Editing Blacksmith (section)

==Notable blacksmiths==
=== Mythological and religious ===

* [[Ptah]], patron god of craftsmen and architects.
* [[Ama-Tsu-Mara|Ame-no-Mahitotsu]], god of metal-working and blacksmiths.
* [[Svarog]], god of the forge, fire, the sun, and creation.
* [[Goibniu]], Irish god of blacksmithing, one of the Trí Dée Dán.
* [[Hephaestus]]/[[Vulcan (mythology)|Vulcan]], god of metalworking and the forge.
* [[Thor]], god of storms, metalworking, and the forge.
* [[Tubal-cain]], in biblical tradition, the first smith.
* [[Sons of Ivaldi]], in [[Norse mythology]], three dwarf brothers who make a variety of gifts for the Gods.
* [[Reginn|Mime]], brother of [[Alberich]], Wagnerian dwarfs and maker of the sword [[Nothung]] and the [[Tarnhelm]].
* [[Kaveh the blacksmith|Kāveh]], in [[Persian mythology]], was a blacksmith who launched a national uprising against the evil foreign tyrant [[Zahhak|Zahāk]], after losing two of his children to serpents of Zahāk.
* [[Tlepsh]] and [[Kurdalægon]] respectively the [[Circassians|Circassian]] and [[Ossetian people|Ossetian]] forms of the blacksmith hero of the [[Nart]]s, who presides at the birth / [[quenching]] of the [[steel]] child who grows into the hero [[Batraz]] / Pataraz.

=== Historical ===
* [[James Black (blacksmith)|James Black]], creator of original Bowie knife
* [[John Silvester (blacksmith)|John Silvester]], a blacksmith at the Tower of London
* [[Panday Pira]], the first Filipino cannon maker

=== Modern ===
* [[Elizabeth Brim]], noted for feminine imagery of lingerie or shoes in her work, also for the Brim technique of inflating balloons of hot metal with compressed air.
* [[Roland Greefkes]], wrought iron work
* [[Paul Zimmermann (blacksmith)|Paul Zimmermann]], contemporary forge work