Also Try
- Biographies by Last Name - A B C (Awesome Library)
- Biographies by Last Name - D E F (Awesome Library)
- Biographies by Last Name - G H I (Awesome Library)
- Biographies by Last Name - J K L (Awesome Library)
- Biographies by Last Name - M N O (Awesome Library)
- Biographies by Last Name - P Q R (Awesome Library)
- Biographies by Last Name - S T U (Awesome Library)
- Biographies by Last Name - V W X Y Z (Awesome Library)
Lists
- -Biographies Search (Biography.com)
 Provides short biographies on over 25,000 persons, past and present. You can also browse an alphabetic list of names (at the bottom of the page). 6-02
- Archaeologists - Biographies (About.com - Hirst)
Provides sources of biographies of archaeologists. 2-01
- Archaeologists - Biographies (University of Texas)
Provides sources of biographies of archaeologists. 2-01
- Biographical Resources Described (New York Public Library)
Provides a description of the books that provide information on biographies.
- Biographical Searches (S9 Technologies) 7-01
- Biographies (AMillionLives.com - Lanxner)
Provides hundreds of biographies of famous, infamous, memorable, or accomplished men and women who are no longer living. 3-01
- Biographies (Corbett)
Provides over a dozen sources of biographical information by subject. 6-02
- Biographies (KidsClick)
Provides resources compiled by librarians.
- Biographies Search (Internet Oracle)
Provides two dozen search engines for biographies.
- Biographies Search and Index (Biography.com)
Provides a search engine and an alphabetical index (at the bottom of the page. 3-00
- Biographies by Last Name (Klanxner)
Provides hundreds of biographies, organized by the author's last name.
- Biographies of American Presidents (Awesome Library)
- Biography Sources (Multnomah County Library)
Provides biography sources. 3-00
- Eighteenth Century - Biographies (English Server) 1-01
- Famous People - Biographies (Who2.com)
Provides an alphabetic listing of famous people, including some who are still living. 7-01
- Inventors (National Inventors Hall of Fame)
Provides information on each of the inductees to the Inventors Hall of Fame.
- Judges of the United States Courts (Federal Judicial Center)
Provides professional background information on judges of federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. 12-00
- Nobel Peace Prize Laureates - Listed Alphabetically
Provides information on each of the Nobel Peace Prize winners, going back to 1901.
- Nobel Prize Winners - Listed Alphabetically
- Nobel Prize Winners by Category
- Political Leaders (ABC News)
Provides a brief background on how each leader came into a position of power. Also provides quotes and a short biography.
- Quotation Search (Quote Search)
Provides sources of quotations of famous persons. 4-00
- Rulers - Biographies of Rulers and Leaders (Multnomah County Library - Houston)
Provides links to biographies on rulers and leaders by topic. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 3-00
- Sports Biographies (H. W. Wilson)
Provides biographies of outstanding achievers by sport and alphabetic by last name. 3-00
- Women - Distinguished Women of Past and Present (Bois)
Provides one of the most comprehensive sets of biographies of women available on the Net. Arranged alphabetically by last name or field.
- Women Heroes (Women in World History Curriculum - Reese)
Provides biographies of influential women, by region of the world.
- Women in History (WWWomen)
Provides a Directory and Search Engine related to women.
