List of archivists
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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
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| Absar Ahmed | data-sort-value="1988-05-19" | May 19, 1988 | | ||||
| - | {{flag|Pakistan}} | Archivist of Pakistani national songs from 1945 to present. | |||
| Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda | data-sort-value="1892-02-16" | February 16, 1892 | data-sort-value="1966-07-19" | July 19, 1966 | {{flag|Spain}} | Archivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962. | |
| File:Henri_d'Arbois_de_Jubainville.jpg | Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville | data-sort-value="1827-12-05" | December 5, 1827 | data-sort-value="1910-02" | February, 1910 | {{flag|France}} | Worked at the departmental archives of Aube. |
| Robert-Henri Bautier | data-sort-value="1922-04-19" | April 19, 1922 | data-sort-value="2010-10-19" | October 19, 2010 | {{flag|France}} | Worked at the Archives nationales. | |
| File:Bep_Bijtelaar_(1969).jpg | Bep Bijtelaar
|1898 |1978 |{{flag|Netherlands}} |Saved Old Church artifacts from Nazis | ||||
| Baldassarre Bonifacio | data-sort-value="" | January 5, 1585 | data-sort-value="" | November 17, 1659 | {{flag|Italy}} | ||
| Henri Bourde de La Rogerie | data-sort-value="1873-04-08" | April 8, 1873 | data-sort-value="1949-01-31" | January 31, 1949 | {{flag|France}} | ||
| Charles Braibant | data-sort-value="1889-03-31" | March 31, 1889 | data-sort-value="1976-04-23" | April 23, 1976 | {{flag|France}} | ||
| Marcel Caya | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | Head of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal.{{Citation|last=archivistsdotca|title=ACA Oral History - Marcel Caya|date=2015-06-01|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmnyV0N4tIs|accessdate=2017-01-31}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies#Caya|title=ACA Award Recipient Biographies {{!}} |website=The Association of Canadian Archivists| access-date=2017-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204085552/http://www.archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies#Caya|archive-date=2017-02-04|url-status=dead}} | |
| Marie-Anne Chabin | data-sort-value="1959" | October 17, 1959 | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|France}} | ||
| Émile Campardon | data-sort-value="1837-07-18" |July 7, 1837 | data-sort-value="1915-02-23" | February 23, 1915 | {{flag|France}} | ||
| File:Armand-Gaston_Camus.jpg | Armand-Gaston Camus | data-sort-value="1740-04-02" | April 2, 1740 | data-sort-value="1804-11-02" | November 2, 1804 | {{flag|France}} | |
| File:Paul_Conway_2009.jpg | Paul Conway | data-sort-value="1953-09-07" | September 7, 1953 | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|United States}} | 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 | data-sort-value="1946" |June 6, 1947
| data-sort-value="2014" | May 12, 2014 | {{flag|Canada}} | Author and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba.{{Cite journal|last=Nesmith|first=Tom|date=2015-04-29|title=Terry Cook, 1947–2014|url=http://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13538|journal=Archivaria|language=en|volume=79|pages=207–213|issn=1923-6409}} | ||
| Barbara L. Craig | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | Author and educator. Former university archivist at York University and instructor at University of Toronto Faculty of Information. | |
| Pierre Claude François Daunou | data-sort-value="1761-08-18" | August 18, 1761 | data-sort-value="1840-06-20" |June 20, 1840 | {{flag|France}} | ||
| Robin Darwall-Smith | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | Oxford University College archivist. | |
| File:Sir Arthur G. Doughty.jpg | Arthur Doughty | data-sort-value="1860-03-22" | March 22, 1860 | data-sort-value="1936-12-01" | December 1, 1936 | {{flag|Canada}} | Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records. |
| Jennifer Douglas | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | Professor, University of British Columbia iSchool | |
| Jules Doinel | data-sort-value="1842-12-08" | December 8, 1842 | data-sort-value="" | March 16 or 17, 1903 | {{flag|France}} | ||
| Luciana Duranti | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. | |
| Terry Eastwood | data-sort-value="" | 1943 | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | ||
| Jean Favier | data-sort-value="" | April 2, 1932 | data-sort-value="" | August 12, 2014 | {{flag|France}} | ||
| File:Lucie_Favier_en_juin_1985.jpg | Lucie Favier | data-sort-value="" | August 4, 1932 | data-sort-value="" | October 19, 2003 | {{flag|France}} | |
| David Ferriero | data-sort-value="1945-12-31" | December 31, 1945 | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | Archivist of the United States{{cite web| url=https://www.archives.gov/about/archivist/archivist-biography-ferriero.html| title=David Ferriero Biography| website=U.S. National Archives| date=15 August 2016| accessdate=2020-06-19}} | |
| File:Margaret_M.H._Finch_in_1941.png | Margaret M. H. Finch | data-sort-value="1878-01-6"| January 6, 1878 | data-sort-value="1958-08-03" | August 3, 1958 | {{flag|United States}} | Specialized in the US Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records. |
| Helen Forde | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | ||
| Robert Fruin | data-sort-value="" |November 11, 1823
| data-sort-value="" |January 29, 1899 |{{flag| Netherlands}} | ||||
| Léon Gautier | data-sort-value="" |August 8, 1832
| data-sort-value="" |August 25, 1897 |{{flag|France}} | ||||
| Arthur Giry | data-sort-value="" |February 29, 1848
| data-sort-value="" |November 13, 1899 |{{flag|France}} | ||||
