List of biographical dictionaries

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International

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Australia

Canada

China and Chinese

  • Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity[4]
  • 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- ). ISBN 0231089570 (v. 3) 0231089589 (v. 4).
  • Brown, Kerry et al., eds, Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, 4 volumes, Great Barrington, Massachusetts: Berkshire, 2012. ISBN 978-1-933782-66-9.
  • De Crespigny, Rafe, A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD), Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15605-0. ISBN 90-04-15605-4.
  • Herbert Allen Giles. A Chinese Biographical Dictionary. (London, Shanghai,: B. Quaritch; Kelly & Walsh, 1898) rpr. Taipei: Chʻeng-Wen Publishing Company.
  • Goodrich L. Carrington, Fang Zhaoying, eds. Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2 vols. 1976). Vol I ISBN 0231038011 Vol II ISBN 9780231038331.
  • 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, ISBN 90-04-10364-3
  • 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. ISBN 1-84720-636-0. ISBN 978-1-84720-636-7.
  • Zhongguo renming dacidian. 1921–present

Czech Republic

  • Československý biografický slovník (1 volume, 1992; contains ca 10,000 biographical articles)
  • Biografický slovník českých zemí (BSČZ, 16 fascicles (A–Fe), 2004– ; complete dictionary will have ca 25,000 biographical articles)

Denmark

Egypt

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

France

German-speaking Europe

Great Britain

India

  • Buckland, Charles Edward, Dictionary of Indian Biography.
  • Chattopadhyay, Anjana, Biographical Dictionary of Indian Scientists, Rupa, 2002. ISBN 81-7167-669-3.
  • Lethbridge, Roper, The Golden Book of India: A Genealogical and Biographical Dictionary of the Ruling Princes, Chiefs, Nobles, and Other Personages, Titled or Decorated, of the Indian Empire.
  • Nagar, Shantilal, Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Indian Rsis
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  • Rao, Hayavando, The Indian Biographical Dictionary, University of California Libraries, 2011. ISBN 978-1-125-24065-6.
  • Riddick, John, Who Was Who in British India.
  • Scholberg, Henry, Biographical Dictionary of Greater India.
  • Sharma, Jagdish Saran, The National Biographical Dictionary of India, New Delhi: Sterling, 1972.

Ireland

Islamic world

  • Beale, Thomas William & Henry George Keene, An Oriental Biographical Dictionary, Manohar Reprints, 1971.
  • Bewley, Aisha, Muslim Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Ta-Ha, 2004. ISBN 1-84200-053-5.
  • Frank, Allen, An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe 1770-1912, Brill, 2004. ISBN 90-04-14127-8
  • Leaman, Oliver, Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy.
  • Jenkins, Who's Who in Islam: A Biographical Dictionary of Persons and Groups from the Time of Muhammad to the Present, McFarland, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7864-2376-7.
  • Khan, Mohammed Ishaq, Biographical Dictionary of Sufism, 2009. ISBN 978-81-7304-681-0.

Italy

Japan

  • Bingenheimer, Marcus, A Biographical Dictionary of the Japanese Student-Monks of the Seventh and Early Eighth Centuries, 2001. ISBN 978-3-89129-693-6.
  • Hisamatsu, Sen'ichi, Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Literature, Kodansha International Ltd. in collaboration with the International Society for Educational Information, 1976. ISBN 0 87011 253 8.
  • Iwao, Seiichi (supervising editor) & Watson, Burton (trans.), Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History, Kodansha International Ltd. in collaboration with the International Society for Educational Information, 1978. ISBN 0 87011 274 0.

Mexico

  • Biographical Dictionary of Mexican Film Performers

Native North American

  • Bataille, Gretchen & Laurie Lisa, eds, Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Irvine, Biographical Dictionary of Indians of the Americas, 1990.
  • Bruce E. Johansen, Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary, Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood.
  • Waldman, Carl, Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900, 2001. ISBN 0-8160-4253-5.

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Poland

  • Regis, saneti, bellatores, scriptores Poloni - Krzysztof Warszewicki; 1601
  • Scriptorum Polonicorum Hekatontas seu centrum illustrum Poloniae scriptorum elogia et vitae - Szymon Starowolski; 1625
  • Laudatio Almae Aedemiae Cracoviensis - Szymon Starowolski; 1628
  • Polonia litterata nostri temporis - Jan Daniel Janocki; 1750
  • Polski słownik biograficzny - Władysław Konopczyński; 48 volumes, 1935-(2015)
  • Słownik biograficzny ziemi cieszyńskiej - Józef Golec & Stefania Bojda; 3 volumes, 1993, 1995, 1998
  • Słownik pisarzy polskich - Tadeusz Słabczyński; 2001
  • Słownik biograficzny Pomorza Nadwiślańskiego - Gdańsk 1992
  • Słownik biograficzny powiatu toruńskiego - Lubicz 2010
  • Słownik biograficzny XX wieku - Michał Czajka; 2004

