Biography

Getting to Know Them

• African-American Biographies Comprehensive database about American artists, including brief biographies
• Black Scientists and Inventors
• AskArt Comprehensive database about American artists, including brief biographies
• Biographical Dictionary
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present Search by name
• Biography A great bunch of biography links from the Michigan Electronic Library
• Biography From the University of Pennsylvania Library, worth looking at...it has an African American Biographical database, a world biographical index and lots of other biography websites.
• Biography Center Collection of 10,666 biographies in four different languages. 11,011 bios are in English.
• Biographical links A biography resource from Palo Alto ... a compilation of a bunch of biography links
• British royalty Genealogical and historical data for British royalty, past and present
• Actors and Actresses Search Engines
• Old Blue Eyes Memorial Celebrity Deathwatch
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
• Composers
• Online Searchable Death Indexes
  Death indexes by state and county.
• Dead People Server.
  Alphabetical listing of celebrities and others who are dead.
• Who's Alive and Who's Dead
  
• Encyclopedia Mythica Myths and legends
• Famous Birthdays Birthdays of many famous people
• Who's Who in the Federal Government
• Federal Judges Biographical Database
• Find a Lawyer From West Legal Directory, over 800,000 lawyers and law firms in the U.S. Not all.
• Historic Figures BBC site for biographies of the movers and shakers of history
• Internet Movie Database Actors, actresses, producers, etc
• Lawyer Locator More than 900,000 lawyers and law firms. Again, not all of them.
• Landings Certified Pilots Database A nearly current database of 600,000 pilots registered with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
• New York State Professionals Check the license of an accountant, athletic trainer, doctor, midwife, et al., in New York State
• Nobel Prize winners
• The Obituary Page
  A listing of famous people who have died since 1994.
• Online Books Large index for online books, authors
• People Tracker Forbes site. Site claims to track over 120,000 executives and rich and famous people. Fairly non-intrusive registration to get in.
• Physician Lookup Virtually every licensed physician in the U.S.
• Political figures, U.S. The Political Graveyard contains summary information on including all state governors and members of Congress, past and present, among many others
• Popes Chronological listing of popes with links to biographical data on them
• Presidents of the United States From WhiteHouse.gov. First ladies are also on this site
• Pulitizer Prizes Listings of all winners
• Quotations Barlett's Familiar Quotations, searchable
• The Social Security Death Index Online Search
  Through Ancestry.com, it's free. Current through March 2001, it contains 65,731,662 names
• Distinguished Women from Past and Present
• WPA Life Histories The American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936

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  Last updated on 12/2/08