Editing List of librarians

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This is a list of notable [[librarian]]s and people who have advanced libraries and librarianship. Also included are people primarily notable for other endeavors, such as politicians and writers, who have also worked as librarians.

==List of people known for contributions to the library profession==
===A–E===
[[File:Laura Bush reads "I Love You, Little One".jpg|thumb|right|[[Laura Bush]], First Lady of the United States and librarian, reads a book to children in a school library in Texas.]]
*[[Ada Adler]]
*[[Mary Eileen Ahern]]
*[[Camila Alire]]
*[[Edna Allyn]] – first librarian of the [[Hawaii State Library]]
*[[Lester Asheim]]
*[[Ashurbanipal#Library of Ashurbanipal|Ashurbanipal II]]
*[[Sarah B. Askew]] – pioneered the establishment of county libraries in the United States
*[[Basil Atkinson]]
*[[Davinder Pal Singh]] – founder of the [[Panjab Digital Library]]
*[[Derek Austin]]
*[[Winifred Austin]] – pioneer of UK Library for the blind
*[[Henriette Avram]] – [[MARC standards]] developer
*[[Antoine Alexandre Barbier]]
*[[John Davis Barnett]] – Canadian curator–librarian
*[[John J. Beckley]] – first Librarian of Congress; politician
*[[Pura Belpré]] – librarian and author
*[[Sanford Berman]]
*[[Bob Berring]] – law librarian
*[[Guy Berthiaume]] – 3rd Librarian and Archivist of Canada
*[[John Carlo Bertot]] – library educator, researcher, editor of ''The Library Quarterly''
*[[Anastasius Bibliothecarius]]
*[[James H. Billington]] – 13th librarian of Congress; historian
*[[Robert H. Blackburn]] – former chief librarian of the University of Toronto
*[[Thomas Bodley]] – founder of the [[Bodleian Library]]; English diplomat; 1545–1613
*[[Arna Bontemps]] – author, bibliographer, and [[Fisk University]] librarian
*[[Daniel J. Boorstin]] – 12th Librarian of Congress; historian
*[[Marjorie Adele Blackistone Bradfield]] – as the Detroit Public Library's first African-American librarian, expanded its [[African-American literature]] collection<ref name="FreePress">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6124008/marjorie_bradfield_1999_obit_free_press/|title=Marjorie Bradfield: Put black history into library|last1=Audi|first1=Tamara|date=20 November 1999|work=Detroit Free Press|accessdate=8 September 2019}}</ref>
*[[Aase Bredsdorff]] (1919–2017) – Danish library inspector specialising in children's literature
*[[Joseph Penn Breedlove]] – [[Duke University]] librarian
*[[Wallace Breem]] – novelist and law librarian
*[[Suzanne Briet]]
*[[Douglas Brymner]] – first Dominion Archivist (National Archivist) of Canada
*[[Frank J. Burgoyne]] (1858–1913) – author and librarian at Lambeth Libraries
*[[Edward Dundas Butler]] – translator and senior librarian at the [[British Library|Department of Printed Books, British Museum]]
*[[Lee Pierce Butler]]
*[[Andrew Carnegie]] – Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist who financed [[Carnegie library|thousands of libraries]] around the world
*[[Leon Carnovsky]]
*[[Daniel J. Caron]] – 2nd Librarian and Archivist of Canada
*[[Amalia Kahana-Carmon]]
*[[Roch Carrier]] – 4th National Librarian of Canada
*[[Mayme Agnew Clayton]]
*[[Cecilia Cleve]] (d. 1819) – Swedish pioneer librarian 
*[[Morris L. Cohen]] – attorney, law librarian and professor of law at the [[University at Buffalo]], [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Harvard Law School]] and [[Yale Law School]]
*[[Marjorie Cotton]] – first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia
*[[Andrea Crestadoro]]
*[[Charles Ammi Cutter]]
*[[Laura Dallapiccola]] – Italian librarian and translator
*[[John Cotton Dana]] (1856–1931)
*[[Robert Darnton]]
*[[Lorcan Dempsey]]
*[[Beryl May Dent]] – mathematical physicist, technical librarian at Metropolitan-Vickers, honorary secretary of ASLIB branch
*[[Melvil Dewey]]
*[[William S. Dix]]
*[[Naomi Pollard Dobson]]
*[[Arthur Doughty]] – 2nd Dominion Archivist (National Archivist) of Canada and Keeper of the Public Records
*[[Leaonead Pack Drain-Bailey]] (1906–1983), Head of Library at West Virginia State University
*[[Mollie E. Dunlap]]
*[[Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko]]
*[[Linda Eastman]]
*[[Margaret A. Edwards]]
