List of female librarians

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Name Description Birth Death Country Image
Ada Adler Danish classical scholar 1878-02-18 1946-12-28 Denmark
Adelaide Hasse American librarian 1868-09-13 1953-07-07 United States of America
Agnes Inglis American anarchist 1870-12-03 1952-01-30 United States of America
Alia Muhammad Baker Iraqi librarian Iraq
Alice Ethel Minchin Teacher, librarian 1889-11-05 1966-07-26 New Zealand
Alice Lougee Hagemeyer deaf American librarian 1934
Alice Prochaska Curator, archivist, librarian, and university administrator 1947-07-12
Alice S. Tyler American librarian and advocate 1859-04-27 1944-04-18
Alisz Goriupp librarian, media historian and bibliographer from Hungary 1894-08-18 1979-02-04
Allie Beth Martin American librarian 1931-12-27 1976-04-11
Alma Dawson American librarianship scholar United States of America
Alma Smith Jacobs American librarian 1916-11-21 1997-12-18
Althea Warren director of the Los Angeles Public Library, president of the American Library Association 1866-12-18 1958-12-19 United States of America
Amalia Kahana-Carmon Israeli writer 1926
Amelia Gayle Gorgas Librarian 1826-06-01 1913-01-03 United States of America
Ana Rosa Nuñez Cuban writer 1926-07-11 1999-08-02 Cuba
Anabel Torres Colombian writer 1948-12-26 Colombia
Anita Coleman American librarian
Ann Hartness American librarian 1936-03-11
Ann Shumelda Okerson American librarian 1950
Ann Wolpert American librarian 1943-10-01 2013-10-02
Anna Harriet Heyer American librarian, musicologist and music educator 1909-08-30 2002-08-12 United States of America
Anna Poray Holocaust researcher 1919-02-10 2013-07-25
Annabel Teh Gallop Museum curator
Anne Hart Canadian author specialising in biographies. 1935-10-07
Anne Jarvis Academic librarian 1962-07-31 Ireland
Anne Spencer poet 1882-02-06 1975-07-27 United States of America
Annette Curtis Klause American writer and librarian 1953-06-23 United States of America
Annette Lewis Phinazee American librarian 1920-07-23 1983-09-17
Annie Carroll Moore American writer 1871-07-12 1961-01-20 United States of America
Annie Constance Tocker Librarian, Methodist deaconess, nurse, child welfare officer 1889 1980 New Zealand
Annie Maude Blackett Librarian 1889-07-30 1956-06-12 New Zealand
Arlene Mosel American children's librarian, educator, and writer 1921-08-27 1996 United States of America
Audre Lorde Writer and activist 1934-02-18 1992-11-17
1992-11-11
United States of America
Augusta Braxton Baker American librarian 1911-04-01 1998-02-23 United States of America
Augusta Clark American politician 1932-03-05 2013-10-13 United States of America
Aurora Díaz-Plaja i Contestí Spanish writer 1913-08-07 2003-12-08 Spain
Barbara Fister American writer 1954 United States of America
Barbara Tillett American librarian 1946
Beatrice Winser American librarian 1869-03-11 1947-09-14 United States of America
Belle da Costa Greene American librarian 1883-12-13 1950-05-10 United States of America
Berta Golob Writer and poet 1932-08-09 Slovenia
Bess Thomas Australian librarian 1892-03-14 1968-03-07 Australia
Bessie Boehm Moore American librarian 1902-08-02 1995-10-24
Betty Mary Goetting women's rights activist in El Paso, Texas 1897 1980 United States of America
Bonnie Nardi American academic
Brenda Rawnsley Art patron, military writer, educationist, librarian 1916-07-31 2007-07-25
Brooke E. Sheldon American librarian 1931-08-29 2013-02-11
Camila Alire Professor
Camilla Gryski Canadian writer
Carla Hayden American librarian 1952-08-10 United States of America
Caroline Hewins American librarian 1846-10-10 1926-11-04
Carolyn Harris American librarian 1948 1994
