List of female librarians explained

This is a list of female librarians.

NameDescriptionBirthDeathImage
Ada AdlerDanish classical scholar1878-02-181946-12-28
Adelaide HasseAmerican librarian1868-09-131953-07-07
American academic librarian18601936-04-24
Agnes InglisAmerican anarchist1870-12-031952-01-30
Alia Muhammad BakerIraqi librarian
Alice Dugged CaryAfrican-American educator and librarian18591941-09-25
Alice Ethel MinchinTeacher, librarian - New Zealand1889-11-051966-07-26
Alice Lougee HagemeyerAmerican librarian1934
Alice ProchaskaCurator, archivist, librarian, and university administrator - UK1947-07-12
Alice S. TylerAmerican librarian and advocate1859-04-271944-04-18
Alisz GoriuppLibrarian, media historian and bibliographer from Hungary1894-08-181979-02-04
Allie Beth MartinAmerican librarian1931-12-271976-04-11
Alma DawsonAmerican librarianship scholar
Alma Smith JacobsAmerican librarian1916-11-211997-12-18
Althea WarrenAmerican; director of the LA Public Library, president of the American Library Association1866-12-181958-12-19
Amalia Kahana-CarmonIsraeli writer1926
Amelia Gayle GorgasAmerican librarian1826-06-011913-01-03
Ana Rosa NuñezCuban writer1926-07-111999-08-02
Ana Santos AramburoSpanish librarian1957-01-22
Anabel TorresColombian writer1948-12-26
Ángela García RivesSpanish librarian1891-06-021968 or later
Anita ColemanAmerican librarian
Ann Allen ShockleyAmerican novelist and short-story writer1927
Ann HartnessAmerican librarian1936-03-11
Ann Shumelda OkersonAmerican librarian1950
Ann WolpertAmerican librarian1943-10-012013-10-02
Anna Harriet HeyerAmerican librarian, musicologist and music educator1909-08-302002-08-12
Anne HartCanadian author specialising in biographies1935-10-07
Anne JarvisAmerican academic and librarian1962-07-31
Anne SpencerAmerican poet1882-02-061975-07-27
Anne Thaxter EatonAmerican author, book reviewer and children's librarian1881-05-081971-05-05
Annette Curtis KlauseAmerican writer and librarian1953-06-23
Annette Lewis PhinazeeAmerican librarian1920-07-231983-09-17
Annie Carroll MooreAmerican writer1871-07-121961-01-20
Annie Constance TockerNew Zealand librarian, Methodist deaconess, nurse, child welfare officer18891980
Annie Maude BlackettNew Zealand librarian1889-07-301956-06-12
Arlene MoselAmerican children's librarian, educator, and writer1921-08-271996
Audre LordeAmerican writer and activist1934-02-181992-11-17
1992-11-11
Augusta Braxton BakerAmerican librarian1911-04-011998-02-23
Augusta ClarkAmerican politician1932-03-052013-10-13
Aurora Díaz-Plaja i ContestíSpanish writer1913-08-072003-12-08
Barbara FisterAmerican writer1954
Barbara TillettAmerican librarian1946
Beatrice DoranIrish librarian
Beatrice WinserAmerican librarian1869-03-111947-09-14
Belle da Costa GreeneAmerican librarian1883-12-131950-05-10
Berta GolobSlovene writer and poet1932-08-09
Beryl May DentBritish librarian and mathematical physicist1900-05-101977-08-09
Bess ThomasAustralian librarian1892-03-141968-03-07
Bessie Boehm MooreAmerican librarian1902-08-021995-10-24
Betty Mary GoettingAmerican women's rights activist18971980
Brenda RawnsleyBritish art patron, military writer, educationist, librarian1916-07-312007-07-25
Brooke E. SheldonAmerican librarian1931-08-292013-02-11
Camila AlireAmerican librarian, professor
Camilla GryskiCanadian writer
Camille CallisonIndigenous librarian, archivist, academic, and cultural activist who is a member of the Tsesk iye (Crow) Clan of the Tahltan Nation
Carla HaydenAmerican librarian, 14th Librarian of Congress1952-08-10
Carol KuhlthauAmerican educator1937-12-02