Multimedia
- Presidents of the United States - Sound Samples
Papers
- African American Achievers (TopBlacks.com)
Provides pictures and biographies of individuals of high achievement. Many of those included are still living. 5-00
- African American Biographies (TeacherVision.com)
Provides short biographies of dozens of well known African Americans. 1-01
- African American Biographies (WETA - ExploreDC.org)
Presents profiles of famous African Amerians, including Marian Anderson, Benjamin Banneker, Marion Barry, Mary McLeod Bethune, Edward Brooke, Anna Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Charles Drew, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Duke Ellington, Charles Houston, Langston Hughes, Sharon Pratt Kelly, John Mercer Langston, Alain Locke, Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hugh Price, A. Philip Randolph, Addison Scurlock, Mary Church Terrell, Walter Washington, Anthony Williams, and Carter Woodson. 5-01
- Anthropologists - Biographies (Minnesota State University)
Provides over 100 biographies. 2-01
- Architects - Biographies (About.com - Craven)
Provides biographies of some of the most influential architects. 3-01
- Artists - Biographies (About.com - Mulder-Slater)
Provides dozens of biographies of influential artists. 3-01
- Artists - Biographies (Artchive.com)
Provides biographies by style or period of art, including Abstract Expressionism (Pollock, Rothko...), Baroque (Rubens, Rembrandt, Bernini...), Contemporary and Postmodern (Basquiat, Beuys, Clemente...), Dada and Surrealism (Dali, Duchamp, Magritte...), Futurism (Boccioni, Balla...), Impressionism (Monet, Renoir, Degas...), Photographers (Ansel Adams, Cindy Sherman...), Post-Impressionism (Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin...), Renaissance (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael...), Romanticism (Friedrich, Delacroix, Fuseli...), Spanish (Goya, Velazquez, El Greco...), Women (O'Keeffe, Cassatt, Kahlo...), American Art (Homer, Hopper, Whistler...), Art Nouveau (Klimt, Schiele, Mucha...), Bauhaus (Kandinsky, Klee...), Cubism (Picasso, Braque, Gris...), Expressionism (Munch, Beckmann, Bacon...), Hudson River School (Bierstadt, Cole, Church...), Neo-Classical (David, Ingres, Poussin...), Pop Art (Warhol, Johns, Rauschenberg...), Pre-Raphaelites (Rossetti, Millais, Hunt...), Rococo (Watteau, Fragonard), Sculptors (Rodin, Brancusi, Moore...), and Symbolism (Blake, Moreau, Redon...). Provides copies of the most famous work of many of the artists. 3-01
- Artists - Biographies (WebMuseum) 3-01
- Astronauts (NASA)
- Astronomers (Discovery.com)
Provides biographies of nine persons who made strong contributions to astronomy, including Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Georges Lemaître, Arno Penzias, and Robert Wilson. 3-02
- Basketball Biographies (HW Wilson Company)
Provides short descriptions of some of the best known competitors, such as Charles Barkley, Larry Brown, Chuck Daly, Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Phil Jackson, K. C. Jones, Michael Jordan, Bob Knight, John Lucas, Karl Malone, Moses Malone, Tom McMillen, Reggie Miller, Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O'Neal, Scottie Pippen, Pat Riley, David Robinson, Dean Smith, David Stern, John Stockton, Sheryl Swoopes, Isiah Thomas, John Thompson, Lenny Wilkens, and Dominique Wilkins. 8-00
- Biographies (AMillionLives.com)
Provides biographies in alphabetic order and by search engine. 11-03
- Biographies (Smithsonian)
Provides dozens of biographies, by field. 1-01
- Biographies Related to the American West (West Film Company and WETA)
Provides biographies related to the western expansion of the USA. 6-02
- Biographies Search (Baegert)
Provides over 5,000 biographies. Allows searches in English, French, or Spanish. educacion 2-01
- Biographies Search (EuropeanServers Ltd)
Provides over 5,000 biographies in English and over 10,000 total. Provides a search engine but no directory or alphabetical listing. 4-00
- Biographies of Anthropologists (Minnesota State University)
Provides short biographies of over 100 key figures contributing to the field of anthropology. Alphabetic order by last name. 7-99
- Biographies of Famous Women (Gale Group)
Provides over 100 biographies. Many include pictures 6-00
- Biographies of Leaders in the News (ABC News)
Provides a brief background on how each leader came into a position of power. Also provides quotes and a short biography.
