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.
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List of biographical dictionaries
International
- A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers
- Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890
- Dictionary of International Biography
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 The Coleopterist
- A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers
- British Biographical Index
- Dictionary of National Biography
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Who's Who, published by A & C Black
