List of biographical dictionaries

This is an incomplete list of biographical dictionaries.

International A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers (1978) Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 Akyeampong, Emmanuel and Gates, Henry Louis Jr., eds. Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford, 2012) Amit, Vered, Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Anderson, Gerald with Robert Coote, eds, Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1999. . . Anderson, Roger, Psychics, Sensitives, and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies, Jefferson / London: McFarland, 2006. . Arestis & Sawyer, A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists. Baker, Theodore & Alfred Remy, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals. Biographical Dictionary of Organists, Composers for Organ and Organ Builders Biographical Dictionary 17th, 18th, and 19th century European Mennonite church leaders, The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Brown, Stuart, Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, edited by Robert Wilkinson and Diane Collinson. Browning, D. C. Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography: English & American. Compiled after John W Cousin. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. First published 1958. Revised edition. 1960. Carey, Patrick & Joseph Lienhard, Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, . Claghorn, Charles Eugene, Women Composers and Songwriters: a concise biographical dictionary. Cohn-Sherbok, Daniel, Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Contemporary Authors, Gale. Cousin, John William, 1910, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton. Crystal, David, ed, The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary. De Haan, Deskalova, Loutfi, De Haan, A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries. Dictionary of Scientific Biography Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Throughout the Ages, published 2006 bu Yorkin Drees, Clayton, The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300–1500: A Biographical Dictionary. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 17 volumes, Gale, 1997. . . Floyd Jr., Samuel A. International Dictionary of Black Composers (1999). ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. Frank, Jane, Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Fredriksen, John, Biographical Dictionary of Modern World Leaders. Freeland, David, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990. General Dictionary, Historical and Critical London, J. Bettenham, 1735–1741 Harvey, Joy, and Marilyn Ogilvie, eds., The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science. . . Highfill, Burnim, Langhans, A Biographical Dictionary of Actors. Hinnells, John, Who's Who of World Religions, Macmillan. . Ibn Khallikān. M. de Slane trans. Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843. Ingamells, John (compiler). A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701–1800. Compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press. New Haven and London. 1997. . International Biographical Centre, 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. International Biographical Centre, Who's Who of Women. Keene, Henry George, An oriental biographical dictionary: founded on materials collected by the late Thomas William Beale, W.H. Allen & Co., 1894 International Encyclopedia of Women Composers, Aaron I Cohen, 1981. Kiernan, T, Who's Who in the History of Philosophy, New York, 1965. Lentz, Harris, Biographical Dictionary of Professional Wrestling. Lewis, James, Peculiar Prophets: A Biographical Dictionary of New Religions, Paragon. . McCabe, Joseph, A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers. McCabe, Joseph, A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists, London: Watts, 1920. McNeil, Ian, Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, edited by Lance Day and Ian McNeil. . . Mitchell, Sarah, Elizabeth Tootill, Derek Gjertsen, and John Daintith, Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists, Taylor & Francis, 1994. . . Pleasants, Helene et al., eds, The Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology, New York: Helix, Garrett, 1964. Porter, Roy, The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, 1994. | . Powell, John, Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800–1914. E. J. Pyke, A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers, Clarendon Press, 1973. Randel, Don Michael, ed, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Harvard University Press. Rappaport, Helen, Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. Ratcliffe, Susan, People on People: The Oxford Dictionary of Biographical Quotations. Roszkowski % Kofman, Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Saunders, J.W.W., A Biographical Dictionary of Renaissance Poets and Dramatists, 1520–1650. Saur, K.G., International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigres 1933–1945. Sheehy, Chapman, Conroy, eds, Biographical Dictionary of Psychology Simpson, A. W. B., ed., Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law, London: Butterworths, 1984. Slonimsky, Nicolas, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Slonimsky, Nicolas, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians, edited by Laura Kuhn. Smith, Bonnie G., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press, 2008. Sterling, Keir Brooks, Richard Harmond, George Cevasco, Lorne Hammond, eds, 1997, Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1997. Taitz, Emily, Holocaust Survivors: A Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood, 2007. . Thomas, H, Biographical Encyclopedia of Philosophy, New York, 1965. Thomson, David, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. . Union of International Associations, ed, International Biographical Dictionary of Religion, Munich: KG Saur Verlag, 1994. . Universal Biographical Dictionary, Hartford: S. Andrus & Son, 1850. Webster's New Biographical Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Inc. Weinberg, Robert, Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists. Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini, A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations. Who's Who in the World Wigoder, Geoffrey, Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Williams, Trevor I (editor). A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists. Adam & Charles Black. London. First Edition. 1969. Second Edition. 1974. . World Biographical Information System Online World Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. World War I Biographical Dictionary Wright, Jonathan, Shapers of the Great Debate on the Freedom of Religion: A Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood, 2005. .

