List of janitors

A janitor (American English), (Scottish English) janitress (female), custodian "cleaner" or caretaker is a person who cleans and maintains buildings such as hospitals, schools and residential accommodation. Janitors' primary responsibility is as a cleaner. In some cases they will also carry out maintenance and security duties.
This is a list of notable people who have been janitors.
Australia
*Frank Jenner (often misspelled Genor; 1903-1977), evangelist
Cuba
*Adela Hernández, politician
Germany
*Susianna Kentikian (born 1987), boxer
Greece
*Konstantina Kouneva (born 1964), trade unionist and Member of the European Parliament
United Kingdom
*Kim Woodburn (born 1942), television presenter and expert cleaner best known for How Clean Is Your House?
United States
*William Edmondson (1874-1951), African-American folk art sculptor
*James Hampton (1909-1964), African-American janitor who secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from scavenged materials, and is considered an outsider artist
*William Harvey Lillard (1856-1925), the first chiropractic patient
*James Nyx Jr., Motown songwriter
*William Quesse (1878-1927), union leader
*William Rodriguez, winner of several awards for heroism for helping in the evacuation of the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks
*James M. Spangler (1848-1915), inventor of the first commercially successful portable electric vacuum cleaner
*Seymour Stedman (1871-1948), civil liberties lawyer and politician
*Vivien Thomas (1910-1985), African-American surgical technician, classified and paid as a janitor
*Bill Walker (born 1951), attorney and politician
*Ronnie Woo Woo (born 1941), local celebrity in Chicago
 
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