Coombs – U.S. politician; State Librarian of California, 1898-1899 Gratia Countryman – Minneapolis librarian Pierre François le Courayer – 18th-century theologian Evelyn Crowell – librarian, author, speaker, activist, and community organizer Harinath De – linguist John Dee – Renaissance magician A. Brian Deer – librarian from Kahnawake who developed a library classification system that gave rise to the Brian Deer Classification System Hal Draper Marcel Duchamp Will Durant – historian Eratosthenes Frank Ferko – composer Benjamin Franklin Stephen Gaselee – diplomat Edmund Gosse Ed Greenwood – author Francis Hayman – English artist Elizabeth Heaps Edward Singleton Holden – U.S. astronomer J. Edgar Hoover – first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation David Hume – philosopher Hypatia (c. 350–370 – March 415) Mohammad Khatami – Iranian president and scholar Annette Curtis Klause – author of children's books Stanley Kunitz – former United States Poet Laureate; editor of Wilson Library Bulletin'', 1927-1943 Lao Tsu Madeleine L'Engle – 20th-century novelist Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz – mathematician and philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – German playwright and poet Wilhelm Lexis – German economist Li Dazhao – Chinese revolutionary politician Audre Lorde – 20th-century US poet and activist Archibald MacLeish – author; Librarian of Congress, 1939-1944 Mao Zedong – Chinese revolutionary politician Alan Noel Latimer Munby – English author Vaunda Micheaux Nelson – author and librarian Andre Norton – science-fiction author Walter A. O'Brien – U.S. politician; commissioned original version of the song "Charlie on the M.T.A." Christopher Okigbo – Nigerian poet Major Owens – U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY) Andrew K. Pace – author Coventry Patmore – 19th-century UK poet Kit Pearson – Canadian writer; winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English language children's literature Benjamin Peirce – logician Per Petterson – Norwegian author Charles Pickering Marcel Proust – French author Philip Pullman – fantasy novelist Ken Roberts – author Greg Dean Schmitz – online film journalist Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves – granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt Sima Qian – Chinese historian Lynne Stewart – American lawyer June Tabor – British singer Elizabeth Taylor Edward J. Thomas – scholar of Buddhism Anne Tyler – novelist Wallace Van Jackson – American librarian and civil rights activist Angus Wilson – novelist Librarians noted as spouses of national leaders Laura Bush – served as First Lady of the United States Ingrid Carlsson – wife of Ingvar Carlsson Miriam Eshkol See also List of fictional librarians List