Who compiled the first English dictionary?

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Who compiled the first English dictionary? Answer: Robert Cawdrey

Robert Cawdrey compiled the first English dictionary, A Table Alphabeticall, in 1604. While Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in 1755 is more famous and was the first comprehensive one, Cawdrey's work came over a century earlier.