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.

Archivists

Image	Name	Birth date	Death date	Country	Archivist activity
	Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda	February 16, 1892	July 19, 1966	Spain	Archivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962.
	Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville	December 5, 1827	February, 1910	France	Worked at the departmental archives of Aube.
	Robert-Henri Bautier	April 19, 1922	October 19, 2010	France	Worked at the Archives nationales.
	Howard Besser	1952	-	United States	Founder of the Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program (MIAP) at New York University.
	Baldassarre Bonifacio
	Henri Bourde de La Rogerie	April 8, 1873	January 31, 1949	France
	Charles Braibant	March 31, 1889	April 23, 1976	France
	Brien Brothman				Worked at the National Archives of Canada until 1995. He is currently working at the Rhode Island State Archives.
	Marcel Caya
	Marie-Anne Chabin	1959	-	France
	Émile Campardon	July 7, 1837	February 23, 1915	France
	Armand-Gaston Camus			France
	Paul Conway	September 7, 1953	-	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	1946	2014	Canada
	Richard J. Cox			United States
	Barbara Craig
	Pierre Claude François Daunou	August 18, 1761	June 20, 1840	France
Arthur Doughty	Arthur Doughty	March 22, 1860	December 1, 1936	Canada	Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records.
	Jules Doinel	December 8, 1842		France
	Wendy Duff			Canada
	Luciana Duranti			Canada	Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
	Terry Eastwood			Canada
	Jean Favier			France
	Lucie Favier			France
	Johan Feith			the Netherlands
	David Ferriero
	Robert Fruin			the Netherlands
	Léon Gautier			France
	Arthur Giry			France
	Marie-Claude Guigue			France
	Verne Harris			South Africa
	Michael S. Hart	March 8, 1947	September 6, 2011	United States	Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg.
	Kent Haworth
	J. Franklin Jameson
	Hilary Jenkinson			United Kingdom
Brewster Kahle	Brewster Kahle	October 22, 1960	-	United States	Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library)
	Arthur de La Borderie			France
	William Kaye Lamb
	Rita Keegan	1949	-		Founder of Women Artists of Colour Index at the Women Artists' Slide Library and former Director of the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive
	Gustave Lanctot
	Charles-Victor Langlois			France
	Abel Lefranc			France
	Waldo Gifford Leland
	David Lemieux
	Jason Liew			Singapore	Developed Archival Appraisal 2.0, church archivist
	Heather MacNeil			Canada	Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
	Joseph Marmette
	Paul Mawhinney			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			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
	Laura A Millar
	Samuel Muller
	Margaret Cross Norton			United States	Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists
	John W Pear				World Music Archives, Manilla, Australia
	Juan Menéndez Pidal
	Régine Pernoud			France	Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris
	Seymour Pomrenze				First director of the Offenbach Archival Depot
	Ernst Posner			United States
	Stella Rimington			United Kingdom	Former Director General of MI5.
	Helen Willa Samuels			United States	Archivist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Celia Sánchez				Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution.
	Peter J Scott
Jason Scott Sadofsky	Jason Scott Sadofsky	September 13, 1970	-	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. (See talk: ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack)
	T. R. Schellenberg			United States
Henry Spencer	Henry Spencer	1955	-	Canada	Preserved more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The contents were imported into Google's archives.
	Marion Stokes	November 25, 1929	December 14, 2012	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.
	Shelley Sweeney (archivist)	1959	-		She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
	Gerhard Tausche	1957	-
	Édith Thomas			France	Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris
	Frank Upward			Australia	Created the Records Continuum Model
Paul Marie Viollet	Paul Marie Viollet	October 24, 1840	November 22, 1914	France	Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris.
	Rodrigo Moura Visoni	March 21, 1980	Living	Brazil	Archivist of Specialist in the History of Brazilian Inventions.
	Jean-Pierre Wallot
	Ian E. Wilson
	Dharwis Yacob			Indonesia	Archivist of Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia
	Syamalendu Sengupta			India