This is a list of individuals who have designed one or more role-playing games, including live-action role-playing games but excluding role-playing video games (see List of video game industry people and its children for video game creators).
Artists are listed separately on the annotated List of role-playing game artists.
Publishing companies are listed under List of role-playing game publishers.
Individual games are listed under List of tabletop role-playing games.
For each designer, this list includes a few representative games, game lines or publications that the designer in question has created or co-authored or where they are credited with a significant contribution.