Caroline HewinsAmerican librarian1846-10-101926-11-04
Carolyn HarrisAmerican librarian19481994
Catherine N. NortonAmerican librarian19412014-12-22
Catherine ReillyBritish bibliographer and anthologist1925-04-042005-09-26
Celeste WestAmerican librarian1942-11-242008-01-03
Charlemae Hill RollinsAmerican librarian1897-06-201979-02-03
Claire Huchet BishopAmerican children's writer18991993-03-13
Clara BreedAmerican librarian1906-03-191994-09-08
Clara Stanton JonesAmerican librarian1913-05-142012-09-30
Clara Whitehill HuntAmerican librarian18711958
Clare B. DunkleAmerican writer1964-06-11
Claudia McNeilAmerican actress1917-08-131993-11-25
Constance Mabel WinchellAmerican librarian1896-11-021983-05-23
Cynthia RylantAmerican author of children's books and librarian1954-06-06
Dale DeArmondAmerican artist1914-07-022006-11-21
Deanna B. MarcumAmerican librarian1946-08-052022-08-16
Dina Abramowiczlibrarian at YIVO; Yiddish language expert19092000
American librarian1973
Dolores Elizabeth “Lola” Chávez de ArmijoAmerican librarian18581929
Dolors Lamarca i MorellSpanish librarian1943-10-19
Doris GatesAmerican children's writer, librarian1901-11-261987-09-03
Dorothy B. PorterAmerican librarian1905-05-251995-12-17
Dorothy M. CroslandAmerican librarian1903-09-131983-03-24
Dorothy M. ReederAmerican librarian, Directrice of The American Library in Paris (1936-1941)1902-06-211957-03-15
Dorothy Mary Neal WhiteLibrarian, writer - New Zealand19151995-02-12
Edith DitmasBritish archivist, historian, writer18961986-02-28
Edith GuerrierAmerican librarian18701958
Edwina WhitneyAmerican librarian1868-02-261970-09-03
Effie Louise PowerAmerican librarian1873-02-121969-10-08
Effie Morris1921-04-202009-11-09
Eileen ColwellBritish librarian1904-06-162002-09-17
Eintou Pearl SpringerTrinidad and Tobago writer1944-11-24
Elaine DidierAmerican, director of Ford library and museum1948-01-01
Elaine SvenoniusAmerican librarian1933-01-09
Eleanor EstesAmerican children's writer1906-05-091988-07-15
Electra Collins Doren18611927
Elena DabijaMoldovan librarian and activist
Eleonora Fonseca PimentelRoyal librarian to the Queen of Naples in 17971752-01-131799-08-20
Eliza Atkins GleasonAfrican-American librarian1909-12-152009-12-15
Elizabeth FutasAmerican librarian1944-05-081995-02-06
Elizabeth Gould DavisAmerican writer19101974
Elizabeth H. WestAmerican librarian1873-03-231948-01-04
Elizabeth HeapsBritish librarian
Elizabeth JenningsBritish librarian, poet1926-07-022001-01-25
Elizabeth Lee BloomsteinAmerican history professor, university librarian, club woman, and suffragist1859-01-081927-01-02
Elizabeth NesbittAmerican librarian, library science educator and author of children's books1897-04-151977-08-17
Elizabeth SmitherNew Zealand poet1941-09-15
Ella Gaines YatesAmerican librarian19272006
Emily Wheelock ReedAmerican librarian19102000-05-19
Ena NoëlAustralian teacher, librarian19102003
Enid KentAmerican actress1945-01-14
Ethelwyn ManningAmerican librarian1885-11-231972-06-01
Éva Circé-CôtéCanadian journalist18711949-05-04
Eva VeronaCroatian librarian and information scientist1905-02-011996-05-19
Fiona KelleghanAmerican writer1965-04-21
Flora Belle LudingtonAmerican librarian and author1898-11-121967-03
Florence MendheimAmerican librarian18991984
Florence Ward StilesAmerican architect and librarian18971981
Frances Clarke SayersAmerican librarian1897-09-041989-06-24
Frances E. HenneAmerican librarian1906-10-111985-12-21
Frances Lander SpainAmerican librarian1903-03-151999-01-20
Frances WoodEnglish historian and sinologist1948
Francess LantzAmerican writer1952-08-272004-11-22