Catherine N. Norton American librarian 1941 2014-12-22 United States of America
Catherine Reilly British bibliographer and anthologist 1925-04-04 2005-09-26
Celeste West American librarian 1942-11-24 2008-01-03 United States of America
Charlemae Hill Rollins American librarian 1897-06-20 1979-02-03 United States of America
Claire Huchet Bishop American children's writer 1899 1993-03-13 France
Clara Breed American librarian 1906-03-19 1994-09-08 United States of America
Clara Stanton Jones Librarian 1913-05-14 2012-09-30 United States of America
Clara Whitehill Hunt American librarian 1871 1958
Clare B. Dunkle American writer 1964-06-11 United States of America
Claudia McNeil American actress 1917-08-13 1993-11-25 United States of America
Constance Mabel Winchell American librarian 1896-11-02 1983-05-23 United States of America
Cynthia Rylant American author of children's books and librarian 1954-06-06 United States of America
Dale DeArmond American artist 1914-07-02 2006-11-21 United States of America
Deanna B. Marcum 1946-08-05
Dina Abramowicz librarian at YIVO and a Yiddish language expert 1909 2000 United States of America
Dolores Elizabeth “Lola” Chávez de Armijo American librarian
Doris Gates American children's writer, librarian 1901-11-26 1987-09-03 United States of America
Dorothy B. Porter American librarian 1905-05-25 1995-12-17 United States of America
Dorothy M. Crosland American librarian 1903-09-13 1983-03-24
Dorothy Mary Neal White Librarian, writer 1915 1995-02-12 New Zealand
Edith Ditmas Archivist, historian, and writer 1896 1986-02-28 United Kingdom
Edith Guerrier American librarian 1870 1958
Effie Louise Power American librarian 1873-02-12 1969-10-08 United States of America
Eileen Colwell British librarian 1904-06-16 2002-09-17
Eintou Pearl Springer Trinidad and Tobago writer 1944-11-24
Elaine Didier Director of Ford library and museum 1948-01-01 United States of America
Elaine Svenonius American librarian 1933-01-09 United States of America
Eleanor Estes American children's writer 1906-05-09 1988-07-15
Electra Collins Doren 1861 1927
Elena Dabija Moldovan librarian and activist
Eliza Atkins Gleason African American librarian 1909-12-15 2009-12-15
Elizabeth Futas American librarian 1944-05-08 1995-02-06 United States of America
Elizabeth Gould Davis American writer 1910 1974 United States of America
Elizabeth H. West American librarian 1873-03-23 1948-01-04
Elizabeth Heaps British librarian
Elizabeth Jennings Poet 1926-07-02 2001-01-25 United Kingdom
Elizabeth Smither New Zealand poet 1941-09-15 New Zealand
Ella Gaines Yates American librarian 1927 2006
Emily Wheelock Reed American librarian 1910 2000-05-19 United States of America
Ena Noël Teacher 1910 2003 Australia
Enid Kent American actress 1945-01-14 United States of America
Ethelwyn Manning Librarian 1885-11-23 1972-06-01
Eva Verona Croatian librarian and information scientist 1905-02-01 1996-05-19 Croatia
Fiona Kelleghan American writer 1965-04-21 United States of America
Flora Belle Ludington American librarian and author 1898-11-12 1967-03
Florence Mendheim American librarian 1899 1984
Florence Ward Stiles American architect and librarian 1897 1981 United States of America
Frances Clarke Sayers American librarian 1897-09-04 1989-06-24 United States of America
Frances E. Henne American librarian 1906-10-11 1985-12-21 United States of America
Frances Lander Spain American librarian 1903-03-15 1999-01-20 Siam
Frances Wood English historian and sinologist 1948
Francess Lantz American writer 1952-08-27 2004-11-22 United States of America
Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir Icelandic writer 1940-12-10 2010-05-07 Iceland
Gerdina Hendrika Kurtz Dutch writer 1899-11-15 1989-12-17 Netherlands
