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Bibliography of encyclopedias: general biographies

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This is a list of encyclopedias and encyclopedic/biographical dictionaries on general biographies in any language. Entries are in the English language except where noted.

General

Almanac of famous people. Gale Research, Inc., 1989-. ISSN 1040-127X.^[1]
Anderson, Gerald H. (1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8.
Arnim, Max, Preussische Staatsbibliothek. Internationale Personalbibliographie, 1800–1943. K.W. Hiersemann, 1944–1952.^[1]
Biographical dictionary. S9.com, 1996. Available online here.^[1]
Biographie univrselle (Michaud) (in French) (Nouv. ed.). Paris: Mme. C. Desplaces. 1843–1865.^[2]
Biography in context. Gale Group, 2002-. Available online here.^[1]
Bourne, J. M. Who's who in World War One. Routledge, 2001. ISBN 0415141796.^[3]
Brennan, Elizabeth A., Elizabeth C. Clarage, Seymour Topping. Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners. Oryx Press, 1999. ISBN 1573561118.^[1]
Burnett, John, David Vincent, David Mayall. The autobiography of the working class: An annotated, critical bibliography. New York University Press, 1984–1989. ISBN 0814710719.^[1]
Cannon, John Ashton. The Blackwell dictionary of historians. Blackwell Reference, 1988. ISBN 063114708X.^[1]
Chambers, ed., Joan Bakewell, introduction: Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 9th edition, 2011, Chambers, 1,278 pages. ISBN 978-0-550-10693-3. Short descriptions of 18,000 people from Britain and the rest of the world.
Cohn-Sherbok, Dan. The dictionary of Jewish biography. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0195223918.^[4]
Contemporary black biography. Gale Research Inc., 1992–. ISSN 1058-1316.^[1]
Cooper, Thompson (1890). Biographical Dictionary. Bell.
Cousin, John W. (1 March 2003). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7661-4348-7.
Crystal, David. The Cambridge biographical encyclopedia. Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN 0521630991.^[1]
Current biography illustrated. EBSCO Publishing. Available online here.^[1]
Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries (15 July 2003). The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Biography. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-618-25210-7.
Encyclopedia of world biography. Gale Research, 1998-[2012]. ISBN 9780787622213. ISSN 1099-7326.^[1]
Europa Publications Limited. World Who's Who. Routledge, 2007-. Available online here.^[1]
Gorton, John (1851). A General Biographical Dictionary. Whittaker and co. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
Great lives from history. Salem Press, 2004–. ISBN 1587651521.^[1]
Haan, Francisca de, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi. Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th centuries. CEU Press/Central European University Press, 2006. ISBN 9789637326394.^[1]
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, ed. Woman's record; or, Sketches of all distinguished women, from "the beginning" till A.D. 1850. Arranged in four eras. With selections from female writers of every age. New York: Harper & Brothers (1853), public domain
Jöcher, Christian Gottlieb. Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon. Johann Friedrich Gleditschens Buchhandlung, 1750–1751.^[1]
Kuehl, Warren F. Biographical dictionary of internationalists. Greenwood Press, 1983. ISBN 0313221294.^[1]
A New and General Biographical Dictionary. Strahan. 1784.
Jaumann, Herbert. Handbuch gelehrtenkultur der frühen neuzeit. W. de Gruyter, 2004–2005. ISBN 3110160692.^[1]
Jocher, Christian Gottlieb (1750–1751). Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon (in German). Leipzig: Gleditsch.^[2]
Jocher, Christian Gottlieb (1784–1787). Fortsetzung und Erganzungen ... (in German). Leipzig: Selbstverlag der Deutschen Gesellschaft.^[2]
Jones, Barry (2017). Dictionary of World Biography (4 ed.). Acton, A.C.T., Australia: ANU Press. doi:10.22459/DWB.05.2017. ISBN 978-1-76046-126-3.
Jones, Stephen (1802). A new biographical dictionary: containing a brief account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons and remarkable characters in every age and nation. Printed by T. Bensley for G. and J. Robinson.
Khallikān, Ibn (1871). Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary. Printed for the Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland.
Kramme, U., Ž. Urra Muena. Arab-Islamic biographical archive (AIBA). K. G. Saur, 1994–2002. ISBN 3598338953.^[1]
Lazell, Barry, ed. with Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton, Rock Movers and Shakers: An A to Z of the People Who Made Rock Happen, Billboard Publications, Inc., New York, 1989
Lorenz, Clare, Women in Architecture: a contemporary perspective, Rizzoli, New York, 1990
MacKay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1977
Magill, Frank N. (23 January 2003). Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-57958-040-7.
Marquis biographies online. Marquis Who's Who, 1985-. Available here.^[1]
Marquis Who's Who. Who's who in the world. Marquis Who's Who, 1971-.^[1]
Marquis Who's Who. Who's who of emerging leaders. Marquis Who's Who, 2006-.^[1]
Merriam-Webster's biographical dictionary. Merriam-Webster. 1995. ISBN 978-0-87779-743-2.
Naylor, Colin, Contemporary Artists, St. James Press, Chicago and London, 1989
Nobel Foundation. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Web AB. Available online here.^[1]
Nouvelle biographie generale (in French). Paris: Firmin Didot. 1853–1866.^[5]
Oettinger, Eduard Maria, ed. (1869–1882). Moniteur des dates (in German). Leipzig: Denicke, Hermann.^[5]
Ogilvie, Marilyn; Harvey, Joy (6 July 2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Taylor & Francis US. ISBN 978-0-415-92038-4.
ProQuest obituaries. ProQuest, 1999?-. Available online here.^[1]
Randel, Don Michael (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
Richards, J.M., ed, Adolf K. Placzek, American Consultant, Who’s Who in Architecture from 1400 to the present, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1977
Rollyson, Carl E. Biography: An annotated bibliography. Salem Press, 1992. ISBN 0893566780.^[1]
Saur Verlag, K. G. World biographical information system online. De Gruyter Saur, 2004-. Available online here.^[1]
Schellinger, Paul E. St. James guide to biography. St. James Press, 1991. ISBN 1558621466.^[1]
Sheehy, Noel (30 July 2002). Biographical Dictionary of Psychology. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-28561-2.
Sherby, Louise S., Wilhelm Odelberg. The who's who of Nobel Prize winners, 1901–2000. Oryx Press, 2002. ISBN 1573564141.^[1]
Slcoum, Robert B. Biographical dictionaries and related works: An international bibliography of more than 16,000 collective biographies . . . Gale Research, 1986. ISBN 0810302438.^[1]
Smith, Bonnie G. The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history. Oxford University Press, 2008.^[1]
Televski, Nick, Knocking On Heaven’s Door: Rock Obituaries, Omnibus Press, London 2006
Thomas, Joseph (30 March 2010). The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Cosimo, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61640-068-2.
Union of International Associations. Yearbook of international organizations online. Union of International Associations, 2000-. Available online here.^[1]^[6]
Varpreau, Gustave (1893). Dictionnaire universel des contemporains contenant toutes les personnes notables de la France et des pays etrangers... (in French). Paris: Hachette.^[5]
Vernoff, Edward, Rima Shore. The Penguin international dictionary of contemporary biography: From 1900 to the present. Penguin Reference, 2001. ISBN 0670894702.^[1]
Who's who in world Jewry. Pitman, 1955–1988. ISSN 0511-9138.^[4]

