Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Resources/Fully accessible biographical dictionaries

This is a list of biographical dictionaries accessible in full over the internet. It is primarily intended to assist those creating or expanding biographies of women on Wikipedia. Additions are welcome but must be fully accessible without restriction to all editors of Wikipedia. Other useful biographical dictionaries which are not fully accessible may be added to Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Resources.

General biographical dictionaries

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International

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Eastern Europe

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Middle East
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By country

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Australia
Austria
Canada
Chile
Croatia
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Hungary
India
Italy
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Peru
Slovenia
Sweden
Switzerland
United States

By occupation

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Art
Architecture
Engineering
Literature
Mathematics
Music
Medicine
Science

Women's biographical dictionaries

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International

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By country

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Armenia
Australia
Canada
Denmark
Great Britain
Kyrgyzstan
Netherlands
Sweden
  • Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexicon: Swedish Biographical Dictionary of Women, 1450 biographies from the Middle Ages to the present day, all accessible in Swedish and English
United States
  • American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies, 1897, Frances E. Willard and Mary E. Livermore
  • Daughters of Genius, 1888, James Parton, Hubbard Brothers
  • Women of Distinction, 1893, L.A. Scruggs; Wikipedia list of redlinks
  • A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life, 1893, Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore
  • Woman's Who's Who of America, 1915, ed. John William Leonard (US and Canada)
  • Briscoe, Johnson (1907–1909). The actors' birthday book. [First]-third series. An authoritative insight into the lives of the men and women of the stage born between January first and December thirty-first. Moffat, Yard and Company – via HathiTrust.

American women by city, state or region

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Literature

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Music

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See also

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