List of librarians
This is a list of librarians or people who have practised librarianship and are well-known, either for their contributions to the profession or in some other field.
- Friedrich Christian Accum
- Ada Adler
- Anastasius Bibliothecarius
- Maria Teresa Freyre de Andrade
- Guillaume Appolinaire
- Reinaldo Arenas
- Antoine Alexandre Barbier
- Ludwig Bechstein
- John J. Beckley
- Thomas Berger
- Sanford Berman
- James H. Billington
- Arna Bontemps
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Jorge Luis Borges
- John Braine
- Wallace Breem
- Laura Bush
- Callimachus
- Reginald P. Carr
- Casanova
- Isaac Casaubon
- Exene Cervenka
- Joanna Cole
- Ina Coolbrith
- Charles Ammi Cutter
- Melvil Dewey
- Hal Draper
- Marcel Duchamp
- Donald J. Dunn
- Harriet Eddy
- Eratosthenes
- Luther H. Evans
- Johann Albert Fabricius
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Gates
- Johann Matthias Gesner
- Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr.
- Edmund Gosse
- Jean Gosselin
- Ed Greenwood
- Jan Gruter
- Francis Hayman
- Edward Singleton Holden
- Yin Hsi
- David Hume
- Hypatia
- Thomas James
- Charles Coffin Jewett
- E.J. Josey
- Annette Curtis Klause
- Herman Kruk
- Henri la Fontaine
- Philip Larkin
- Pierre François le Courayer
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
- Margaret Leiteritz
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Wilhelm Lexis
- Li Dazhao
- Audre Lorde
- Michael Lorenzen
- Seymour Lubetzky
- Archibald MacLeish
- Patrick Magruder
- John Silva Meehan
- Ulrike Meinhof
- Vicky Metcalf
- August Molinier
- Marianne Moore
- Daniel Mulhollan
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori
- L. Quincy Mumford
- Alan Noel Latimer Munby
- Bonnie Nardi
- Gabriel Naudé
- Christopher Okigbo
- Paul Otlet
- Major Owens
- Antonio Panizzi
- Coventry Patmore
- Heather Peek
- Benjamin Peirce
- Peter, count Griffenfeldt
- Charles Pickering
- John Pinfold
- Gary Price
- Philip Pullman
- Herbert Putnam
- Juliet Ralph
- S. R. Ranganathan
- Ismael Serageldin
- Ainsworth Rand Spofford
- John G. Stephenson
- Suetonius
- Friedrich Sylburg
- Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
- Augustus H. Tulk
- Mao Tse-Tung
- Anne Tyler
- Lao Tzu
- Martyn Wade
- George Watterston
- Jessamyn West
- Charles Wilkins
- Angus Wilson
- Louis Round Wilson
- John Russell Young