List of archivists

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 Absar Ahmed May 19, 1988 - Archivist of Pakistani national songs from 1945 to present. Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda February 16, 1892 July 19, 1966 Archivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962. Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville December 5, 1827 February, 1910 Worked at the departmental archives of Aube. Olga Dmitrievna Bagalei-Tatarinova 18901942 Saved Kharkiv library assets from Nazis Robert-Henri Bautier April 19, 1922 October 19, 2010 Worked at the Archives nationales. Bep Bijtelaar 18981978 Saved Old Church artifacts from Nazis Baldassarre Bonifacio January 5, 1585 November 17, 1659 Henri Bourde de La Rogerie April 8, 1873 January 31, 1949 Charles Braibant March 31, 1889 April 23, 1976 Marcel Caya Head of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Marie-Anne Chabin October 17, 1959 Émile Campardon July 7, 1837 February 23, 1915 Armand-Gaston Camus April 2, 1740 November 2, 1804 Paul Conway September 7, 1953 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 Author and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba. Barbara L. Craig Author and educator. Former university archivist at York University and instructor at University of Toronto Faculty of Information. Pierre Claude François Daunou August 18, 1761June 20, 1840 Robin Darwall-Smith Oxford University College archivist. Arthur Doughty March 22, 1860 December 1, 1936 Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records. Jennifer Douglas Professor, University of British Columbia iSchool Jules Doinel December 8, 1842 March 16 or 17, 1903 Luciana Duranti Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. Terry Eastwood 1943 Jean Favier April 2, 1932 August 12, 2014 Lucie Favier August 4, 1932 October 19, 2003 Charles Bruce Fergusson February 14, 1911 September 20, 1978 Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia (1956–1977) David Ferriero December 31, 1945 Archivist of the United States Margaret M. H. Finch January 6, 1878 August 3, 1958 Specialized in the US Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records. Helen Forde Robert Fruin November 11, 1823January 29, 1899 Léon Gautier August 8, 1832August 25, 1897 Arthur Giry February 29, 1848November 13, 1899 Henny Glarbo October 12, 1884September 9, 1955 Development of cultural, theatrical and private archives at the Danish National Archives David B. Gracy II October 25, 1941 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 Verne Harris Michael S. Hart March 8, 1947 September 6, 2011 Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg. Kent Haworth 1946 2003 Contributor to establishment of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD), descriptive standard used in CanadaJudith HornabrookOctober 26, 1928July 3, 2011Chief Archivist of New Zealand (1972–1982) J. Franklin Jameson September 19, 1859 September 28, 1937 Hilary Jenkinson November 1, 1882 March 5, 1961 Stella Maude Jones January 12, 1889 January 24, 1955 First official archivist for the Territory of Hawaii starting in 1931"Stella Jones, Territorial Archivist, Dies at 66". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. January 25, 1955. p. A1, A3. Retrieved March 29, 2025 – via Newspapers.com. Phyllis Mander-Jones January 2, 1896 February 19, 1984 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 Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library) Rita Keegan 1949 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, 1827February 17, 1901 William Kaye Lamb 1904 1999 Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948–1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967. Gustave Lanctot Charles-Victor Langlois Henri Langlois November 13, 1914 January 13, 1977 French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. Abel Lefranc Waldo Gifford Leland David Lemieux November 8, 1970 Archivist (audio/video) for the Grateful Dead rock band Mollie Lukis August 13, 1912 August 1, 2009 First State Archivist in Western Australia Heather MacNeil Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. Joseph Marmette Paul Mawhinney 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 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 ModelHermine MoquetteApril 25, 1869December 17, 1945Rotterdam Municipal ArchivesAnahera MorehuChief Archivist of New Zealand (2023–) P. K. Nair April 6, 1933 March 4, 2016 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 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 Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists Mary Ellis Peltz May 4, 1896 October 24, 1981 creator of Opera News, and founder of the Metropolitan Opera archives Juan Menéndez Pidal Régine Pernoud Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris Seymour Pomrenze First director of the Offenbach Archival Depot Ernst Posner Mila Rechcigl Archivist of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU). Stella Rimington Former Director General of MI5. Helen Willa Samuels Archivist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Celia Sánchez Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution. Jason Scott Sadofsky September 13, 1970 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 Soemartini 1930 Served as Chief of the National Archives of Indonesia for over two decades. Henry Spencer 1955 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 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 She is an assistant professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies and an expert in Black archival studies. Shelley Sweeney 1959 She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. Gerhard Tausche 1957 Hugh Taylor 1920 2005 Author and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. Édith Thomas Worked at the Archives nationales in ParisTiny Tim1932Musical archivist 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 Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris.Rinskje VisscherDecember 10, 1868March 26, 1950 First female municipal archivist in the Netherlands Natalis de Wailly May 10, 1805 December 4, 1886 Head of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire. Jean-Pierre Wallot May 22, 1935 August 30, 2010 Former National Archivist of Canada Edward Weldon 1936 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 Wilson19432006Established 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 Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada Gladys Hansen 1925 March 5, 2017 Expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake Meredith Evans Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Herman Vandenburg Ames August 7, 1865 February 7, 1935 helped guide the widespread establishment of government archives throughout the United StatesAlexander Fraser (archivist)18601936First Provincial Archivist of Ontario (1903–1935) Laureano Macedo 1978portuguese scholar.Rebecka Sheffield1976LGBTQ2+ community-based archivesGuddu Archivist of film posters and photographs

See also List of female archivists Archival science List of archives List of national archives List of digital preservation initiatives

References

External links Society of American Archivists website Australian Society of Archivists website International Council on Archives