List of female archivists
# List of female archivists

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 |
| Anahera Morehu | Chief Archivist of New Zealand, 2023- | | |
| Barbara L. Craig | Canadian archivist and educator | 1943 | |
| Shelley Sweeney | Canadian archivist | 1959 | |
| Louise Gagnon-Arguin | Canadian archivist | 1941 | |
