# List of female librarians

This is a list of female librarians.
| Name | Description | Birth | Death |
| Ada Adler | Danish classical scholar | 1878-02-18 | 1946-12-28 |
| Adelaide Hasse | American librarian | 1868-09-13 | 1953-07-07 |
| Adelaide Underhill | American academic librarian | 1860 | 1936-04-24 |
| Agnes Inglis | American anarchist | 1870-12-03 | 1952-01-30 |
| Alia Muhammad Baker | Iraqi librarian | | |
| Alice Dugged Cary | African-American educator and librarian | 1859 | 1941-09-25 |
| Alice Ethel Minchin | Teacher, librarian - New Zealand | 1889-11-05 | 1966-07-26 |
| Alice Lougee Hagemeyer | American librarian | 1934 | |
| Alice Prochaska | Curator, archivist, librarian, and university administrator - UK | 1947-07-12 | |
| Alice S. Tyler | American librarian and advocate | 1859-04-27 | 1944-04-18 |
| Alisz Goriupp | Librarian, media historian and bibliographer from Hungary | 1894-08-18 | 1979-02-04 |
| Allie Beth Martin | American librarian | 1931-12-27 | 1976-04-11 |
| Alma Dawson | American librarianship scholar | | |
| Alma Smith Jacobs | American librarian | 1916-11-21 | 1997-12-18 |
| Althea Warren | American; director of the LA Public Library, president of the American Library Association | 1866-12-18 | 1958-12-19 |
| Amalia Kahana-Carmon | Israeli writer | 1926-10-18 | 2019-01-16 |
| Amelia Gayle Gorgas | American librarian | 1826-06-01 | 1913-01-03 |
| Ana Rosa Nuñez | Cuban writer | 1926-07-11 | 1999-08-02 |
| Ana Santos Aramburo | Spanish librarian | 1957-01-22 | |
| Anabel Torres | Colombian writer | 1948-12-26 | |
| Ángela García Rives | Spanish librarian | 1891-06-02 | 1968 or later |
| Anita Coleman | American librarian | | |
| Ann Allen Shockley | American novelist and short-story writer | 1927 | |
| Ann Hartness | American librarian | 1936-03-11 | |
| Ann Shumelda Okerson | American librarian | 1950 | |
| Ann Wolpert | American librarian | 1943-10-01 | 2013-10-02 |
| Anna Harriet Heyer | American librarian, musicologist and music educator | 1909-08-30 | 2002-08-12 |
| Anne Hart | Canadian author specialising in biographies | 1935-10-07 | 2010-10-09 |
| Anne Jarvis | American academic and librarian | 1962-07-31 | |
| Anne Spencer | American poet | 1882-02-06 | 1975-07-27 |
| Anne Thaxter Eaton | American author, book reviewer and children's librarian | 1881-05-08 | 1971-05-05 |
| Annette Curtis Klause | American writer and librarian | 1953-06-23 | |
| Annette Lewis Phinazee | American librarian | 1920-07-23 | 1983-09-17 |
| Annie Carroll Moore | American writer | 1871-07-12 | 1961-01-20 |
| Annie Constance Tocker | New Zealand librarian, Methodist deaconess, nurse, child welfare officer | 1889 | 1980 |
| Annie Maude Blackett | New Zealand librarian | 1889-07-30 | 1956-06-12 |
| Arlene Mosel | American children's librarian, educator, and writer | 1921-08-27 | 1996 |
| Audre Lorde | American writer and activist | 1934-02-18 | 1992-11-17 1992-11-11 |
| Augusta Braxton Baker | American librarian | 1911-04-01 | 1998-02-23 |
| Augusta Clark | American politician | 1932-03-05 | 2013-10-13 |
| Aurora Díaz-Plaja i Contestí | Spanish writer | 1913-08-07 | 2003-12-08 |
| Barbara Fister | American writer | 1954 | |
| Barbara Tillett | American librarian | 1946 | |
| Beatrice Doran | Irish librarian | | |
| Beatrice Winser | American librarian | 1869-03-11 | 1947-09-14 |
