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This list of domestic workers contains 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
• Dorothy Bolden, domestic worker, community activist and President of the National Domestic Workers Union - Atlanta, Georgia
• 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
• Terezija Dush, Venetian Slovene herder, servant, nanny, and Marian seeres
• 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
• Ruth Mott, a servant and television cook
• 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