This is a list of people who have practised librarianship and are well-known, either for their contributions to the profession or in some other field.
- Antoine Alexandre Barbier
- John Braine
- Laura Bush
- Casanova
- Charles Ammi Cutter
- Melvil Dewey
- Edmund Gosse
- David Hume
- Charles Coffin Jewett
- Philip Larkin
- Seymour Lubetzky
- Mao Tse-Tung
- Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
- Gottfried Von Leibniz
- Angus Wilson