Fríða Á. SigurðardóttirIcelandic writer1940-12-102010-05-07
Gene JosephWet'suwet'en Nadleh'dena First Nations librarian
Gerdina Hendrika KurtzDutch writer1899-11-151989-12-17
Gertrude Kayaga MulindwaUgandan librarian1952
Gloria Pérez-SalmerónSpanish librarian1958-04-05
Gloriana St. ClairAmerican librarian1939
Gratia CountrymanAmerican librarian1866-11-261953-07-26
Greta LinderSwedish librarian1888-05-151963-10-19
Gretchen McCordAmerican librarian and lawyer specialising in copyright issues in libraries
Gunilla HerdenbergSwedish librarian1956-02-18
Gwendolyn CruzatAmerican medical Librarian
Hannah AtkinsAmerican politician1923-11-012010-06-17
Hannah Packard JamesAmerican librarian18351903
Hannah LogasaAmerican librarian18791967
Harriet KlausnerAmerican book reviewer1952-05-202015-10-15
Helaine SelinAmerican librarian1946
Helen E. HainesAmerican librarian18721961
Helen GanserAmerican librarian18911990
Helen MacInnes20th-century Scottish-American author and librarian1907-10-071985-09-20
Helen MarotAmerican librarian and workers' rights activist1865-06-091940-06-03
Helen SangerAmerican librarian1923-09-212020-07-20
Helen Thornton GeerAmerican librarian1903-01-071983
Helen WallisBritish maritime historian1924-08-171995-02-07
Helena Asamoah-HassanGhanaian librarian1950s
Helga Josephine ZinnbauerAustralian community worker and librarian1909-02-241980-12-16
Henrietta M. SmithAmerican academic, children's librarian1922-05-02
Henriette AvramAmerican computer programmer and system analyst; developed the MARC formatting used in libraries1919-10-072006-04-22
Hilari BellAmerican writer and librarian1958
Ida LeesonAustralian librarian1885-02-111964-01-22
Ilona HubayHungarian librarian1902-07-011982-06-20
Ina CoolbrithAmerican poet, writer, and librarian1841-03-101928-02-29
Inezita BarrosoBrazilian singer-songwriter1925-03-042015-03-08
Ingetraut DahlbergGerman philosopher, information scientist and librarian1927-02-20
Ingrid ParentCanadian librarian
Iris FalcamFederated States of Micronesia librarian1938-08-252010-02-19
Isadore Gilbert MudgeAmerican librarian1875-03-141957-05-16
Jacqueline SturmNew Zealand poet1927-05-172009-12-30
Jane, Lady RobertsBritish librarian1949-09-042021-06-29
Janet BackhouseEnglish scholar1938-02-082004-11-03
Janet Brennan CroftAmerican academic and writer1961
Janet DoeAmerican medical librarian1895-04-111985-11-17
Janet M. SuzukiAmerican librarian19431987
Jean Armour PollyAmerican librarian
Jean ArnotAustralian librarian, trade unionist and feminist1903-04-231995-09-27
Jean Chandler SmithAmerican librarian19181999
Jean Lisette AroesteAmerican screenwriter1932-10-02
Jeannette Howard FosterAmerican writer1895-11-031981-07-26
Jeltje van NieuwenhovenDutch politician and librarian1943-08-02
Jessamyn WestAmerican librarian1968-09-05
Jo Giæver TenfjordChildren's writer1918-08-132007-06-12
Joan AiroldiAmerican librarian
Joan MondaleSecond Lady of the United States from 1977 until 19811930-08-082014-02-03
Joana Raspall i JuanolaSpanish poet1913-07-012013-12-04
Joanna ColeAmerican children's books author1944-08-11
Josephine PhelanWriter and librarian19051979
Joyce FardellAustralian teacher librarian and advocate for children's literature19232007
Juana CapdevielleSpanish educator and librarian1905-08-121936-08-18
Judith HoffbergAmerican art curator19342009-01-16
Judith KrugLibrarian and freedom of speech proponent1940-03-152009-04-11
Judith NadlerAmerican librarian
Judy YungAmerican academic1946
South African librarian19562019
Julia SauerAmerican children's writer1891-04-081983-06-26
Juliane KoepckeBiologist and sole survivor of LANSA Flight 5081954-10-10
