List of librarians

=List of people known for contributions to the library profession=

A-E

*Ada Adler
*Mary Eileen Ahern (died 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; 1545 -1613)
*Arna Bontemps (author, bibliographer, and Fisk University librarian)
*Daniel J. Boorstin (12th Librarian of Congress, also noted as historian)
* Virginia Boucher (longtime leader in both the ALA and the International Federation of Library Associations; author of library science books; mother of Jello Biafra)
*Wallace Breem (noted novelist and law librarian)
*Lee Pierce Butler
*Charles Ammi Cutter (1837 - 1903)
*Mayme Agnew Clayton (1924 - 2006)
*Marjorie Cotton (1913 - 2003; first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia)
*John Cotton Dana (1856 - 1931)
*Lorcan Dempsey
*Melvil Dewey
*Scott Douglas (chronicled his life as a librarian for McSweeney’s and, according to his agents website (http://www.harveyklinger.com/bio.cfm?agent=5), is currently writing a memoir on public librarianship for Carroll & Graf)
*Luther H. Evans (10th Librarian of Congress)

F-M

*( Davis Parekkatt, M.Com,MLIS )Librarian, CMI Public School, Chalakudy. Thrissur, Kerala
*Johann Albert Fabricius (bibliographer)
*Mary Cutler Fairchild (pioneer library educator, 1855 - 1921)
*Elizabeth Futas (1944 - 1995; Director of the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS)
*Helen Thornton Geer ALA Headquarters Librarian, Author, Consultant, and Professor
*Johann Matthias Gesner (bibliographer)
*Jan Gruter (scholar)
*Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr. (Canadian librarian)
*Michael Gorman
*Susan H. Hildreth (California State Librarian; [http://www.library.ca.gov/html/welcome.cfm] )
*Ted Hines
*Judith Hoffberg (art librarian)
*Thomas James
*Charles Coffin Jewett
*E.J. Josey
*M S Khan - "Father of the Library and Information Science of Bangladesh" ( [http://www.balid.org/mskl.html] )
*Mohammad Khatami former President of Iran, previously Head of National Library of Iran
*Frederick Kilgour
*Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (wife of Lenin)
*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 & author)
*Patrick Magruder (2nd Librarian of Congress & politician)
*John Silva Meehan (4th Librarian of Congress)
*August Molinier (French historian)
*Eric Moon (editor of Library Journal
*L. Quincy Mumford (11th Librarian of Congress)
*Ludovico Antonio Muratori (Italian librarian, archivist, & historian)

N-Z

*Gabriel Naudé
*Bonnie Nardi (information science)
*Paul Otlet
*John Henry Pyle Pafford (1900 - 1996)
*Antonio Panizzi (Chief Librarian of the British Museum library) 19th c.
*Nancy Pearl (librarian & author)
*Herbert Putnam (8th Librarian of Congress)
*S. R. Ranganathan
*Fremont Rider
*Jesse Shera
*Regina Smith (Jenkins Law Library)
*Ainsworth Rand Spofford (6th Librarian of Congress; 1825 - 1908)
*John G. Stephenson (5th Librarian of Congress)
*Suetonius (Roman historian & archivist)
*Peggy Sullivan
*Friedrich Sylburg (16th c. German scholar)
*Louis Timothee (first American librarian)
*Arnulfo Trejo (US Hispano-American librarian)
*Eva Verona
*George Watterston (3rd Librarian of Congress)
*Jessamyn West
*Patrick Wilson
*Justin Winsor (Harvard University librarian)
*Lawrence C. Wroth, at the John Carter Brown Library
*Ella Gaines Yates
*John Russell Young (7th Librarian of Congress, also notable as a journalist)
*Zenodotus - First superintendent of Library of Alexandria; noted scholar of the 3rd century B.C.

One-time librarians noted for other accomplishments

*Mohammad Khatami (Iranian president and scholar)
*Reinaldo Arenas (Cuban author)
*Georges Bataille (French writer)
*Ludwig Bechstein (German author)
*Hector Berlioz (French composer) (Librarian, Paris Conservatoire)
*Thomas Berger (US novelist)
*Arna Bontemps (French artist)
*Jorge Luis Borges (novelist)
*John Braine (British novelist)
*Laura Bush
*Callimachus (poet)
*Lewis Carroll (author)
*Giacomo Casanova
*Isaac Casaubon
*Cassiodorus
*Beverly Cleary (the novelist)
*Joanna Cole (children's book author & librarian)
*Ina Coolbrith (poet & librarian)
*Frank Coombs (US politician; also State Librarian of California 1898-1899)
*Gratia Countryman (Minneapolis librarian)
*Pierre François le Courayer (18th century theologian)
*John Dee (Renaissance magician)
*Hal Draper
*Marcel Duchamp
*Will Durant (historian)
*Eratosthenes
*Benjamin Franklin
*Edmund Gosse
*Ed Greenwood (author)
*Francis Hayman (English artist)
*Walter A. O'Brien (US politician; commissioned original version of the song "Charlie on the M.T.A.")
*Edward Singleton Holden (US astronomer)
*David Hume (philosopher)
*Hypatia
*Annette Curtis Klause, author of children's books
*Stanley Kunitz (former United States Poet Laureate; editor of Wilson Library Bulletin, 1927-1943)
*Madeleine L'Engle (20th century 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 century US poet & activist)
*Archibald MacLeish (author; Librarian of Congress, 1939-1944)
*Mao Zedong (Chinese revolutionary politician)
*Alan Noel Latimer Munby (English author)
*Andre Norton (Science-fiction author)
*Christopher Okigbo (Nigerian poet)
*Major Owens (U.S. House of Representatives/D-NY)
*Charles V. Park (Librarian at CMU)
*Coventry Patmore (19th century UK poet)
*Kit Pearson (Canadian writer; winner of the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature in 1997)
*Benjamin Peirce (logician)
*Per Petterson (Norwegian author)
*Charles Pickering (naturalist)
*Marcel Proust (French author)
*Philip Pullman (fantasy novelist)
*Sima Qian (Chinese historian)
*Greg Dean Schmitz (Online film journalist)
*Lynne Stewart (American lawyer)
*Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
*Anne Tyler (novelist)
*Angus Wilson (novelist)