Regional

Africa

The Africa Centre. Africa contemporary database. The Africa Centre, 2001. Available online here.^[7]
African studies. Columbia University, 1999-. Available online here.^[1]
Appiah, Anthony, Henry Louis Gates. Africana: The encyclopedia of the African and African American experience. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0195170555.^[1]
Cook, Chris. The making of modern Africa: A guide to archives. Facts on File, 1995. ISBN 081602071X.^[1]
Julien, Charles André. Les Africains. Éditions J. A., 1977. ISBN 2852580446.^[1]
Lipschutz, Mark R., R. Kent Rasmussen. Dictionary of African historical biography. University of California Press, 1986. ISBN 0520051793.^[1]
Makers of modern Africa. Africa Journal for Africa Books, 1981–1996. ISSN 0261-1570.^[1]
McIlwaine, John. Africa: A guide to reference material. Hans Zell, 2007. ISBN 9780954102937.^[1]
Mediavilla, Victor Herrero, K. G. Saur Verlag. African biographical archive. K. G. Saur Verlag, 1994–1997. ISBN 978-3-598-33128-2.^[1]
Núnẽz, Benjamín. Dictionary of Portuguese-African civilization. Hans Zell, 1995–1996. ISBN 1873836104.^[1]
Shavit, David. The United States in Africa: A historical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1989. ISBN 0313258872.^[1]
Weidmann, Conrad. Deutsche männer in Afrika: Lexicon der hervorragensten deutschen Afrika-forscher, missionare, etc. B. Nöhring, 1894.^[1]