| Belle da Costa Greene | American librarian | 1883-12-13 | 1950-05-10 |
| Berta Golob | Slovene writer and poet | 1932-08-09 | |
| Beryl May Dent | British librarian and mathematical physicist | 1900-05-10 | 1977-08-09 |
| Bess Thomas | Australian librarian | 1892-03-14 | 1968-03-07 |
| Bessie Boehm Moore | American librarian | 1902-08-02 | 1995-10-24 |
| Betty Mary Goetting | American women's rights activist | 1897 | 1980 |
| Brenda Rawnsley | British art patron, military writer, educationist, librarian | 1916-07-31 | 2007-07-25 |
| Brooke E. Sheldon | American librarian | 1931-08-29 | 2013-02-11 |
| Camila Alire | American librarian, professor | | |
| Camilla Gryski | Canadian writer | | |
| Camille Callison | Indigenous librarian, archivist, academic, and cultural activist who is a member of the Tsesk iye (Crow) Clan of the Tahltan Nation | | |
| Carla Hayden | American librarian, 14th Librarian of Congress | 1952-08-10 | |
| Carol Kuhlthau | American educator | 1937-12-02 | |
| Caroline Hewins | American librarian | 1846-10-10 | 1926-11-04 |
| Carolyn Harris | American librarian | 1948 | 1994 |
| Catherine N. Norton | American librarian | 1941 | 2014-12-22 |
| Catherine Reilly | British bibliographer and anthologist | 1925-04-04 | 2005-09-26 |
| Celeste West | American librarian | 1942-11-24 | 2008-01-03 |
| Charlemae Hill Rollins | American librarian | 1897-06-20 | 1979-02-03 |
| Claire Huchet Bishop | American children's writer | 1899 | 1993-03-13 |
| Clara Breed | American librarian | 1906-03-19 | 1994-09-08 |
| Clara Stanton Jones | American librarian | 1913-05-14 | 2012-09-30 |
| Clara Whitehill Hunt | American librarian | 1871 | 1958 |
| Clare B. Dunkle | American writer | 1964-06-11 | |
| Claudia McNeil | American actress | 1917-08-13 | 1993-11-25 |
| Constance Mabel Winchell | American librarian | 1896-11-02 | 1983-05-23 |
| Cynthia Rylant | American author of children's books and librarian | 1954-06-06 | |
| Dale DeArmond | American artist | 1914-07-02 | 2006-11-21 |
| Deanna B. Marcum | American librarian | 1946-08-05 | 2022-08-16 |
| Dina Abramowicz | librarian at YIVO; Yiddish language expert | 1909 | 2000 |
| Dionne Mack | American librarian | 1973 | |
| Dolores Elizabeth “Lola” Chávez de Armijo | American librarian | 1858 | 1929 |
| Dolors Lamarca i Morell | Spanish librarian | 1943-10-19 | |
| Doris Gates | American children's writer, librarian | 1901-11-26 | 1987-09-03 |
| Dorothy B. Porter | American librarian | 1905-05-25 | 1995-12-17 |
| Dorothy M. Crosland | American librarian | 1903-09-13 | 1983-03-24 |
| Dorothy M. Reeder | American librarian, Directrice of The American Library in Paris (1936-1941) | 1902-06-21 | 1957-03-15 |
| Dorothy Mary Neal White | Librarian, writer - New Zealand | 1915 | 1995-02-12 |
| Dorothy Shea | Australian librarian, Librarian of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1988–2016) | 1941-04-25 | 2024-01-05 |
| Edith Ditmas | British archivist, historian, writer | 1896 | 1986-02-28 |
| Edith Guerrier | American librarian | 1870 | 1958 |
| Edwina Whitney | American librarian | 1868-02-26 | 1970-09-03 |
| Effie Louise Power | American librarian | 1873-02-12 | 1969-10-08 |
| Effie Morris | | 1921-04-20 | 2009-11-09 |
| Eileen Colwell | British librarian | 1904-06-16 | 2002-09-17 |
| Eintou Pearl Springer | Trinidad and Tobago writer | 1944-11-24 | |