Gertrude Kayaga Mulindwa Ugandan librarian 1952
Gloria Pérez-Salmerón Spanish librarian 1958-04-05
Gloriana St. Clair American librarian 1939
Gratia Countryman Librarian 1866-11-26 1953-07-26 United States of America
Gretchen McCord Texan librarian and lawyer specialising in copyright issues
Gunilla Herdenberg Librarian 1956-02-18 Sweden
Hannah Atkins American politician 1923-11-01 2010-06-17 United States of America
Hannah Logasa American librarian 1879 1967
Harriet Klausner American book reviewer 1952-05-20 2015-10-15 United States of America
Helaine Selin American librarian 1946
Helen E. Haines American librarian 1872 1961
Helen Ganser American librarian 1891 1990
Helen MacInnes 20th-century Scottish-American author 1907-10-07 1985-09-20 United Kingdom
United States of America
Helen Marot American librarian and workers' rights activist 1940-06-03 United States of America
Helen Thornton Geer American librarian 1903-01-07 1983
Helen Wallis British maritime historian 1924-08-17 1995-02-07 United Kingdom
Helena Asamoah-Hassan Ghanaian librarian
Helga Josephine Zinnbauer community worker and librarian. 1909-02-24 1980-12-16 Australia
Henrietta M. Smith American academic, children's librarian 1922-05-02 United States of America
Henriette Avram American computer programmer and system analyst. She developed the MARC formatting used in libraries 1919-10-07 2006-04-22 United States of America
Hilari Bell American writer 1958 United States of America
Ida Leeson Australian librarian 1885-02-11 1964-01-22 Australia
Ilona Hubay Hungarian librarian 1902-07-01 1982-06-20 Hungary
Ina Coolbrith American poet, writer, and librarian 1841-03-10 1928-02-29 United States of America
Inezita Barroso Brazilian singer-songwriter 1925-03-04 2015-03-08 Brazil
Ingetraut Dahlberg 1927-02-20 Germany
Ingrid Parent Canadian librarian
Iris Falcam Federated States of Micronesia librarian 1938-08-25 2010-02-19
Isadore Gilbert Mudge American librarian 1875-03-14 1957-05-16 United States of America
Jacqueline Sturm New Zealand poet 1927-05-17 2009-12-30 New Zealand
Jane, Lady Roberts British librarian 1949-09-04
Janet Backhouse English scholar 1938-02-08 2004-11-03 United Kingdom
Janet Brennan Croft American academic and writer 1961 United States of America
Janet M. Suzuki American librarian 1943 1987 United States of America
Jean Armour Polly American librarian
Jean Arnot Librarian, trade unionist and feminist 1903-04-23 1995-09-27 Australia
Jean Chandler Smith American librarian 1918 1999 United States of America
Jean Lisette Aroeste American screenwriter 1932-10-02 United States of America
Jeannette Howard Foster American writer 1895-11-03 1981-07-26 United States of America
Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven Librarian 1943-08-02 Netherlands
Jessamyn West American librarian 1968-09-05
Jo Giæver Tenfjord Children's writer 1918-06-12 2007-08-13 Norway
Joan Airoldi American librarian
Joan Mondale Second Lady of the United States from 1977 until 1981 1930-08-08 2014-02-03 United States of America
Joana Raspall i Juanola Spanish poetess 1913-07-01 2013-12-04 Spain
Joanna Cole American children's books author 1944-08-11 United States of America
Josephine Phelan Writer and Librarian 1905 1979
Juana Capdevielle Spanish educator and librarian 1905-08-12 1936-08-18 Spain
Judith Hoffberg American art curator 1934 2009-01-16 United States of America
Judith Krug librarian and freedom of speech proponent 1940-03-15 2009-04-11 United States of America
Judith Nadler American librarian United States of America
Judy Yung American academic 1946
Julia Sauer American children's writer 1891-04-08 1983-06-26 United States of America
