!!Polysearch - Biographies
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/egyeb/poly-bio.htm
Peter Jacso's biography meta-search tool: Access biographical information, sketches, and full biographies of famous and infamous historical figures, politicians, scientists, authors, artists & athletes from 15 web-based biography sources. These are edited, collective, searchable and substantial biography collections in the genres needed the most often by most users. Search tips on page. |
A Celebration of Women Writers
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/
The Celebration of Women Writers is developed in collaboration with the On-Line Books Page, edited by John Mark Ockerbloom. The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic and scientific works. Our goal is to promote awareness of the breadth and variety of women's writing. All too often, works by women, and resources about women writers, are hard to find. We attempt to provide easy access to available on-line information. The Celebration provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women. (See What's New! for the most recent authors and books added to the listing.) |
American Women's History - A Research Guide
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
"American Women's History is designed to assist serious researchers, such as history professors, independent scholars, graduate students, and possibly upper-division undergraduates. Librarians who assist these researchers may also want to become familiar with the guide. American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources." |
AMG Allmusic.com Biographies
http://www.allmusic.com/
Find available biographies by searching for artist. (Very busy, dizzy site) |
Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/
This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. Can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords. |
Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/
Offical site of A&E's Biography television series. Includes the searchble text of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia. |
BUBL LINK- Biographies
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/types/biographies.htm
Comprehensive site from the UK. BUBL LINK is the name of a catalogue of selected
Internet resources covering all academic subject areas (with sites for individuals
as well as collective sites) and catalogued according to
DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification). All items are selected, evaluated, catalogued
and described. Links are checked and fixed each month. LINK stands for Libraries
of Networked Knowledge. |
Busca biografías Miles de biografias
http://buscabiografias.com/
Spanish-language resource for biographies of famous people from all over the world, from the past and present. Includes royalty and world leaders, writers, actors, musicians and singers, artists, athletes, philosophers, and scientists. |
By Popular Demand- Portraits of Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html
The Library of Congress has extensive resources for the study of the United States presidents and first ladies. Frequent requests for presidential portraits inspired Prints and Photographs Division staff to compile this ready reference aid of formal and informal pictures in the division's custody. The selected images include at least one likeness of each of the forty-one presidents and most of the first ladies. This presentation inaugurates a series of online illustrated reference aids that will appear under the running title "By Popular Demand". |
Dead or Alive - updates on famous people
http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf
This site tracks whether famous people are still alive or not. On March 9, 2004, the site listed 6765 famous and semi-famous people from a wide range of backgrounds. |
Einstein Archives Online
http://alberteinstein.info/
Digitized Manuscripts: Scientific writings, non-scientific writings, travel diaries, Finding Aid: General information on the Albert Einstein Archives, including list of Folders Archival Databases: Itemized database of approximately 43,000 Einstein and Einstein-related archival items: writings, professional & personal correspondence |
Faces of Science - African Americans in the Sciences
http://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html
African Americans in the Sciences (Profiles of men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering: chemists, biologists, inventors, engineers, mathematicians) |
FemBio Notable women history and biography
http://www.fembio.org/english/biography.phpl
Luise F. Pusch's biographical database contains information on more than 30,000
notable women worldwide. For now, 600 of them are searchable here--some
are only available in German. Institute for Women's Biography Research
(Hannover/Boston) |
Forbes.com Richest People
http://www.forbes.com/
Select "Lists" then choose from options under PEOPLE: such as "World's Richest People," "400 Richest Americans" and more. |
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
http://imdb.com/
Search for any name associated with the film industry. |
LII- People Links
http://lii.org/
Select "People" category, or search Librarians' Index to the Internet list of
biographical dictionaries, biographies of notable people, communities, families,
genealogy,
men, obituaries,
parenting,
seniors, and women |
Meet Amazing Americans
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa
The Library of Congress presents biographies of famous Americans: leaders & statesmen, U.S. Presidents, activists & reformers, adventurers & explorers, musicians & composers, writers & artists, industrialists & entrepreneurs, scientists & inventors, athletes & entertainers |
Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://www.nobelprizes.com/
Nobel Prize Internet Archive maintains information on all winners in all categories (since 1901): literature, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, or physiology & medicine. |
Omnibiography
http://www.omnibiography.com/index.asp
OmniBiography.com is the largest directory of biographies available on the Web containing information on more than 110,000 important people from antiquity to the present time. |
Patron Saints Index
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm
Site has information on topics with patron saints, and profiles of those saints, including portraits, biographical information, areas of patronage, prayers, links to related sites, readings. Heavily cross-indexed. (Catholic resource) |
PeopleSpot
http://www.peoplespot.com/
"PeopleSpot.com simplifies the search for the best and most useful information
about people on the Web. We hope that our site will enable you to quickly and
easily connect with others, reunite with friends and family, find people who
share your interests, learn about notable individuals, discover ways to help
others and much more... From PeopleSpot.com, tap into biographies, vital records,
population and demographic statistics, e-mail, phone, reverse and professional
directories, newsgroups, chat rooms, family and military networks, missing person
data, genealogy resources and much more. " |
Sir Winston Churchill - The Churchill Centre
http://winstonchurchill.org/
The Churchill Centre, Washington, DC, and its allied organizations, sponsors this site as part of its mission since 1968 to foster leadership, statesmanship, vision and courage amond democratic and freedom-loving peoples worldwise, through the thoughts, works and deeds of Winston Spencer Churchill. |
TIME Magazine- 100 Most Important People of the Century
http://www.time.com/time/time100/
TIME has profiled those individuals who--for better or worse--most influenced the last 100 years. They are considered in five fields of endeavor, culminating with Person of the Century: Albert Einstein. |
U S Presidents
http://www.state.de.us/facts/ushist/intrpres.htm
"This section of the State of Delaware's WWW is dedicated to all of those individual's that have served our country as President. The information presented here has been researched & compiled by Russ Pickett , one of the Delaware webmaster's, and is not in any way to be considered an official version presented by the Government of Delaware. Any questions concerning its content should be directed to Russ Pickett." |
Who's Who Online®
http://whoswho-online.com/
"Who's Who Online® is a searchable site on the World Wide Web which contains professional and biographical data about individuals of accomplishment who are part of the worldwide Internet community. Profiles are provided by the individuals themselves, who own the copyrights to their own pages." |
Who2 PeopleData
http://www.who2.com/
For famous people, alive or dead, search, or browse alphabetically, by city, state, or country, or by "today's hottest profiles." Entries give a brief biographical sketch and a few recommended links. |
WhoWhatWhen - Interactive Historical Timelines
http://www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/index.php
WhoWhatWhen is a database of people and events from 1000 A.D. to the present. Create graphic timelines of periods in history and of the lives of individuals. |
Women's biographies - Distinguished women of past and present
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/
"This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive hundreds of years ago and some are living today. We've heard of some of them, while many more have been ignored by history book writers. I'd like to acknowledge as many as I can." |
(Eric Weisstein's) World of Scientific
Biography
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/
Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics. The Scientific Biography section of the World of Science organizes biographies by Branch of Science, Gender/Minority Status, Historical Periods, Nationality, Prize Winners. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the internet community. Eric Weisstein's World of Science is written and maintained by the author as a public service for scientific knowledge and education. Although it is often difficult to find explanations for technical subjects that are both clear and accessible, this web site bridges the gap by placing an interlinked framework of mathematical exposition and illustrative examples at the fingertips of every internet user. | |