| Henny Glarbo | data-sort-value="" |October 12, 1884
| data-sort-value="" |September 9, 1955 |{{flag|Denmark}} | Development of cultural, theatrical and private archives at the Danish National Archives | |||
| David B. Gracy II | data-sort-value="1941-10-25" | October 25, 1941 | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|United States}} | 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 | data-sort-value="" | October 16, 1832 | data-sort-value="" | February 8, 1889 | {{flag|France}} | ||
| Verne Harris | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|South Africa}} | ||
| 100px | Michael S. Hart | data-sort-value="1947-03-08" | March 8, 1947 | data-sort-value="2011-09-06" | September 6, 2011 | {{flag|United States}} | Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg. |
| Kent Haworth | data-sort-value="" | 1946 | data-sort-value="" | 2003 | {{flag|Canada}} | Contributor to establishment of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD), descriptive standard used in Canada | |
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|October 26, 1928 |July 3, 2011 |{{Flag|New Zealand}} |Chief Archivist of New Zealand (1972–1982) | |||||
| J. Franklin Jameson | data-sort-value="" | September 19, 1859 | data-sort-value="" | September 28, 1937 | {{flag|United States}} | ||
| Hilary Jenkinson | data-sort-value="" | November 1, 1882 | data-sort-value="" | March 5, 1961 | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | ||
| Stella Maude Jones | data-sort-value="" | January 12, 1889 | data-sort-value="" | January 24, 1955 | {{flag|Hawaii|name=Territory of Hawaii}}
|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. [https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-advertiser-stella-jones-t/169021038/ A1], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-advertiser-stella-jones/169095116/ A3]. Retrieved March 29, 2025 – via Newspapers.com. | ||
| File:Phyllis_Mander_Jones.png | Phyllis Mander-Jones | data-sort-value="" | January 2, 1896 | data-sort-value="" | February 19, 1984 | {{flag|Australia}} | 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 |
| 100px | Brewster Kahle | data-sort-value="1960-10-22" | October 22, 1960 | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|United States}} | Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: [http://www.ted.com/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library A free digital library]) |
| Rita Keegan | data-sort-value="1949" | 1949 | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|United States}} | 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 | data-sort-value="" |October 5, 1827
| data-sort-value="" |February 17, 1901 |{{flag|France}} | ||||
| William Kaye Lamb | data-sort-value="" | 1904 | data-sort-value="" | 1999 | {{flag|Canada}} | Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948–1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967.{{Cite web|url=http://archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506230755/http://archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-05-06|title=ACA Award Recipient Biographies |website=The Association of Canadian Archivists| access-date=2017-01-31}} | |
| Gustave Lanctot | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | ||
| Charles-Victor Langlois | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|France}} | ||
| Henri Langlois | data-sort-value="1914-11-13" | November 13, 1914 | data-sort-value="1977-01-13" | January 13, 1977 | {{flag|France}} | French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. | |
| Abel Lefranc | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|France}} | ||
| Waldo Gifford Leland | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | ||
| David Lemieux | data-sort-value="1970-11-08" | November 8, 1970 | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | Archivist (audio/video) for the Grateful Dead rock band | |
| Mollie Lukis | data-sort-value="" | August 13, 1912 | data-sort-value="" | August 1, 2009 | {{flag|Australia}} | First State Archivist in Western Australia | |
| Heather MacNeil | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. | |
| Joseph Marmette | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | ||
| Paul Mawhinney | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | 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: [http://vimeo.com/1546186 The Archive]) | |
| Sue McKemmish | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Australia}} | 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 | |
| |Hermine Moquette
|April 25, 1869 |December 17, 1945 |{{flag|Netherlands}} |Rotterdam Municipal Archives | |||||
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| | |{{Flag|New Zealand}} |Chief Archivist of New Zealand (2023–) | |||||
| P. K. Nair | data-sort-value="1933-04-06" | April 6, 1933 | data-sort-value="2016-03-04" | March 4, 2016 | {{flag|India}} | Indian film archivist and film scholar, who was the founder and director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) in 1964. | |
| Malcolm Neesam | data-sort-value="1946-06-28" | June 28, 1946 | data-sort-value="2022-06-28" | June 28, 2022 | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | 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 | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists | |
| Mary Ellis Peltz | data-sort-value="1896-05-04" |May 4, 1896 | data-sort-value="1981-10-24" | October 24, 1981 | {{flag|United States}} | creator of Opera News, and founder of the Metropolitan Opera archives | |
| Juan Menéndez Pidal | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Spain}} | ||
| Régine Pernoud | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|France}} | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris | |
