List of biographical dictionaries


This is an incomplete list of biographical dictionaries.

International

A Biographical Dictionary of Railway EngineersBiographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890

Australia

Australian Dictionary of Biography Dictionary of Australian BiographyDictionary of Western AustraliansDictionary of Australian Artists Online
  • ''Who is Who in Australia''

Belgium

Biographie Nationale de Belgique Nouvelle Biographie Nationale Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek Biographie Coloniale Belge, later Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer Encyclopédie du Mouvement wallon Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging Nieuwe Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging
  • ''De Belgische Beeldende Kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw''

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, 1800–1950Dictionary of Canadian BiographyCanadian Who's Who, published by University of Toronto Press
  • ''A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography''

China and Chinese

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity

Czech Republic

  • Československý biografický slovník
  • ''Biografický slovník českých zemí''

Denmark

  • Engelstoft, Povl; Dahl, Svend, ed. : Dansk biografisk leksikon, 3rd edition in 16 volumes, Copenhagen, Gyldendal,. to the current updated version, is available from Gyldendal's Den Store Danske website.
  • Larsen, Jytte, Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon, Volumes 1–3, Copenhagen, Rosinante.. The searchable 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

France

Nouvelle Biographie Générale, 42 volumes.Dictionnaire de biographie des hommes célèbres de l'Alsace.Dictionnaire de biographie française.Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne.

German-speaking Europe

India

  • Buckland, Charles Edward, Dictionary of Indian Biography
  • * Complete at Wikisource Dictionary of Indian Biography
  • * archive.org
  • Chattopadhyay, Anjana, Biographical Dictionary of Indian Scientists, Rupa, 2002..
  • 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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  • 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.
  • Kulavruttanta, genealogical almanacs and biographical dictionaries, predominantly found in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
  • Lilavati's Daughters, biographical dictionary of Indian women scientists.

Ireland

  • McGuire, James and James Quinn, Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Mulcahy, Colm, Atlas of Irish Mathematicians.
  • Ryan, Richard, 2 vols, 1819–1821.

Islamic world

Italy

Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
  • ''Enciclopedia Biografica Universale''

Japan

  • Bingenheimer, Marcus, A Biographical Dictionary of the Japanese Student-Monks of the Seventh and Early Eighth Centuries, 2001..
  • Hisamatsu, Sen'ichi, Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Literature, Kodansha International Ltd. in collaboration with the International Society for Educational Information, 1976..
  • Iwao, Seiichi & Watson, Burton, Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History, Kodansha International Ltd. in collaboration with the International Society for Educational Information, 1978..

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..

Netherlands

Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland

New Zealand

Norway

Hvem er hvem?

Pakistan

  • ''Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan''

Poland

Regis, saneti, bellatores, scriptores Poloni – Krzysztof Warszewicki; 1601Scriptorum Polonicorum Hekatontas seu centrum illustrum Poloniae scriptorum elogia et vitae – Szymon Starowolski; 1625Laudatio Almae Aedemiae Cracoviensis – Szymon Starowolski; 1628Polonia litterata nostri temporis – Jan Daniel Janocki; 1750Polski słownik biograficzny – ed. Władysław Konopczyński, Kazimierz Lepszy, Emanuel Rostworowski, Henryk Markiewicz, Andrzej Romanowski; 48 volumes, 1935-Słownik biograficzny ziemi cieszyńskiej – Józef Golec & Stefania Bojda; 4 volumes, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2014Słownik pisarzy polskich – Tadeusz Słabczyński; 2001Słownik biograficzny Pomorza Nadwiślańskiego – Gdańsk 1992Słownik biograficzny powiatu toruńskiego – Lubicz 2010Słownik biograficzny XX wieku – Michał Czajka; 2004

Russia & Soviet Union

  • Parrish, Michael, Soviet Security and Intelligence Organizations 1917–1990
  • Pierce, Richard A., ''Russian America, 1741–1867, A Biographical Dictionary''

Slovenia

  • Slovenski biografski leksikon ; at first Zadružna gospodarska banka, later on Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, 1925–1991. From December 2013 a new edition on Portal free searchable.
  • Bajt, Drago, Slovenski kdo je kdo, Ljubljana, Nova revija.

Spain

Sweden

  • Karlsson, Åsa, ed. Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, Stockholm, Riksarkivet. First published in 1917, today there are 33 volumes containing some 14,000 articles. Free searchable is available from Riksarkivet.
  • Svenskt författarlexikon, biobibliographical dictionary of Swedish-language authors published in ten volumes.
  • Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, under development by KvinnSam, free, searchable web-based biographical dictionary in Swedish and English, 2018
  • Vem är det with the subtitle Svensk biografisk handbok, has been published in 46 editions since 1912. Several of the editions are available in free from runeberg.org

Switzerland

Tibet

United Kingdom

A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers.

United States