*[[El Sayed Mahmoud El Sheniti]] – seminal figure in professional librarianship in Egypt
*[[Theresa Elmendorf]]
*[[Miriam Eshkol]]
*[[Luther H. Evans]] – 10th Librarian of Congress
*[[Woody Evans]]
*[[Oliver Everett]]
*[[Chinwe Nwogo Ezeani]] – first female University Librarian at [[University of Nigeria, Nsukka]]

===F–M===
*[[Johann Albert Fabricius]] – bibliographer
*[[Mary Cutler Fairchild]] – pioneer library educator
*[[Adele M. Fasick]] – historical fiction writer, library science scholar, professor
*[[David Ferriero]] – former M.I.T librarian and current [[Archivist of the United States]]
*[[Anette Fischer]] (1946–1992) – librarian and human rights activist 
*[[Herman H. Fussler]]
*[[Elizabeth Futas]] – director of the [[University of Rhode Island]]'s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
*[[Mary Virginia Gaver]]
*[[Helen Thornton Geer]] – ALA Headquarters librarian, author, consultant, and professor
*[[Johann Matthias Gesner]] – bibliographer
*[[Kenneth MacLean Glazier Sr.]] – Canadian librarian
*[[Eliza Atkins Gleason]] – first African American to receive doctorate of Library Science
*[[Frederick R. Goff]] – incunabula scholar
*[[Michael Gorman (librarian)|Michael Gorman]]
*[[Jan Gruter]] – scholar
*[[Camilla Gryski]]
*[[Helen E. Haines]]
*[[Lillian Haydon Childress Hall]] – first professionally trained African American librarian in Indiana
*[[Spencer Hall]] – librarian of the [[Athenaeum Club, London]]
*[[Adelaide Hasse]]
*[[Peter Havard-Williams]] – librarian educator
*[[Carla Hayden]] – public librarian, former ALA President, 14th Librarian of Congress
*[[John Russell Hayes]] – librarian of Quaker history and culture
*[[Frances E. Henne]] 
*[[Wolfgang Herrmann (librarian)|Wolfgang Herrmann]] – librarian; member of Nazi Purification Committee
*[[Caroline Hewins]]
*[[John Howard Hickcox Sr.]]
*[[Ted Hines]]
*[[Cecil Hobbs]] – American scholar of Southeast Asian history, head of the Southern Asia Section of the Orientalia (now Asian) Division of the Library of Congress, a major contributor to scholarship on Asia and the development of South East Asian coverage in American library collections<ref>{{cite journal|first=Warren |last=Tsuneishi |date=May 1992 |title=Obituary: Cecil Hobbs (1907–1991) |journal=[[Journal of Asian Studies]] |volume=51 |issue=2 |pages=472–473 |doi=10.1017/s0021911800041607 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
*[[Judith Hoffberg]] – art librarian
*[[Zoia Horn]] – American librarian jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in intellectual freedom
*[[Laura E. Howey]] – American librarian, educator, social reformer
*[[Jean Blackwell Hutson]] – chief of [[Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]]
*[[Thomas James]]
*[[Anne Jarvis]]
*[[Thomas Jefferson]] – sold his library to the [[Library of Congress]]<ref name="Liggio">[http://www.thelockeinstitute.org/journals/luminary_v2_n1_p3.html Leonard Liggio, "The Life and Works of Thomas Jefferson"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521093914/http://www.thelockeinstitute.org/journals/luminary_v2_n1_p3.html |date=2012-05-21 }}, ''The Locke Luminary Vol. II'', No. 1 (Summer 1999) Part 3, George Mason University, accessed 14 February 2012</ref>
*[[Charles Coffin Jewett]]
*[[Carleton B. Joeckel]]
*[[Virginia Lacy Jones]] – major figure in the integration of public and academic libraries
*[[Mildred M. Jordan]] – president of the [[Medical Library Association]] and medical librarian at Emory University
*[[E. J. Josey]]
*[[Gene Joseph]] – founding librarian of the [[Xwi7xwa Library]] at the [[University of British Columbia]] and the first librarian of First Nations descent in British Columbia, [[Canada]]
*[[Muhammad Siddiq Khan]]
*[[Mohammad Khatami]] – former President of Iran; previously Head of National Library of [[Iran]]
*[[Frederick Kilgour]]
*[[Mary A. Kingsbury]] – American school library pioneer
*[[Anastasiya Kobzarenko]] 
*[[Judith Krug]] – forty-year leader of the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom
*[[Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya]] – wife of [[Lenin]]
*[[W. Kaye Lamb|William Kaye Lamb]] – first National Librarian of Canada
*[[Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster]]