Southern Africa

Brockman, Norbert C. An African biographical dictionary. Grey House Publ., 2006. ISBN 1592371124.^[1]
Rosenthal, Eric. Southern African dictionary of national biography. Warne, [1966].^[1]
Sheldon, Kathleen E. Historical dictionary of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0810853310.^[1]
Who's who of southern Africa. Who's Who of Southern Africa, 2007-. Available online here.^[1]

Americas

Appiah, Anthony, Henry Louis Gates. Africana: The encyclopedia of the African and African American experience. Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0195170555.^[1]
Farris, Phoebe. Women artists of color: A bio-critical sourcebook to 20th century artists in the Americas. Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN 0313303746.^[1]

Central America

Arellano, Jorge Eduardo. Literatura centroamericana: Diccionario de autores contemporáneos; Fuentes para su estudio. Fundación Vida, 2003. ISBN 9992453125.^[1]^[9]
Contemporary Hispanic biography: profiles from the international Hispanic community. Gale, 2002–. ISSN 1541-1524.^[1]
Covington, Paula Hattox, David Block. Latin America and the Caribbean: A critical guide to research sources. Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN 0313264031.^[1]
Henderson, James D., Helen Delpar, Maurice Philip Brungardt. A reference guide to Latin American history. M. E. Sharpe, 2000. ISBN 1563247445.^[9]
Marting, Diane E. Women writers of Spanish America: An annotated bio-bibliographical guide. Greenwood Press, 1987. ISBN 0313249695.^[1]
Shavit, David. The United States in Latin America: A historical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN 0313275955.^[1]
Who's who in Latin America: Government, politics, banking and industry. Norman Ross, 1993–1997. ISSN 1068-7696.^[1]

North America

Gordon, Peter, Richard Aldrich. Biographical dictionary of North American and European educationists. Woburn Press, 1997. ISBN 0713002050.^[1]
Heller, Jules and Nancy G, Heller, ed., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 1219), Garland Publishing Company, New York & London, 1995
Henderson, James D., Helen Delpar, Maurice Philip Brungardt. A reference guide to Latin American history. M. E. Sharpe, 2000. ISBN 1563247445.^[9]

