# List of archivists

This is a list of archivists. An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value. Some of the people listed here were not professional but amateur archivists, although their archivist activities preserved large amounts or important data.

## Archivists

| Name | Birth date | Death date | Country | Archivist activity |
| Absar Ahmed | May 19, 1988 | - | Pakistan | Archivist of Pakistani national songs from 1945 to present. |
| Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda | February 16, 1892 | July 19, 1966 | Spain | Archivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962. |
| Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville | December 5, 1827 | February, 1910 | France | Worked at the departmental archives of Aube. |
| Robert-Henri Bautier | April 19, 1922 | October 19, 2010 | France | Worked at the Archives nationales. |
| Bep Bijtelaar | 1898 | 1978 | Netherlands | Saved Old Church artifacts from Nazis |
| Baldassarre Bonifacio | January 5, 1585 | November 17, 1659 | Italy | |
| Henri Bourde de La Rogerie | April 8, 1873 | January 31, 1949 | France | |
| Charles Braibant | March 31, 1889 | April 23, 1976 | France | |
| Marcel Caya | | | Canada | Head of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal. |
| Marie-Anne Chabin | October 17, 1959 | | France | |
| Émile Campardon | July 7, 1837 | February 23, 1915 | France | |
| Armand-Gaston Camus | April 2, 1740 | November 2, 1804 | France | |
| Paul Conway | September 7, 1953 | | United States | Worked at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and for the Society of American Archivists. He has published extensively on library preservation and conservation issues. |
| Terry Cook | June 6, 1947 | May 12, 2014 | Canada | Author and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba. |
| Barbara L. Craig | | | Canada | Author and educator. Former university archivist at York University and instructor at University of Toronto Faculty of Information. |
| Pierre Claude François Daunou | August 18, 1761 | June 20, 1840 | France | |
| Robin Darwall-Smith | | | United Kingdom | Oxford University College archivist. |
| Arthur Doughty | March 22, 1860 | December 1, 1936 | Canada | Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records. |
| Jennifer Douglas | | | Canada | Professor, University of British Columbia iSchool |
| Jules Doinel | December 8, 1842 | March 16 or 17, 1903 | France | |
| Luciana Duranti | | | Canada | Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. |
| Terry Eastwood | 1943 | | Canada | |
| Jean Favier | April 2, 1932 | August 12, 2014 | France | |
| Lucie Favier | August 4, 1932 | October 19, 2003 | France | |
| David Ferriero | December 31, 1945 | | United States | Archivist of the United States |
| Margaret M. H. Finch | January 6, 1878 | August 3, 1958 | United States | Specialized in the US Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records. |
| Helen Forde | | | United Kingdom | |
| Robert Fruin | November 11, 1823 | January 29, 1899 | Netherlands | |
| Léon Gautier | August 8, 1832 | August 25, 1897 | France | |
| Arthur Giry | February 29, 1848 | November 13, 1899 | France | |
| Henny Glarbo | October 12, 1884 | September 9, 1955 | Denmark | Development of cultural, theatrical and private archives at the Danish National Archives |
| David B. Gracy II | October 25, 1941 | | United States | Worked at the Texas State Archives and taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He also published extensively on Texas history. |
| Marie-Claude Guigue | October 16, 1832 | February 8, 1889 | France | |
| Verne Harris | | | South Africa | |
| Michael S. Hart | March 8, 1947 | September 6, 2011 | United States | Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg. |
| Kent Haworth | 1946 | 2003 | Canada | Contributor to establishment of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD), descriptive standard used in Canada |
| Judith Hornabrook | October 26, 1928 | July 3, 2011 | New Zealand | Chief Archivist of New Zealand (1972–1982) |
| J. Franklin Jameson | September 19, 1859 | September 28, 1937 | United States | |
| Hilary Jenkinson | November 1, 1882 | March 5, 1961 | United Kingdom | |
| Phyllis Mander-Jones | January 2, 1896 | February 19, 1984 | Australia | State Librarian, New South Wales, known for her work with promoting and establishing a separate archives association in Australia and for her work on the Australian Joint Copying Project |
| Brewster Kahle | October 22, 1960 | | United States | Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library) |
| Rita Keegan | 1949 | | United States | Founder of Women Artists of Colour Index at the Women Artists' Slide Library and former Director of the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive |
| Arthur de La Borderie | October 5, 1827 | February 17, 1901 | France | |
| William Kaye Lamb | 1904 | 1999 | Canada | Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948–1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967. |
| Gustave Lanctot | | | Canada | |
| Charles-Victor Langlois | | | France | |
| Henri Langlois | November 13, 1914 | January 13, 1977 | France | French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. |
| Abel Lefranc | | | France | |
| Waldo Gifford Leland | | | United States | |
| David Lemieux | November 8, 1970 | | Canada | Archivist (audio/video) for the Grateful Dead rock band |
