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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Image Name Birth date Death date Country Archivist activity
Absar Ahmed May 19, 1988 -   Pakistan Archivist of Pakistani national songs from 1945 to present.
Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda February 16, 1892 July 19, 1966   Spain Archivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962.
Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville December 5, 1827 February, 1910   France Worked at the departmental archives of Aube.
Robert-Henri Bautier April 19, 1922 October 19, 2010   France Worked at the Archives nationales.
Baldassarre Bonifacio January 5, 1585 November 17, 1659   Italy
Henri Bourde de La Rogerie April 8, 1873 January 31, 1949   France
Charles Braibant March 31, 1889 April 23, 1976   France
Marcel Caya   Canada Head of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1][2]
Marie-Anne Chabin October 17, 1959   France
Émile Campardon July 7, 1837 February 23, 1915   France
Armand-Gaston Camus April 2, 1740 November 2, 1804   France
Paul Conway September 7, 1953   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 June 6, 1947 May 12, 2014   Canada Author and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba.[3]
Barbara L. Craig   Canada Author and educator. Former university archivist at York University and instructor at University of Toronto Faculty of Information.
Pierre Claude François Daunou August 18, 1761 June 20, 1840   France
Robin Darwall-Smith   United Kingdom Oxford University College archivist.
 
Arthur Doughty March 22, 1860 December 1, 1936   Canada Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records.
Jennifer Douglas   Canada Professor, University of British Columbia iSchool
Jules Doinel December 8, 1842 March 16 or 17, 1903   France
Luciana Duranti   Canada Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
Terry Eastwood 1943   Canada
Jean Favier April 2, 1932 August 12, 2014   France
Lucie Favier August 4, 1932 October 19, 2003   France
David Ferriero December 31, 1945   United States Archivist of the United States[4]
Margaret M. H. Finch January 6, 1878 August 3, 1958   United States Specialized in the US Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records.
Helen Forde   United Kingdom
Robert Fruin November 11, 1823 January 29, 1899   Netherlands
Léon Gautier August 8, 1832 August 25, 1897   France
Arthur Giry February 29, 1848 November 13, 1899   France
Henny Glarbo October 12, 1884 September 9, 1955   Denmark Development of cultural, theatrical and private archives at the Danish National Archives
David B. Gracy II October 25, 1941   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 October 16, 1832 February 8, 1889   France
Verne Harris   South Africa
  Michael S. Hart March 8, 1947 September 6, 2011   United States Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg.
Kent Haworth 1946 2003   Canada Contributor to establishment of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD), descriptive standard used in Canada
 
Judith Hornabrook 1928 2011   New Zealand Chief Archivist of New Zealand (1972–1982)
J. Franklin Jameson September 19, 1859 September 28, 1937   United States
Hilary Jenkinson November 1, 1882 March 5, 1961   United Kingdom
Phyllis Mander-Jones   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
  Brewster Kahle October 22, 1960   United States Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library)
Rita Keegan 1949   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 October 5, 1827 February 17, 1901   France
William Kaye Lamb 1904 1999   Canada Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948–1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967.[5]
Gustave Lanctot   Canada
Charles-Victor Langlois   France
Henri Langlois November 13, 1914 January 13, 1977   France French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema.
Abel Lefranc   France
Waldo Gifford Leland   United States
David Lemieux November 8, 1970   Canada Archivist (audio/video) for the Grateful Dead rock band
Mollie Lukis   Australia First State Archivist in Western Australia
Heather MacNeil   Canada Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
Joseph Marmette   Canada
Paul Mawhinney   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: The Archive)
Sue McKemmish   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
 
Anahera Morehu   New Zealand Chief Archivist of New Zealand (2023–)
P. K. Nair April 6, 1933 March 4, 2016   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 June 28, 1946 June 28, 2022   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   United States Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists
Mary Ellis Peltz May 4, 1896 October 24, 1981   United States creator of Opera News, and founder of the Metropolitan Opera archives
Juan Menéndez Pidal   Spain
Régine Pernoud   France Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris
Seymour Pomrenze   United States First director of the Offenbach Archival Depot
Ernst Posner   United States
Mila Rechcigl   United States Archivist of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU).
Stella Rimington   United Kingdom Former Director General of MI5.
Helen Willa Samuels   United States Archivist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Celia Sánchez   Cuba Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution.
  Jason Scott Sadofsky September 13, 1970   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. (See talk: ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack)
T. R. Schellenberg   United States
  Henry Spencer 1955   Canada Preserved more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The contents were imported into Google's archives.
Marion Stokes November 25, 1929 December 14, 2012   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   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 1959   Canada She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Gerhard Tausche 1957   Germany
Hugh Taylor 1920 2005   Canada Author and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.[6]
Édith Thomas   France Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris
  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.
 
Paul Marie Viollet October 24, 1840 November 22, 1914   France Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris.
Natalis de Wailly May 10, 1805 December 4, 1886   France Head of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire.
Jean-Pierre Wallot   Canada
Edward Weldon 1936   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   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 1943   Canada Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada[7]
Gladys Hansen 1925 March 5, 2017   United States Expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
 
Meredith Evans   United States Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
 
Herman Vandenburg Ames August 7, 1865 February 7, 1935   United States 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

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References

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  1. ^ archivistsdotca (2015-06-01), ACA Oral History - Marcel Caya, retrieved 2017-01-31
  2. ^ "ACA Award Recipient Biographies |". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  3. ^ Nesmith, Tom (2015-04-29). "Terry Cook, 1947–2014". Archivaria. 79: 207–213. ISSN 1923-6409.
  4. ^ "David Ferriero Biography". U.S. National Archives. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  5. ^ "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  6. ^ Cook, Terry (2006-09-25). "Hugh A. Taylor, 1920-2005". Archivaria. 60. ISSN 1923-6409.
  7. ^ "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
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