United States

Adamson, Lynda G. Notable women in American history: A guide to recommended biographies and autobiographies. Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN 0313295840.^[1]
African American biographical database (AABD). ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 2001–. Available here.^[1]
Allen, William (1857). The American Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons Deceased in North America from Its First Settlement. J.P. Jewett and Company.
American Council of Learned Societies. Dictionary of American biography. Scribner, 1928–1996.^[1]
American Council of Learned Societies. American national biography online. Oxford University Press, 2000-. Available online here.^[1]^[9]
Ash, Lee, Bernhard A. Uhlendorf, Council of National Library Associations. A biographical directory of librarians in the United States and Canada. American Library Association, 1970. ISBN 0838900844.^[1]
Ashley, Perry J. American newspaper journalists, 1873–1900. Gale Research, 1983. ISBN 0810311453.^[1]^[14]
Ahsley, Perry J. American newspaper publishers, 1950–1990. Gale Research, 1993. ISBN 0810353865.^[1]^[14]
Bailey, Martha J. American women in science: 1950 to the present: a biographical dictionary. ABC-CLIO, 1998. ISBN 0874369215.^[1]
Blake, John Lauris (1859). A biographical dictionary: comprising a summary account of the lives of the most distinguished persons of all ages, nations, and professions; including more than two thousand articles of American biography. H. Cowperthwait & co.
Bowman, John Stewart. The Cambridge dictionary of American biography. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0521402581.^[1]
Briggs, Ward W.; Association, American Philological (1994). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-24560-2.
Cannon, John, Frank Robinson. Biography database: 1680–1830. Romulus Press, 1995–2000.^[1]
Christensen, Lawrence O.; Foley, William E.; Kremer, Gary R.; Winn, Kenneth H. (7 October 1999). Dictionary of Missouri Biography. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1222-1.
Clinton, Catherine, Christine A. Lunardini. The Columbia guide to American women in the nineteenth century. Columbia University Press, 2000. ISBN 0231109202.^[1]^[9]
Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Available online here.^[1]
Congressional Yellow Book Leadership Connect, Inc., 1975-.^[1]
Contemporary black biography. Gale Research Inc., 1992–. ISSN 1058-1316.^[1]
Contemporary Hispanic biography: profiles from the international Hispanic community. Gale, 2002–. ISSN 1541-1524.^[1]
Contemporary theatre, film, and television. Gale Research, 1984–. ISSN 0749-064X.^[1]
Cross, Mary. 100 people who changed 20th-century America. ABC-CLIO, 2013. ISBN 9781610690850.^[1]
Cummings, Paul, Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1977
Dale, Doris Cruger. A directory of oral history tapes of librarians in the United States and Canada. American Library Association, 1986. ISBN 0838904432.^[1]
Dematteis, Philip Breed, Leemon B. McHenry. American philosophers, 1950–2000. Gale Group, 2003. ISBN 078766023X.^[1]
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1885–1912). Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College. New York: Holt.^[15]
Dictionary of American Biography. Scribner's, 1928-.^[9]^[16]
Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. University of North Carolina Press. available here.^[1]
DuPree, Sherry Sherrod. Biographical dictionary of African-American, Holiness-Pentecostals, 1880–1990. Middle Atlantic Regional Press, 1989. ISBN 0961605693.^[17]
Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985
Federal Yellow Book Leadership Connect, Inc., 1986-.^[1]
Foner, Eric. Freedom's lawmakers: A directory of black officeholders during Reconstruction. Louisiana State University Press, 1996. ISBN 0807120820.^[1]^[9]
Gore, James Howard. American members of foreign orders. W. F. Roberts, 1910.^[11]
Grimm, Robert T. Notable American philanthropists: Biographies of giving and volunteering. Greenwood Press, 2002. ISBN 1573563404.^[1]
Günümüz Türkiyesinde kim kimdir (Who's who in Turkey.) Profesyonel, 1986–2002?.^[1]
Hafner, Arthur Wayne, Fred W. Hunter, B. Michael Tarpey. Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804–1929: A genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile. American Medical Association, c1993. ISBN 0899705278.^[1]
Hamilton, Neil A. American business leaders: From colonial times to the present. ABC-CLIO, 1999. ISBN 9781576070024.^[1]
Hannan, Caryn; Herman, Jennifer L.; Dye, Bryan; Mel Ewald; Gloria Genel-Gonzalez (1 December 2008). Michigan Biographical Dictionary. North American Book Dist LLC. ISBN 978-1-878592-95-8.
Hannan, Caryn (1 December 2008). Wisconsin Biographical Dictionary. North American Book Dist LLC. ISBN 978-1-878592-63-7. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
Hubbell, John T. (1995). Biographical Dictionary of the Union: Northern Leaders of the Civil War. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-20920-8.
Hyman, Paula, Deborah Dash Moore, Phyllis Holman Weisbard. Jewish women in America: An historical encyclopedia. Routledge, 1997. ISBN 0415919363.^[1]
IFILM. Film directors: A complete guide. Lone Eagle, 1984–. ISSN 0740-2872.^[1]
Ingham, John N. (1983). Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-23907-6.
Ingham, John N.; Feldman, Lynne B. (1990). Contemporary American business leaders: a biographical dictionary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-25743-8.
Ingham, John N.; Feldman, Lynne B. (1994). African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-313-27253-0.
James, Edward T., Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer. Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. ISBN 0674627318.^[1]
Kaufman, Martin, Joellen Watson Hawkins, Loretta P. Higgins, Alice Howell Friedman. Dictionary of American nursing biography. Greenwood Press, 1988. ISBN 0313245207.^[1]
Kelly, Howard A., Walter L. Burrage. Dictionary of American medical biography: Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times. London: D. Appleton and Co., 1928.^[1]
Krul, Arthur J. American literary journalists, 1945–1995. Gale Research, 1997. ISBN 0787611190.^[1]^[14]