| Mollie Lukis | August 13, 1912 | August 1, 2009 | Australia | First State Archivist in Western Australia |
| Heather MacNeil | | | Canada | Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. |
| Joseph Marmette | | | Canada | |
| Paul Mawhinney | | | United States | He collected vinyl records. When the collection grew up to thousands, he created the shop Record-Rama. Then, he started to archive a copy of every sold album. In 2003, his music archive held 2 million items, twice the size of the Library of Congress similar collection. When the store was closed in 2008, there were 3 million items. (See documentary: The Archive) |
| Sue McKemmish | | | Australia | Co-founder of the Records Continuum Research Group and academic at Monash University (Professor) in archival systems. Contributed to the development of the Records Continuum Model |
| Hermine Moquette | April 25, 1869 | December 17, 1945 | Netherlands | Rotterdam Municipal Archives |
| Anahera Morehu | | | New Zealand | Chief Archivist of New Zealand (2023–) |
| P. K. Nair | April 6, 1933 | March 4, 2016 | India | Indian film archivist and film scholar, who was the founder and director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) in 1964. |
| Malcolm Neesam | June 28, 1946 | June 28, 2022 | United Kingdom | Archivist for the Duchy of Lancaster, and co-creator of the Walker-Neesam archive of research papers at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, England. |
| Margaret Cross Norton | | | United States | Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists |
| Mary Ellis Peltz | May 4, 1896 | October 24, 1981 | United States | creator of Opera News, and founder of the Metropolitan Opera archives |
| Juan Menéndez Pidal | | | Spain | |
| Régine Pernoud | | | France | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris |
| Seymour Pomrenze | | | United States | First director of the Offenbach Archival Depot |
| Ernst Posner | | | United States | |
| Mila Rechcigl | | | United States | Archivist of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU). |
| Stella Rimington | | | United Kingdom | Former Director General of MI5. |
| Helen Willa Samuels | | | United States | Archivist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Celia Sánchez | | | Cuba | Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution. |
| Jason Scott Sadofsky | September 13, 1970 | | United States | Creator and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems; founder of Archive Team, a group to preserving copies of websites that close down (e.g. GeoCities); and filmmaker of BBS: The Documentary and GET LAMP. (See talk: ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack) |
| T. R. Schellenberg | | | United States | |
| Henry Spencer | 1955 | | Canada | Preserved more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The contents were imported into Google's archives. |
| Marion Stokes | November 25, 1929 | December 14, 2012 | United States | Recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years. After her death, the collection was given to Internet Archive. |
| Tonia Sutherland | | | United States | She is an assistant professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies and an expert in Black archival studies. |
| Shelley Sweeney | 1959 | | Canada | She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. |
| Gerhard Tausche | 1957 | | Germany | |
| Hugh Taylor | 1920 | 2005 | Canada | Author and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. |
| Édith Thomas | | | France | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris |
| Dragan Espenschied | 1975 | | Germany / United States | Directs the Rhizome digital preservation program, which oversees 2000+ born-digital artworks, as well as the creation of a suite of archiving tools. |
| Paul Marie Viollet | October 24, 1840 | November 22, 1914 | France | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris. |
| Rinskje Visscher | December 10, 1868 | March 26, 1950 | Netherlands | First female municipal archivist in the Netherlands |
| Natalis de Wailly | May 10, 1805 | December 4, 1886 | France | Head of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire. |
| Jean-Pierre Wallot | May 22, 1935 | August 30, 2010 | Canada | Former National Archivist of Canada |
| Edward Weldon | 1936 | | United States | First State Archivist of New York State Archives (1974–1980), Deputy Archivist of the United States National Archives and Records Administration (1980–1982), State Archivist of Georgia Archives (1982–2000) |
| Anita Wilson | 1943 | 2006 | United Kingdom | Established Tuvalu's archive in 1978. Archivist for Government of Hong Kong (1986–1997). Archivist at British royal family archive (2001–2006) |
| Ian E. Wilson | 1943 | | Canada | Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada |
| Gladys Hansen | 1925 | March 5, 2017 | United States | Expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake |
| Meredith Evans | | | United States | Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum |
| Herman Vandenburg Ames | August 7, 1865 | February 7, 1935 | United States | helped guide the widespread establishment of government archives throughout the United States |
| Alexander Fraser (archivist) | 1860 | 1936 | Canada | First Provincial Archivist of Ontario (1903–1935) |
| Laureano Macedo | 1978 | | Portugal | portuguese scholar. |
| Rebecka Sheffield | 1976 | | Canada | LGBTQ2+ community-based archives |
| Guddu | | | Pakistan | Archivist of film posters and photographs |