This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

number Name description Born Died educated at image
1 Solomon Stoddard American Colonial pastor 1643-1729 1643-09-27 1729-02-11 Harvard University
Harvard College
2 Samuel Sewall Salem witch trial judge; early abolitionist; chief justice of Massachusetts 1652-03-28 1730-01-01 Harvard University
Harvard College
3 Louis Timothee American printer and librarian 1700 1738-12-29
4 Benjamin Prat 1711-1763 , lawyer and political figure 1711 1763
5 Martin Howard American judge 1725 1781
6 Joseph Priestley English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804) 1733-03-13 1804-02-06 Batley Grammar School
7 Carlo Bellini Italian academician 1735 1804-06
8 John Vaughan American merchant and amateur scientist (1756-1841) 1756-01-15 1841-12-30
9 John J. Beckley Librarian of Congress (1757-1807) 1757-08-04 1807-04-08 College of William & Mary
10 Thaddeus Mason Harris American librarian 1768 1842 Harvard University
11 William Smith Shaw lawyer, librarian 1778-08-12 1826-04-25 Harvard University
Harvard College
12 George Watterston Librarian of Congress (1783-1854) 1783-10-23 1854-02-04 Charlotte Hall Military Academy
13 Andrews Norton American theologian (1786-1853) 1786-12-31 1853-09-18 Harvard University
14 Charles Folsom American librarian (1794-1872) 1794-12-24 1872-11-08 Harvard College
Harvard University
Phillips Academy
15 Thaddeus William Harris United States librarian and entomologist (1795-1856) 1795-11-12 1856-01-16 Harvard Medical School
16 Return Jonathan Meigs American lawyer, abolitionist, and state librarian of Tennessee (1801-1891) 1801 1891
17 John Gottlieb Morris American Lutheran pastor and author (1803-1895) 1803-11-14 1895-10-10 Dickinson College
Princeton Theological Seminary
18 John Langdon Sibley Harvard librarian (1804–1885) 1804-12-29 1885-12-09 Harvard University
Harvard Divinity School
Phillips Exeter Academy
19 John Russell Bartlett American historian and linguist (1805–1886) 1805-10-23 1886-05-28
20 Evangelinos Apostolides Sophokles Greek university professor (1807–1883) 1807-03-08 1883-12-17 Amherst College
21 William Wadden Turner American philologist and librarian (1810–1859) 1810-10-23 1859-11-29 Yale University
22 Charles Wright American botanist (1811-1885) 1811-10-29 1885-08-11
1886-08-11
Harvard University
Yale University
23 Henry Augustus Homes American diplomat 1812-03-10 1887-11-03 Phillips Academy
Amherst College
Andover Theological Seminary
Yale University
24 Lyman Draper American historian (1815-1891) 1815-09-04 1891-08-26
25 Samuel Austin Allibone American author and bibliographer (1816-1889) 1816-04-17 1889-09-02
26 Charles Coffin Jewett American librarian 1816-08-12 1868-01-09
27 James Warner Ward 1816-1897 , librarian and author 1816-06-05 1897-06-28
28 Alexander Wheelock Thayer American writer (1817-1897) 1817-10-22 1897-07-15
29 Maria Mitchell American astronomer 1818-08-01 1889-06-29
30 Frederick William Ricord American writer and politician (1819-1897) 1819-10-07 1897-08-12 Rutgers University
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
31 Daniel Steele Durrie 1819-1892 , librarian 1819-01-02 1892-08-31
32 John Edmands American librarian (1820–1915) 1820-02-01 1915-10-17 Yale Divinity School
Yale College
Phillips Academy
33 Reuben Guild American historian (1822–1899) 1822-05-04 1899-05-13 Brown University
34 Lloyd Pearsall Smith American librarian, publisher, and editor, 1822-1886 1822-02-06 1886-07-02
35 William Turner Coggeshall American publisher,librarian and ambassador 1824-09-06 1867-08-02
1867-08-03
36 Ainsworth Rand Spofford Librarian of Congress (1825-1908) 1825-09-12 1908-08-11
37 Oswald Ottendorfer Moravian-American journalist (1826-1900) 1826-02-12 1900-12-15
38 William Dwight Whitney American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer (1827–1894) 1827-02-09 1894-06-07 University of Tübingen
Williams College
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
39 Lewis Henry Steiner American physician 1827-05-04 1892-02-18
40 Frederic Beecher Perkins American editor and librarian 1828-09-27
1828-09-28
1899-02-03
41 George William Bagby American physician and editor 1828-08-13 1883-11-29 University of Delaware
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
