General
Resources
- Biographies Polysearch Engine - Searches several quality internet sites simultaneously. Check the ones you want to include. You may need to disable pop-up blocking to see all the results, since each opens a new window
- Handbook of Texas Online - Includes biographical entries on many famous Texans
- Information Please Biographies
- Biographical Dictionary - Offers very brief biographical information on notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. Also offers great links to other biography sites
- Biography.Com - From the A&E television network show, offers over 25,000 short biographies
- Gale Free Resources - Includes quality biographies categorized under Poets, Black History, Hispanic Heritage and Women's History, most with photos
- Biography Center
- Spectrum Biographies
- Dead People Server and Who's Alive and Who's Dead - Includes obituary links for many celebrities and other famous people who have died in recent years
- Nobel Prize Laureates - Has a photo and official biography of each current and past winner
- Achiever Gallery
- Historic Figures - From the BBC
- Island of Freedom - Information on the lives of many theologians, philosophers, poets, composers, and artists
- American History Biographies
- American History 102: Civil War to the Present
- Meet Amazing Americans
- PBS Biographies
- Hyperhistory People Index
- American Presidency - Includes biographical information and articles on U.S. Presidents and their spouses and Vice Presidents
- Biographies of the Founding Fathers
- America's Founding Fathers: Charters of Freedom - From the National Archives
- Conversations with History - Transcripts of interviews with many famous persons
- Biographies of Sitters in the Matthew Brady National Portrait Gallery - Includes photographs and biographies of many notable persons from the 1800s, including many from the Civil War era
- Lucid Cafe
- American Academy of Poets
- Lives of Poets - From Modern American Poetry
- Jewish Biography
- Medieval People
- Sourcebook on Lives of the Saints - Offers many links to sites with saint biographies