Leadership Connect. Leadership Connect, Inc., 2002-. Available online here.^[1]
Leonard, John W. Who's who in New York city and state. Hamersly, 1909.^[11]
Litoff, Judy Barrett, Judith McDonnell. European immigrant women in the United States: A biographical dictionary. Garland Publ., 1994. ISBN 0824053060.^[1]
Marcus, Jacob Rader, Judith M. Daniels. The concise dictionary of American Jewish biography. Carlson Publ., 1994. ISBN 0926019740.^[1]
Marquis, Albert Nelson. Who's Who in America. Marquis, 1899-. ISSN 0083-9396.^[1]^[11]
Marquis Who's Who. Who's who of American women. Marquis Who's Who, 1958-.^[1]
Marquis Who's Who. Who was who in America. Marquis Who's Who, 1943-. ISSN 0146-8081.^[1]
Marquis Who's Who. Who's who among human services professionals. Marquis Who's Who, 1986-.^[1]
Marquis Who's Who. Who's who in 20th century America. Marquis Who's Who, 2000.^[1]
McKerns, Joseph P. Biographical dictionary of American journalism. Greenwood Press, 1989. ISBN 0313238189.^[1]^[14]
Men and women of America. Hamersley, 1910.^[11]
Meyer, George H., George H. Meyer, Jr., Katherine P. White, Museum of American Folk Art. Folk artists biographical index. Gale Research, 1987. ISBN 0810321459.^[1]
Monroe, Dan, Bruce Tap. Shapers of the great debate on the Civil War: A biographical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 2005. ISBN 0313317453.^[1]^[9]
Muccigrosso, Robert, and Suzanne Niemeyer. Research guide to American historical biography. Beacham, 1988–1992. ISBN 0933833091.^[1]
Ohles, John F. (1978). Biographical Dictionary of American Educators. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8371-9893-4.
Ohles, Frederik; Ohles, Shirley M.; Ramsay, John G. (1997). Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29133-3.^[1]
Onofrio, Jan (1 May 2000). Iowa Biographical Dictionary. North American Book Dist LLC. ISBN 978-0-403-09304-5.
Onofrio, Jan (1 December 2000). Kansas Biographical Dictionary: People of All Times and Places Who Have Been Important to the History and Life of the State. North American Book Dist LLC. ISBN 978-0-403-09313-7.
Onofrio, Jan (1 June 1999). Tennessee Biographical Dictionary. North American Book Dist LLC. ISBN 978-0-403-09700-5.
Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
Peel, Albert. The Congregational two hundred, 1530–1948. Independent Press, [1948].^[17]
Polner, Murray. American Jewish biographies. Facts on File, [1982]. ISBN 0871964627.^[1]
Porter, David L. (2000). Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: G-P. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31175-8.
Powell, William S., ed. (13 May 1996). Dictionary of North Carolina Biography: Vol. 6, T-Z. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2225-8.
Purcell, L. Edward. Who was who in the American Revolution. Facts on File, 1993. ISBN 0816021074.^[1]^[9]
Riley, Sam G. American magazine journalists, 1741–1850. Gale Research, 1988. ISBN 081034551X.^[14]
Riley, Sam. G. Biographical dictionary of American newspaper columnists. Greenwood Press, 1995. ISBN 0313291926.^[14]
Ritter, Charles F., Jon L. Wakelyn. Leaders of the American Civil War: A biographical and historiographical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1998. ISBN 0313295603.^[1]^[9]
Roberts, Nancy L. American peace writers, editors, and periodicals: A dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1991. ISBN 0313268428.^[1]
Roysdon, Christine, Linda A. Khatri. American engineers of the nineteenth century: A biographical index. Garland, 1978. ISBN 0824098277.^[1]
Sabine, Lorenzo (1864). Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution. Boston: Little. ISBN 9780790571409.^[18]
Sammons, Vivian O. Blacks in science and medicine. Hemisphere, 1990. ISBN 0891166653.^[1]
Seller, Maxine. Women educators in the United States, 1820–1993: A bio-bibliographical sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 0313279373.^[1]
Shavit, David. The United States in Latin America: A historical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN 0313275955.^[1]
Shearer, Benjamin F. Home front heroes: A biographical dictionary of Americans during wartime. Greenwood Press, 2007. ISBN 031333420X.^[1]^[9]
Sibley, John Langdon, ed. (1873–1975). Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society.^[15]
Sickels, Robert. 100 entertainers who changed America: an encyclopedia of pop culture luminaries. Greenwood, 2013. ISBN 9781598848304.^[1]
Smith, Ben A., James W. Vining. American geographers, 1784–1812: A bio-bibliographical guide. Praeger, 2003. ISBN 0313323364.^[1]
Sporting News. Baseball register. Sporting News, 1940–. ISSN 0162-542X.^[1]
North Carolina Biographical Dictionary. North American Book Dist LLC. 1 June 1999. ISBN 978-0-403-09735-7.
Taft, William H. Encyclopedia of twentieth-century journalists. Garland, 1986. ISBN 0824089618.^[14]
Thrapp, Dan L. Encyclopedia of frontier biography. A. H. Clark, 1988–1994. ISBN 0870621912.^[9]
Todd, Janet M. A dictionary of British and American women writers, 1660–1800. Rowman and Allanheld, 1985. ISBN 0847671259.^[1]
Utter, Glenn H., Charles Lockhart, Robert Jervis. American political scientists: A dictionary. Greenwood Press, 2002. ISBN 031331957X.^[1]
Wakelyn, Jon L. Birth of the Bill of Rights: Encyclopedia of the Antifederalists. Greenwood Press, 2004. ISBN 0313317399.^[9]
Waldman, Carl. Biographical dictionary of American Indian history to 1900. Facts on File, 2001. ISBN 0816042527.^[1]
White, James Terry. National cyclopaedia of American biography. J. T. White, 1892–1984.^[1]
Who's who among Hispanic Americans. Gale Research, 1991–1994. ISSN 1052-7354.^[1]
Willard, Frances Elizabeth and Mary A. Livermore, ed. (1893). A Woman of the Century. Buffalo, NY: Charles Wells Moulton.^[15]
Who's who in the Northwest. Western Press association, 1910.^[11]
Wilson, J. G. and John Fiske, ed. (1894–1900). Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. New York: Appleton.^[19]
Witzel, Morgen. The encyclopedia of the history of American management. Thoemmes Continuum, 2005. ISBN 9781843711315.^[1]
Wright, John D. The Routledge encyclopedia of Civil War era biographies. Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780415878036.^[1]
Zia, Helen, Susan B. Gall, George Takei. Notable Asian Americans. Gale Research, 1995. ISBN 0810396238.^[1]