Australia Australian Dictionary of Biography Dictionary of Australian Biography Dictionary of Western Australians Dictionary of Australian Artists Online Who is Who in Australia

Belgium Biographie Nationale de Belgique (1866–1986) Nouvelle Biographie Nationale (1988-) Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek (1964-) Biographie Coloniale Belge, later Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer (1948–2015) Encyclopédie du Mouvement wallon (2000–2010) Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging (1975) Nieuwe Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging (1998) De Belgische Beeldende Kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw (1999)

Brazil

Sacramento Blake, Augusto Vitorino Alves, Dicionário Bibliográfico Brasileiro. Rio de Janeiro: Typographia Nacional, 1883. Ermakoff, George. Dicionário Biográfico Ilustrado de Personalidades da História do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: G. Ermakoff, 2012. Dicionário Mulheres do Brasil – org. by Schuma Schumaher and Érico Vital Brasil, Jorge Zahar Editor, 2000. Flávio Gomes, Jaime Lauriano and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Enciclopédia negra: biografias afro-brasileiras, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2021.

Canada Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800–1950 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Canadian Who's Who, published by University of Toronto Press A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography (Vol. 1, 1886; Vol. 2, 1888; Vol. 3, 1919.)

China and Chinese Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity Biographical Dictionary of Occupied China (Online) Howard L. Boorman, Richard C. Howard and Joseph K. H. Cheng, eds. Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 4 Vols. 1967- ). (v. 3) 0231089589 (v. 4). Brown, Kerry et al., eds, Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, 4 volumes, Great Barrington, Massachusetts: Berkshire, 2012. . De Crespigny, Rafe, A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD), Brill. . . Herbert Allen Giles. A Chinese Biographical Dictionary. (London, Shanghai,: B. Quaritch; Kelly & Walsh, 1898) rpr. Taipei: Chʻeng-Wen Publishing Company. Luther Carrington Goodrich, Fang Chao-ying, eds. Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368–1644. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2 vols. 1976). and at the Internet Archive Arthur W. Hummel, Sr., Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. Washington, D.C. 1943. Donald W. Klein and Anne B. Clark, eds. Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921–1965. (Cambridge, Mass., 2 vols. 1971). Leung & Leung, Political Leaders of Modern China: A Biographical Dictionary. Loewe, Michael, A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 BC – AD 24), Leiden: Brill, 2000, . Lee Xiao Hong & A.D. Stefanowska, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women. Zhang, Wenxian & Ilan Alon, eds, Biographical Dictionary of New Chinese Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders, 2009. . . Zhongguo renming dacidian. 1921–present

Czech Republic Československý biografický slovník (1 volume, 1992; contains ca 10,000 biographical articles) Biografický slovník českých zemí (BSČZ, 19 fascicles (A–Gn), 2004– ; complete dictionary will have ca 25,000 biographical articles)

Denmark Engelstoft, Povl; Dahl, Svend, ed. (1979–84): Dansk biografisk leksikon (Danish Biographical Dictionary), 3rd edition in 16 volumes, Copenhagen, Gyldendal, . Online access to the current updated version, is available from Gyldendal's Den Store Danske website. Larsen, Jytte (ed) (2001), Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon (Biographical Dictionary of Danish Women), Volumes 1–3, Copenhagen, Rosinante. . The searchable online edition contains over 1,900 biographies from the Middle Ages to the present.

Egypt David & David, A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. Goldschmidt, Arthur, Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt.

Finland

Biografiskt lexikon för Finland, Society of Swedish Literature in Finland and Atlantis, 2008–2011. Suomen kansallisbiografia, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2003–2008.

France Nouvelle Biographie Générale (1853 to 1866), 42 volumes. Dictionnaire de biographie des hommes célèbres de l'Alsace (1909–1910). Dictionnaire de biographie française (1932). Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne (1982).

German-speaking Europe Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1875) Hockerts, Hans Günter; Brantl, Markus; Ebneth, Bernhard; Jordan, Stefan: Deutsche Biographie, providing online access to over 21,000 articles from Neue Deutsche Biographie (Hockertsand, Hans Günter, ed., Berlin, Duncker & Humblor, 1953–2010, cf Vol 1, ), 26,000 articles from Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1912) as well as biographies from other sources. Internet access is coordinated by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Bavarian State Library. Neue Deutsche Biographie (1953) Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (1990) Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (1995) Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender (2020)