Biographical dictionary
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'''Biographical dictionaries''' — a type of [[encyclopedic dictionary]] limited to [[biographical]] information — have been written in many languages. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in ''[[Who's Who]]'', or deceased people only, in the ''[[Dictionary of National Biography]]''). Others are specialised, in that they cover important names in a subject field, such as architecture or engineering.
==List of biographical dictionaries==
=== International ===
* [[A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers]]
* [[Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890]]
* [[Dictionary of International Biography]]
* [[Who's Who in the World]]
=== Australia ===
* [[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]
* [[Dictionary of Australian Biography]]
* [[Dictionary of Western Australians]]
* [[Dictionary of Australian Artists Online]]
=== Canada ===
* [[Dictionary of Canadian Biography]]
* [[The Canadian Who's Who]], published by [[University of Toronto Press]]
=== France ===
* [[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)
* [[Neue Deutsche Biographie]] (1953)
* [[Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon]] (1990)
* [[Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie]] (1995)
=== Great Britain ===
* '''A Biographical Dictionary of British coleopterists''' - online at [http://www.coleopterist.org.uk ''The Coleopterist'']
* [[A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers]]
* [[British Biographical Index]]
* [[Dictionary of National Biography]]
* [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]
* [[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]], published by [[A & C Black]]
=== Poland ===
* [[Polski słownik biograficzny]]
=== United States ===
* [[African American National Biography Project]]
* [[American National Biography]]
* [[Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography]]
* [[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]
* [[Encyclopedia of American Biography]]
* [[Who's Who in America]], published by [[Marquis Who's Who]]
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