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- A&E's Biography Database
- Over
20,000 brief profiles with links to web sites.
- Biographical Dictionary
- 27,000
"notable men and women who have shaped our
world from ancient times to the present day."
- National Women's Hall of Fame
- Short
biographies of women who have been inducted into
the Hall of Fame.
- Biography.com
- A
database of 25,000 people - past and present
- Time
100: The most important People of the 20th Century
- Leaders
& Revolutionaries, artists & entertainers,
builders & titans, scientists & thinkers,
and heroes & icons.
- Biographies
- Historical
people in American History.
- Island
of Freedom
- Biographies
of nearly 100 theologians, philosophers, poets,
composers, and artists.
- MTV
- Includes
bios of bands and singers.
- National
Baseball Hall of Fame
- Hall
of famer biographies.
- Centurions
- From
the BBC, this site provides biographies of significant
people in the arts from the 20th century.
- Internet
Public Library Biographies
- Find
artists & Architects, Authors, Entertainers,
Musicians & Composers, Politicians & Rulers,
and Scientists & Inventors.
- PBS-History
- Contains
biographies of dozens of men and women whose lives
have shaped the course of history.
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- Nobel Prize Internet Archive
- Biographies
of Nobel Laureates.
- PBS
Online
- In-depth
information for over 53 famous people from history.
- Time Man of the Year Archive
- "For
each of the last 70 years, TIME has presented a
Man of the Year--the single person (man, woman or
even idea) who, for better or worse, has most influenced
events in the preceding year."
- Lives
- Links
to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs,
diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and
more. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous,
and the not so famous. Group biographies about people
who share a common profession, historical era or
geography.
- People
Index
- Very
short biographies of people in world history. Especially
useful is the click-able timeline.
- Who's
Who in American History: Civil War to the Present
- Search
for famous Americans by name, era, or occupation.
There is also a photo gallery.
- Current
Biography Excerpts
- H.
W. Wilson provides online excerpts of athlete biographies
from its current Biography Yearbook.
- Top
North American Athletes of the Century
- From
ESPN, biographies of their choices for the 100 best
athletes of the 20th century.
- Hollywood.com
- Biographies
of celebrities in movies and TV are included.
- Gallery
of Achievers
- Biographies
of achievers of all fields from around the world.
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