South America

Contemporary Hispanic biography: profiles from the international Hispanic community. Gale, 2002–. ISSN 1541-1524.^[1]
Covington, Paula Hattox, David Block. Latin America and the Caribbean: A critical guide to research sources. Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN 0313264031.^[1]
Henderson, James D., Helen Delpar, Maurice Philip Brungardt. A reference guide to Latin American history. M. E. Sharpe, 2000. ISBN 1563247445.^[9]
Marting, Diane E. Women writers of Spanish America: An annotated bio-bibliographical guide. Greenwood Press, 1987. ISBN 0313249695.^[1]
Shavit, David. The United States in Latin America: A historical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1992. ISBN 0313275955.^[1]
Who's who in Latin America: Government, politics, banking and industry. Norman Ross, 1993–1997. ISSN 1068-7696.^[1]

Asia

Marquis Who's Who. Who's who in Asia. Marquis Who's Who, 2007-. ISSN 1930-1227.^[1]^[4]

East Asia

China

Bartke, Wolfgang. Who's who in the People's Republic of China. K. G. Saur, [1981–1991]. ISBN 3598107714.^[1]^[4]
Boorman, Howard L., ed. (1967). Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-08955-5.^[1]^[4] Online at Internet Archive.
Antoine Brébion, Antoine Cabaton. Dictionnaire de bio-bibliographie générale, ancienne et moderne de l'Indochine française. Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1935.^[1]^[4]
Brown, Kerry. Berkshire dictionary of Chinese biography. Berkshire Publishing Group, 2014. ISBN 9781933782669.^[1]^[4]
Cavanaugh, Jerome. Who's who in China, 1918–1950: With an index. Chinese Materials Center, 1982. ISBN 0896446263.^[1]
China vitae. China Vitae, Wen Wei Publ. Co. Ltd., 2003-. Available online here.^[1]^[4]
De Crespigny, Rafe. A biographical dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD). Brill, 2007. ISBN 9004156054.^[1]^[4]
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. China Biographical Database Project. Harvard College. Available online here.^[1]^[4]
Franke, Herbert. Sung biographies.`Steiner, 1976. ISBN 3515024123.^[1]^[4]
Giles, Herbert Allen (1897–1902). A Chinese Biographical Dictionary. London: Quaritch.^[4]^[23]
Goldfiem, Jacques de. Personnalités chinoises d'aujourd'hui. L'Harmattan, 1989. ISBN 9782738405098. (French).^[1]
Goodman, David S. G. China's provincial leaders, 1949–1985. Humanities Press, 1986–. ISBN 0391034871.^[1]
Goodrich, Luther Carrington; Fang, Chao-ying (1976). Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368–1644. Association for Asian Studies. Ming Biographical History Project Committee, Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-03801-0.^[1]^[4]
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North Asia

