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.
| Image | width=150px | Name ! | width=150px | Birth date ! | width=150px | Death date ! | Country | Archivist activity |
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| data-sort-value="1988-05-19" | May 19, 1988 | - | - | Archivist of Pakistani national songs from 1945 to present. | ||||
| data-sort-value="1892-02-16" | February 16, 1892 | data-sort-value="1966-07-19" | July 19, 1966 | Archivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962. | ||||
| data-sort-value="1827-12-05" | December 5, 1827 | data-sort-value="1910-02" | February, 1910 | Worked at the departmental archives of Aube. | ||||
| data-sort-value="1922-04-19" | April 19, 1922 | data-sort-value="2010-10-19" | October 19, 2010 | Worked at the Archives nationales. | ||||
| data-sort-value="" | January 5, 1585 | data-sort-value="" | November 17, 1659 | |||||
| data-sort-value="1873-04-08" | April 8, 1873 | data-sort-value="1949-01-31" | January 31, 1949 | |||||
| data-sort-value="1889-03-31" | March 31, 1889 | data-sort-value="1976-04-23" | April 23, 1976 | |||||
| Marcel Caya | data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Head of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1] | |||||
| data-sort-value="1959" | October 17, 1959 | data-sort-value="-" | ||||||
| data-sort-value="1837-07-18" | July 7, 1837 | data-sort-value="1915-02-23" | February 23, 1915 | |||||
| data-sort-value="1740-04-02" | April 2, 1740 | data-sort-value="1804-11-02" | November 2, 1804 | |||||
| data-sort-value="1953-09-07" | September 7, 1953 | data-sort-value="-" | 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. | |||||
| data-sort-value="1946" | June 6, 1947 | data-sort-value="2014" | May 12, 2014 | Author and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba.[2] | ||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Author and educator. Former university archivist at York University and instructor at University of Toronto Faculty of Information. | ||||||
| data-sort-value="1761-08-18" | August 18, 1761 | data-sort-value="1840-06-20" | June 20, 1840 | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Oxford University College archivist. | ||||||
| data-sort-value="1860-03-22" | March 22, 1860 | data-sort-value="1936-12-01" | December 1, 1936 | Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records. | ||||
| Jennifer Douglas | data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Professor, University of British Columbia iSchool | |||||
| data-sort-value="1842-12-08" | December 8, 1842 | data-sort-value="" | March 16 or 17, 1903 | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. | ||||||
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| data-sort-value="" | April 2, 1932 | data-sort-value="" | August 12, 2014 | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | August 4, 1932 | data-sort-value="" | October 19, 2003 | |||||
| data-sort-value="1945-12-31" | December 31, 1945 | data-sort-value="" | Archivist of the United States[3] | |||||
| data-sort-value="1878-01-6" | January 6, 1878 | data-sort-value="1958-08-03" | August 3, 1958 | Specialized in the US Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records. | ||||
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| data-sort-value="" | November 11, 1823 | data-sort-value="" | January 29, 1899 | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | August 8, 1832 | data-sort-value="" | August 25, 1897 | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | February 29, 1848 | data-sort-value="" | November 13, 1899 | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | October 12, 1884 | data-sort-value="" | September 9, 1955 | Development of cultural, theatrical and private archives at the Danish National Archives | ||||
| data-sort-value="1941-10-25" | October 25, 1941 | data-sort-value="-" | Worked at the Texas State Archives and taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He also published extensively on Texas history. | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | October 16, 1832 | data-sort-value="" | February 8, 1889 | |||||
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| data-sort-value="1947-03-08" | March 8, 1947 | data-sort-value="2011-09-06" | September 6, 2011 | Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg. | ||||
| data-sort-value="" | 1946 | data-sort-value="" | 2003 | Contributor to establishment of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD), descriptive standard used in Canada | ||||
| Judith Hornabrook | 1928 | 2011 | Chief Archivist of New Zealand (1972–1982) | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | September 19, 1859 | data-sort-value="" | September 28, 1937 | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | November 1, 1882 | data-sort-value="" | March 5, 1961 | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | 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 | ||||||
| data-sort-value="1960-10-22" | October 22, 1960 | data-sort-value="-" | Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library) | |||||
| data-sort-value="1949" | 1949 | data-sort-value="-" | Founder of Women Artists of Colour Index at the Women Artists' Slide Library and former Director of the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | October 5, 1827 | data-sort-value="" | February 17, 1901 | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | 1904 | data-sort-value="" | 1999 | Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948–1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967.[4] | ||||
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| data-sort-value="1914-11-13" | November 13, 1914 | data-sort-value="1977-01-13" | January 13, 1977 | French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. | ||||
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| data-sort-value="1970-11-08" | November 8, 1970 | data-sort-value="" | Archivist (audio/video) for the Grateful Dead rock band | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | First State Archivist in Western Australia | ||||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. | ||||||
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| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | 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) | ||||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | 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 | ||||||
| Anahera Morehu | Chief Archivist of New Zealand (2023–) | |||||||
| data-sort-value="1933-04-06" | April 6, 1933 | data-sort-value="2016-03-04" | 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. | ||||
| data-sort-value="1946-06-28" | June 28, 1946 | data-sort-value="2022-06-28" | 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. | ||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists | ||||||
| data-sort-value="1896-05-04" | May 4, 1896 | data-sort-value="1981-10-24" | October 24, 1981 | creator of Opera News, and founder of the Metropolitan Opera archives | ||||
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| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris | ||||||
| data-sort-value="1915-09-01" | data-sort-value="2011-08-25" | First director of the Offenbach Archival Depot | ||||||
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| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Archivist of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU). | ||||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Former Director General of MI5. | ||||||
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| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution. | ||||||
| data-sort-value="1970-09-13" | September 13, 1970 | data-sort-value="-" | 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 and GET LAMP. (See talk: ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack) | |||||
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| data-sort-value="1955" | 1955 | data-sort-value="-" | Preserved more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The contents were imported into Google's archives. | |||||
| data-sort-value="1929-11-25" | November 25, 1929 | data-sort-value="2012-12-14" | 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. | ||||
| data-sort-value="-" | data-sort-value="-" | She is an assistant professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies and an expert in Black archival studies. | ||||||
| data-sort-value="1959" | 1959 | data-sort-value="-" | She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. | |||||
| data-sort-value="1957" | 1957 | data-sort-value="-" | ||||||
| Hugh Taylor | 1920 | 2005 | Author and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.[5] | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris | ||||||
| 1975 | Directs the Rhizome digital preservation program, which oversees 2000+ born-digital artworks, as well as the creation of a suite of archiving tools. | |||||||
| data-sort-value=1840-10-24"" | October 24, 1840 | data-sort-value="1914-11-22" | November 22, 1914 | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris. | ||||
| data-sort-value="1805-05-10" | May 10, 1805 | data-sort-value="1886-12-04" | December 4, 1886 | Head of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire. | ||||
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| data-sort-value="1936" | 1936 | data-sort-value="" | 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 | Established Tuvalu's archive in 1978. Archivist for Government of Hong Kong (1986–1997). Archivist at British royal family archive (2001–2006) | |||||
| data-sort-value="" | 1943 | data-sort-value="" | Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada[6] | |||||
| data-sort-value="1925" | 1925 | data-sort-value="2017-03-05" | March 5, 2017 | Expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | ||||
| data-sort-value="" | data-sort-value="" | Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum | ||||||
| data-sort-value="1865-08-07" | August 7, 1865 | data-sort-value="1935-02-04" | February 7, 1935 | helped guide the widespread establishment of government archives throughout the United States | ||||
| 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 | ||||||