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{{about|a multi-volume Polish-language biographical dictionary|a one-volume English-language Polish-biography dictionary|The Polish Biographical Dictionary}}
'''''Polski słownik biograficzny''''' (''PSB''; Polish Biographical Dictionary) is a [[Polish language|Polish-language]] [[biographical dictionary]], comprising an alphabetically arranged compilation of authoritative biographies of some 25,000 notable [[Poles]] and of foreigners who have been active in Poland – famous as well as less well- known persons, from [[Popiel]], [[Piast Kołodziej]] and [[Mieszko I]], at the dawn of Polish history, to persons who died in the year 2000. The Dictionary, published incrementally since 1935, is a work in progress. Its completion is expected about 2030.
 
The ''PSB'' is, by its own assessment, "at present... one of the world's leading biographical publications."<ref>[http://www.psb.pan.krakow.pl/''Polski słownik biograficzny'' site]</ref> Outside Poland, it is available at the [[British Library]], the [[Library of Congress]], the [[Vatican Library]], the [[Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace]], the [[University of California at Berkeley]], [[Stanford University]], the [[Getty Museum]], and many other national and major research libraries.<ref>[http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/932f7e8885b14903.html "Find in a Library"]—search page for locating copies of the ''PSB''</ref>