| Seymour Pomrenze | data-sort-value="1915-09-01" | | data-sort-value="2011-08-25" | | {{flag|United States}} | First director of the Offenbach Archival Depot | |
| Ernst Posner | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | ||
| Mila Rechcigl | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | Archivist of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU). | |
| Stella Rimington | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United Kingdom}} | Former Director General of MI5. | |
| Helen Willa Samuels | data-sort-value="1943" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | Archivist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Celia Sánchez | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Cuba}} | Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution. | |
| 100px | Jason Scott Sadofsky | data-sort-value="1970-09-13" | September 13, 1970 | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|United States}} | 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 | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | ||
| 100px | Soemartini | data-sort-value="1930" | 1930 | data-sort-value"-" | | {{flag|Indonesia}} | Served as Chief of the National Archives of Indonesia for over two decades. |
| 100px | Henry Spencer | data-sort-value="1955" | 1955 | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|Canada}} | Preserved more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The contents were imported into Google's archives. |
| Marion Stokes | data-sort-value="1929-11-25" | November 25, 1929 | data-sort-value="2012-12-14" | December 14, 2012 | {{flag|United States}} | 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 | data-sort-value="-" | | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|United States}} | She is an assistant professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies and an expert in Black archival studies. | |
| Shelley Sweeney | data-sort-value="1959" | 1959 | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|Canada}} | She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. | |
| Gerhard Tausche | data-sort-value="1957" | 1957 | data-sort-value="-" | | {{flag|Germany}} | ||
| Hugh Taylor | 1920 | 2005 | {{flag|Canada}} | Author and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.{{Cite journal|last=Cook|first=Terry|date=2006-09-25|title=Hugh A. Taylor, 1920-2005|url=http://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12524|journal=Archivaria|volume=60|issn=1923-6409}} | |
| Édith Thomas | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|France}} | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris | |
| 100px | 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. | |
| File:Paul Viollet.jpg | Paul Marie Viollet | data-sort-value=1840-10-24"" | October 24, 1840 | data-sort-value="1914-11-22" | November 22, 1914 | {{flag|France}} | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris. |
| |Rinskje Visscher
|December 10, 1868 |March 26, 1950 |{{flag|Netherlands}} |First female municipal archivist in the Netherlands | |||||
| Natalis de Wailly | data-sort-value="1805-05-10" | May 10, 1805 | data-sort-value="1886-12-04" | December 4, 1886 | {{flag|France}} | Head of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire. | |
| File:Jean-Pierre_Wallot.jpg | Jean-Pierre Wallot | data-sort-value="" | May 22, 1935 | data-sort-value="" | August 30, 2010 | {{flag|Canada}} | Former National Archivist of Canada |
| Edward Weldon | data-sort-value="1936" | 1936 | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | 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 |{{Flag|United Kingdom}} |Established Tuvalu's archive in 1978. Archivist for Government of Hong Kong (1986–1997). Archivist at British royal family archive (2001–2006) | |||||
| Ian E. Wilson | data-sort-value="" |1943 | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|Canada}} | Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada{{Cite web|url=http://www.archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies#Wilson|title=ACA Award Recipient Biographies |website=The Association of Canadian Archivists |access-date=2017-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204085552/http://www.archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies#Wilson|archive-date=2017-02-04|url-status=dead}} | |
| Gladys Hansen | data-sort-value="1925" | 1925 | data-sort-value="2017-03-05" | March 5, 2017 | {{flag|United States}} | Expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | |
| File:Amending_827_(28243241406).jpg | Meredith Evans | data-sort-value="" | | data-sort-value="" | | {{flag|United States}} | Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum |
| File:Herman_Vandenburg_Ames.png | Herman Vandenburg Ames | data-sort-value="1865-08-07" | August 7, 1865 | data-sort-value="1935-02-04" | February 7, 1935 | {{flag|United States}} | helped guide the widespread establishment of government archives throughout the United States |
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|1860 |1936 |{{flag|Canada}} |First Provincial Archivist of Ontario (1903–1935) | |||||
| |Laureano Macedo
| 1978 | |{{flag|Portugal}} |portuguese scholar. | |||||
| |Rebecka Sheffield
|1976 | |{{flag|Canada}} |LGBTQ2+ community-based archives | |||||
| |Guddu
| | |{{flag|Pakistan}} | Archivist of film posters and photographs |
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.archivists.org/ Society of American Archivists website]
- [https://www.archivists.org.au/ Australian Society of Archivists website]
- [http://www.ica.org/ International Council on Archives]
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