Laura Bush

Laura Bush

female, 63 years old (Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
First Lady of the United States, The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, American, Schoolteacher, librarian, Bush family
Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is thereby the First Lady of the United States.
Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West

female, 41 years old
librarian, freedom of speech, MetaFilter, from Vermont, Hampshire College alumni, American Library Association
Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council. Her father is Tom...
Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot

female, 42 years old (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)
Walt Disney Pictures, Patricia Cabot, The Princess Diaries, Indiana University alumni, children's writer, American…librarian
Meg Cabot is an American author of romantic comedies for teens and adults. She has also written under the pseudonyms Patricia Cabot and Jenny...
Lorcan Dempsey

Lorcan Dempsey

male, 51 years old
Academic, Libraries, Academic of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Irish, OCLC, librarian
Lorcan Dempsey oversees the work of OCLC Research and participates in OCLC's Strategic Leadership Team. Before this he worked in the UK as, at...

Gary Price

male
librarian, computer specialist, Price's List of Lists, resourceshelf.com, Ask Jeeves, ask.com
Gary Price is a librarian, best known for founding ResourceShelf.com and originating Price's List of Lists, "a database of ranked listings of...

Michael Gorman

male, 68 years old
Libraries, thames valley university, From London, library, University of Illinois, California State University, Fresno…librarian
Michael Gorman (b. 1941), grew up in London, England and gained an interest in libraries in part through his experiences at the Hendon library run...
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

male, deceased (1986)
writer, blind, El Aleph, H.G. Wells, Légion d'honneur recipient, Magic realism writer…librarian
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a...
Melvil Dewey

Melvil Dewey

male, deceased (1931)
from New York, Louis Kossuth, From Boston, Magazine editor, American Library Association, American…librarian
Melvil Dewey (December 10, 1851-December 26, 1931) was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library classification. Dewey...
Nancy Pearl

Nancy Pearl

female, 101 years old (Monkey Island, Alaska, United States)
American Library Association, from Detroit, University of Michigan alumni, librarian, From Seattle, public radio
Nancy Pearl (born January 12 1945) is a librarian, best-selling author, book reviewer and was, until August 2004, the Executive Director of the...
John Cotton Dana

John Cotton Dana

male, deceased (1929)
Denver, from Vermont, from Denver, librarian, American, museum
John Cotton Dana (b. August 19 1856 in Woodstock, Vermont - d. July 21 1929 in New Jersey) was a highly influential American librarian and museum...