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Schauerman Library Web Guides - Biography

This guide highlights a few sites where biographic information on people of note can be found. Most of these are general sites, leading to more specific pages. You can also use a search tool (like Yahoo! or Google) and enter the name of the person you are interested in finding information about. NOTE: Sites do move/get outdated from time to time.


Academy of Achievement. Biographies and Interviews.   http://www.achievement.org/
Artist Indexes   http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/fineart.htm

BBC Historic Figures http://www.bc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
Biographical Dictionary. Searchable. Over 25,000 entries   http://www.s9.com/biography
Biographies   http://www.blupete.com/Literature.htm
Biography.com. Searchable   http://www.biography.com/
Biography/Who's Who RefDesk   http://www.refdesk.com/factbiog.html
Business Biographies.   http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774560.html

  Classical Composers (from Sony)        http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/
Conversations with History http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
Cyndi's  Biography list.   http://www.cyndislist.com/biograph.htm

  Eric's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography   http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography

  Faces of Science. African Americans in the Sciences.   http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
FemBio: Notable Women http://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/biographies/
First Ladies of the United States of America   http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/index.html

  Great Economists and their Times.   http://www.frbsf.org/publications/education/unfrmd.great/greattimes.html
Great Writers and Poets. Links to biographies.   http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html

  Historic Figures             http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/index.shtml
Histories of Astronomers.   http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr/ha_pers.html

  Illustrator Biographies    http://www.bpib.com/illustra.htm#illustopage
InfoPlease Almanac: Biography  http://www.infoplease.com/people.html
Inventor Archives   http://web.mit.edu/invent/i-archive.html

  Lawyers and Political Leaders Biographies  http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/biog_law.htm

  Mathematics Biographies            http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html
Multnomah County Library Homework Center - Biography   http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/biohc.html

   National Inventors Hall of Fame.   http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp
National Women's Hall of Fame.   http://www.greatwomen.org/
Nobel Prize Winners.   http://www.almaz.com/

  POTUS Presidents of the United States.  http://www.potus.com/

  Rulers of the World   http://rulers.org/

  Saints and Angels.   http://saints.catholic.org/index.shtml

  Shakespeare's Biography            http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/  
Sports Biographies. Jock Bio            http://www.jockbio.com/

  Voices from the Archives            http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews

Who2: Famous People http://www.who2.com/
Women Artists in History   http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html

    

  cseccApril2008

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