This list contains resources in the area of prosopography, the collective and comparative study of groups of past people.

Project Name / Link	Data Model	Notes
Prosopography of the Byzantine World (PBW)	Factoid.	Broad coverage 'flagship' database of Byzantine persons, starting in 1025.
Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire (PBE)	Factoid.	Broad coverage database for the early Byzantine period.
Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit		Broad coverage database for the early to middle Byzantine periods.
Prosopography of the Lascarid Period + ENCHANT
SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations	Factoid + TEI.
Prosopography of the Greek-Venetian World		Project seeking to catalogue people in Venetian-owned Greek regions between 1204 and 1669: current data mostly C13 Crete.
Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualizing the History of a Monastic Republic (ca. 850-1550)
Mamluk Prosopography
A Database of Crusaders to the Holy Land
People of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)	Factoid.
Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR)
People of Medieval Scotland (POMS)	Factoid.
China Biographical Database Project (CBDB)
Medieval Londoners
Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom
Prosopography and Epistolary Networks of a Fragmented Byzantium (1200–1240)		Still unpublished (as of 2026). Link is to project videos. Project lead: Nathan Websdale (University of Oxford)
Prosopography of High Medieval Georgia	Person-prosopon.	Still unpublished (as of 2026): link to project webforum. Project lead: James Baillie (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
People of Byzantine Thessaloniki		Still unpublished (as of 2026). Project lead: Elisabeth Chatziantoniou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Jerusalem Prosopography Project (JPP)		Attested on Save Ancient Studies as having existed. Does not appear to be accessible as of 2026.

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