| Elaine Didier | American, director of Ford library and museum | 1948-01-01 | |
| Elaine Svenonius | American librarian | 1933-01-09 | |
| Eleanor Estes | American children's writer | 1906-05-09 | 1988-07-15 |
| Electra Collins Doren | | 1861 | 1927 |
| Elena Dabija | Moldovan librarian and activist | | |
| Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel | Royal librarian to the Queen of Naples in 1797 | 1752-01-13 | 1799-08-20 |
| Eliza Atkins Gleason | African-American librarian | 1909-12-15 | 2009-12-15 |
| Elizabeth Futas | American librarian | 1944-05-08 | 1995-02-06 |
| Elizabeth Gould Davis | American writer | 1910 | 1974 |
| Elizabeth H. West | American librarian | 1873-03-23 | 1948-01-04 |
| Elizabeth Heaps | British librarian | | |
| Elizabeth Jennings | British librarian, poet | 1926-07-02 | 2001-01-25 |
| Elizabeth Lee Bloomstein | American history professor, university librarian, club woman, and suffragist | 1859-01-08 | 1927-01-02 |
| Elizabeth Nesbitt | American librarian, library science educator and author of children's books | 1897-04-15 | 1977-08-17 |
| Elizabeth Smither | New Zealand poet | 1941-09-15 | |
| Ella Gaines Yates | American librarian | 1927 | 2006 |
| Emily Wheelock Reed | American librarian | 1910 | 2000-05-19 |
| Ena Noël | Australian teacher, librarian | 1910 | 2003 |
| Enid Kent | American actress | 1945-01-14 | |
| Ethelwyn Manning | American librarian | 1885-11-23 | 1972-06-01 |
| Éva Circé-Côté | Canadian journalist | 1871 | 1949-05-04 |
| Eva Verona | Croatian librarian and information scientist | 1905-02-01 | 1996-05-19 |
| Fiona Kelleghan | American writer | 1965-04-21 | |
| Flora Belle Ludington | American librarian and author | 1898-11-12 | 1967-03 |
| Florence Mendheim | American librarian | 1899 | 1984 |
| Florence Ward Stiles | American architect and librarian | 1897 | 1981 |
| Frances Clarke Sayers | American librarian | 1897-09-04 | 1989-06-24 |
| Frances E. Henne | American librarian | 1906-10-11 | 1985-12-21 |
| Frances Lander Spain | American librarian | 1903-03-15 | 1999-01-20 |
| Frances Wood | English historian and sinologist | 1948 | |
| Francess Lantz | American writer | 1952-08-27 | 2004-11-22 |
| Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir | Icelandic writer | 1940-12-10 | 2010-05-07 |
| Gene Joseph | Wet'suwet'en Nadleh'dena First Nations librarian | | |
| Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz | Dutch writer | 1899-11-15 | 1989-12-17 |
| Gertrude Kayaga Mulindwa | Ugandan librarian | 1952 | |
| Gloria Pérez-Salmerón | Spanish librarian | 1958-04-05 | |
| Gloriana St. Clair | American librarian | 1939 | |
| Gratia Countryman | American librarian | 1866-11-26 | 1953-07-26 |
| Greta Linder | Swedish librarian | 1888-05-15 | 1963-10-19 |
| Gretchen McCord | American librarian and lawyer specialising in copyright issues in libraries | | |
| Gunilla Herdenberg | Swedish librarian | 1956-02-18 | |
| Gwendolyn Cruzat | American medical Librarian | | |
| Hannah Atkins | American politician | 1923-11-01 | 2010-06-17 |
| Hannah Packard James | American librarian | 1835 | 1903 |
| Hannah Logasa | American librarian | 1879 | 1967 |
| Harriet Klausner | American book reviewer | 1952-05-20 | 2015-10-15 |
| Helaine Selin | American librarian | 1946 | |
| Helen E. Haines | American librarian | 1872 | 1961 |