Juliet BarkerBritish historian1958
Juliette Hampton MorganAmerican librarian1914-02-211957-07-16
Kari GjestebyNorwegian politician1947-05-16
Kate SteinitzAmerican art historian1889-08-021975-04-07
Katharine L SharpAmerican writer1865-05-251914-06-01
Katherine LinesBritish writer1902-09-241988-12-24
Kathleen de la Peña McCookAmerican librarian
Kathleen NunneleyNew Zealand tennis player1872-09-161956-09-28
Kathleen SeidelAmerican blogger
Kirsten EngelstadNorwegian librarian1940-03-11
Kristiina KolehmainenFinnish librarian1956-11-212012-03-27
Laura Amy SchlitzAmerican children's author1955-05-28
Laura BushFirst Lady of the United States from 2001 to 20091946-11-04
Laura QuilterAmerican feminist1968-10-01
Leaonead Pack Drain-BaileyAmerican librarian1906-01-281983-03-29
Letitia Dunbar-HarrisonIrish librarian1906-02-041994
Lillian H. SmithCanadian children's librarian1887-03-171983-01-05
Linda EastmanAmerican librarian18671963
Linnie Marsh WolfeAmerican librarian1881-01-081945-09-15
Lois BlountAmerican teacher, historian, librarian and museum curator1896-05-241980-09-02
Lois Mai ChanAmerican librarian, author, and professor1934-072014-08-20
Loleta FyanAmerican librarian1894-05-141990-03-15
Loriene RoyAmerican librarian
Lotsee PattersonAmerican librarian1931
Louise Noëlle MalclèsFrench bibliographer and librarian 1899-09-201977-03-27
Louise S. RobbinsAmerican historian
Lucile M. MorschLibrarian1906-01-211972-07-03
Lucy Toulmin SmithAnglo-American antiquarian scholar and librarian1838-11-211911-12-18
Luraine TanseyAmerican librarian1918-01-292014-06-18
Lynne BrindleyBritish professional librarian1950-07-02
Lynne M. ThomasAmerican librarian and editor1974
Madeleine Laurain-PortemerFrench librarian1917-06-071996-08-15
Mamah BorthwickAmerican translator1869-06-191914-08-15
Marcia C. NoyesAmerican medical librarian18691946
Margaret A. EdwardsAmerican librarian1902-10-231988-04-19
Margaret AlingtonHistorian1920-09-302012-10-15
Margaret Cross NortonFirst Illinois State Archivist1891-07-071984-05-21
Margaret Elizabeth EganAmerican librarian1905-03-141959-01-26
Margaret Hayes GrazierAmerican librarian1916-12-191999-07-09
Margaret HerrickAmerican librarian1902-09-271976-06-21
Margaret MahyNew Zealand children's writer1936-03-212012-07-23
Margaret MannAmerican pioneer in the field of library science, faculty at University of Michigan from 1926 to 1938, where she was a founding faculty member in the department of library science.1873-04-091960-08-22
Margaret Ridley CharltonCanadian librarian18581931-05-31
Margaret ScogginAmerican librarian1905-04-141968-07-11
Margaret WindeyerAustralian librarian and feminist1866-11-241939-08-11
Margaret HutchinsAmerican librarian and professor at Columbia University1884-09-211961-01-04
Margareta BergmanSwedish novelist1922-08-222006-09-27
Maria LimanskayaRussian librarian and military police1924-04-12
Maria Luisa Monteiro da CunhaBrazilian librarian1908-09-141980-07-28
Maria MitchellAmerican astronomer1818-08-011889-06-28
María MolinerSpanish lexicographer1900-03-301981-01-21
Maria Verger18921983
Marianne ScottCanadian librarian1928-12-04
Marilla Waite FreemanAmerican librarian1871-02-211961-10-29
Marjorie BarnardAustralian novelist and short story writer, critic and historian1897-08-161987-05-08
Marjorie CottonAustralian librarian19132003-02-02
Martha B. GouldAmerican librarian
Martha Larsen JahnNorwegian politician1875-04-171954-08-02
Martha P. CoteraMexican feminist1938-01-17
Mary A. KingsburyAmerican school library pioneer1865-07-031958-08-16
Mary Ann ShafferUnited States writer, editor and bookshop worker1934-12-132008-02-16
