WAdam of Rottweil, (German: Adam von Rottweil; Italian: Adamo de Rodvila was a fifteenth century scholar and printer. He was originally a pupil and collaborator of Johann Gutenberg. In 1477 Adam published in Venice one of the first German-Italian dictionaries. This work was clearer and better organized compared with the first German-Venetian dictionary published in 1424 by Georg von Nürnberg. He was working to recreate the alphabet of Roman inscriptions, something that he completed circa 1460. In 1481 Adam obtained permission to establish a printing press in L'Aquila.
WBernhard Christoph Breitkopf was a German printer and publisher, and founder of the publisher that became Breitkopf & Härtel.
WJohann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf was a German music publisher and typographer.
WSir Timothy James Alan Colman is a British businessman and a former Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.
WThomas de la Rue was a printer from Guernsey who founded De La Rue plc, a printing company which is now the world's largest commercial security printer and papermaker.
WGeorge T. Delacorte Jr. was an American magazine publisher, born in New York City.
WAbraham Elzevir was a Dutch printer.
WSamuel Fischer, later Samuel von Fischer, was a Hungarian-born German publisher, the founder of S. Fischer Verlag. Fischer was born in Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus/Liptószentmiklós, Liptau/Liptó megye, northern Hungary. He was trained as a bookseller in Vienna and moved to Berlin shortly afterwards. In Berlin, he joined the bookseller and publisher Hugo Steinitz. Fischer took on increasing responsibility for new publishing endeavours and managed to launch his own firm in 1886, the S. Fischer, Verlag.
WYaron Golan was an Israeli publisher.
WJulius Goltzius was a Flemish printmaker and publisher. He was probably born in Antwerp around 1555 as the son of the painter, printer, publisher and humanist Hubert Goltzius and his wife Elisabeth Verhulst. His mother came from a well-known family of painters and illuminators from Mechelen. Her sister Mayken Verhulst married Pieter Coecke van Aelst and became the mother-in-law of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Julius Goltzius married in 1587 in Antwerp and probably died in that city well after 1601.
WPierre Guillaume is a French political activist and publisher. He was the founder of the Paris book shop La Vieille Taupe in 1965 and later the Holocaust denying publishing house of the same name. A former member of Socialisme ou Barbarie, he moved to Pouvoir Ouvrier with Jean-François Lyotard and Pierre Souyri.
WFletcher Harper was an American publisher in the early-to-mid 19th century.
WGottfried Christoph Härtel was a music publisher in Leipzig, companion to Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf. He took over their company, Breitkopf & Härtel, in 1796 from Breitkopf, who was having financial difficulties.
WAnders Heger is a Norwegian publisher and writer, and is one of the six children of Wanda Hjort Heger and Bjørn Heger.
WChristiane Friederike Wilhelmine Herzlieb, known as Minna was the foster-daughter of the German publisher, Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann (1765–1839).
WSir John Jaffray, 1st Baronet was a Scottish journalist and newspaper proprietor.
WToufique Imrose Khalidi has been the publisher, editor-in-chief, and co-owner of the Bangladeshi newspaper/media group bdnews24.com since 2006. Khalidi has national and international standing as a journalist, media executive, and commentator.
WJoseph Nikolaevich Knebel was a Russian publisher. Knebel founded Russia's first specialized publishing house for fine art.
WAlfred Abraham Knopf Jr. was one of the founders of Atheneum Publishers in 1959.
WJohn Lane was a British publisher who co-founded The Bodley Head with Charles Elkin Mathews.
WDavid Lawrence was a conservative newspaperman.
WJohn Limbird (1796?-1883) was an English stationer, bookseller and publisher, characterised by an obituarist as "the father of our periodical writing".
WLin Rong-san was a Taiwanese politician, publisher and businessman. He was the founder of Union Bank of Taiwan, and the publisher of Liberty Times and Taipei Times.
WAlexander MacMillan, born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, was a cofounder, in 1843, with his brother Daniel, of Macmillan Publishers. His family were crofters from the Isle of Arran.
WDaniel MacMillan was a Scottish publisher from the Isle of Arran, Scotland who was one of the co-founders of Macmillan Publishers along with his brother Alexander in London.