42 Daniel Coit Gilman American educator and academic (1831–1908) 1831-07-06 1908-10-13 Harvard University
Yale College
43 Justin Winsor American librarian and historian (1831–1897) 1831-01-02 1897-10-22 Harvard University
Boston Latin School
Heidelberg University
44 Willard Fiske American librarian, book collector, and chess player (1831–1904) 1831-11-11 1904-09-17 Uppsala University
Hamilton College
Cazenovia College
45 William Watts Folwell Union United States Army soldier (1833-1929) 1833-02-14 1929-09-17 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
46 Philip Reese Uhler American entomologist and librarian (1835-1913) 1835-06-03 1913-10-21 Harvard University
47 Addison Van Name American philologist and librarian (1835–1922) 1835-11-15 1922-09-29
48 James Lyman Whitney American librarian 1835-11-28 1910-09-25
49 William Reed Eastman 1835-1925 , engineer, clergyman, and librarian 1835 1925-03-25
50 Weston Flint 1835-1906 , librarian, attorney, and government official 1835 1906-04-06
51 Josephus Nelson Larned American librarian, newspaper editor, and author. (1836–1913) 1836-05-11 1913-08-15
52 Raymond Cazallis Davis American librarian (1836-1919) 1836-06-23 1919-06-10 University of Michigan
53 Theodore Nicholas Gill American biologist (1837–1914) 1837-03-21 1914-09-25
54 Charles Ammi Cutter American librarian (1837-1903) 1837-03-14 1903-09-06 Harvard University
Harvard Divinity School
55 Samuel Swett Green American librarian (1837–1918) 1837-02-20 1918-12-09 Harvard Divinity School
Harvard University
56 John Shaw Billings American surgeon, statistician, United States Army officer, designer of New York Public library (1838–1913) 1838-04-12 1913-03-11 Miami University
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
57 Thomas Lounsbury American scholar and Union officer (1838–1915) 1838-01-01 1915-04-09 Yale College
58 Henry Phillips American numismatist and translator 1838-09-06 1895-06-06
59 Charles Augustus Briggs American scholar and theologian (1841–1913) 1841-01-15 1913-06-08 Union Theological Seminary
University of Virginia
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
60 Ina Coolbrith American poet, writer, and librarian (1841–1928) 1841-03-10 1928-02-29
61 Juliet Corson United States cookery educator (1841-1897) 1841-01-14 1897-06-18
62 Franklin Bowditch Dexter American historian and librarian (1842-1920) 1842 1920
63 James Read Chadwick American gynecologist (1844-1905) 1844-11-02 1905-09-23 Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
64 Richard Theodore Greener Scholar, diplomat, attorney, and the first African-American graduate of Harvard University and Phillips Academy Andover (1844–1922) 1844-01-30 1922-05-15 Phillips Academy
Harvard Law School
Oberlin College
Harvard College
Oberlin Academy
65 William Henry Roberts Presbyterian minister and church administrator (1844-1920) 1844 1920
66 Carl Henrik Andreas Bjerregaard 1845-1922 , librarian and philosopher 1845-05-24 1922-01-28
67 Edward S. Holden American astronomer (1846-1914) 1846-11-05 1914-03-16 Washington University in St. Louis
United States Military Academy
68 William Howard Brett American librarian (1846–1918) 1846-07-01 1918-08-24 University of Michigan
69 Cornelia Clapp American zoologist (1849-1934) 1849-03-17 1934-12-31 Syracuse University
University of Chicago
Mount Holyoke College
70 William Beer American librarian (1849-1927) 1849-05-01 1927-02-01
71 Charles Evans American librarian and bibliographer (1850–1935) 1850-11-13 1935-02-08
72 George Watson Cole American librarian and bibliographer (1850–1939) 1850-09-06 1939-10-10
73 Melvil Dewey American librarian (1851–1931) 1851-12-10 1931-12-26 Amherst College
Alfred University
74 Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin American bibliographer 1852-07-24 1926-04-16
75 Reuben Gold Thwaites American librarian (1853-1913) 1853-05-15 1913-10-22 Yale University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
76 Annie Le Porte Diggs Canadian-born American poet, author, newspaperwoman, temperance worker, and Populist advocate 1853-02-22 1916-09-07
77 W. M. Griswold librarian, bibliographer, and indexer (1853-1899) 1853 1899
78 Harlan Page Beach American missionary in China (1854-1933) 1854-04-04 1933-03-04 Yale University
Phillips Academy
79 Mary Cutler Fairchild American librarian (1855–1921) 1855-06-21 1921-12-20 Mount Holyoke College