Mary BrunnerAmerican academic and convicted criminal1943-12-17
Mary Caffrey LowAmerican librarian and educator18501926-03-04
Mary Cutler FairchildAmerican librarian18551921
Mary Eileen AhernAmerican librarian, a leader of the modern library movement, and an early organizer of libraries in the United States1860-10-011938-05-22
Mary Elizabeth WoodAmerican librarian and missionary in China1861-08-221931-05-01
Mary Ellinor Lucy ArcherAustralian librarian1893-11-131979-05-03
Mary Emma AllisonAmerican school librarian who co-created Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in 19501917-03-052010-10-27
Mary FoyAmerican librarian1862-07-131962-02-21
Mary Frances IsomAmerican librarian1865-02-271920-04-15
Mary Greig CampbellNew Zealand librarian and Quaker1907-11-171989-04-22
Mary Josephine BoothAmerican librarian18761965
Mary Lemist TitcombAmerican librarian18521932
Mary Letitia JonesAmerican librarian1865
Mary Myrtle TyeAmerican medical librarian18861933
Mary O. KryszakAmerican politician1875-07-271945-07-16
Mary Peacock DouglasAmerican librarian and author1903-02-081970-01-29
Mary SwanCanadian writer
Mary Virginia GaverAmerican librarian1906-12-101991-12-31
Mary Wright PlummerAmerican librarian, former president of the American Library Association1856-03-081916-09-21
Matilda Cooke MaltbyAmerican librarian1841-12-011912-03-25
American public librarian1870-12-071943-12-28
Maxine BellAmerican librarian, politician1931-08-06
May Hill ArbuthnotAmerican educator and writer1884-08-271969-10-02
Mayme Agnew ClaytonAmerican librarian1923-08-042006-10-13
Mercè CanelaSpanish translator and writer1956
Meredith Ann PierceAmerican writer1958-07-05
Michelle P. BrownBritish academic
Michelle ZaffinoAmerican writer1972-09-13
Milagros del CorralSpanish librarian1945
Mildred L. BatchelderAmerican librarian1901-09-071998-08-25
Mildred M. JordanAmerican medical librarian1965-10-07
Minnie Earl SearsAmerican librarian1873-11-171933-11-28
Miriam BravermanAmerican librarian19202002
Miriam LichtheimIsraeli Egyptologist1914-05-032004-03-27
Misty MasseyAmerican writer
Mollie Huston LeeAmerican librarian1907-01-181982-01-26
Mollie LukisAustralian archivist and women's rights activist1912-08-132009-08-01
Nadezhda KrupskayaRussian revolutionary and politician1869-02-261939-02-27
Nancy PearlAmerican librarian and writer1945-01-12
Natalie CeeneyBritish businessperson1971-08-22
Natalya GorbanevskayaRussian poet, translator, and civil rights activist1936-05-262013-11-29
Nella LarsenAmerican novelist, librarian, nurse1891-04-131964-03-30
Nita KibbleAustralian librarian18791962-02-04
Noémi-Noire OurselLibrarian and biographer1847-10-151901s
Nola Leigh MillarLibrarian, theatre director, critic and administrator1913-02-181974-01-20
Nora NilandIrish librarian1913-03-261988-12-29
Noushafarin AnsariIranian scholar1939
Olinta Ariosa MoralesCuban librarian19211999
Ona ŠimaitėLithuanian librarian, activist, and Holocaust survivor1894-01-061970-01-17
Paloma EfronArgentine radio and television journalist and jazz singer19121977-09-03
Pamela DarlingAmerican librarian1943
Pamela MorsiAmerican writer of romance novels1951-03-12
Parvin E'tesamiIranian poet1907-03-161941-04-05
Pat RaffertyIrish librarian
Pat SouthernRoman historian1948-06-22
Patricia BattinAmerican librarian, first president of Commission on Preservation and Access1929-06-02
Patricia Swift BlalockAmerican librarian and human rights activist1914-05-092011-09-07
Peggy SullivanAmerican librarian
Phyllis RichmondAmerinan librarian and historian of science19211997-10-06
Prudenciana CruzFilipino librarian1943-05-19
