List of domestic workers explained
This list of domestic workers contains people who have worked as household servants or staff who have become notable, either for their domestic work career or for a subsequent career in another field, such as writing or art.
- Abdul Karim (the Munshi), servant of Queen Victoria of Great Britain
- Céleste Albaret, housekeeper of Marcel Proust
- Gladys Aylward, maid, afterwards missionary
- Alice Ayres, nursemaid honoured for her bravery in rescuing the children in her care from a house fire
- Sarah Balabagan
- Francis Barber with Samuel Johnson became residual heir.
- Fonzworth Bentley
- Emily Blatchley, governess and missionary
- Sophie Brzeska, governess and writer
- Paul Burrell, butler to Diana, Princess of Wales
- Elizabeth Canning, maidservant in London
- Princess Caraboo (Mary Baker), English imposter
- Flor Contemplacion, executed for murder
- Elizabeth Cotten, musician, working for Charles Seeger the ethnomusicologist
- Hannah Cullwick, maid to A. J. Munby
- Lisette Denison Forth, maid and philanthropist
- Alonzo Fields, butler at the White House
- Caroline Herschel, astronomer (worked as a domestic servant in her father's household until his death)
- Paul Hogan, butler
- Bridget Holmes, chambermaid to kings of England
- Hélène Jégado, serial killer
- Dora Lee Jones, trade unionist
- Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of the King of Siam
- Thérèse Levasseur, laundress and chambermaid
- Margaret Maher, maid to Emily Dickinson
- Moa Martinson, author of proletarian literature, kitchen maid
- Ellen More (floruit circa 1500–1535), an African servant at the Scottish court
- Notburga, German saint, patron of hired hands
- Papin sisters, murderers
- Lillian Rogers Parks, housemaid and seamstress in the White House
- Rose Porteous, Lang Hancock's maid (afterwards his wife)
- Margaret Powell, maid and writer
- Isabel Grenfell Quallo, domestic worker and community activist
- Casimira Rodríguez, trade unionist and politician
- Margaret Rogers, maid at the White House
- Charles Spence, Scottish poet, stonemason and footman
- Deb Willet, maid in the household of Samuel Pepys
- Dorothy Bolden, domestic worker, community activist and President of the National Domestic Workers Union - Atlanta, Georgia
