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A full online edition of the work was launched in 2005. Subjects include Peers , MPs, Judges , very senior Civil Servants , and distinguished Writers , Actor s, Lawyer s, Scientist s, Researcher s, and Artist s. Anyone holding a Professorial Chair at Oxford or Cambridge is eligible for admission to Who's Who. Normally, once someone is included in Who's Who he or she remains in it for life, so for example MPs are not removed when they leave Parliament. ''Who's Who'' has been criticised for being too old-fashioned. For example, all members of the English Peerage , however minor, are included, but many more notable modern people, such as David Beckham , are not. Several volumes of ''Who Was Who'' have been published, which give the entries of people who have died; they are usually as they appeared in the last Who's Who before their death, with the date of death appended. The first volume covered deaths in 1897-1915, but more recently they have appeared at ten-year intervals, and now every five years. A fuller history of ''Who's Who'' was published to coincide with the 150th edition in 1998. The name has been widely copied, and now there are many publications with "Who's Who" in the title, though they are not from the same publisher. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINK |
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