List of female archivists

This is a list of female archivists.

Name	Description	Birth	Death	Image
Marguerite-Françoise-Émilie d’Hôtel, Madame de Calonne	French archivist at the Tribunal of Seine (France)	1721	1812
Adelaide Fries [1]	American historian	1871	1949
Vicenta Ibáñez Sarsuela	First female archivist at the Archive of the Kingdom of Valencia (Spain)	?	1681
Adrienne Thomas [2]	American archivist
Alice Prochaska [3]	Curator, archivist, librarian, and university administrator	1947-07-12
Anita Wilson [4]	Archivist for Tuvalu, Hong Kong Government and British royal family	1943	2006
Barbara Frale	Italian historian	1970-02-24
Bep Bijtelaar [5]	Dutch archivist	1898	1978
Beryl Oliver	British humanitarian	1882-08-20	1972-07-13
Brenda Banks	American archivist	1950	2016-07-25
Camille Billops	African American sculptor, filmmaker, printmaker	1933-08-12
Christina Kenworthy-Browne	Roman Catholic Religious Sister and historian
Dorothy Owen	British archivist and historian	1920-04-11	2002-02-13
Edith Ditmas	Archivist, historian, and writer	1896	1986-02-28
Édith Thomas	French novelist, archivist, historian and journalist	1909-01-23	1970-12-07
Elaine Didier	Director of Ford library and museum	1948-01-01
Elena Amat Calderón	Spanish university professor and archivist	1910-01-13	2006-08-04
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche	Sister of Friedrich Nietzsche, creator of the Nietzsche Archive	1846-07-10	1935-11-08
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 stage	1868-01-12	1950-08-18
Gladys Esther Tormes González	Puerto Rican historian	1933-09-19
Helen Willa Samuels	American archivist	1943
Helena Polaczkówna	Polish archivist	1881	1942
Hermine Moquette	Dutch archivist	1869-04-25	1945-12-17
Isabella Henriette van Eeghen	Dutch art historian	1913-02-03	1996-11-26
Jehanne Wake	British biographer and historian
Joan Sinar	English archivist	1925-06-01	2015-01-18
Julie Buck	American film producer, photographer and filmmaker	1974-12-09
Lilli Gjerløw	Norwegian archivist	1910-06-19	1998-12-04
Lucie Favier	French archivist	1932-08-04	2003-05-01
Margaret Cross Norton	First Illinois State Archivist	1891-07-07	1984-05-21
Margaret Gowing	English historian	1921-04-26	1998-11-07
Margaret Hedstrom	American archivist	1953-07-28
Margaret M. H. Finch	American archivist and genealogist	1878-01-06	1958-08-03
Margaret Storrs Grierson	Founder and first director, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College	1900-06-27	1997-12-12
Maria Polaczkówna	Polish state archivist	1878	1944
Maria Verger	Spanish archivist	1892	1983
Marie Under	Estonian poet	1883-03-27	1980-09-25
Marie-Anne Chabin	French archivist	1959
Marion Stokes	Television producer, Archivist	1929-11-25	2012-12-14
Martha Levisman	Argentine architect	1933
Marthe Gosteli	Swiss archivist	1917-12-22	2017-04-07
Mary Ritter Beard	Historian, writer, activist	1876-08-05	1958-08-14
Megan Prelinger	American historian	1967-09-25
Michelle Caswell	American archivist and academic
Norah Story	Canadian archivist	1902	1978-03-05
Pauline Schultz	American historian	1915-06-07	2011-10-30
Soemartini	Chief of the National Archives of Indonesia	1930-08-17	Unknown
Phyllis Blakeley	Canadian archivist	1922-08-02	1986-10-25
R. J. Mitchell	British writer and archivist	1902
Renate Drucker	German historian and archivist	1917-07-11	2009-10-23
Rinskje Visscher	Dutch archivist and first female archivist in the country	1868-12-10	1950-03-26
Rosalie B. Green	American archivist	1917-08-20	2012-02-24
Sara Dunlap Jackson	American archivist	1919-05-28	1991-04-19
Sarah Tyacke	British historian and archivist	1945-09-29
Shelley Sweeney	Canadian archivist	1959
Stella Rimington	Director General of MI5; spy fiction writer	1935-05-13
Phyllis Mander-Jones	Australian archivist
Trudy Huskamp Peterson	American archivist	1945-01-25
Virginia C. Purdy	American archivist and historian	1922	2015
Yvonne Bezard	French archivist	1893-12-08	1939-03-30
Gladys Hansen	American archivist, expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake	1925	2017-03-05
Meredith Evans	American archivist, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum director	1926
Simone Berbain	French historian and archivist	1915-01-31	1949-11-21
Marie-Louise Marchand-Thébault	French archivist		2007
Judith Hornabrook	Chief Archivist of New Zealand, 1972-1982	1928	2011
Anahera Morehu	Chief Archivist of New Zealand, 2023-
Barbara L. Craig	Canadian archivist and educator	1943
Tonia Sutherland	American archivist, educator, and Black archival studies expert
Shelley Sweeney	Canadian archivist	1959
Louise Gagnon-Arguin	Canadian archivist	1941
Joan Ringelheim	American archivist and Research Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	1939	2021

See also

• List of archivists
• List of female librarians
• Lists of women

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.