Richard Allen (publisher)W
Richard Allen (publisher)

Richard Allen was a stationer and publisher in Nottingham.

Samuel Turell ArmstrongW
Samuel Turell Armstrong

Samuel Turell Armstrong was a U.S. political figure. Born in 1784 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, he was a printer and bookseller in Boston, specializing in religious materials. Among his works were an early stereotype edition of Scott's Family Bible, which was very popular, and The Panoplist, a religious magazine devoted to missionary interests.

Elsa BorgW
Elsa Borg

Elsa Borg was a Swedish educator and social worker. She is known for being the founder of the Christian Bible Home for women and its combined mission work and social work among the poor in Stockholm.

Eduard BrockhausW
Eduard Brockhaus

Eduard Brockhaus was a German publisher and politician.

Heinrich BrockhausW
Heinrich Brockhaus

Heinrich Brockhaus was a German book dealer and publisher who became a liberal politician.

Edward L. CareyW
Edward L. Carey

Edward Lawrence Carey was an American publisher and Aesthete, notable for co-founding the publishing firm Carey & Hart alongside Abraham Hart.

Edward Chapman (publisher)W
Edward Chapman (publisher)

Edward Chapman was a British publisher who, with William Hall founded Chapman & Hall, publishers for Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Anthony Trollope, Eadweard Muybridge and Evelyn Waugh among others.

Frederic ChapmanW
Frederic Chapman

Frederic Chapman was a publisher of the Victorian era who became a partner in Chapman & Hall, who published the works of Charles Dickens and Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others.

Isaac Collins (printer)W
Isaac Collins (printer)

Isaac Collins was a printer, publisher, bookseller and merchant of the early American period. He published the New Jersey Gazette and New Jersey Almanac. He is noted for his 1791 bible, the first family bible published in America.

Hristo G. DanovW
Hristo G. Danov

Hristo Gruev Danov was a Bulgarian enlightener, teacher and book publisher of the Bulgarian National Revival who is regarded as the father of organized book publishing in the Bulgarian lands and hailed as the "Bulgarian Gutenberg". After the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, he was also a politician and mayor of Plovdiv.

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm DunckerW
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker

Carl Duncker was a German publisher. He played an important part in the early creation and growth of the publishing firm which became Duncker & Humblot, more recently the publishers of the Neue Deutsche Biographie, a biographical dictionary.

Franz DunckerW
Franz Duncker

Franz Duncker was a German publisher, left-liberal politician and social reformer.

Dietrich EckartW
Dietrich Eckart

Dietrich Eckart was a German anti-Semitic volkisch poet, playwright, journalist, publicist, and political activist who was one of the founders of the German Workers' Party, the predecessor to the Nazi Party. Eckart was a key influence on Adolf Hitler in the early years of the Party, the original publisher of the party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, and the lyricist of the first party anthem, Sturmlied. He was a participant in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 and died on December 23 of that year, shortly after his release from Landsberg Prison, from a heart attack compounded by alcoholism and morphine addiction. He was buried in Berchtesgaden.

Addie C. Strong EngleW
Addie C. Strong Engle

Addie C. Strong Engle was an American author and publisher. She was one of the oldest Past Grand Matrons of Connecticut.

Samuel von FischerW
Samuel von Fischer

Samuel Fischer, later Samuel von Fischer, was a Hungarian-born German publisher, the founder of S. Fischer Verlag. Fischer was born in Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus/Liptószentmiklós, Liptau/Liptó megye, northern Hungary. He was trained as a bookseller in Vienna and moved to Berlin shortly afterwards. In Berlin, he joined the bookseller and publisher Hugo Steinitz. Fischer took on increasing responsibility for new publishing endeavours and managed to launch his own firm in 1886, the S. Fischer, Verlag.

Hannah HumphreyW
Hannah Humphrey

Hannah Humphrey was a leading London print seller of the 18th century, significant in particular for being the publisher of much of James Gillray's output.