- Biographies of Literary Greats (Bibliomania)
Provides biographies, in alphabetical order, by last name. See (on the left) Research. Select Choose a Section, Reference and then Choose, Biographical Dictionary. 2-01
- Biographies of the Signers of the Constitution of the United States (National Archives)
- Chemistry Nobel Laureates Since 1900 (Nobel Foundation)
Provides short autobiographies of the Nobel laureates in chemistry during the 20th century. Explains the development of chemistry since 1900. 9-00
- Composers - Biographies of Classical Music Composers (Norrish)
Provides brief profiles of famous composers, as well as lesser known composers. 6-02
- Composers, Writers, and Lyricists - Biographies (Rogers and Hammerstein Organization)
Provides a short biography. 11-01
- Economics - Nobel Laureates Since 1981 (Nobel Foundation)
Provides short biographies of the Nobel laureates in economics since 1981. 9-00
- Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia.com)
Provides information by search engine or alphabetic order. Uneven in quality of online material available. Sometimes provides good information and other times provides an incentive to subscribe to the eLibrary, a commercial product. 6-02
- English and American Biographies and Literature (Bartleby - Cambridge)
 The Cambridge History of English and American Literature is considered "the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published." This online encyclopedia covers 11,000 pages. 2-01
- Everybody Has a Story (CBS News)
"Every two weeks someone throws a dart at a map of America. CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman goes wherever it sticks, flips through the local phone book, and picks a name at random. He then does a story on someone at that house (assuming they’re willing, of course)." 1-03
- Explorers - Biographies (DiscoverySchool.com)
Provides biographies of explorers of the United States. 3-01
- First Ladies of the United States (Virtualology)
Presents, in alphabetical order, a profile for each First Lady of the United States of America (USA). The First Ladies include Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Rachel Jackson, Hannah Van Buren, Anna Harrison, Letitia Tyler, Julia Tyler, Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, Jane Pierce, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eliza Johnson, Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes, Lucretia Garfield, Ellen Arthur, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Ida McKinley, Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Ellen Wilson, Edith Wilson, Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, Lou Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth (Bess) Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy, Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalyn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Laura Bush. 5-01
- First Ladies of the United States (WETA - ExploreDC.org)
Presents a profile for each First Lady of the United States of America (USA). The First Ladies include Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Rachel Jackson, Hannah Van Buren, Anna Harrison, Letitia Tyler, Julia Tyler, Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, Jane Pierce, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eliza Johnson, Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes, Lucretia Garfield, Ellen Arthur, Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Ida McKinley, Edith Roosevelt, Helen Taft, Ellen Wilson, Edith Wilson, Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, Lou Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth (Bess) Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy, Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Johnson, Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Rosalyn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Laura Bush. 5-01
- Fleming, Alexander (PBS)
Provides a biography of Alexander Fleming, known for his contribution to medicine by his discovery of the role of penicillin in fighting bacterial infections. 3-00
- Heroines of Peace (The Nobel Foundation)
Provides the story on nine women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, including Mother Teresa.
- Hispanic Biographies (Gale Group)
Provides biographies of 50 notable Hispanic men and women, including Allende, Isabel, Alvarez, Aida, Alvarez, Luis, Banderas, Antonio, Blades, Rubén, Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez, Caldera, Louis, Carey, Mariah, Chávez, César, Chavez-Thompson, Linda, Cisneros, Henry, Cisneros, Sandra, Clemente, Roberto, Córdova, France Anne, Cruz, Celia, de Balboa, Vasco Nuñez, De Burgos, Julia, de la Hoya, Oscar, Estefan, Gloria, Fernandez, Lisa, Garciaparra, Nomar, Hayek, Salma, Hernández, Antonia, Hijuelos, Oscar, Huerta, Dolores, La India Leguizamo, John, León, Tania, Lobo, Rebecca, Los Lobos, Lopez, Jennifer, Martin, Ricky, Muñoz, Cecilia, Nava, Gregory, Ochoa, Ellen, Olmos, Edward James, Palmieri, Eddie, Paredes, Américo, Perera, Hilda, Puente, Tito, Rivera, Geraldo, Rodriguez, Alex, Ros-Lehtinen, Ileans, Santana, Carlos, Saralegui, Christina, Selena, Smits, Jimmy, Sosa, Sammy, Valdez, Luis, and Villa-Komaroff, Lydia. 8-01
- Indians (Hindu Students Council)
Provides biographies of great Indians.
- Justices - Biographies of U.S. Supreme Court Justices (Legal Information Institute)
Provides brief profiles, as well as recent decisions by each justice. 6-02
- Literature Nobel Laureates Since 1900 (Nobel Foundation)
Provides short autobiographies of the Nobel laureates in literature during the 20th century. 9-00
- Mathematicians by Date or Alphabetical (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Provides short biographies of great mathematicians, by date of birth or by last name. 4-00
- Medicine Nobel Laureates Since 1900 (Nobel Foundation)
Provides short autobiographies of the Nobel laureates in medicine during the 20th century. 9-00
- Medicine and Health Biographies (PBS)
Provides biographies of key contributors to western medicine and health over the 20th century. Also lists and describes key contributions to the fields on a timeline. 3-00
- Men and Women of Science (University of Michigan)
Provides biograpical information on leading contributors to science. Presents the information at three levels of difficulty and by time period.
