List of fairy tale writers and collectors
- Alexander Afanasyev
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
- Madame d'Aulnoy, 1650-1705 - Although she was one of the first writers of fairy tales, her contributions have been overshadowed by those of various male fairy tale writers.
- Brothers Grimm - Anthologized many fairy tales that they collected from noblewomen; see Clever Maids by Vaerlie Paradiz
- Charles Perrault
- Bernhard Baader
- Giambattista Basile
- Italo Calvino
- John Francis Campbell
- Thomas Frederick Crane
- Jeremiah Curtin
- Vladimir Dal
- Richard Dorson
- Duan Chengshi
- Wolfram Eberhard
- Queen Fabiola of Belgium
- Antoine Galland
- Laura Gonzenbach
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius
- Petre Ispirescu
- Joseph Jacobs
- Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
- Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force
- Andrew Lang
- Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
- Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier
- Ruth Manning-Sanders
- Jørgen Moe
- Henriette-Julie de Murat
- Peter and Iona Opie
- Yei Theodora Ozaki
- Charles Perrault
- Pu Songling
- Arthur Ransome
- Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
- Paul Sébillot
- Somadeva
- Émile Souvestre
- Giovanni Francesco Straparola
- Jack Zipes