List of librarians
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This is a list of people who have practised as a librarian and are well-known, either for their contributions to the library profession or primarily in some other field.
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[edit] Noted Librarians
Including bibliographers and information scientists
Those noted in both librarianship and other fields are included here
- Ada Adler
- Mary Eileen Ahern US, d.1938)
- Henriette Avram (MARC developer)
- Antoine Alexandre Barbier
- John J. Beckley (First Librarian of Congress, also noted as politician)
- Anastasius Bibliothecarius
- Sanford Berman
- James H. Billington (13th Librarian of Congress, also noted as historian)
- Bob Berring (notable law librarian)
- Thomas Bodley (Founder of the Bodleian_Library and English diplomat, b.1545 d.1613)
- Daniel J. Boorstin (12th Librarian of Congress, also noted as historian)
- Wallace Breem (noted novelist and law librarian)
- Lee Pierce Butler
- Charles Ammi Cutter b1837 d.1903
- John Cotton Dana b. 1856 d.1931
- Lorcan Dempsey
- Melvil Dewey
- Luther H. Evans (10th Librarian of Congress)
- Johann Albert Fabricius (bibliographer)
- Mary Cutler Fairchild (pioneer library educator, b.1855 d.1921)
- Johann Matthias Gesner (bibliographer)
- Jan Gruter (scholar)
- Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr. (Canadian librarian)
- Michael Gorman
- Ted Hines
- Judith Hoffberg (art librarian)
- Thomas James
- Charles Coffin Jewett
- E.J. Josey
- Frederick Kilgour
- Philip Larkin (and famous UK poet)
- Margaret Leiteritz (painter, who based her work of scientific items which she knew as a librarian)
- Seymour Lubetzky
- Archibald MacLeish (9th Librarian of Congress, and Pulitzer Prize poet)
- Kathleen de la Peña McCook (US library educator)
- Patrick Magruder (2nd Librarian of Congress & politician)
- John Silva Meehan (4th Librarian of Congress)
- Vicky Metcalf
- August Molinier (French historian)
- Eric Moon (editor of Library Journal
- L. Quincy Mumford (11th Librarian of Congress)
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori (Italian librarian, archivest, & historian)
- Gabriel Naudé
- Bonnie Nardi (information science)
- Paul Otlet
- Antonio Panizzi (Chief Librarian of the British Museum library) 19th c.
- Nancy Pearl (librarian & author)
- Herbert Putnam (8th Librarian of Congress)
- S. R. Ranganathan
- Jesse Shera
- Ainsworth Rand Spofford (6th Librarian of Congress) b.1825 d.1908
- John G. Stephenson (5th Librarian of Congress)
- Suetonius (Roman historian & archivist)
- Friedrich Sylburg (16th c. German scholar)
- Arnulfo Trejo (US Hispano-American librarian)
- Eva Verona
- Belynda Smith - North Shore City Libraries Coordinator of Children and Teenage Services
- Brian Campbell Vickery
- George Watterston (3rd Librarian of Congress)
- Jessamyn West
- Louis Round Wilson
- Patrick Wilson
- Justin Winsor (Harvard Univ. Librarian b.1831-d.1937
- John Russell Young (7th Librarian of Congress, also notable as a journalist)
- Zenodotus (First superintendent of Library of Alexandria, and noted scholar), 3rd c. BC.
[edit] Other well-known people who have been librarians
Those particularly noted in librarianship as well are in the first section.
- Reinaldo Arenas (Cuban author)
- Georges Bataille (French writer)
- Ludwig Bechstein (German author)
- Thomas Berger (US novelist)
- Arna Bontemps (French artist)
- Jorge Luis Borges (novelist)
- John Braine (British novelist)
- Laura Bush
- Callimachus (poet)
- Lewis Carroll (the author)
- Giacomo Casanova
- Isaac Casaubon
- Cassiodorus
- Beverly Cleary (the novelist)
- Pierre François le Courayer 18th c. theologian
- John Dee (Renaissance magician)
- Hal Draper
- Marcel Duchamp
- Will Durant the historian
- Eratosthenes
- Benjamin Franklin
- Edmund Gosse
- Ed Greenwood (author)
- Francis Hayman (English artist)
- Edward Singleton Holden (US astronomer)
- David Hume (philosopher)
- Hypatia
- Madeleine L'Engle (20th c. novelist)
- Lao Tsu
- Wilhelm Lexis (German economist)
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (philosopher)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German playwright & poet)
- Li Dazhao (Chinese revolutionary politician)
- Audre Lorde (20th c US poet & activist)
- Mao Zedong (Chinese revolutionary politician)
- Alan Noel Latimer Munby (English author)
- Andre Norton (Science-fiction author)
- Christopher Okigbo (Nigerian poet)
- Major Owens (contemporary US poitician)
- Coventry Patmore (19th c UK poet)
- Benjamin Peirce (logician)
- Charles Pickering (naturalist)
- Bill Richardson (Canadian radio broadcaster)
- Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
- Anne Tyler(novelist)
- Angus Wilson (novelist)
[edit] Notability & importance to be determined
- Joanna Cole (children's book author & librarian)
- Ina Coolbrith (SF poet & librarian)
- Frank Coombs (US politician)
- Gratia Countryman (Minneapolis librarian)
- Annette Curtis Klause childrens book author
- Charles V. Park (Librarian at CMU)
- Gary Price (inf sci? dig lib? possible vanity article)
[edit] Not yet categorized: (careers undocumented in WP)
- Friedrich Christian Accum
- Maria Teresa Freyre de Andrade
- Reginald P. Carr
- Guy Calvin Craft
- Donald J. Dunn
- Harriet Eddy
- Thomas Gates ? Thomas S. Gates
- Pratibha Gokhale
- Jean Gosselin
- Yin Hsi
- Nancy Kranich
- Herman Kruk
- Daniel Mulhollan
- Koteswara Rao, Mamidi
- Heather Peek
- John Pinfold
- Juliet Ralph
- Karen Schneider
- Augustus H. Tulk
- Martyn Wade (UK)
[edit] No evidence yet in WP for being a librarian
- Guillaume Apollinaire (French poet)
- Henri la Fontaine
- J. Edgar Hoover (of the FBI)
- Immanuel Kant
- Marianne Moore (poet)
- Kit Pearson (Canadian writer)
- Peter, count Griffenfeldt (17th c Danish statesman)
- Philip Pullman (fantasy novelist)
- Charles Wilkins (English orientalist, b.1749)