- Peace - Nobel Laureates Since 1900 (Nobel Foundation)
Provides short biographies of the Nobel laureates in peace during the 20th century. 9-00
- Peace Heroes (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation)
Provides biographies of Nobel Laureates and others.
- People of the Year 2000 (Time.com)
Provides short biographical statements about ten people who were influential in the year 2000, according to Time magazine. Includes Kofi Annan, Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak, Hillary Clinton, Elian gonzalez, Eminem, Shawn Fanning, Vicente Fox, Richard Hatch, Judge Penfield Jackson, Marion Jones, John McCain, Wen Ho Lee, and Jack Welch. 12-00
- Physics Nobel Laureates Since 1981(Nobel Foundation)
Provides short autobiographies of the Nobel laureates in physics since 1981. 9-00
- President of the United States (WETA - ExploreDC.org)
Presents profiles of each of President of the United States of America (USA). The American Presidents include first (1st) George Washington, second (2nd) John Adams, third (3rd) Thomas Jefferson, fourth (4th) James Madison, fifth (5th) James Monroe, sixth (6th) John Quincy Adams, seventh (7th) Andrew Jackson, eighth (8th) Martin Van Buren, ninth (9th) William Henry Harrison, tenth (10th) John Tyler, eleventh (11th) James Knox Polk, twelfth (12th) Zachary Taylor, thirteenth (13th) Millard Fillmore, fourteenth (14th) Franklin Pierce, fifteenth (15th) James Buchanan, sixteenth (16th) Abraham Lincoln, seventeenth (17th) Andrew Johnson, eighteenth (18th) Ulysses Simpson Grant, nineteenth (19th) Rutherford Birchard Hayes, twentieth (20th) James Abram Garfield, twenty-first (21st) Chester Alan Arthur, twentty-second (22nd) Grover Cleveland, twenty-third (23rd) Benjamin Harrison, twenty-fourth (24th) Grover Cleveland, twenty-fifth (25th) William McKinley, twenty-sixth (26th) Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-seventh (27th) William Howard Taft, twenty-eighth (28th) Woodrow Wilson, twenty-ninth (29th) Warren Gamaliel Harding, thirtieth (30th) Calvin Coolidge, thirty-first (31st) Herbert Clark Hoover, thirty-second (32nd) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-third (33rd) Harry S. Truman, thirty-fourth (34th) Dwight David Eisenhower, thirty-fifth (35th) John Fitzgerald Kennedy, thirty-sixth (36th) Lyndon Baines Johnson, thirty-seventh (37th) Richard Milhous Nixon, thirty-eighth (38th) Gerald Rudolph Ford, thirty-ninth (39th) James Earl Carter, Jr., fortieth (40th) Ronald Wilson Reagan, forty-first (41st) George Herbert Walker Bush, forty-second (42nd) William Jefferson Clinton, George Walker Bush (43rd). 5-01
- Presidential Libraries
Provides information on the presidents of the United States. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 2-01
- Presidents of the United States (White House)
Provides information on the presidents of the United States. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 1-01
- Presidents of the United States (Yahoo)
Provides information on the presidents of the United States. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 9-00
- Presidents of the United States - Biographies (DiscoverySchool.com)
Provides comprehensive biographies. 3-01
- Prime Ministers of England - Biographies (10 Downing Street)
Provides biographies of Tony Blair, John Major, Margaret Thatcher, James Callaghan, Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Macmillan, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, Sir Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Andrew Bonar Law, David Lloyd George, H.H. Asquith, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Arthur James Balfour, Earl of Rosebery, Marquess of Salisbury, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Derby, Earl Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Robert Peel, Viscount Melbourne, Duke of Wellington, Earl Grey, Viscount Goderich, George Canning, Earl of Liverpool, Spencer Perceval, Duke of Portland, Lord Grenville, William Pitt, Henry Addington, Earl Shelburne, Marquess of Rockingham, Lord North, Duke of Grafton, Earl of Chatham, George Grenville, Earl of Bute, Duke of Newcastle, Duke of Devonshire, Henry Pelham, Earl of Wilmington, and Sir Robert Walpole. Rulers, leaders, and heads of state. 2-01
