Amelia Gayle Gorgas (June 1, 1826 – January 3, 1913) was librarian and postmaster of the University of Alabama for 25 years until her retirement at the age of eighty in 1907.

She spent four years of her girlhood in Tuscaloosa, Alabama while her father was governor of the State, afterwards removed to Mobile, Alabama where she grew to adulthood and spent the years of her father's term in congress in Washington, D.C.[4] While in Washington, she enjoyed the unusual privilege of association with the celebrities of the time.

She was frequently a visitor at the White House and was, through the courtesy of Mr. Calhoun, one of the two women on the platform during the laying of the cornerstone of the Washington Monument.

[4] After her marriage to General Gorgas, she accompanied him to the numerous places where he was stationed as a U. S. army officer.

Their children were: William Crawford, Jessie, Mary Gayle, Christine, Maria Bayne, and Richard Haynsworth.