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