80 Wilberforce Eames American bibliographer and librarian (1855–1937) 1855-10-12 1937-12-06
81 John Cotton Dana American librarian and museum director (1856-1929) 1856-08-19 1929-07-21 Dartmouth College
82 John Charles Van Dyke American art historian and critic (1856–1932) 1856-04-21 1932-12-05 Columbia Law School
83 Mary Wright Plummer former president of the American Library Association (1856-1916) 1856-03-08 1916-09-21 Columbia University School of Library Service
Wellesley College
84 George Lincoln Burr U.S. historian, diplomat, and author (1857–1938) 1857-01-30 1938
1938-06-27
Cornell University
85 Rosa Smith Eigenmann American ichthyologist (1858-1947) 1858-10-07 1947-01-12 Harvard University
Indiana University Bloomington
86 Charles Burleigh Galbreath American author, historian, librarian 1858-02-25 1934-02-23 University of Mount Union
87 Sam Walter Foss American writer (1858–1911) 1858-06-19 1911-02-26
1911-02-24
Brown University
Tilton School
88 Worthington Chauncey Ford American historian (1858–1941) 1858 1941-03-07
89 J. Franklin Jameson American historian (1859–1937) 1859-09-19 1937-09-28 Johns Hopkins University
Amherst College
90 Charles Fletcher Lummis American historian, photographer, and activist (1859–1928) 1859-03-01 1928-11-24
1928-11-25
Harvard University
91 Alice S. Tyler American librarian and advocate (1859-1944) 1859-04-27 1944-04-18 Illinois Institute of Technology
92 Margaret Center Klingelsmith 1859-1931 , law librarian and author 1859
1852-11-27
1931
1931-01-19
University of Pennsylvania
93 Arthur Elmore Bostwick United States librarian and author (1860–1942) 1860-03-08 1942-02-13 Yale University
94 Charles Martel Swiss-American librarian (1860–1945) 1860-03-05 1945-05-15
95 Frederic Bancroft American historian (1860-1945) 1860-10-30 1945-02-22 Amherst College
Columbia University
96 Mary Eileen Ahern American librarian (1860-1938) 1860-10-01 1938-05-22 Canterbury College
Illinois Institute of Technology
Armour Institute
97 Grace Raymond Hebard American historian, suffragist, educator, economist and writer (1861–1936) 1861-07-02 1936-10-11 University of Iowa
Illinois Wesleyan University
98 Nettie Stevens American geneticist (1861–1912) 1861-07-07 1912-05-04 Westfield State University
Stanford University
Bryn Mawr College
Westford Academy
99 Morris Jastrow, Jr. American orientalist and librarian (1861–1921) 1861-08-13 1921-06-22 University of Pennsylvania
Leipzig University
100 Herbert Putnam American librarian and lawyer (1861-1955) 1861-09-20 1955-08-14 Harvard University
Columbia University
Columbia Law School
101 Edwin H. Anderson American library leader (1861-1947) 1861-09-27 1947-04-29 Wabash College
102 Mary Elizabeth Wood American librarian and missionary in China 1861-08-22 1931-05-01 Pratt Institute
Simmons University
Pratt Institute School of Information
103 Henry Eduard Legler American librarian (1861-1917) 1861-06-22 1917-09-13
104 Richard James Horatio Gottheil American Semitic scholar and Zionist (1862–1936) 1862-10-13 1936-05-22 Columbia University
Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School
105 Elizabeth Robins actress, producer, playwright, novelist and feminist (1862-1952) 1862-08-06 1952-05-08
106 Azariah Smith Root American librarian (1862–1927) 1862-02-03 1927-10-02 Oberlin College
University of Göttingen
107 Cyrus Adler Jewish American historian, scholar, religious leader (1863–1940) 1863-09-13 1940-04-07 Johns Hopkins University
University of Pennsylvania
108 J. C. M. Hanson Norwegian-American librarian 1864-03-13 1943-11-08 Luther College
Concordia Seminary
Cornell University
109 Alice B. Kroeger American librarian 1864-05-02 1909-10-31
110 Katharine L. Sharp American librarian 1865-05-25
1865-05-21
1914-06-01 Northwestern University
111 Helen Marot American librarian and workers' rights activist (1865-1940) 1865-06-09 1940-06-03
112 Mary Frances Isom American librarian 1865-02-27 1920-04-15 Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute School of Information
113 Monroe Work American sociologist 1866-08-15 1945-05-02 University of Chicago
Arkansas City High School
114 Lutie E. Stearns American librarian 1866-09-12
1866-09-13
1943-12-25 Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee
115 Henry Malter American rabbi 1867-03-23 1925-04-05 Heidelberg University
