Jairo Tamayo

{{Short description|Colombian philatelist}} '''Jairo Londoño Tamayo''' (1917 – 14 June 2000) was a Colombian philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1990.<ref>''[http://www.abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011]'', Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819000841/http://abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Archived here.]</ref>

Tamayo specialised in the philately of Colombia, for his displays of which he won gold medals at Philadelphia 76, Amsterdam 77 and London 1980.

==Selected publications== *''Fifty Years of Airmail in Colombia''. 1969. (with E. Gebauer)

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