Biographical Information

Biographical Search Engines

• Freeality - Provides general and specifice resources, such as "Information Please" and "First Ladies" or "Famous People" with additional resources links
• Yahoo: People - Listing by categories, followed by site listings

General Biography

• Biographical Dictionary - Good and somewhat in-depth preliminary information on historical figures, weak on current biography
• Biography.com - Online version of A&E's monthly print publication Biography (1997- ) searchable from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia (1994)
• Internet Public Library - Ready Reference Collection at the University of Michigan School of Information
• Lives, the Biography Resource - Largest guide to biography sites on the web, including only people who have died

Artistic Lives

• Artists' Biographies - One of the most comprehensive sites for information about painters, sculptors, photographers, architects, designers, and other artists, mostly derived from articles in the Grove Dictionary of Art
• the-artists.org - Biographies of 20th century and contemporary visual artists and listing by art movement, style, or medium, containing brief data and picture
• refdesk.com - Virtual reference desk by Virginia Commonwealth University
• Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) - Provides variations of the artist's name, dates, geographic locations, relationships, notes, and sources for data, covering from antiquity to present with world-wide scope

Hollywood Lives

• Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Allows searching of anyone involved with filmmaking, directly in the alphabetical biographies index
• What a Character!.com - Provides information on character actors, searching by an alphabetical index, including each actor's photograph, with complete filmography of the film and television appearances of each actor

Legal Lives

• Women's Legal History Biography Project - Biographies on women in the field of law, limited to posthumous biographies (current information done in the past). written by students for a Stanford course on Women's Legal History

Literary Lives

• Book Lovers-Great Writers - Wonderfully eccentric personal page devoted to the writers, listed as "achieved world literature level", with links to some intriguing and informative sites
• Biographies: The Poets - Provides brief descriptions on poets' lives and works, biased towards British writers from 17th through 19th centuries, with eccentric related links to more complete biographies of poets themselves and individual poems
• Voices From the Gaps: Women Writers of Color - Focuses on the lives and works of North American women writers of color, listed by names, birthplace or geographical location, racial/ethnic background, or significant dates, with bibliographies and related links, hosted by the University of Minnesota

Military Lives

• Hisory Makers - Contains two related pages: Confederate Generals of the Civil War and Union Generals of the Civil War, providing extensive biography, an image of some type, vital statistics for each general

Musical Lives

• All-Media Guide - Provides information on all types of musicians, with biographical details presented in six languages, recordings, tours and history, listings, and links to major influences, and a summary of the artist's/group's achievements
• Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Classical Composers - Basic and accurate biographical information on more than 500 composers, with links to books and CDs about composers, links to sheet music, and additional web sites
• Naxos - Classical music composers, index of works by composer, opera, music in movies, classical CD collection, and useful links
• PBS Jazz - Provides profiles of 100 famous jazz musicians and audio samples of the artists' work
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Information on rock stars inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, searchable by name or induction year

Philosophical Lives

• Major World Philosophers - Basic information about the major philosophers of the world with concise description on the philosopher's origins, major field of philosophical investigation, accomplishments and achievements
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Richly detailed on philosopher's area of inquiry, written and maintained by experts in the field, updated as needed, and reviewed by the editorial board, providing bibliographies and links to related sites

Political Lives

• American Presidents - Biographical information on all 43 U.S. Presidents, including film and audio clips, transcripts of speeches, and further research information
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Offers brief summary of the historical highlights of the members of Congress from 1774 on
• First Ladies of the USA - Presents each First Ladies' history in an interesting, easy-to-read manner
• Political Graveyard - As the Web site that tells where the dead politicians are buried, it provides basic biographical information on numerous politicians, including political position held, relationship to other political figures, and pertinent links
• Potus: Presidents of the United States - Detailed information on all 43 U.S. Presidents, including film and audio clips, transcripts of speeches, and further research information

Scientific Lives

• African-Americans in the Sciences - Detailed information on African-American scientists and engineers, the men and women who have achieved success in mathematics, chemistry, physics, meteorology, zoology, and other related sciences
• Anthropology Biography Web - Contains names of people who have influenced anthropology, arranged alphabetically, added new names each semester by anthropology students at the University of Minnesota, Mankato, as a part of an e-museum
• 4000 Years of Women in Science - Brief biographical information on impressive women scientists, arranged alphabetically by field of study or time period
• Mathematicians - Detailed and comprehensive biogrpahies with global scope, updated regularly, including a portrait in most entries, a list of references, and a link to other mathematicians born in the same country

Women

• Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Links to numerous biographies of "women who contributed to our culture in many different ways", including educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers