Library
Web Reference Sites
Biography
About
Famous People: Information about figures from the
Civil War, women, spies, authors, composers, frontiersmen,
and more.
Biographical Dictionary: Over 28,000 notable men and women.
Biographies from Bibliomania
Biography
Center: This multilingual site is actually a custom search engine, that
will perform searches for individual people, linking to the biographies at other
sites.
Biography.com: Companion to A&E's Biography series.
Conversations with History: In these lively and unedited interviews, distinguished
men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work.
Information Please Biographies: From the almanac.
People
Profiles: Profiles of celebrities from People magazine.
Public Figure.com: This web site
features extensive profile data on newsmakers.
Time 100: Presents the most important people of the 20th Century, as selected
by the editors. Also features the results of a readers poll.
Who2: Searchable database of celebrities, historical figures, and other
famous people. Includes brief biographies, related links, and vital statistics.
Who's Alive and Who's Dead: The site that helps you keep track of which
famous people have died and which are still alive!
American
Masters: From PBS, this site examines the lives, works,
and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists.
Anthropology Biography
Web: Brief descriptions of anthropologists and other scientists that
have direct influence on the discipline of anthropology.
Astronaut Biographies: From
NASA
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
Catalog
of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries: This catalog
is a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community
during the 16th and 17th centuries with vital facts about each individual and
their contributions to science.
Eric Weisstein's World
of Scientific Biography
First
Ladies' Gallery: Biographies of First Ladies.
Hall of Black Achievement
Gallery: Biographies of famous Black Americans.
Hello! Profiles: Biographical
features of celebrities, actors and actresses, musicians, fashion designers
and models and royalty and statesmen. Includes pictures.
Innovative
Lives - Collection of biographies and major achievements of selected
inventors, both from the near past and the present.
Jazz Biographies: From
the PBS Jazz Documentary by Ken Burns.
Medal of Honor Recipients: Listings and brief information on every Medal of Honor recipient from the
Civil War through Vietnam.
The National Inventors Hall of Fame: Biographical information on inventors,
searchable by inventor's name or by invention.
Supreme Court Justices: This site offers comprehensive biographical information
on every Supreme Court justice from John Jay to Stephen Breyer. It includes details
on each justice's personal life, education, legal career and case participation,
as well as his or her predecessor and successor.
Thinkers on Education: From UNESCO, this is a series of profiles of 100
famous educators-philosophers, statesmen, politicians, journalists, psychologists,
poets, and men of religion - drawn from many parts of the world
The World's Richest People
World
War I Biographical Dictionary