*[[Gustave Lanctot]] – 3rd Dominion Archivist (National Archivist) of Canada
*[[Philip Larkin]] 
*[[Louise Payson Latimer]]
*[[Margaret Leiteritz]] – painter who based her work of scientific items which she knew as a librarian
*[[Anne Grodzins Lipow]] – founder of Library Solutions Institute and Press
*[[Audre Lorde]] – 20th-century US poet and activist
*[[Eleanor Young Love]] – African-American librarian from Kentucky
*[[Seymour Lubetzky]]
*[[Roderick Samson Mabomba]] – Malawian librarian
*[[Archibald MacLeish]] – 9th Librarian of Congress; Pulitzer Prize poet
*[[Alison Macrina]] – founder of the [[Librarian Freedom Project]]
*[[Patrick Magruder]] – 2nd Librarian of Congress; politician
*[[Mary Helen Mahar]] – president of the [[New York Library Association]] in 1950
*[[Margaret Mann (librarian)|Margaret Mann]] – library educator, particularly cataloging; founding faculty member at University of Michigan library science program (1926)
*[[Allie Beth Martin]]
*[[Harry S. Martin]] – former Head Librarian, [[Harvard Law Library]]
*[[Kathleen de la Peña McCook]] – library scholar, public librarian, free speech advocate, and author 
*[[John Silva Meehan]] – 4th Librarian of Congress
*[[Florence Milnes]] – first [[BBC]] librarian
*[[August Molinier]] – French historian
*[[Eric Moon]] – editor of ''[[Library Journal]]''
*[[Anne Carroll Moore]] – pioneering children's librarian
*[[Everett T. Moore]] – freedom of information
*[[Elizabeth Homer Morton]] – important contributions to development of Canadian libraries<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/worldencyclopedi0000unse |url-access=registration |title=World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services |pages=[https://archive.org/details/worldencyclopedi0000unse/page/586 586]-87 |publisher=American Library Association |year=1993 |ISBN=0838906095}}</ref>
*[[Isadore Gilbert Mudge]] – edited ''Guide to Resource Works''
*[[L. Quincy Mumford]] – 11th Librarian of Congress
*[[Alan Noel Latimer Munby]] – English librarian, bibliographical scholar and author
*[[Ludovico Antonio Muratori]] – Italian librarian, archivist and historian
*[[Muskan Ahirwar]] – at 9 years old she created a community library for children in the [[Slum|worker's colony]] where she lives.

===N–Z===
*[[Gerhard Brandt Naeseth]] – Norwegian-American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library in Madison, Wisconsin
*[[Makoto Nagao]] – 19th Director of [[National Diet Library]] of Japan; computer scientist specializing in digital library
*[[Bonnie Nardi]] – information scientist
*[[Gabriel Naudé]]
*[[Malcolm Neesam]] – county music and audiovisual librarian for [[York]], England
*[[Howard Nixon]]
*[[Margaret Cross Norton]]
*[[Ekei Essien Oku]] – first Nigerian women chief librarian
*[[Paul Otlet]]
*[[John Henry Pyle Pafford]]
*[[Antonio Panizzi]] – chief librarian of the [[British Museum]] library
*[[Ingrid Parent]] – librarian at the [[University of British Columbia]]
*[[Charles V. Park]] – librarian at Central Michigan University
*[[Lotsee Patterson]] – librarian, educator, and founder of the American Indian Library Association
*[[Nancy Pearl]] – librarian and author
*Charles Peters – music cataloger at William & Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University<ref>{{Cite web |title=Virtual international authority file |url=https://viaf.org/viaf/16166532248512611155/ |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=viaf.org}}</ref>
*[[Mary Wright Plummer]]
*[[Effie Louise Power]]
*[[Herbert Putnam]] – 8th Librarian of Congress
*[[S.R. Ranganathan]] – librarian and mathematician from India, known for his [[five laws of library science]] and the development of the [[colon classification]]
*[[Neil Ratliff]]
*[[W. Boyd Rayward]]
*[[Fremont Rider]]
*[[Jane, Lady Roberts]] (1949–2021) – UK Royal Librarian (2002–2013)
*[[Charlemae Hill Rollins]]
*[[Loriene Roy]] – first Native American president of the [[American Library Association]] 
*[[Frances Clarke Sayers]]
*[[Louis A. Schultheiss]]
*[[Patricia G. Schuman]]
*[[Marvin H. Scilken]]
*[[Margaret Scoggin]] – young adult librarian
*[[Marianne Scott]] – 3rd National Librarian of Canada; 1st woman to be appointed to the role