| Helen Ganser | American librarian | 1891 | 1990 |
| Helen MacInnes | 20th-century Scottish-American author and librarian | 1907-10-07 | 1985-09-20 |
| Helen Marot | American librarian and workers' rights activist | 1865-06-09 | 1940-06-03 |
| Helen Sanger | American librarian | 1923-09-21 | 2020-07-20 |
| Helen Thornton Geer | American librarian | 1903-01-07 | 1983 |
| Helen Wallis | British maritime historian | 1924-08-17 | 1995-02-07 |
| Helena Asamoah-Hassan | Ghanaian librarian | 1950s | |
| Helga Josephine Zinnbauer | Australian community worker and librarian | 1909-02-24 | 1980-12-16 |
| Henrietta M. Smith | American academic, children's librarian | 1922-05-02 | 2021-04-21 |
| Henriette Avram | American computer programmer and system analyst; developed the MARC formatting used in libraries | 1919-10-07 | 2006-04-22 |
| Hilari Bell | American writer and librarian | 1958 | |
| Ida Leeson | Australian librarian | 1885-02-11 | 1964-01-22 |
| Ilona Hubay | Hungarian librarian | 1902-07-01 | 1982-06-20 |
| Ina Coolbrith | American poet, writer, and librarian | 1841-03-10 | 1928-02-29 |
| Inezita Barroso | Brazilian singer-songwriter | 1925-03-04 | 2015-03-08 |
| Ingetraut Dahlberg | German philosopher, information scientist and librarian | 1927-02-20 | 2017-10-24 |
| Ingrid Parent | Canadian librarian | | |
| Iris Falcam | Federated States of Micronesia librarian | 1938-08-25 | 2010-02-19 |
| Isadore Gilbert Mudge | American librarian | 1875-03-14 | 1957-05-16 |
| Jacqueline Sturm | New Zealand poet | 1927-05-17 | 2009-12-30 |
| Jane, Lady Roberts | British librarian | 1949-09-04 | 2021-06-29 |
| Janet Backhouse | English scholar | 1938-02-08 | 2004-11-03 |
| Janet Brennan Croft | American academic and writer | 1961 | |
| Janet Doe | American medical librarian | 1895-04-11 | 1985-11-17 |
| Janet M. Suzuki | American librarian | 1943 | 1987 |
| Jean Armour Polly | American librarian | | |
| Jean Arnot | Australian librarian, trade unionist and feminist | 1903-04-23 | 1995-09-27 |
| Jean Chandler Smith | American librarian | 1918 | 1999 |
| Jean Lisette Aroeste | American screenwriter | 1932-10-02 | 2020-08 |
| Jeannette Howard Foster | American writer | 1895-11-03 | 1981-07-26 |
| Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven | Dutch politician and librarian | 1943-08-02 | |
| Jessamyn West | American librarian | 1968-09-05 | |
| Jo Giæver Tenfjord | Children's writer | 1918-08-13 | 2007-06-12 |
| Joan Airoldi | American librarian | | |
| Joan Mondale | Second Lady of the United States from 1977 until 1981 | 1930-08-08 | 2014-02-03 |
| Joana Raspall i Juanola | Spanish poet | 1913-07-01 | 2013-12-04 |
| Joanna Cole | American children's books author | 1944-08-11 | 2020-07-12 |
| Josephine Phelan | Writer and librarian | 1905 | 1979 |
| Joyce Fardell | Australian teacher librarian and advocate for children's literature | 1923 | 2007 |
| Juana Capdevielle | Spanish educator and librarian | 1905-08-12 | 1936-08-18 |
| Judith Hoffberg | American art curator | 1934 | 2009-01-16 |
| Judith Krug | Librarian and freedom of speech proponent | 1940-03-15 | 2009-04-11 |
| Judith Nadler | American librarian | | |
| Judy Yung | American academic | 1946-01-25 | 2020-12-14 |
| Julia Nicol | South African librarian | 1956 | 2019 |
| Julia Sauer | American children's writer | 1891-04-08 | 1983-06-26 |
