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| - This List of domestic workers are people who have worked as household servants or staff who have become notable, either for their domestic work career or for a subsequent career in another field, such as writing or art.
* Abdul Karim (the Munshi), servant of Queen Victoria of Great Britain
* Céleste Albaret, housekeeper of Marcel Proust
* Gladys Aylward, maid, afterwards missionary
* Alice Ayres, nursemaid honoured for her bravery in rescuing the children in her care from a house fire
* Sarah Balabagan
* Francis Barber with Samuel Johnson became residual heir.
* Fonzworth Bentley.
* Emily Blatchley, governess and missionary
* Sophie Brzeska, governess and writer
* Paul Burrell, butler to Diana, Princess of Wales
* Elizabeth Canning, maidservant in London
* Princess Caraboo (Mary Baker), English imposter
* Flor Contemplacion, executed for murder
* Elizabeth Cotten, musician, working for Charles Seeger the ethnomusicologist
* Hannah Cullwick, maid to A. J. Munby
* Lisette Denison Forth, maid and philanthropist
* Alonzo Fields, butler at the White House
* Caroline Herschel, astronomer (worked as a domestic servant in her father's household until his death)
* Paul Hogan, butler
* Bridget Holmes, chambermaid to kings of England
* Hélène Jégado, serial killer
* Dora Lee Jones, trade unionist
* Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of the King of Siam
* Thérèse Levasseur, laundress and chambermaid
* Margaret Maher, maid to Emily Dickinson
* Moa Martinson, author of proletarian literature, kitchen maid
* Ellen More (floruit circa 1500-1535), an African servant at the Scottish court
* Notburga, German saint, patron of hired hands
* Papin sisters, murderers
* Lillian Rogers Parks, housemaid and seamstress in the White House
* Rose Porteous, Lang Hancock's maid (afterwards his wife)
* Margaret Powell, maid and writer
* Isabel Grenfell Quallo, domestic worker and community activist
* Casimira Rodríguez, trade unionist and politician
* Margaret Rogers, maid at the White House
* Charles Spence, Scottish poet, stonemason and footman
* Deb Willet, maid in the household of Samuel Pepys
* Dorothy Bolden, domestic worker, community activist and President of the National Domestic Workers Union - Atlanta, Georgia (en)
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