Alan Manfred Holyoake (born December 1945) is a British businessman and philatelist who is a specialist in the stamps and postal history of Great Britain and a fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London.
Holyoake "made his fortune in the fish business" and first invested in stamps when he read a May 2001 The Daily Telegraph article about Queen Elizabeth II selling part of her stamp collection, which he subsequently bought.
In 2016, the Sunday Telegraph described him as "one of the world's most successful stamp collectors".
[3] In December 2021, a stamp owned by Holyoake, described as the first Penny Black, attached to a piece of card known as the "Wallace document", was offered for sale through action by Sotheby's.
[5] Holyoake had bought the document a decade earlier for less than £50,000, when it was rumoured that the stamp was one of the first Penny Blacks to have been printed.