| Juliane Koepcke | Biologist and sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508 | 1954-10-10 | |
| Juliet Barker | British historian | 1958 | |
| Juliette Hampton Morgan | American librarian | 1914-02-21 | 1957-07-16 |
| Kari Gjesteby | Norwegian politician | 1947-05-16 | |
| Kate Steinitz | American art historian | 1889-08-02 | 1975-04-07 |
| Katharine L Sharp | American writer | 1865-05-25 | 1914-06-01 |
| Katherine Lines | British writer | 1902-09-24 | 1988-12-24 |
| Kathleen de la Peña McCook | American librarian | | |
| Kathleen Nunneley | New Zealand tennis player | 1872-09-16 | 1956-09-28 |
| Kathleen Seidel | American blogger | | |
| Kirsten Engelstad | Norwegian librarian | 1940-03-11 | |
| Kristiina Kolehmainen | Finnish librarian | 1956-11-21 | 2012-03-27 |
| Laura Amy Schlitz | American children's author | 1955-05-28 | |
| Laura Bush | First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 | 1946-11-04 | |
| Laura Quilter | American feminist | 1968-10-01 | |
| Leaonead Pack Drain-Bailey | American librarian | 1906-01-28 | 1983-03-29 |
| Letitia Dunbar-Harrison | Irish librarian | 1906-02-04 | 1994 |
| Lillian H. Smith | Canadian children's librarian | 1887-03-17 | 1983-01-05 |
| Linda Eastman | American librarian | 1867 | 1963 |
| Linnie Marsh Wolfe | American librarian | 1881-01-08 | 1945-09-15 |
| Lois Blount | American teacher, historian, librarian and museum curator | 1896-05-24 | 1980-09-02 |
| Lois Mai Chan | American librarian, author, and professor | 1934-07 | 2014-08-20 |
| Loleta Fyan | American librarian | 1894-05-14 | 1990-03-15 |
| Loriene Roy | American librarian | | |
| Lotsee Patterson | American librarian | 1931 | |
| Louise Noëlle Malclès | French bibliographer and librarian | 1899-09-20 | 1977-03-27 |
| Louise S. Robbins | American historian | | |
| Lucile M. Morsch | Librarian | 1906-01-21 | 1972-07-03 |
| Lucy Toulmin Smith | Anglo-American antiquarian scholar and librarian | 1838-11-21 | 1911-12-18 |
| Luraine Tansey | American librarian | 1918-01-29 | 2014-06-18 |
| Lynne Brindley | British professional librarian | 1950-07-02 | |
| Lynne M. Thomas | American librarian and editor | 1974 | |
| Madeleine Laurain-Portemer | French librarian | 1917-06-07 | 1996-08-15 |
| Mamah Borthwick | American translator | 1869-06-19 | 1914-08-15 |
| Marcia C. Noyes | American medical librarian | 1869 | 1946 |
| Margaret A. Edwards | American librarian | 1902-10-23 | 1988-04-19 |
| Margaret Alington | Historian | 1920-09-30 | 2012-10-15 |
| Margaret Cross Norton | First Illinois State Archivist | 1891-07-07 | 1984-05-21 |
| Margaret Elizabeth Egan | American librarian | 1905-03-14 | 1959-01-26 |
| Margaret Hayes Grazier | American librarian | 1916-12-19 | 1999-07-09 |
| Margaret Herrick | American librarian | 1902-09-27 | 1976-06-21 |
| Margaret Mahy | New Zealand children's writer | 1936-03-21 | 2012-07-23 |
| Margaret Mann | American pioneer in the field of library science, faculty at University of Michigan from 1926 to 1938, where she was a founding faculty member in the department of library science. | 1873-04-09 | 1960-08-22 |
| Margaret Ridley Charlton | Canadian librarian | 1858 | 1931-05-31 |
| Margaret Scoggin | American librarian | 1905-04-14 | 1968-07-11 |
| Margaret Windeyer | Australian librarian and feminist | 1866-11-24 | 1939-08-11 |
