20th-century librarians

Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)

French intellectual and literary figure (1897–1962)

British prehistorian archaeologist (1892–1957)

Indian mathematician and librarian (1892–1972)

co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1889–1927)

Romanian-French writer (1898–1944)

Moldovan librarian and bibliographer

Spanish librarian and lexicographer (1900-1981)

poet

Romanian writer and historian (1921–1993)

Italian writer (1922-1971)

Hindu philosopher (1887–1976)

Peruvian historian (1903-1980)

Nigerian poet (1930–1967)

Israeli archaeologist and historian (1904-1974)

Romanian academic (1895-1987)

Egyptian poet (1892-1981)

Belgian music librarian (1867–1939)

chief librarian at the Bosnian National Museum

Romanian politician (1900-1984)

Swiss academic (1899-1971)

Israeli writer (1900-1984)

Hungarian paleontologist (1889-1936)

Persian and Islamic studies scholar (1911–1996)

Russian academic (1857–1928)

Finnish composer

Spanish philologist (1887–1982)

Spanish librarian

20th-century Bulgarian writer

Russian politician (1886-1953)

Spanish educator and librarian (1905–1936)

the great librarian rithul (1909-1995)

Perpessicius (; pen name of Dumitru S. Panaitescu, also known as Panait Șt. Dumitru, D. P. Perpessicius and Panaitescu-Perpessicius; October 22, 1891 – March 29, 1971) was a Romanian literary historian and critic, poet, essayist and fiction writer. One of the prominent literary chroniclers of the Romanian interwar period, he stood apart in his generation for having thrown his support behind the modernist and avant-garde currents of Romanian literature. As a theorist, Perpessicius merged the tenets of Symbolism with the pragmatic conservative principles of the 19th century Junimea society, but

Polish historian of exact sciences and philosophy (1890-1967)

American writer (1895–1981)

Baltic German ethnologist, philologist, librarian, archaeologist and ethnographer (1856-1941)

French numismatist, historian and librarian (1889–1978)

Swedish composer (1899–1992)

French librarian (1894-1989)

Spanish writer

French librarian (1887–1974)

Austrian ethnologist and librarian murdered in the Holocaust by the Nazis because of her Jewish origins (1890-1942)

holocaust victim, b. 1887-11-23

Dutch writer (1899–1989)

Finnish poet (1898–1954)

Israeli politician

French historian (1903-1991)

Israeli rabbi and writer

librarian, media historian and bibliographer from Hungary (1894-1979)

Romanian academic (1902-1988)

Swiss librarian (1902-1986)

Japanese scholar, critic (1896-1976)

French politician and Resistance member

Austrian librarian, physicist, mathematician and informatics pioneer

Welsh poet (1920–1994)

Italian musicologist (1908-1998)

Romanian politician (1914–1991)

bibliographer, archivist, and librarian from France (1899-1977)

British librarian & historian (1924–1995)

Hungarian librarian