A–E , 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 II •
Sarah B. Askew – pioneered the establishment of county libraries in the United States •
Basil Atkinson •
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 •
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 •
James Duff Brown (1862–1914) – first Chief Librarian of
Islington Libraries, pioneer of open access libraries, and creator of classification systems •
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
Department of Printed Books, British Museum •
Lee Pierce Butler •
Andrew Carnegie – Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist who financed
thousands of libraries around the world •
Leon Carnovsky •
Daniel J. Caron – 2nd Librarian and Archivist of Canada •
Amalia Kahana-Carmon •
Ruth French Carnovsky (1906–2003) •
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 •
Shirley Elliott, legislative librarian of Nova Scotia •
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 •
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; 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 •
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 •
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 •
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 – 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 •
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
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 •
Ann Parham - led the restoration of the Pentagon Library after its destruction during the
September 11 attacks •
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 •
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 •
Spencer Shaw (1916–2010) – American children's librarian and educator •
Dorothy Shea (1941–2024) – Librarian of the
Supreme Court of Tasmania (1988–2016) and president of the
Australian Law Librarians' Association (2004–2005) •
Jesse Shera •
Louis Shores •
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 •
Arnulfo Trejo – U.S. Hispanic-American librarian •
John Tsebe - Former CEO of the
National Library of South Africa (NLSA) •
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 •
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 •
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==