Juliane Koepcke biologist and sole survivor of LANSA Flight 508 1954-10-10 Germany
Juliet Barker British historian 1958 United Kingdom
Juliette Hampton Morgan American librarian 1914-02-21 1957-07-16 United States of America
Kari Gjesteby Norwegian politician 1947-05-16 Norway
Kate Steinitz American art historian 1889-08-02 1975-04-07 Germany
Katharine L Sharp American writer 1865-05-25 1914-06-01 United States of America
Katherine Lines British writer 1902-09-24 1988-12-24
Kathleen de la Peña McCook American librarian
Kathleen Nunneley New Zealand tennis player 1872-09-16 1956-09-28 New Zealand
Kathleen Seidel American blogger
Kirsten Engelstad Norwegian librarian 1940-03-11 Norway
Kristiina Kolehmainen Librarian 1956-11-21 2012-03-27 Sweden
Laura Amy Schlitz children's author 1955-05-28 United States of America
Laura Bush First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 1946-11-04 United States of America
Laura Quilter American feminist 1968-10-01 United States of America
Letitia Dunbar-Harrison Irish librarian 1906-02-04 1994
Linda Eastman American librarian 1867 1963 United States of America
Linnie Marsh Wolfe American librarian 1881-01-08 1945-09-15
Lois Blount American teacher, historian, librarian and museum curator 1896-05-24 1980-09-02 United States of America
Lois Mai Chan American librarian, author, and professor 1934-07 2014-08-20
Loleta Fyan American librarian 1894-05-14 1990-03-15
Loriene Roy American librarian
Lotsee Patterson American librarian 1931
Louise Noëlle Malclès bibliographer, archivist, and librarian from France (1899-1977) 1899-09-20 1977-03-27 France
Louise S. Robbins American historian United States of America
Lucile M. Morsch Librarian 1906-01-21 1972-07-03
Lucy Toulmin Smith Anglo-American antiquarian scholar and librarian 1838-11-21 1911-12-18 United States of America
United Kingdom
Luraine Tansey American librarian 1918-01-29 2014-06-18 United States of America
Lynne Brindley British professional librarian 1950-07-02 United Kingdom
Lynne M. Thomas American librarian and Editor 1974 United States of America
Mamah Borthwick American translator 1869-06-19 1914-08-15
Margaret A. Edwards American librarian 1902-10-23 1988-04-19 United States of America
Margaret Alington Historian 1920-09-30 2012-10-15 New Zealand
Margaret Cross Norton First Illinois State Archivist 1891-07-07 1984-05-21 United States of America
Margaret Elizabeth Egan American librarian 1905-03-14 1959-01-26 United States of America
Margaret Hayes Grazier American librarian 1916-12-19 1999-07-09 United States of America
Margaret Herrick American librarian 1902-09-27 1976-06-21 United States of America
Margaret Mahy New Zealand children's writer 1936-03-21 2012-07-23 New Zealand
Margaret Mann American 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. 1873-04-09 1960-08-22
Margaret Ridley Charlton Canadian librarian 1858 1931-05-31
Margaret Scoggin American librarian 1905-04-14 1968-07-11 United States of America
Margaret Windeyer Australian librarian and feminist 1866-11-24 1939-08-11 Australia
Margareta Bergman Swedish novelist 1922-08-22 2006-09-27 Sweden
Maria Limanskaya Russian librarian and military police 1924-04-12 Soviet Union
Russia
Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha Brazilian librarian 1908-09-14 1980-07-28 Brazil
Maria Mitchell American astronomer 1818-08-01 1889-06-28 United States of America
Marianne Scott Canadian librarian 1928-12-04 Canada
Marjorie Barnard Australian novelist and short story writer, critic and historian 1897-08-16 1987-05-08 Australia
Marjorie Cotton Australian librarian 1913 2003-02-02 Australia
Martha B. Gould American librarian
Martha Larsen Jahn Norwegian politician 1875-04-17 1954-08-02 Norway