Russia & Soviet Union

Parrish, Michael, Soviet Security and Intelligence Organizations 1917-1990

Slovenia

  • Slovenski biografski leksikon (Dictionary of Slovene National Biography, set of 16 volumes); at first Zadružna gospodarska banka, later on Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, 1925-1991. From December 2013 a new edition on Portal Slovenska biografija free searchable. (Slovene)
  • Bajt, Drago (1999), Slovenski kdo je kdo (Slovenian Who is Who), Ljubljana, Nova revija. (Slovene) ISBN 961-6017-90-X

Spain

Sweden

  • Karlsson, Åsa, ed. (2010) Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (Dictionary of Swedish National Biography), Stockholm, Riksarkivet. First published in 1917 (volume 1), today there are 33 volumes containing some 14,000 articles. Free searchable online access is available from Riksarkivet. (Swedish)
  • Vem är det with the subtitle Svensk biografisk handbok (Swedish Biographical Handbook), has been published in 46 editions since 1912. Several of the editions are available in free online access from runeberg.org (Swedish)

Switzerland

Tibet

  • Khetsun Sangpo, bod du sgrub brgyad shing rta mched brgyad las (Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism), Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 12 volumes, 1973-1990.

United States

  • African American National Biography Project
  • American Council of Learned Societies, Dictionary of American Biography, New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-684-80631-2. OCLC 4171403.
  • American National Biography
  • Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
  • Biographical Dictionary of American Architects.
  • Biographical Dictionary of American Labor.
  • Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  • Blake's Biographical Dictionary
  • Bowling, Lawson, Shapers of the Great Debate on the Great Society: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Calarco, Tom, People of the Underground Railroad: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Cosner & Scanlon, American Women Historians, 1700s-1990s: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Dictionary of Cleveland Biography.
  • Encyclopedia of American Biography
  • Hall, Timothy, Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Hamilton, Neil & Ian Friedman, Presidents: Biographical Dictionary.
  • Hannings, Bud, American Revolutionary War Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Hischak, Thomas, Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Homans, James, The Cyclopædia of American Biography, 1918.
  • Hudson, Bergman, Horton, Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, University of Iowa.
  • Katz & Vencill, Biographical Dictionary of the United States Secretaries of the Treasury, 1789-1995.
  • Kim, Cordova, Fugita, Ng, Singh, eds, Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1999.
  • Kranz, Rachel, The Biographical Dictionary of Black Americans.
  • Kranz, Rachel & Philip Koslow, The Biographical Dictionary of African Americans.
  • McCartney, Martha, Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary
  • Melton, John Gordon, Biographical Dictionary of American Cult and Sect Leaders, New York/London: Garland, 1986.
  • Moses, John, Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of the Representative Men of the United States.
  • Nadell, Pamela, Conservative Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook.
  • New Jersey Biographical Dictionary.
  • Newman, Roger, ed, The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, Yale University Press.
  • New Perspectives on the West: People, http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people
  • Nolan, Cathal, Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Notable American Women, 1607-1950; a Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press.
  • Ohles, Frederik, Shirley Ohles, and John Ramsay, Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators, 1997.
  • Olitzky, Kerry, Lance Sussman, and Malcolm Stern, Reform Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook. ISBN 0-313-24628-9. ISBN 978-0-313-24628-9.
  • Porter, David, ed, Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood Press, 2005. ISBN 0-313-30952-3
  • Porter, David, Latino and African American Athletes Today: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Samuels, Peggy, The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, Doubleday.
  • Schneider & Schneider, First Ladies: A Biographical Dictionary.
  • Skipper, John, A Biographical Dictionary of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men, Chicago & New York: American Biographical Publishing Company, 1878.
  • Wilson, Dreck Spurlock, African American Architects: A Biographical Dictionary, 1865-1945.
  • Who's Who in America, published by Marquis Who's Who
  • Who’s Who in Nebraska (1940)

References

  1. http://www.organ-biography.info
  2. http://www.goshen.edu/mqr/biograph.html
  3. http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org
  4. http://www.bdcconline.net/en
  5. E.g.
    • A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography: Northumberland. Edinburgh. 1985. ISBN 0946687 04 8. Reprint of the biographical part of W T Pike, Northumberland at the Opening of the Twentieth Century, Pike's New Century Series No 14, Brighton, 1905.
    • Bell, Peter (compiler). A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography: Master Index. Edinburgh. 1986. ISBN 0 946687 09 9.