David Lister (18 April 1930 – 13 February 2013) was a British historian, specialising in origami.
He corresponded with Lillian Oppenheimer and became a member of the Origami Portfolio Society founded in 1965.
In 1967, he was an inaugural member of the British Origami Society and its first president, a position he also held from 1998 to 2002.
During his life he built a large library that included 5,000 origami related items.
He was also interested in string figures, recreational mathematics, heraldry, and Chinese pottery, among other things.