List of female archivists
This is a list of female archivists.
| Name | Description | Birth | Death | Image |
| Marguerite-Françoise-Émilie d’Hôtel, Madame de Calonne | French archivist at the Tribunal of Seine | 1721 | 1812 | |
| Adelaide Fries | American historian | 1871 | 1949 | |
| Vicenta Ibáñez Sarsuela | First female archivist at the Archive of the Kingdom of Valencia | ? | 1681 | |
| 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 | - | |
| Bep Bijtelaar | Dutch archivist | 1898 | 1978 | |
| Beryl Oliver | British humanitarian | 1882-08-20 | 1972-07-13 | |
| Brenda Banks | American archivist | 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 | ||
| Elena Amat Calderón | Spanish university professor and archivist | 1910-01-13 | 2006-08-04 | |
| Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche | Sister of Friedrich Nietzsche, creator of the Nietzsche Archive | 1846-07-10 | 1935-11-08 | |
| Elizabeth Heaps | British librarian | |||
| Francesca Hillier | British archivist | |||
| 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 | ||
| Helena Polaczkówna | Polish archivist | 1881 | 1942 | |
| Hermine Moquette | Dutch archivist | 1869-04-25 | 1945-12-17 | |
| Isabella Henriette van Eeghen | Dutch art historian | 1913-02-03 | 1996-11-26 | |
| Jehanne Wake | British biographer and historian | |||
| Joan Sinar | English archivist | 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 Polaczkówna | Polish state archivist | 1878 | 1944 | |
| Maria Verger | Spanish archivist | 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 | |
| Soemartini | Chief of the National Archives of Indonesia | 1930-08-17 | Unknown | |
| 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 | |
| Rinskje Visscher | Dutch archivist and first female archivist in the country | 1868-12-10 | 1950-03-26 | |
| Rosalie B. Green | American archivist | 1917-08-20 | 2012-02-24 | |
| Sara Dunlap Jackson | American archivist | 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 | |
| Yvonne Bezard | French archivist | 1893-12-08 | 1939-03-30 | |
| 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 | ||
| Tonia Sutherland | American archivist, educator, and Black archival studies expert | - | ||
| Shelley Sweeney | Canadian archivist | 1959 | ||
| Louise Gagnon-Arguin | Canadian archivist | 1941 | ||
| Joan Ringelheim | American archivist and Research Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | 1939 | 2021 |