List of female archivists

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This is a list of female archivists.

NameDescriptionBirthDeathImage
Marguerite-Françoise-Émilie d’Hôtel, Madame de Calonne French archivist at the Tribunal of Seine (France)17211812
Adelaide Fries [1] American historian18711949
Vicenta Ibáñez Sarsuela First female archivist at the Archive of the Kingdom of Valencia (Spain) ?1681
Adrienne Thomas [2] American archivist
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Alice Prochaska [3] Curator, archivist, librarian, and university administrator1947-07-12
Anita Wilson [4] Archivist for Tuvalu, Hong Kong Government and British royal family19432006
Barbara Frale Italian historian1970-02-24
Bep Bijtelaar [5] Dutch archivist18981978
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Beryl Oliver British humanitarian1882-08-201972-07-13
Brenda Banks American archivist19502016-07-25
Camille Billops African American sculptor, filmmaker, printmaker1933-08-12
Christina Kenworthy-Browne Roman Catholic Religious Sister and historian
Dorothy Owen British archivist and historian1920-04-112002-02-13
Edith Ditmas Archivist, historian, and writer18961986-02-28
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Édith Thomas French novelist, archivist, historian and journalist1909-01-231970-12-07
Elaine Didier Director of Ford library and museum1948-01-01
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Elena Amat Calderón Spanish university professor and archivist1910-01-132006-08-04
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche Sister of Friedrich Nietzsche, creator of the Nietzsche Archive1846-07-101935-11-08
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Elizabeth Heaps British librarian
Francesca Hillier British archivist
Gabrielle Enthoven English playwright, amateur actress, theatre archivist, and prolific collector of theatrical ephemera relating to the London stage1868-01-121950-08-18
Gabrielle Enthoven by George Charles Beresford 1904.jpg
Gladys Esther Tormes González Puerto Rican historian1933-09-19
Gladys Tormes Gonzalez, Archivo Historico de Ponce, Ponce, PR, en 2015 (31A).jpg
Helen Willa Samuels American archivist1943
Helena Polaczkówna Polish archivist18811942
Hermine Moquette Dutch archivist1869-04-251945-12-17
Isabella Henriette van Eeghen Dutch art historian1913-02-031996-11-26
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Jehanne Wake British biographer and historian
Joan Sinar English archivist1925-06-012015-01-18
Julie Buck American film producer, photographer and filmmaker1974-12-09
Lilli Gjerløw Norwegian archivist1910-06-191998-12-04
Lucie Favier French archivist1932-08-042003-05-01
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Margaret Cross Norton First Illinois State Archivist1891-07-071984-05-21
Margaret Gowing English historian1921-04-261998-11-07
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Margaret Hedstrom American archivist1953-07-28
Margaret M. H. Finch American archivist and genealogist1878-01-061958-08-03
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Margaret Storrs Grierson Founder and first director, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College1900-06-271997-12-12
Maria Polaczkówna Polish state archivist18781944
Maria Verger Spanish archivist18921983
Marie Under Estonian poet1883-03-271980-09-25
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Marie-Anne Chabin French archivist1959
Marion Stokes Television producer, Archivist1929-11-252012-12-14
Martha Levisman Argentine architect1933
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Marthe Gosteli Swiss archivist1917-12-222017-04-07
Mary Ritter Beard Historian, writer, activist1876-08-051958-08-14
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Megan Prelinger American historian1967-09-25
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Michelle Caswell American archivist and academic
Norah Story Canadian archivist19021978-03-05
Pauline Schultz American historian1915-06-072011-10-30
Soemartini Chief of the National Archives of Indonesia 1930-08-17Unknown
Soemartini, Catur Warsa Wismarini (1961), p46.jpg
Phyllis Blakeley Canadian archivist1922-08-021986-10-25
R. J. Mitchell British writer and archivist1902
Renate Drucker German historian and archivist1917-07-112009-10-23
Rinskje Visscher Dutch archivist and first female archivist in the country1868-12-101950-03-26
Rosalie B. Green American archivist1917-08-202012-02-24
Sara Dunlap Jackson American archivist1919-05-281991-04-19
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Sarah Tyacke British historian and archivist1945-09-29
Shelley Sweeney Canadian archivist1959
Stella Rimington Director General of MI5; spy fiction writer1935-05-13
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Phyllis Mander-Jones Australian archivist
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Trudy Huskamp Peterson American archivist1945-01-25
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Virginia C. Purdy American archivist and historian19222015
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Yvonne Bezard French archivist1893-12-081939-03-30
Gladys Hansen American archivist, expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake 19252017-03-05
Meredith Evans American archivist, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum director1926
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Simone Berbain French historian and archivist1915-01-311949-11-21
Marie-Louise Marchand-Thébault French archivist2007
Judith Hornabrook Chief Archivist of New Zealand, 1972-198219282011
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Anahera Morehu Chief Archivist of New Zealand, 2023-
20221208 ANZ RM Anahera Morehu.jpg
Barbara L. Craig Canadian archivist and educator1943
Tonia Sutherland American archivist, educator, and Black archival studies expert
Shelley Sweeney Canadian archivist1959
Louise Gagnon-Arguin Canadian archivist1941
Joan Ringelheim American archivist and Research Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 19392021

See also

References

  1. Rauhauser-Smith, Kate (28 November 2014). "History Makers: Adelaide Lisetta Fries". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  2. "Adrienne Thomas, Acting Archivist of the United States (2008-2009)". National Archives. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  3. "Yale Librarian Alice Prochaska To Step Down | Yale News". news.yale.edu. 17 July 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  4. Hunter, Fred (28 November 2006). "Anita Wilson". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  5. Kuiken, Kees (25 March 2024). "Bijtelaar, Barendina Marie (1898-1978)". Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland (in Dutch). DVN. Retrieved 5 May 2025.