WBernard Mason OBE was a prominent Colchester businessman and philanthropist who was born in Ipswich but lived his whole life in Colchester. He was the proprietor of Mason's printing firm from which he retired as director in 1962.
WGautam Padmanabhan is an Indian publishing executive. He is the CEO of Westland Ltd, the fifth-largest English language publisher in India.
WNikhil Pahwa is an Indian journalist, digital rights activist, and founder of MediaNama, a mobile and digital news portal. He has been a key commentator on stories and debates around Indian digital media companies, censorship and Internet and mobile regulation in India. He is the founder of 'Save the Internet' that was instrumental in successfully opposing Facebook's Free Basics programme in India on the basis that it limited competition and violated net neutrality. Pahwa, along with some volunteers of 'Save the Internet' founded the Internet Freedom Foundation in 2016. Pahwa resigned from the Internet Freedom Foundation in 2018.
WBaburao Patel (1904–1982) was an Indian publisher and writer, associated with films and politics.
WMartina Plantin (1550–1616), was a printer. She was the manager of the famous Plantin Press in Antwerp in 1610–1614. She was the widow of Jan I Moretus, and mother of Balthasar I Moretus and Jan II Moretus. She was the manager of the Plantin company after her late spouse.
WAnton Philipp Reclam (1807–1896) was a German publisher and founder of the Reclam press. Reclam established his company in Leipzig in 1828 as "Philipp Reclam jun." to distinguish it from his father's company. After the 1867 lifting of the German copyright on authors deceased before 1837, Reclam introduced the successful Universal-Bibliothek, which offered affordable editions of classic German and foreign texts.
WWenceslao "Wenchesco" Emilio Retana y Gamboa (1862–1924), also known as W.E. Retana or Wenceslao E. Retana, was a 19th-century Spanish civil servant, colonial administrator, writer, biographer, political commentator, publisher, bibliophile, bibliographer, Filipiniana collector, Spanish filipinologist, and Philippine scholar. Retana was a "onetime adversary" of Philippine national hero José Rizal who later became an "admirer" who wrote the first biographical account of the life of Rizal entitled Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal or "Life and Writings of Dr. José Rizal". Rosa M. Vallejo described Retana as the "foremost" non-Filipino filipinologist.
WRobert Sayer (1725–1794) was a leading publisher and seller of prints, maps and maritime charts in Georgian Britain. He was based near the Golden Buck on Fleet Street in London.
WErnest Mervyn Taylor (1906–1964) was a notable New Zealand engraver, commercial artist and publisher. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1906 but primarily lived and worked in Wellington, New Zealand until his sudden death at the age of 58.
WGeorg Thieme was a German publisher, notable for founding the Georg Thieme Verlags in 1886 - it still operates as Thieme Medical Publishers. He was the son of the industrialist Alfred Thieme and elder brother of the art historian Ulrich Thieme.
WGuy Trédaniel is a French publisher who founded in 1974 Editions Guy Trédaniel, a printing company based in Paris, France.
WAxel Rudolf Mauritz Wall was a Swedish publisher and journalist who founded Dagens Nyheter in 1864.
WJohann Christoph Weigel, known as Christoph Weigel the Elder, was a German engraver, art dealer and publisher. He was born at Redwitz, Free imperial city of Eger in Egerland, and died in Nuremberg, aged 70.
WEdward Whitchurch was a London printer and publisher of Protestant works.
WJan Kazimierz Wilczyński or Jonas Kazimieras Vilčinskis (1806–1885) was a Polish medical doctor, collector and publisher. He was known for publishing the "Album de Wilna".
WJohn Wilkes was an English printer, bookseller and stationer.
WAntoon-Jozef Witteryck was a publisher and instructor from Belgium, one of the first Esperantists in this countryside.
WJózef Zawadzki (1781–1838) was a Polish pressman, publisher, typographer and bibliophile, one of the most prominent Polish publishers in the 19th century. He was the founder of the Zawadzki Press and was the official publisher of Vilnius University. He published 851 books, mostly in Polish language, but also in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Lithuanian.