Martha P. Cotera Mexican feminist 1938-01-17 Mexico
Mary Ann Shaffer United States writer, editor and bookshop worker 1934-12-13 2008-02-16 United States of America
Mary Brunner American academic 1943-12-17 United States of America
Mary Caffrey Low American librarian and educator 1850 1926-03-04 United States of America
Mary Cutler Fairchild American librarian 1855 1921
Mary Eileen Ahern Librarian 1860-10-01 1938-05-22
Mary Elizabeth Wood American librarian and missionary in China 1861-08-22 1931-05-01
Mary Ellinor Lucy Archer Australian librarian 1893-11-13 1979-05-03 Australia
Mary Emma Allison American school librarian who co-created Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF in 1950 1917-03-05 2010-10-27
Mary Foy American librarian 1862-07-13 1962-02-21
Mary Frances Isom American librarian 1865-02-27 1920-04-15
Mary Greig Campbell Librarian, Quaker 1907-11-17 1989-04-22 New Zealand
Mary Josephine Booth American librarian 1876 1965
Mary O. Kryszak American politician 1875-07-27 1945-07-16 United States of America
Mary Swan Canadian writer
Mary Virginia Gaver American librarian 1906-12-10 1991-12-31 United States of America
Mary Wright Plummer former president of the American Library Association 1856-03-08 1916-09-21 United States of America
María Moliner Spanish lexicographer 1900-03-30 1981-01-21 Spain
Maxine Bell Idaho politician 1931-08-06 United States of America
May Hill Arbuthnot American educator and writer 1884-08-27 1969-10-02
Mayme Agnew Clayton American librarian 1923-08-04 2006-10-13
Mercè Canela Spanish translator and writer 1956 Spain
Meredith Ann Pierce American writer 1958-07-05 United States of America
Michelle P. Brown British academic
Michelle Zaffino American writer 1972-09-13
Milagros del Corral Librarian 1945 Spain
Mildred L. Batchelder American librarian 1901-09-07 1998-08-25 United States of America
Minnie Earl Sears American librarian 1873-11-17 1933-11-28
Miriam Braverman 1920 2002
Miriam Dudley British librarian
Miriam Lichtheim Egyptologist 1914-05-03 2004-03-27 Israel
Misty Massey American writer United States of America
Mollie Huston Lee American librarian 1907-01-18 1982-01-26 United States of America
Mollie Lukis Australian archivist and women's rights activist 1912-08-13 2009-08-01 Australia
Nadezhda Krupskaya Russian revolutionary and politician 1869-02-26 1939-02-27 Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Nancy Pearl American librarian and writer 1945-01-12 United States of America
Natalie Ceeney Businessperson 1971-08-22
Natalya Gorbanevskaya Russian poet, translator, and civil rights activist 1936-05-26 2013-11-29 Soviet Union
Poland
Nella Larsen Novelist, librarian, nurse 1891-04-13 1964-03-30 United States of America
Nita Kibble Australian librarian 1879 1962-02-04 Australia
Nola Leigh Millar Librarian, theatre director, critic and administrator 1913-02-18 1974-01-20 New Zealand
Nora Niland Irish librarian 1913-03-26 1988-12-29
Noushafarin Ansari Iranian scholar 1939 Iran
Noémi-Noire Oursel Librarian and biographer 1847-10-15 1901s France
Olinta Ariosa Morales Cuban librarian 1921 1999 Cuba
Ona Šimaitė Lithuanian librarian, activist, and Holocaust survivor 1894-01-06 1970-01-17
Paloma Efron Argentine radio and television journalist and jazz singer 1912 1977-09-03 Argentina
Pamela Darling American librarian 1943
Pamela Morsi American writer of romance novels 1951-03-12 United States of America
Parvin E'tesami Iranian poet 1907-03-16 1941-04-05 Iran
Pat Rafferty Camogie player
Pat Southern Roman historian 1948-06-22 United Kingdom
Patricia Battin librarian, first president of Commission on Preservation and Access 1929-06-02
