Lost all contact information on my iphone, how do I get it back?

I have been looking through a number of threads about this but cannot identify one that would solve my problem.
I have a S4 and don't use cloud - at least as far as I know. I have synced my phone with my Macbook Pro - and I usually have it 'hooked up' to charge the phone while working on my computer. Late last night I noticed that all my contacts had just disappeard. I have no idea how or when they went, so it is difficult to say even if the phone was connected to my Mac when it happened. I haven't tried any of the cures because I want to make sure that I find them rather than making it worse.
I still have all pics, texts and apps. It is only all the names and numbers have vanished. Any suggestions greatly appreciated as we are in the middle of a build and I need to contact people to get our house finished before Christmas!

If you synced your phone with iTunes on your Mac, check iTunes/Settings/Devices and see if there is a recent backup of your phone listed. If yes, use it to restore from, contacts are part of the backup.
Also check if syncing contacts is selected in the Info pane in iTunes with your phone connected.
If it says that your contacts can be or are synced from your address book on your Mac, and your address book does have your contacts listed, your contacts will be synced again to your phone the next time you sync it.
Just make sure to have at least one contact listed on the phone, syncing to an iPhone without contacts listed will erase the info on your computer as well.
Contacts
To sync contacts with your computer, choose "Sync Contacts with" within iTunes for Windows, or "Sync Contacts" in OS X v10.8, or "Sync Address Book Contacts" in OS X v10.7 and earlier.
You can sync your contacts with:
Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2010 (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8)
Windows Address Book (Windows XP)
Windows Contacts (Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8)
Address Book (Mac OS X v10.7 and earlier)
Contacts (Mac OS X v10.8)
Microsoft Entourage 2004, Microsoft Entourage 2008, or Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac
Notes:
When syncing contacts, you can choose to sync all of your contacts or only selected groups. The option to sync selected items may not show up until after the first sync.
You can select a group of contacts to which all new contacts created on your iOS device will be added.
Additional options for syncing include syncing your contacts with Yahoo or Gmail/Google Mail. You will need to configure it with the user name and password for your Yahoo or Google account.
copied from iOS: How to transfer or sync content to your computer

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