List of American copy editors

This is a list of some notable current and former American copy editors.

American copy editors

 * Lois Bryan Adams – editor, Michigan Farmer
 * Margaret L. Bailey – editor and proprietor, The Philanthropist; editor, The Youth's Monthly Visitor and The National Era
 * Catharine Webb Barber – editor, Madison Visitor and Southern Literary Companion; editor and proprietor, Miss Barber's Weekly
 * Melvin L. Barnet – copy editor, The New York Times
 * Josephine Cushman Bateham – editor, ladies department, Ohio Cultivator
 * Emma Lee Benedict – editorial staff, New York School Journal; managing editor, Scientific Temperance Journal
 * Tosh Berman
 * Theodore M. Bernstein – former editor of The New York Times; author of The Careful Writer, Watch Your Language and several other books on grammar and usage
 * Anna Braden – editor, Presbyterian Visitor
 * Florence Anderson Clark – co-editor, The Kentucky People
 * William G. Connolly – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage; member of the American Copy Editors Society executive board
 * Harriet L. Cramer – editor and publisher, The Evening Wisconsin
 * Nannie Webb Curtis – editor, Texas White Ribbon, the official organ of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union
 * Josephine Donovan
 * Benjamin Dreyer – copy chief, Random House
 * Mary Fels – editor, The Public: A Journal of Democracy
 * Jessie Forsyth – editor, The Temperance Brotherhood, The Massachusetts Templar, International Good Templar, and The Dawn
 * Ella M. George – editor, Pennsylvania W.C.T.U. Bulletin
 * Hugh Hefner – worked at Fortune magazine as a copy editor before founding Playboy magazine
 * Annabel Morris Holvey – editor, The Bulletin (Pennsylvania); assistant editor, The People
 * Corinne Stocker Horton – society editor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 * Liv Mammone — editor of Uma Dwivedi’s poetry collection They Called her Goddess; we Named her Girl, the speculative fiction series Margins and Murmurations by author and activist, Otter Lieffe, and the literary press Game Over Books
 * Annie Virginia McCracken –  proprietor and editor of The Pine Forest Echo
 * John McIntyre – assistant managing editor for the copy desk at The Baltimore Sun; a past president of the American Copy Editors Society; author of the blog You Don't Say of The Baltimore Sun
 * Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore – dramatic editor and musical editor, Los Angeles Times
 * Mary Norris (copy editor)
 * Patricia T. O'Conner
 * Eleanor Gould Packard
 * Elizabeth Fry Page – associate editor, American Homes and Taylor-Trotwood Magazine
 * Sarah Maria Clinton Perkins – editor, A True Republic
 * Alice Hobbins Porter – editor, Chicago Inter Ocean
 * Anna Rankin Riggs –  founder, editor, Oregon White Ribbon
 * Pam Robinson – co-founder and first president of the American Copy Editors Society
 * Allan M. Siegal – co-author of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage; retired
 * Lura Eugenie Brown Smith – editor, Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph; co-editor and owner, Northwestern Freemason; associate and literary editor, The Masonic Tribune
 * Jennie O. Starkey – journalist, editor, Detroit Free Press
 * Jane Agnes Stewart – associate editor, The Union Signal; editor, Oak and Ivy Leaf and Young Women
 * Susie Forrest Swift – editor, All the World, the international organ of the Salvation Army
 * Sarah Katherine Taylor – editor, The Little Christian, All Nations Monthly, and Bible Faith Mission Standard
 * Bill Walsh – copy editor for the Washington Post, he also authored three books about the profession of copy editing and ran a website focused upon copy editing titled "The Slot".
 * Alice Willard – editor, Times (Loup City, Nebraska); managing editor, Woman's Signal Budget (London)