116 Max Farrand American historian 1869-03-29 1945-06-17 Princeton University
117 Beatrice Winser American librarian (1869-1947) 1869-03-11 1947-09-14 Columbia University School of Library Service
118 Fielding Hudson Garrison American medical historian (1870–1935) 1870-11-05 1935-04-18
1935-04-19
Johns Hopkins University
119 Earl Gregg Swem American librarian 1870-12-29 1965-04-14 Lafayette College
120 Frederick John Teggart Irish-American historian and social scientist 1870-05-09 1946
1946-10-12
Trinity College, Dublin
Stanford University
121 Sarah C. N. Bogle American librarian 1870-11-17 1932-01-11 University of Chicago
Drexel University
122 Harriet Boyd-Hawes American archaeologist (1871–1945) 1871-10-11 1945-03-31 Smith College
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
123 Anne Carroll Moore American writer and advocate for children's libraries (1871–1961) 1871-07-12 1961-01-20 Pratt Institute
124 George Parker Winship American librarian (1871-1952) 1871-07-29 1952-06-22 Harvard University
125 Oscar Sonneck U.S. librarian, editor, and musicologist (1873–1928) 1873-10-06 1928-10-30 Heidelberg University
126 Charles McCarthy American political scientist and reformer 1873-06-29 1921-03-26 Brown University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
127 Cornelia Marvin Pierce American librarian 1873-12-26 1957-02-13
1957-02-12
Armour Institute
128 Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Puerto Rican historian, writer and activist (1874–1938) 1874-01-24 1938-06-10
129 Harry M. Lydenberg American librarian, book conservationist, lecturer, author (1874–1960) 1874-11-18 1960-04-16 Harvard University
130 Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt American suffragist 1874-12-17 1961-04-04 Wells College
131 Isadore Gilbert Mudge American librarian 1875-03-14 1957-05-16 Cornell University
New York State Library School
132 George Burwell Utley American librarian (1876-1946) 1876-12-03 1946-10-04 Brown University
Colgate University
Vermont Academy
133 John Clement Fitzpatrick American archivist and historian (1876-1940) 1876-08-10 1940-02-10
134 Alexander Marx American librarian (1878–1953) 1878-01-29 1953-12-26 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary
135 Kathleen Norris American writer (1880-1966) 1880-07-16 1966-01-18 University of California, Berkeley
136 Linnie Marsh Wolfe American librarian 1881-01-08 1945-09-15 Radcliffe College
Harvard University
University of Washington
University of California, Berkeley
University of Southern California
Whitman College
137 May Massee American children's book editor 1881-05-01 1966-12-24
138 Anne Spencer American poet (1882–1975) 1882-02-06 1975-07-27 Virginia Theological Seminary
Virginia University of Lynchburg
139 Jennie Maas Flexner American librarian (1882–1944) 1882-11-06 1944-11-17
140 Lucy Randolph Mason American activist (1882-1959) 1882 1959-05-06
141 Belle da Costa Greene American librarian (1883-1950) 1883-12-13 1950-05-10 Northfield Mount Hermon School
142 Carl Engel French-American composer (1883-1944) 1883-07-21 1944-05-06
143 Frances Percy Newman American writer (1883–1928) 1883 1928-10-22
144 Adolph S. Oko bibliographer, librarian (1883-1944) 1883 1944
145 Edwin Borchard American legal scholar (1884–1951) 1884-10-17 1951-07-22 New York Law School
146 Lawrence C. Wroth author, librarian, research professor (1884-1970) 1884-01-14 1970-12-25 Johns Hopkins University
147 Lee Pierce Butler American academic 1884-12-19 1953-03-28 Hartford International University for Religion and Peace
148 May Hill Arbuthnot American educator and writer (1884-1969) 1884-08-27 1969-10-02 University of Chicago
Columbia University
149 Margaret Hutchins 1884–1961, librarian and professor 1884-09-21 1961-01-04 Smith College
150 Sylvia Beach American-born bookseller and publisher (1887–1962) 1887-03-14 1962-10-06
151 Adelaide Teague Case Episcopal educator and saint 1887 1948 Bryn Mawr College
152 Talbot Hamlin American architect, professor, and librarian 1889-06-16 1956-10-07 Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Amherst College
153 Angie Debo American historian 1890-01-30 1988-02-21 University of Chicago
University of Oklahoma
154 Nella Larsen American novelist, librarian, nurse (1891–1964) 1891-04-13 1964-03-30 Fisk University
Columbia University