Pura BelpréPuerto Rican librarian and writer1899-02-021982
Regina M. AndersonAfrican-American playwright and librarian. She was of Native American, Jewish, East Indian, Swedish, and other European ancestry 1901-05-211993-02-05
Ricarda HuchGerman writer1864-07-181947-11-17
Róisín WalshDublin's first chief librarian1889-03-241949-06-25
Rodica AvasiloaieMoldavan writer1949-04-02
Rosa LeveroniSpanish poet19101985
1985-08-04
Rosa M. AbellaCuban exile1920-02-132007-04-02
Ruth BoldenAmerican activist19102004
Ruth BrownAmerican librarian1891-07-261975
Ruth Edna KelleyAmerican librarian1893-04-081982-03-04
Ruth FranceNew Zealand librarian, poet and novelist1913-06-121968-08-19
Ruth GayJewish writer1922
1922-10-19
2006
2006-05-09
Ruth RappaportAmerican librarian1923-05-272010
Ruth SavordAmerican librarian1894-11-021966-02-25
Ruth W. BrownAmerican librarian1891-07-261975
Sadie Peterson DelaneyAmerican librarian1889-02-261958-05-04
Sara MyersAmerican librarian
Sara RyanAmerican writer1971
Sara W. MahanAmerican politician1870-02-261966-11-01
Sarah B. AskewAmerican public librarian1877-02-151942-10-20
Sarah C.N. BogleAmerican librarian1870-11-171932-01-11
Sarah Rees BrennanIrish children's writer1983-09-21
Sarah ThomasAmerican librarian
Sarah TyackeBritish historian and archivist1945-09-29
Saša VegriSlovene poet1934-02-122010-08-29
Shanti MishraNepalese librarian, writer, lecturer1938-06-222019-05-15
Shirley BarkerAmerican writer1911-04-041965-11-18
Sister Gregory KirkusEnglish Roman Catholic nun, academic1910-11-092007-08-30
Sorche Nic LeodhasAmerican children's writer18981969
Susan PatronAmerican children's book author1948
Susan T. SommerAmerican librarian1935-01-072008-03-04
Susan WhitfieldEnglish historian
Suzanne BrietFrench librarian1894-02-011989-02-13
Suzy CoveyAmerican comic book scholar1939-10-272007-10-17
Sylvia ArthurGhanaian literary curator
Tatjana Aparac-JelušićCroatian librarian1948-07-10
Teresa Andrés ZamoraSpanish librarian19071946-07-05
Tessa KelsoAmerican librarian18631933
Thea WhiteAmerican actress1940-06-152021-07-31
Theodora Kimball HubbardAmerican librarian18871935
Theresa BreslinScottish children's writer1947
Theresa ElmendorfAmerican librarian1855-11-011932-09-04
Valborg PlatouNorwegian librarian 1839-08-291928-12-29
Valentine BrittenBritish librarian
Valfrid PalmgrenSwedish politician1877-06-031967-12-06
Vera MacLeavyArchivist of the Moravian Church in Jamaica 1957–19861919-09-252008-07-20
Vera OsoianuMoldovan writer1949-04-02
Vicki MyronAmerican writer1947
Virginia HavilandAmerican librarian and writer1911-05-211988-01-06
Virginia Lacy JonesAmerican librarian1912-06-251984-12-03
Virginia Proctor Powell FlorenceAmerican historian1897-10-011991
Vivian G. HarshAmerican librarian: archivist, creator of the Vivian G. Harsh Collection of African American History at the Chicago Public Library1890-05-271960-08-17
Wenche BlombergNorwegian children's writer1943-06-23
Wilhelmina Sherriff BainNew Zealand teacher, librarian, feminist, peace activist and writer1848-09-051944-01-26
Willye DennisAmerican politician in Florida1926-03-142012-03-09
Winarti PartaningratIndonesian government official1922-09-211978-05-08
Yolanda RetterAmerican activist19482007-08-18
Yvonne Dionnefirst-born of the Dionne quintuplets, five identical sisters1934-05-282001-06-23
Yvonne OddonFrench resistance member1902-06-181982-09-07
Zoia HornAmerican librarian1908-03-142014-07-12
Gladys HansenAmerican librarian and archivist, an expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake19252017-03-05

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