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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 NOTE: Sites do move/get outdated from time to time.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.bbc.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. https://webfiles.uci.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://www.catholic.org/saints/
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
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