University of Copenhagen
Lincoln School for Nurses
155 Archibald MacLeish American poet and Librarian of Congress (1892-1982) 1892-05-07 1982-04-20 Yale University
Harvard Law School
Hotchkiss School
156 Roy Stryker American photographer (1893–1975) 1893-11-05 1975-09-27 Columbia University
157 J. Edgar Hoover American law enforcement administrator (1895–1972) 1895-01-01 1972-05-02 Georgetown University
George Washington University
George Washington University Law School
Cardozo Education Campus
158 Jeannette Howard Foster American writer (1895–1981) 1895-11-03 1981-07-26 Rockford University
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Science Hill School
159 Fanny Goldstein 1888-1961 , librarian and bibliographer 1895-05-15 1961
160 Carlos Castañeda American historian 1896-11-11 1958-04-03 University of Texas at Austin
161 Charlemae Hill Rollins American librarian (1897-1979) 1897-06-20 1979-02-03 Howard University
University of Chicago
Columbia College Chicago
University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Roosevelt University
162 Regina M. Anderson Multi-racial playwright/librarian (1901–1993) 1901-05-21 1993-02-05 Wilberforce University
Columbia University
University of Chicago
City College of New York
163 Arna Bontemps American poet, novelist (1902–1973) 1902-10-13 1973-06-04 University of Chicago
Pacific Union College
University of California, Los Angeles
164 Luther H. Evans American political scientist (1902-1981) 1902-10-13 1981-12-23 Stanford University
University of Texas at Austin
165 Elizabeth Gray Vining American writer 1902-10-06 1999-11-27 Bryn Mawr College
Drexel University
Germantown Friends School
166 Otto Bettmann American archivist (1903–1998) 1903-10-15 1998-05-03
1998-05-01
Leipzig University
167 Lawrence Quincy Mumford American librarian (1903–1982) 1903-12-11 1982-08-15 Duke University
Columbia University
168 Charles Coleman Sellers American librarian and historian 1903-03-16 1980-01-31 Harvard University
Haverford College
Temple University
169 Jesse Shera American librarian (1903–1982) 1903-12-08 1982 Yale University
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Graduate Library School
University of Miami
170 Dorothy Miner Medievalist curator of manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 1904-11-04 1973-05-12 Columbia University
Barnard College
Horace Mann School
Bedford College
171 George Freedley , curator of the New York Public Library theater collection, drama critic, and author (1904–1967) 1904 1967
172 Dorothy B. Porter American librarian (1905-1995) 1905-05-25 1995-12-17 Howard University
Columbia University School of Library Service
Normal School for Colored Girls
173 William Alexander Jackson 1905-1964 , librarian and bibliographer 1905-07-25 1964 Williams College
174 Helen MacInnes 20th-century Scottish-American author 1907-10-07 1985-09-30 University of Glasgow
University College London
175 James D. Hart American academic (1911–1990) 1911-04-18 1990-07-23 Harvard University
Stanford University
176 Virginia Haviland Author, Librarian (1911–1988) 1911-05-21 1988-01-06 Cornell University
177 Bernard Berelson American behavioral scientist (1912–1979) 1912-06-02 1979-09-25 University of Chicago
University of Washington
Whitman College
178 Daniel J. Boorstin American historian (1914–2004) 1914-10-01 2004-02-28 Harvard College
Balliol College
Yale Law School
Central High School
Harvard University
179 Frederick R. Goff librarian 1916-04-23 1982-09-26 Brown University
180 Madeleine L'Engle American writer (1918–2007) 1918-11-29 2007-09-06 Smith College
181 Amy Clampitt American poet (1920-1994) 1920-06-15 1994-09-10 Grinnell College
182 Theodore Elliott Johnson 1931-1986 , librarian, scholar, and Shaker brother 1931 1986
183 Barbara Gittings American librarian, LGBT rights activist (1932–2007) 1932-07-31 2007-02-18 Northwestern University
Northwestern University School of Communication
184 Audre Lorde American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992) 1934-02-18 1992-11-17 Columbia University
Hunter College
Hunter College High School
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Columbia University School of Library Service
185 Reinaldo Arenas Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990) 1943-07-16 1990-12-07
End of auto-generated list.