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.

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Archivists

ImageNameBirth dateDeath dateCountryArchivist activity
Absar Ahmed May 19, 1988-Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Archivist of Pakistani national songs from 1945 to present.
Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda February 16, 1892July 19, 1966Flag of Spain.svg Spain Archivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962.
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Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville December 5, 1827February, 1910Flag of France.svg France Worked at the departmental archives of Aube.
Robert-Henri Bautier April 19, 1922October 19, 2010Flag of France.svg France Worked at the Archives nationales.
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Bep Bijtelaar 18981978Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Saved Old Church artifacts from Nazis
Baldassarre Bonifacio January 5, 1585November 17, 1659Flag of Italy.svg Italy
Henri Bourde de La Rogerie April 8, 1873January 31, 1949Flag of France.svg France
Charles Braibant March 31, 1889April 23, 1976Flag of France.svg France
Marcel CayaFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Head of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal. [1] [2]
Marie-Anne Chabin October 17, 1959Flag of France.svg France
Émile Campardon July 7, 1837February 23, 1915Flag of France.svg France
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Armand-Gaston Camus April 2, 1740November 2, 1804Flag of France.svg France
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Paul Conway September 7, 1953Flag of the United States.svg 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, 1947May 12, 2014Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Author and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba. [3]
Barbara L. Craig Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg 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, 1761June 20, 1840Flag of France.svg France
Robin Darwall-Smith Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Oxford University College archivist.
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Arthur Doughty March 22, 1860December 1, 1936Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records.
Jennifer Douglas Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Professor, University of British Columbia iSchool
Jules Doinel December 8, 1842March 16 or 17, 1903Flag of France.svg France
Luciana Duranti Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
Terry Eastwood 1943Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
Jean Favier April 2, 1932August 12, 2014Flag of France.svg France
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Lucie Favier August 4, 1932October 19, 2003Flag of France.svg France
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Charles Bruce Fergusson February 14, 1911September 20, 1978Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia (1956–1977)
David Ferriero December 31, 1945Flag of the United States.svg United States Archivist of the United States [4]
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Margaret M. H. Finch January 6, 1878August 3, 1958Flag of the United States.svg United States Specialized in the US Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records.
Helen Forde Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Robert Fruin November 11, 1823January 29, 1899Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
Léon Gautier August 8, 1832August 25, 1897Flag of France.svg France
Arthur Giry February 29, 1848November 13, 1899Flag of France.svg France
Henny Glarbo October 12, 1884September 9, 1955Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark Development of cultural, theatrical and private archives at the Danish National Archives
David B. Gracy II October 25, 1941Flag of the United States.svg 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, 1832February 8, 1889Flag of France.svg France
Verne Harris Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
Michael Hart at HOPE Conference (cropped).jpg Michael S. Hart March 8, 1947September 6, 2011Flag of the United States.svg United States Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg.
Kent Haworth 19462003Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Contributor to establishment of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD), descriptive standard used in Canada
Judith Hornabrook (cropped).jpg Judith Hornabrook October 26, 1928July 3, 2011Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Chief Archivist of New Zealand (1972–1982)
J. Franklin Jameson September 19, 1859September 28, 1937Flag of the United States.svg United States
Hilary Jenkinson November 1, 1882March 5, 1961Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
Stella Maude Jones January 12, 1889January 24, 1955

Flag of Hawaii.svg Territory of Hawaii

First official archivist for the Territory of Hawaii starting in 1931 [5]
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Phyllis Mander-Jones January 2, 1896February 19, 1984Flag of Australia (converted).svg 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 20021120.jpg Brewster Kahle October 22, 1960Flag of the United States.svg United States Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library)
Rita Keegan 1949Flag of the United States.svg 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, 1827February 17, 1901Flag of France.svg France
William Kaye Lamb 19041999Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948–1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967. [6]
Gustave Lanctot Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
Charles-Victor Langlois Flag of France.svg France
Henri Langlois November 13, 1914January 13, 1977Flag of France.svg France French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema.
Abel Lefranc Flag of France.svg France
Waldo Gifford Leland Flag of the United States.svg United States
David Lemieux November 8, 1970Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Archivist (audio/video) for the Grateful Dead rock band
Mollie Lukis August 13, 1912August 1, 2009Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia First State Archivist in Western Australia
Heather MacNeil Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
Joseph Marmette Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
Paul Mawhinney Flag of the United States.svg 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 Flag of Australia (converted).svg 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, 1869December 17, 1945Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands Rotterdam Municipal Archives
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Anahera Morehu Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Chief Archivist of New Zealand (2023–)
P. K. Nair April 6, 1933March 4, 2016Flag of India.svg 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, 1946June 28, 2022Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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 Flag of the United States.svg United States Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists
Mary Ellis Peltz May 4, 1896October 24, 1981Flag of the United States.svg United States creator of Opera News, and founder of the Metropolitan Opera archives
Juan Menéndez Pidal Flag of Spain.svg Spain
Régine Pernoud Flag of France.svg France Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris
Seymour Pomrenze Flag of the United States.svg United States First director of the Offenbach Archival Depot
Ernst Posner Flag of the United States.svg United States
Mila Rechcigl Flag of the United States.svg United States Archivist of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU).
Stella Rimington Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Former Director General of MI5.
Helen Willa Samuels Flag of the United States.svg United States Archivist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Celia Sánchez Flag of Cuba.svg Cuba Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution.
Sadofsky, Jason Scott (2009).jpg Jason Scott Sadofsky September 13, 1970Flag of the United States.svg 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 Flag of the United States.svg United States
Soemartini, Catur Warsa Wismarini (1961), p46.jpg Soemartini 1930Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Served as Chief of the National Archives of Indonesia for over two decades.
Henry-5x7-small.jpg Henry Spencer 1955Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Preserved more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The contents were imported into Google's archives.
Marion Stokes November 25, 1929December 14, 2012Flag of the United States.svg 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 Flag of the United States.svg 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 1959Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Gerhard Tausche 1957Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Hugh Taylor 19202005Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Author and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. [7]
Édith Thomas Flag of France.svg France Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris
Drax loves his new ADLiB-MATE2000 Synthesizer.jpg 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.
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Paul Marie Viollet October 24, 1840November 22, 1914Flag of France.svg France Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris.
Rinskje Visscher December 10, 1868March 26, 1950Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands First female municipal archivist in the Netherlands
Natalis de Wailly May 10, 1805December 4, 1886Flag of France.svg France Head of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire.
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Jean-Pierre Wallot May 22, 1935August 30, 2010Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Former National Archivist of Canada
Edward Weldon 1936Flag of the United States.svg 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 19432006Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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 1943Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada [8]
Gladys Hansen 1925March 5, 2017Flag of the United States.svg United States Expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Meredith Evans Flag of the United States.svg United States Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
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Herman Vandenburg Ames August 7, 1865February 7, 1935Flag of the United States.svg United States helped guide the widespread establishment of government archives throughout the United States
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Alexander Fraser (archivist) 18601936Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada First Provincial Archivist of Ontario (1903–1935)
Laureano Macedo 1978Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal portuguese scholar.
Rebecka Sheffield 1976Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada LGBTQ2+ community-based archives
Guddu Flag of Pakistan.svg Pakistan Archivist of film posters and photographs

See also

References

  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. "Stella Jones, Territorial Archivist, Dies at 66". Honolulu Star-Advertiser . January 25, 1955. p. A1, A3. Retrieved March 29, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  7. Cook, Terry (2006-09-25). "Hugh A. Taylor, 1920-2005". Archivaria. 60. ISSN   1923-6409.
  8. "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-01-31.