Patricia Swift Blalock American librarian and human rights activist 1914-05-09 2011-09-07 United States of America
Peggy Sullivan American librarian
Phyllis Richmond librarian and historian of science 1921 1997-10-06
Prudenciana Cruz Filipino librarian 1943-05-19 Philippines
Pura Belpré Writer 1899-02-02 1982
Regina M. Anderson Multi-racial playwright/librarian 1901-05-21 1993-02-05 United States of America
Ricarda Huch German writer 1864-07-18 1947-11-17 Germany
Rodica Avasiloaie Moldavan writer 1949-04-02
Rosa Leveroni Spanish poet 1910 1985
1985-08-04
Spain
Rosa M. Abella Cuban exile 2007-04-07 Cuba
Ruth Bolden American activist 2004
Ruth Brown American librarian 1891-07-26 1975
Ruth Edna Kelley American librarian 1893-04-08 1982-03-04 United States of America
Ruth France Librarian, poet, novelist 1913-06-12 1968-08-19 New Zealand
Ruth Gay Jewish writer 1922
1922-10-19
2006
2006-05-09
United States of America
Ruth Savord Librarian 1894-11-02 1966-02-25
Ruth W. Brown American librarian 1891-07-26 1975
Sadie Peterson Delaney American librarian 1889-02-26 1958-05-04 United States of America
Sara Myers American librarian
Sara Ryan American writer 1971 United States of America
Sara W. Mahan American politician 1870-02-26 1966-11-01 United States of America
Sarah B. Askew American public librarian 1877-02-15 1942-10-20
Sarah C.N. Bogle American librarian 1932-01-11
Sarah Rees Brennan Irish children's writer 1983-09-21 Ireland
Sarah Thomas librarian
Sarah Tyacke British historian and archivist 1945-09-29
Shirley Barker American writer 1911-04-04 1965-11-18 United States of America
Sister Gregory Kirkus English Roman Catholic nun, academic 2007-08-30
Sorche Nic Leodhas American children's writer 1898 1969 United States of America
Susan Patron American children's book author 1948 United States of America
Susan T. Sommer American librarian 1935-01-07 2008-03-04 United States of America
Susan Whitfield English historian
Suzanne Briet French librarian 1894-02-01 1989-02-13 France
Suzy Covey American comic book scholar 1939-10-27 2007-10-17
Tatjana Aparac-Jelušić Croatian librarian 1948-07-10
Thea White American actress 1940-04-15 United States of America
Theodora Kimball Hubbard American librarian 1887 1935
Theresa Breslin Scottish children's writer 1947 Scotland
Theresa Elmendorf librarian 1855-11-01 1932-09-04 United States of America
Valentine Britten Gramophone librarian
Valfrid Palmgren Swedish politician 1877-06-03 1967-12-06 Sweden
Vera MacLeavy Archivist of the Moravian Church in Jamaica 1957–1986 1919-09-25 2008-07-20 United Kingdom
Vera Osoianu Moldovan writer 1949-04-02
Vicki Myron American writer 1947 United States of America
Virginia Haviland Author, Librarian 1911-05-21 1988-01-06 United States of America
Virginia Lacy Jones American librarian 1912-06-25 1984-12-03
Virginia Proctor Powell Florence American historian 1897-10-01 1991
Vivian G. Harsh American librarian 1890-05-27 1960-08-17
Wenche Blomberg Children's writer 1943-06-23 Norway
Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain Teacher, librarian, feminist, peace activist, writer 1848-09-05 1944-01-26 New Zealand
Willye Dennis American politician in Florida 1926-03-14 2012-03-09 United States of America
Winarti Partaningrat Indonesian government official 1922-09-21 1978-05-08
Yolanda Retter American activist 1948 2007-08-18 United States of America
Yvonne Dionne first-born of the Dionne quintuplets, five identical sisters 1934-05-28 2001-06-23 Canada
Yvonne Oddon French resistance member 1902-06-18 1982-09-07 France
Zoia Horn American librarian 1908-03-14 2014-07-12 United States of America
Éva Circé-Côté Canadian journalist 1871 1949-05-04 Canada
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