*[[Ralph R. Shaw (librarian)|Ralph R. Shaw]]
*[[Spencer Shaw]] (1916–2010) – American children's librarian and educator
*[[Dorothy Shea (librarian)|Dorothy Shea]] (1941–2024) – Librarian of the [[Supreme Court of Tasmania]] (1988–2016) and president of the [[Australian Law Librarians' Association]] (2004–2005)<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Amanda Surrey |title=Interviews with law library luminaries |journal=Australian Law Librarian |date=December 2019 |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=228-236 |url=https://search.informit.org/doi/epdf/10.3316/agispt.20210916053520 |access-date=28 January 2025}}</ref>
*[[Jesse Shera]]
*[[Louis Shores]]
*[[Jenkins Law Library|Regina Smith]] – librarian at Jenkins Law Library, a membership library in Philadelphia
*[[Wilfred I. Smith]] – 5th Dominion Archivist (National Archivist) of Canada
*[[Frances Lander Spain]] (1903–1999) – American Library Association President 1960–61
*[[Ainsworth Rand Spofford]] – 6th Librarian of Congress
*[[John G. Stephenson]] – 5th Librarian of Congress
*[[Mari Strachan]] – 21st-century Welsh novelist in English
*[[Suetonius]] – Roman historian and archivist
*[[Peggy Sullivan]]
*[[Don R. Swanson]]
*[[Friedrich Sylburg]] – 16th-century German scholar
*[[Guy Sylvestre]] – 2nd National Librarian of Canada
*[[John Szabo]] – City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library and National Medal for Museum and Library Service recipient
*[[Henry Richard Tedder]] – librarian of the [[Athenaeum Club, London]]
*[[Florence Davy Thompson]] – founding librarian at the [[University of Manitoba]]
*[[Ella May Thornton]] - Georgia State Librarian
*Louis Timothee – first American librarian
*[[Arnulfo Trejo]] – U.S. Hispanic-American librarian
*[[Gottfried van Swieten]] – Austrian Imperial librarian 1777–1803; introduced first [[card catalog]]
*[[Eva Verona]]
*[[Brian Campbell Vickery]]
*[[Jean-Pierre Wallot]] – 6th Dominion/National Archivist of Canada
*[[Douglas Waples]] 
*[[George Watterston]] – 3rd Librarian of Congress
*[[Leslie Weir]] – 4th Librarian and Archivist of Canada; 1st woman to be appointed to the role
*[[Jessamyn West (librarian)|Jessamyn West]]
*[[Edwina Whitney]] – librarian at the [[University of Connecticut]]
*[[John Wilkin]] – digital library management researcher
*[[Ian E. Wilson]] – 7th National Archivist of Canada, and 1st Librarian and Archivist of Canada
*[[Louis Round Wilson]]
*[[Patrick Wilson (librarian)|Patrick Wilson]]
*[[Marianne Winder]] – librarian at the [[Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine]]
*[[Justin Winsor]] – [[Harvard University]] librarian
*[[Mary Elizabeth Wood]] – promoted Western librarianship practices and programs in China
*[[Lawrence C. Wroth]] – librarian at the [[John Carter Brown Library]] at Brown University
*[[Ella Gaines Yates]] 
*[[Victor Yngve]]
*[[John Russell Young]] – 7th Librarian of Congress; journalist
*[[Zenodotus]] – first superintendent of [[Library of Alexandria]]; scholar of the 3rd century BC
*[[Shen Zurong]] – father of library science in China

==One-time librarians noted for other accomplishments==
*[[Reinaldo Arenas]] – Cuban author
*[[Ben Barkow]]
*[[Roland Barthes]] – French writer and philosopher
*[[Georges Bataille]] – French writer
*[[Ludwig Bechstein]] – German author
*[[Thomas Berger (US novelist)|Thomas Berger]] – American novelist
*[[Hector Berlioz]] – French composer; librarian, Paris Conservatoire
*[[Arna Bontemps]] – French artist
*[[Jorge Luis Borges]] – author and poet
*[[John Braine]] – British novelist 
*[[Emma L. Brock]] – children's book author and illustrator, and librarian at the Minneapolis Public library and NYPL<ref>Crump, Robert L. (2009). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=pXw4aG1TQpkC&pg=PA69 Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900–1945]''. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. p.&nbsp;69. {{ISBN|0-87351-635-4}}.</ref>
*[[Dee Brown (writer)|Dee Brown]] – wrote ''[[Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee]]''
*[[Callimachus]] – poet
*[[Roch Carrier]] – novelist
*[[Lewis Carroll]] – author
*[[Giacomo Casanova]]
*[[Isaac Casaubon]]
*[[Cassiodorus]]
*[[Beverly Cleary]] – novelist
