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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

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Image 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.[1][2]
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.[3]
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
Charles Bruce Fergusson February 14, 1911 September 20, 1978 Canada Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia (1956–1977)
David Ferriero December 31, 1945 United States Archivist of the United States[4]
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
Cropped portrait of Judith Hornabrook 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
Stella Maude Jones January 12, 1889 January 24, 1955

Territory of Hawaii

First official archivist for the Territory of Hawaii starting in 1931[5]
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.[6]
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
Portrait of Anahera Morehu
 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.
T. R. Schellenberg United States
Soemartini 1930 Indonesia Served as Chief of the National Archives of Indonesia for over two decades.
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.[7]
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[8]
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
Scanned newspaper clipping of portrait of Alexander Fraser
 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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ archivistsdotca (2015-06-01), ACA Oral History - Marcel Caya, retrieved 2017-01-31
  2. ^ "ACA Award Recipient Biographies |". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  3. ^ Nesmith, Tom (2015-04-29). "Terry Cook, 1947–2014". Archivaria. 79: 207–213. ISSN 1923-6409.
  4. ^ "David Ferriero Biography". U.S. National Archives. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  5. ^ "Stella Jones, Territorial Archivist, Dies at 66". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. January 25, 1955. p. A1, A3. Retrieved March 29, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  7. ^ Cook, Terry (2006-09-25). "Hugh A. Taylor, 1920-2005". Archivaria. 60. ISSN 1923-6409.
  8. ^ "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
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