Russia/Soviet Union

Akademia Nauk, SSSR, ed. (1899–1914). Matieraly dlia biographicheskago slavaria dicistvitel'nykh chlenov Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk (in Russian). Petrograd: Imperatorskaia Akademiia Nauk.^[26]
Chuvakov, V. N. Nezabytye mogily: Rossiĭskoe zarubezhʹe: Nekrologi 1917–1997: V shesti tomakh. Rossiĭskaia͡ gos. biblioteka, 1999–. ISBN 5751001699.^[1]
de Boer, S. P., E. J. Driessen, H. L. Verhaar, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Biographical dictionary of dissidents in the Soviet Union, 1956–1975. M. Nijhoff, 1982. ISBN 9024725380.^[1]
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Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace., RFE-RL, inc. The Soviet biographic archive, 1954–1985. Chadwyck-Healey, 1986.^[1]
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Sov. ėnts͡iklopediia͡. Deia͡teli SSSR i revoliu͡ts͡ionnogo dvizheniia͡ Rossii: Ents͡iklopedicheskiĭ slovarʹ Granat. Sov. ėnts͡iklopediia͡, 1989. ISBN 5852700282.^[1]
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South Asia

Southeast Asia

Wispelwey, Berend. South-East Asian biographical archive. K. G. Saur, 1997–2000. ISBN 3598342241.^[1]^[4]

Western Asia

Bidwell, Robin. Arabian personalities of the early twentieth century. Oleander Press, 1986. ISBN 0906672392.^[1]^[4]
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Europe

Emmerson, Richard Kenneth, Sandra Clayton-Emmerson. Key figures in medieval Europe: An encyclopedia. Routledge, 2006. ISBN 0415973856.^[1]
Gordon, Peter, Richard Aldrich. Biographical dictionary of North American and European educationists. Woburn Press, 1997. ISBN 0713002050.^[1]
Kamen, Henry Arthur Francis. Who's who in Europe, 1450–1750. Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0415147271.^[1]
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Central Europe

Köhler-Lutterbeck, Ursula, Monika Siedentopf. Lexikon der 1000 Frauen. Dietz, 2000. ISBN 3801202763.^[1]
Röder, Werner, Herbert Arthur Strauss. Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933. K. G. Saur, 1980–1983. ISBN 3598100876.^[1]
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Eastern Europe

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Taylor, Stephen. Who's who in central and east-Europe. Central European Times, 1934–.^[1]

Northern Europe

Kay, Ernest, Editorial Director, Dictionary of Scandinavian Biography, International Biographic Centre, Cambridge, England 1976

Southern Europe

Kramme, U., Ž. Urra Muena. Südosteuropäisches biographisches archiv (SOBA). K. G. Saur, 1998–2004. ISBN 3598341342.^[1]

Western Europe

Oceania

Craig, Robert D., Russell T. Clement. Who's who in Oceania, 1980–1981. Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University—Hawaii Campus, 1980.^[1]

Women

Adamson, Lynda G. Notable women in American history: A guide to recommended biographies and autobiographies. Greenwood Press, 1999. ISBN 0313295840.^[1]
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Ba, Adam Konaré. Dictionnaire des femmes célèbres du Mali: Des temps mythico-légendaires au 26 mars 1991. Editions Jamana, 1993.^[1]
Babcock, Barbara A., Nancy J. Parezo. Daughters of the desert: Women anthropologists and the native American southwest, 1880–1980: An illustrated catalogue. University of New Mexico Press, 1988. ISBN 0826310877.^[1]
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Brinker-Gabler, Gisela, Karola Ludwig, Angela Woffen. Lexikon deutschsprachiger Schriftstellerinnen, 1800–1945. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1986. ISBN 3423032820. (German).^[1]
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