*[[Joanna Cole (author)|Joanna Cole]] – children's book author and librarian
*[[Ina Coolbrith]] – poet and librarian
*[[Frank Coombs (United States Representative)|Frank Coombs]] – U.S. politician; State Librarian of California, 1898–1899
*[[Gratia Countryman]] – Minneapolis librarian
*[[Pierre François le Courayer]] – 18th-century theologian
*[[Evelyn Crowell]] – librarian, author, speaker, activist, and community organizer
*[[Harinath De]] – linguist
*[[John Dee (mathematician)|John Dee]] – Renaissance magician
*[[A. Brian Deer]] – librarian from [[Kahnawake]] who developed a library classification system that gave rise to the [[Brian Deer Classification System]]
*[[Hal Draper]]
*[[Marcel Duchamp]]
*[[Will Durant]] – historian
*[[Eratosthenes]]
*[[Frank Ferko]] – composer
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]
*[[Stephen Gaselee (diplomat)|Stephen Gaselee]] – diplomat
*[[Edmund Gosse]]
*[[Ed Greenwood]] – author
*[[Francis Hayman]] – English artist
*[[Elizabeth Heaps]]
*[[Edward Singleton Holden]] – U.S. astronomer
*[[J. Edgar Hoover]] – first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
*[[David Hume]] – philosopher
*[[Hypatia]] (c. 350–370 – March 415)
*[[Mohammad Khatami]] – Iranian president and scholar
*[[Annette Curtis Klause]] – author of children's books
*[[Stanley Kunitz]] – former United States Poet Laureate; editor of ''Wilson Library Bulletin'', 1927–1943
*[[Lao Tsu]]
*[[Madeleine L'Engle]] – 20th-century novelist
*[[Gottfried Leibniz|Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz]] – mathematician and philosopher <ref>Palumbo, Margherita. “Leibniz as Librarian.” In ''The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz''. Oxford University Press, 2018.</ref> 
*[[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing]] – German playwright and poet
*[[Wilhelm Lexis]] – German economist
*[[Li Dazhao]] – Chinese revolutionary politician
*[[Audre Lorde]] – 20th-century US poet and activist
*[[Archibald MacLeish]] – author; Librarian of Congress, 1939–1944
*[[Mao Zedong]] – Chinese revolutionary politician
*[[Vaunda Micheaux Nelson]] – author and librarian
*[[Andre Norton]] – science-fiction author
*[[Walter A. O'Brien]] – U.S. politician; commissioned original version of the song "[[M.T.A. (song)|Charlie on the M.T.A.]]"
*[[Christopher Okigbo]] – Nigerian poet
*[[Major Owens]] – U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY)
*[[Andrew K. Pace]] – author
*[[Coventry Patmore]] – 19th-century UK poet
*[[Kit Pearson]] – Canadian writer; winner of the 1997 [[Governor General's Award for English language children's literature]]
*[[Benjamin Peirce]] – logician
*[[Per Petterson]] – Norwegian author
*[[Charles Pickering (naturalist)|Charles Pickering]]
*[[Marcel Proust]] – French author
*[[Philip Pullman]] – fantasy novelist
*[[Ken Roberts (author)|Ken Roberts]] – author
*[[Greg Dean Schmitz]] – online film journalist
*[[Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves]] – granddaughter of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
*[[Steve Roud]] (b. 1949) – creator of the [[Roud Folk Song Index]] and authority on folklore and superstition
*[[Sima Qian]] – Chinese historian
*[[Lynne Stewart]] – American lawyer
*[[June Tabor]] – British singer
*[[Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)|Elizabeth Taylor]]
*[[Edward J. Thomas]] – scholar of Buddhism
*[[Anne Tyler]] – novelist
*[[Wallace Van Jackson]] – American librarian and civil rights activist
*[[Angus Wilson]] – novelist

===Librarians noted as spouses of national leaders===
*[[Laura Bush]] – served as First Lady of the United States<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.biography.com/people/laura-bush-9232785#early-life|title = biography.com|date = |accessdate = |website = |publisher = |last = |first = }}</ref> married to president, [[George W.Bush]]
*Ingrid Carlsson – wife of [[Ingvar Carlsson]]
*[[Miriam Eshkol]] – wife of Israeli Prime Minister [[Levi Eshkol]]. 
*[[Nadezhda Krupskaya]] – wife of [[Vladimir Lenin]]

==See also==
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*[[List of fictional librarians]]
*[[List of female librarians]]
*[[List of libraries]]

==References==
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