Kandathil Varghese MappillaiW
Kandathil Varghese Mappillai

Kandathil Varghese Mappillai was an Indian journalist, translator and publisher who was the founder of the newspaper Malayala Manorama and the magazine Bhashaposhini.

Eleanor KirkW
Eleanor Kirk

Eleanor Maria Easterbrook Ames better known by her pen name, Eleanor Kirk, was an American author from Rhode Island. She wrote a number of books and published a magazine entitled Eleanor Kirk's Idea. She was also a regular contributor to The Revolution and Packard's Monthly. Kirk died in 1908.

Robert Laurie (engraver)W
Robert Laurie (engraver)

Robert Laurie was an Anglo-Scottish mezzotint engraver and publisher. He signed his name as Lowery, Lowry, Lowrie, Lawrey, Lawrie, or Laurie.

Mary Theresa LedóchowskaW
Mary Theresa Ledóchowska

Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, was a Polish Roman Catholic Religious Sister and missionary, who founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, dedicated to service in Africa. She has been beatified by the Catholic Church.

John Silva MeehanW
John Silva Meehan

John Silva Meehan was an American printer and publisher. He was the fourth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1829 to 1861.

Bangalore NagarathnammaW
Bangalore Nagarathnamma

Bangalore Nagarathnamma was an Indian Carnatic singer, cultural activist, scholar, and courtesan. A descendant of courtesans, she was also a patron of the arts and a historian. Nagarathnamma built a temple over the samadhi of the Carnatic singer Tyagaraja at Thiruvaiyaru and helped establish the Tyagaraja Aradhana festival in his memory. Within a male dominated festival, she was the feminist aggressive enough to ensure that women artists were given equality to participate in it. She "was among the last practitioners of the devadasi tradition in India," and the first president of the Association of the Devadasis of Madras Presidency. She also edited and published books on poetry and anthologies.

Theodora NoevaW
Theodora Noeva

Theodora Noeva, was a Bulgarian women's rights activist.

Friedrich von Oppeln-BronikowskiW
Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski

Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski was a German writer, translator, publisher and cultural historian. His grave is located in the Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

Jan OttoW
Jan Otto

Jan Otto was a Czech publisher and bookseller. He is most known for Otto's encyclopedia, the largest encyclopedia published in the Czech language.

George ParburyW
George Parbury

George Parbury (1807–1881) was a publisher with a special interest in India, a freemason in India and London, Master of Merchant Taylors livery company, Justice of the Peace for two counties and Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets.

George Philip (cartographer)W
George Philip (cartographer)

George Philip (1800–1882) was a cartographer, map publisher and founder of the publishing house George Philip & Son Ltd.

Yehoshua Hana RawnitzkiW
Yehoshua Hana Rawnitzki

Yehoshua Ḥana Rawnitzki was a Hebrew publisher, editor, and collaborator of Hayim Nahman Bialik.

Adolf Martin SchlesingerW
Adolf Martin Schlesinger

Adolf Martin Schlesinger was a German music publisher whose firm became one of the most influential in Berlin in the early nineteenth century.

Ainsworth Rand SpoffordW
Ainsworth Rand Spofford

Ainsworth Rand Spofford was an American journalist and the sixth Librarian of Congress.

Edward StratemeyerW
Edward Stratemeyer

Edward L. Stratemeyer was an American publisher, writer of children's fiction, and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. He was one of the most prolific writers in the world, producing in excess of 1,300 books himself, selling in excess of 500 million copies. He also created many well-known fictional book series for juveniles, including The Rover Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series, many of which sold millions of copies and are still in publication today. On Stratemeyer's legacy, Fortune wrote: "As oil had its Rockefeller, literature had its Stratemeyer."

Benedictus Gotthelf TeubnerW
Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner

Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner was a German bookseller and the founder of a publishing company.

David Van NostrandW
David Van Nostrand

David Van Nostrand was a New York City publisher.

James Wilson (businessman)W
James Wilson (businessman)

James Wilson was a Scottish businessman, economist, and Liberal politician who founded The Economist weekly and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which merged with Standard Bank in 1969 to form Standard Chartered.