| Margaret Hutchins | American librarian and professor at Columbia University | 1884-09-21 | 1961-01-04 |
| Margareta Bergman | Swedish novelist | 1922-08-22 | 2006-09-27 |
| Maria Limanskaya | Russian librarian and military police | 1924-04-12 | 2024-11-25 |
| Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha | Brazilian librarian | 1908-09-14 | 1980-07-28 |
| Maria Mitchell | American astronomer | 1818-08-01 | 1889-06-28 |
| María Moliner | Spanish lexicographer | 1900-03-30 | 1981-01-21 |
| Maria Verger | | 1892 | 1983 |
| Marianne Scott | Canadian librarian | 1928-12-04 | |
| Marilla Waite Freeman | American librarian | 1871-02-21 | 1961-10-29 |
| Marjorie Barnard | Australian novelist and short story writer, critic and historian | 1897-08-16 | 1987-05-08 |
| Marjorie Cotton | Australian librarian | 1913 | 2003-02-02 |
| Martha B. Gould | American librarian | | |
| Martha Larsen Jahn | Norwegian politician | 1875-04-17 | 1954-08-02 |
| Martha P. Cotera | Mexican feminist | 1938-01-17 | |
| Mary A. Kingsbury | American school library pioneer | 1865-07-03 | 1958-08-16 |
| Mary Ann Shaffer | United States writer, editor and bookshop worker | 1934-12-13 | 2008-02-16 |
| Mary Emma Griffith Marshall | American editor and librarian at the U.S. Department of Agriculture | 1888-08-10 | 1925-07-25 |
| Mary Brunner | American academic and convicted criminal | 1943-12-17 | |
| Mary Caffrey Low | American librarian and educator | 1850 | 1926-03-04 |
| Mary Cutler Fairchild | American librarian | 1855 | 1921 |
| Mary Eileen Ahern | American librarian, a leader of the modern library movement, and an early organizer of libraries in the United States | 1860-10-01 | 1938-05-22 |
| Mary Elizabeth Wood | American librarian and missionary in China | 1861-08-22 | 1931-05-01 |
| Mary Ellinor Lucy Archer | Australian librarian | 1893-11-13 | 1979-05-03 |
| Mary Emma Allison | American school librarian who co-created Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in 1950 | 1917-03-05 | 2010-10-27 |
| Mary Foy | American librarian | 1862-07-13 | 1962-02-21 |
| Mary Frances Isom | American librarian | 1865-02-27 | 1920-04-15 |
| Mary Greig Campbell | New Zealand librarian and Quaker | 1907-11-17 | 1989-04-22 |
| Mary Josephine Booth | American librarian | 1876 | 1965 |
| Mary Lemist Titcomb | American librarian | 1852 | 1932 |
| Mary Letitia Jones | American librarian | 1865 | |
| Mary Myrtle Tye | American medical librarian | 1886 | 1933 |
| Mary O. Kryszak | American politician | 1875-07-27 | 1945-07-16 |
| Mary Peacock Douglas | American librarian and author | 1903-02-08 | 1970-01-29 |
| Mary Swan | Canadian writer | | |
| Mary Virginia Gaver | American librarian | 1906-12-10 | 1991-12-31 |
| Mary Wright Plummer | American librarian, former president of the American Library Association | 1856-03-08 | 1916-09-21 |
| Matilda Cooke Maltby | American librarian | 1841-12-01 | 1912-03-25 |
| Maud Durlin Sullivan | American public librarian | 1870-12-07 | 1943-12-28 |
| Maxine Bell | American librarian, politician | 1931-08-06 | |
| May Hill Arbuthnot | American educator and writer | 1884-08-27 | 1969-10-02 |
| Mayme Agnew Clayton | American librarian | 1923-08-04 | 2006-10-13 |
| Mercè Canela | Spanish translator and writer | 1956 | |
| Meredith Ann Pierce | American writer | 1958-07-05 | |
| Michelle P. Brown | British academic | | |
