Biographical Information

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Biographical Dictionary - This dictionary includes more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by names, birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, miscellaneous achievements, and other keywords.
Biographical Memoirs – Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs are hundreds of brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work.
Biography.com - This site from Arts Entertainment network allows you to search for brief biographical information on over 25,000 famous people.
Congressional Biographical Directory - Biographical information for all members of the US Congress since 1774 may be searched here.
Congresswomen's Biographies - This page contains a brief biography of all women who have served or are currently serving in the House of Representatives. Also included are updated biographies of those who served before 1991 which were first published during the Bicentennial of the Congress in Women in Congress: 1917-1990 (H.Doc. 101-238).
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography - Superior to the print version, this online version includes 3,000+ searchable biographies with illustrations, occupation/activity, area and decade of activity, gender, Maori/non-Maori, decade of birth and death, and birthplace of people important in New Zealand history.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Combined search for 93 fulltext reference works from Gale Research.
Lives, the Biography Resource - Claiming to be the "largest guide to biography sites on the Web," Lives has short reviews of English-language sites that have biographical information. Due to high volume, recent additions have not been reviewed.
NameBase Book Index - Produced by Public Information Research, Inc., this site has a collection of over 200,000 citations on famous individuals in politics, foreign policy, intelligence, business and organized crime.
Who2 - For each famous figure find the birth and death dates, famous works, notorious trivia, and the four best websites for additional detail.