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Biographical Information

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- Biographical Dictionary -
This dictionary includes 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
A&E network allows you to search for brief biographical
information on famous people.
- Congressional
Biographical Directory - Biographical information for all members
of the US Congress since 1774 may be searched here.
- 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.
- Women in Congress - Updated and expanded edition of Women in Congress, 1917–1990, as mandated by the House of Representatives in House Concurrent Resolution No. 66, by the 107th Congress, First Session. Women in Congress, 1917–2006 is the first volume in a series of publications highlighting the congressional service of women and minority groups. Black Americans in Congress, 1870–2007 and its companion Web site were published in 2008.