List of female archivists

Last updated March 15, 2023

This is a list of female archivists.

Name	Description	Birth	Death
Adelaide Fries	American historian	1871	1949
Adrienne Thomas	American archivist
Alice Prochaska	Curator, archivist, librarian, and university administrator	1947-07-12
Anita Wilson	Archivist for Tuvalu, Hong Kong Government and British royal family	1943	2006
Barbara Frale	Italian historian	1970-02-24
Beryl Oliver	British humanitarian	1882-08-20	1972-07-13
Brenda Banks		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
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche	Sister of Friedrich Nietzsche	1846-07-10	1935-11-08
Elizabeth Heaps	British librarian
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
Isabella Henriette van Eeghen	Dutch art historian	1913-02-03	1996-11-26
Jehanne Wake	British biographer and historian
Joan Sinar		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 Verger		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
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
Sara Dunlap Jackson		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
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
Barbara L. Craig	Canadian archivist and educator	1943
Shelley Sweeney	Canadian archivist	1959
Louise Gagnon-Arguin	Canadian archivist	1941

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