| Michelle Zaffino | American writer | 1972-09-13 | |
| Milagros del Corral | Spanish librarian | 1945 | |
| Mildred L. Batchelder | American librarian | 1901-09-07 | 1998-08-25 |
| Mildred M. Jordan | American medical librarian | | 1965-10-07 |
| Minnie Earl Sears | American librarian | 1873-11-17 | 1933-11-28 |
| Miriam Braverman | American librarian | 1920 | 2002 |
| Miriam Lichtheim | Israeli Egyptologist | 1914-05-03 | 2004-03-27 |
| Misty Massey | American writer | | |
| Mollie Huston Lee | American librarian | 1907-01-18 | 1982-01-26 |
| Mollie Lukis | Australian archivist and women's rights activist | 1912-08-13 | 2009-08-01 |
| Nadezhda Krupskaya | Russian revolutionary and politician | 1869-02-26 | 1939-02-27 |
| Nancy Pearl | American librarian and writer | 1945-01-12 | |
| Natalie Ceeney | British businessperson | 1971-08-22 | |
| Natalya Gorbanevskaya | Russian poet, translator, and civil rights activist | 1936-05-26 | 2013-11-29 |
| Nella Larsen | American novelist, librarian, nurse | 1891-04-13 | 1964-03-30 |
| Nita Kibble | Australian librarian | 1879 | 1962-02-04 |
| Noémi-Noire Oursel | Librarian and biographer | 1847-10-15 | 1901s |
| Nola Leigh Millar | Librarian, theatre director, critic and administrator | 1913-02-18 | 1974-01-20 |
| Nora Niland | Irish librarian | 1913-03-26 | 1988-12-29 |
| Noushafarin Ansari | Iranian scholar | 1939 | |
| Olinta Ariosa Morales | Cuban librarian | 1921 | 1999 |
| Ona Šimaitė | Lithuanian librarian, activist, and Holocaust survivor | 1894-01-06 | 1970-01-17 |
| Paloma Efron | Argentine radio and television journalist and jazz singer | 1912 | 1977-09-03 |
| Pamela Darling | American librarian | 1943 | |
| Pamela Morsi | American writer of romance novels | 1951-03-12 | 2024-12-14 |
| Parvin E'tesami | Iranian poet | 1907-03-16 | 1941-04-05 |
| Pat Rafferty | Irish librarian | | |
| Pat Southern | Roman historian | 1948-06-22 | |
| Patricia Battin | American librarian, first president of Commission on Preservation and Access | 1929-06-02 | 2019-04-22 |
| Patricia Swift Blalock | American librarian and human rights activist | 1914-05-09 | 2011-09-07 |
| Peggy Sullivan | American librarian | | |
| Phyllis Richmond | Amerinan librarian and historian of science | 1921 | 1997-10-06 |
| Prudenciana Cruz | Filipino librarian | 1943-05-19 | |
| Pura Belpré | Puerto Rican librarian and writer | 1899-02-02 | 1982 |
| Regina M. Anderson | African-American playwright and librarian. She was of Native American, Jewish, East Indian, Swedish, and other European ancestry | 1901-05-21 | 1993-02-05 |
| Ricarda Huch | German writer | 1864-07-18 | 1947-11-17 |
| Róisín Walsh | Dublin's first chief librarian | 1889-03-24 | 1949-06-25 |
| Rodica Avasiloaie | Moldavan writer | 1949-04-02 | |
| Rosa Leveroni | Spanish poet | 1910 | 1985 1985-08-04 |
| Rosa M. Abella | Cuban exile | 1920-02-13 | 2007-04-02 |
| Ruth Bolden | American activist | 1910 | 2004 |
| Ruth Brown | American librarian | 1891-07-26 | 1975 |
| Ruth Edna Kelley | American librarian | 1893-04-08 | 1982-03-04 |
| Ruth France | New Zealand librarian, poet and novelist | 1913-06-12 | 1968-08-19 |
| Ruth Gay | Jewish writer | 1922 1922-10-19 | 2006 2006-05-09 |
| Ruth Rappaport | American librarian | 1923-05-27 | 2010 |
| Ruth Savord | American librarian | 1894-11-02 | 1966-02-25 |