- Profiles of Famous People (Probert Encyclopedia)
Provides thousands of profiles, most including only the birth year, death year, and reason for fame. Names are listed by first name or initial. 8-01
- Research - Obituaries (New York Public Library)
- Scientists of India (Sterling Infotech Enterprise)
Provides short biographical descriptions of the contributions of key scientists and innovators in Indian history, including S.K. Mitra, K.S. Krishnan, Prafulla Chandra Ray, Charaka, Srinivas Ramanujan, P. Maheshwari, Mahalanobis, Devendra Lal, John Haldane, Narendra Karmarkar, K.K. Pandey, Sambhu Nath De, Salim Ali, Birbal Sahni, Varahamihira, Emperor Jahangir, G.N. Ramachandran, Jayant Narlikar, Patanjali, S. Chandrasekhar, M.K. Vainu Bappu, Kanada, M.G.K. Menon, Raja Ramanna, M.N. Saha, Dr. A.S. Paintal, D.R. Kaprekar, Dr. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar, Dr. C.V. Raman, Dr. Hargobind, Khorana, Satyendra Nath Bose, Sir J.C. Bose, Benjamin P. Pal, Brahmagupta, Vikram Sarabhai, Homi Bhabha, Aryabhatta, and Susruta. 7-00
- Scientists' Biographies (PBS)
Provides biographies of scientists from the fields of medicine and health, physics and astronomy, human behavior, technology, and earth and life sciences. 3-00
- Tennis Biographies (HW Wilson)
Provides short descriptions of some of the best known competitors, including Andre Agassi, Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Steffi Graf, Ivan Lendl, Hana Mandlikova, Noah Yannick, Gabriela Sabatini, Pete Sampras, and Monica Seles. 8-00
- U.S. Congress - Biographies (U.S. Congress)
Searches for biographies of persons who have served in the U.S. House or Senate since the formation of the United States. 6-02
- Women - Biographies (DiscoverySchool.com)
Provides biographies of influential women of the twentieth century. 3-01
- Women - Biographies of Women Mathematicians (Riddle)
Provides biographies in alphabetical order and by time period. 2-00
- Women Artists (About.com - Mulder-Slater)
Provides dozens of biographies of influential women artists. 3-01
- Women Athletes (Sports Illustrated)
Provides biographies of Sports Illustrated's opinion regarding the top 100 female athletes. 12-02
- Women Mathematicians (Association for Women in Mathematics)
Provides brief biographies of women mathematicians of the twentieth century. 8-01
- Women Writers by Name, Country or Period (Ockerbloom)
Provides biographies of women writers by name, country, or time period.
- Women Writers of Color (University of Minnesota)
Provides biographies of women writers who are African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic, Chicana, Latina, Indigenous, or Native American.
- Women of China (Asiapac - Internova)
Provides illustrated biographies of 100 celebrated women of China.
- Women's Biographies (Bois)
Provides an alphabetic list of hundreds of women of achievement from throughout the world. 6-02
- Women's Biographies (National Women's Hall of Fame)
Provides biographies of over a hundred great women. 1-01
- Women's Biographies (University of Maryland)
Provides biographies of historical women of achievement.
- World History - Biographies (DiscoverySchool.com)
Includes biographies of leaders from ancient times to the present. 3-01
Periodicals
- Events - Biographies on Television for Kids, Families and Educators (KidsNet)
Choose "Biography" under "Curriculum Area to Search for." Searches for television biography programs appropriate for kids, families or educators and codes by network, grade level, curriculum area, curriculum materials available, special needs and more.
Projects
- Biography - How to Interview for a Life Story (Oberman)
Provides guidelines on interviewing a person for writing a life story. 8-01
- History - Biography Maker (Bellingham Schools - McKensie)
Provides step by step assistance in writing a biography - or autobiography.
- Puzzles - Faces and Quotations of Famous People (Johnson and Margolies)
Cryptograph provides line drawings of a famous people and an encrypted, powerful quotation. Includes two additional categories, People of Color and Daughters of Eve.
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