribution to North American vexillology); and author, among other publications, of Thirteen-Star Flags: Keys to Identification William Crampton (1936–1997), founder of the Flag Institute; recipient of FIAV's 1991 Vexillon; former secretary-general for congresses (1983–1989), President (1993–1997), Fellow, and Laureate of FIAV; and author of many editions of Flags of the World Peter Edwards (1931–2019), founder and president of the Burgee Data Archives Andriy Grechylo, Ukrainian heraldist and vexillologist and Fellow of FIAV Ottfried Neubecker (1908–1992), German vexillologist; former president (1973–1981), secretary-general (1981–1983), Fellow, and Laureate of FIAV; and author in 1939 of the German navy Flaggenbuch William Gordon Perrin (1874–1931), British RAF and naval officer, Librarian of the Admiralty, and author of British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea, and of Nelson's Signals in which he established that the flags which had been accepted as denoting Nelson's historic signal at Trafalgar were incorrect.