| Ruth W. Brown | American librarian | 1891-07-26 | 1975 |
| Sadie Peterson Delaney | American librarian | 1889-02-26 | 1958-05-04 |
| Sara Myers | American librarian | | |
| Sara Ryan | American writer | 1971 | |
| Sara W. Mahan | American politician | 1870-02-26 | 1966-11-01 |
| Sarah B. Askew | American public librarian | 1877-02-15 | 1942-10-20 |
| Sarah C.N. Bogle | American librarian | 1870-11-17 | 1932-01-11 |
| Sarah Rees Brennan | Irish children's writer | 1983-09-21 | |
| Sarah Thomas | American librarian | | |
| Sarah Tyacke | British historian and archivist | 1945-09-29 | |
| Saša Vegri | Slovene poet | 1934-02-12 | 2010-08-29 |
| Shanti Mishra | Nepalese librarian, writer, lecturer | 1938-06-22 | 2019-05-15 |
| Shirley Barker | American writer | 1911-04-04 | 1965-11-18 |
| Sister Gregory Kirkus | English Roman Catholic nun, academic | 1910-11-09 | 2007-08-30 |
| Sorche Nic Leodhas | American children's writer | 1898 | 1969 |
| Susan Patron | American children's book author | 1948 | 2023-10-24 |
| Susan T. Sommer | American librarian | 1935-01-07 | 2008-03-04 |
| Susan Whitfield | English historian | | |
| Suzanne Briet | French librarian | 1894-02-01 | 1989-02-13 |
| Suzy Covey | American comic book scholar | 1939-10-27 | 2007-10-17 |
| Sylvia Arthur | Ghanaian literary curator | | |
| Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić | Croatian librarian | 1948-07-10 | |
| Teresa Andrés Zamora | Spanish librarian | 1907 | 1946-07-05 |
| Tessa Kelso | American librarian | 1863 | 1933 |
| Thea White | American actress | 1940-06-15 | 2021-07-31 |
| Theodora Kimball Hubbard | American librarian | 1887 | 1935 |
| Theresa Breslin | Scottish children's writer | 1947 | |
| Theresa Elmendorf | American librarian | 1855-11-01 | 1932-09-04 |
| Valborg Platou | Norwegian librarian | 1839-08-29 | 1928-12-29 |
| Valentine Britten | British librarian | | |
| Valfrid Palmgren | Swedish politician | 1877-06-03 | 1967-12-06 |
| Vera MacLeavy | Archivist of the Moravian Church in Jamaica 1957–1986 | 1919-09-25 | 2008-07-20 |
| Vera Osoianu | Moldovan writer | 1949-04-02 | |
| Vicki Myron | American writer | 1947 | |
| Virginia Haviland | American librarian and writer | 1911-05-21 | 1988-01-06 |
| Virginia Lacy Jones | American librarian | 1912-06-25 | 1984-12-03 |
| Virginia Proctor Powell Florence | American historian | 1897-10-01 | 1991 |
| Vivian G. Harsh | American librarian: archivist, creator of the Vivian G. Harsh Collection of African American History at the Chicago Public Library | 1890-05-27 | 1960-08-17 |
| Wenche Blomberg | Norwegian children's writer | 1943-06-23 | 2023-10-27 |
| Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain | New Zealand teacher, librarian, feminist, peace activist and writer | 1848-09-05 | 1944-01-26 |
| Willye Dennis | American politician in Florida | 1926-03-14 | 2012-03-09 |
| Winarti Partaningrat | Indonesian government official | 1922-09-21 | 1978-05-08 |
| Yolanda Retter | American activist | 1948 | 2007-08-18 |
| Yvonne Dionne | first-born of the Dionne quintuplets, five identical sisters | 1934-05-28 | 2001-06-23 |
| Yvonne Oddon | French resistance member | 1902-06-18 | 1982-09-07 |
| Zoia Horn | American librarian | 1908-03-14 | 2014-07-12 |
| Gladys Hansen | American librarian and archivist, an expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | 1925 | 2017-03-05 |