List of archivists
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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
| Image | Name | Birth date | Death date | Country | Archivist activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| Howard Besser | 1952 | - |  United States | Founder of the Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program (MIAP) at New York University. | |
| Baldassarre Bonifacio | |||||
| Henri Bourde de La Rogerie | April 8, 1873 | January 31, 1949 | France | ||
| Charles Braibant | March 31, 1889 | April 23, 1976 | France | ||
| Brien Brothman | Worked at the National Archives of Canada until 1995. He is currently working at the Rhode Island State Archives. | ||||
| Marcel Caya | |||||
| Marie-Anne Chabin | 1959 | - | France | ||
| Émile Campardon | July 7, 1837 | February 23, 1915 | France | ||
| Armand-Gaston Camus | 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 | 1946 | 2014 |  Canada | ||
| Richard J. Cox | |||||
| Barbara Craig | |||||
| Pierre Claude François Daunou | August 18, 1761 | June 20, 1840 | France | ||
 | Arthur Doughty | March 22, 1860 | December 1, 1936 | Canada | Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records. |
| Jules Doinel | December 8, 1842 | France | |||
| Wendy Duff | |||||
| Luciana Duranti | |||||
| Terry Eastwood | |||||
| Jean Favier | France | ||||
| Lucie Favier | France | ||||
| Johan Feith | |||||
| David Ferriero | |||||
| Robert Fruin | |||||
| Léon Gautier | France | ||||
| Arthur Giry | France | ||||
| Marie-Claude Guigue | France | ||||
| Verne Harris | |||||
 | Michael S. Hart | March 8, 1947 | September 6, 2011 | United States | Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg. |
| Kent Haworth | |||||
| J. Franklin Jameson | |||||
| Hilary Jenkinson | |||||
 | Brewster Kahle | October 22, 1960 | - | United States | Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library) |
| Arthur de La Borderie | France | ||||
| William Kaye Lamb | |||||
| Gustave Lanctot | |||||
| Charles-Victor Langlois | France | ||||
| Abel Lefranc | France | ||||
| Waldo Gifford Leland | |||||
| David Lemieux | |||||
| Heather MacNeil | |||||
| Joseph Marmette | |||||
| Paul Mawhinney | United States | He collected vinyls 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 | |||||
| Laura Millar | |||||
| Samuel Muller | |||||
| Margaret Cross Norton | Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists | ||||
| John W Pear | World Music Archives, Manilla, Australia | ||||
| Juan Menéndez Pidal | |||||
| Régine Pernoud | France | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris | |||
| Ernst Posner | |||||
| Stella Rimington | Former Director General of MI5. | ||||
| Celia Sánchez | Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution. | ||||
| Peter Scott | |||||
.jpg) | 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 | |||||
 | 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. | |
| Shelley Sweeney | 1959 | - | She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. | ||
| Gerhard Tausche | 1957 | - | |||
| Edith Thomas | France | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris | |||
| Frank Upward | |||||
 | Paul Marie Viollet | October 24, 1840 | November 22, 1914 | France | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris. |
| Natalis de Wailly | May 10, 1805 | December 4, 1886 | France | Head of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire. | |
| Jean-Pierre Wallot | |||||
| Ian E. Wilson | |||||
| Dharwis Yacob | Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia |
References
See also
- Archivist
- Archival science
- List of archives
- List of national archives
- List of digital preservation initiatives