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Theodore Gill
American biologist (1837–1914)
Daniel J. Boorstin
American historian (1914–2004)
Edward S. Holden
American astronomer (1846-1914)
Samuel Sewall
Salem witch trial judge; early abolitionist; chief justice of Massachusetts
Miroslav Sláma
Czechoslovak ice hockey player (1917–2008)
James Tarjan
American chess grandmaster
John Shaw Billings
American surgeon, statistician, United States Army officer, designer of New York Public library (1838–1913)
Elizabeth Gray Vining
American writer
Major Owens
American politician (1936-2013)
Marion Stokes
American librarian and archivist (1929–2012)
Michael Buckland
British-American librarian
Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster
British-American information scientist (1933-2013)
Michael Gorman
British librarian (1941-)
Librarian of Congress
head of the Library of Congress
Morris Jastrow, Jr.
American orientalist and librarian (1861–1921)
Philip Reese Uhler
American entomologist and librarian (1835-1913)
George Lincoln Burr
U.S. historian, diplomat, and author (1857–1938)
Charles Fletcher Lummis
American historian, photographer, and activist (1859–1928)
Oscar Sonneck
U.S. librarian, editor, and musicologist (1873–1928)
Andrews Norton
American theologian (1786-1853)
Anne Carroll Moore
American writer and advocate for children's libraries (1871–1961)
Joe Hickerson
American folk singer (1935–2025)
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869–1914)
Weldon Kees
American artist (1914-1955)
Ann Allen Shockley
novelist and short-story writer
Patrick Magruder
Librarian of Congress (1768-1819)
William Feiner
German Jesuit missionary (1792–1829)
John Vance Cheney
American writer
Maud Malone
American suffragist and librarian
Janet Brennan Croft
American academic and writer
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American librarian (1878–1953)
Adelaide Hasse
American librarian (1868–1953)
Horace Kephart
American writer (1862-1931)
George Parker Winship
American librarian (1871-1952)
Susan Patron
American children's book author
Miriam Matthews
African American librarian
Anita Florence Hemmings
first African-American woman to graduate Vassar College and was a Librarian/Foreign Cataloger at the Boston Public Library
David S. Mao
American lawyer and librarian
William Warner Bishop
American librarian (1871-1955)
Samuel Swett Green
American librarian (1837–1918)
Joseph Cogswell
American librarian (1786-1871)
Nancy Pearl
American librarian and writer
John Taliaferro
American politician (1768-1852)
Lynne M. Thomas
American librarian, editor, and podcaster
Althea Warren
director of the Los Angeles Public Library, president of the American Library Association
Amelia Gayle Gorgas
librarian, nurse, teacher, university counselor, postmaster
Henry Eduard Legler
American librarian (1861-1917)
Maggie Thompson
editor
Edmund Pearson
American librarian, non-fiction crime writer
Herman Rosenthal
American scholar (1843–1917)