This dictionary includes more than 25,000 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.

Search through 20,000 paragraph-length biographies of notable personalities from antiquity to the present. From the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia. Searchable by name of person. Entries include dates, pronunciation guides, the gender, alternate spellings of the name, and other relevant biography links.

A directory of the locations of the graves of thousands of famous dead people with photographs of many of the graves. Browsable by name, location, and claim to fame, and searchable by first or last name. There are also links to cemeteries, funeral homes, and other related subjects.

Biography Megasites

This page contains hundreds of links to biography sites and is a part of the Multnomah County Library Homework Center.

Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation

Nobel e-Museum offers information on all the 758 Prize Winners to date, the Nobel Organization, Alfred Nobel, Nobel events, as well as educational materials and games. Nobel e-Museum consists of more than 9,000 static documents, several databases and a number of multimedia productions that are based on the Nobel Prizes.

Rulers

This site contains lists of current and past heads of state and heads of government of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases.

The Biography Maker is like those homework machines we have been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic. It will help you do a good job, but you must provide some of the "steam" to make it work well.

Teaneck Biography

The Teaneck Public Schools CyberLibrary website consists of links to useful reference and informational web resources for students, teachers, administrators, and parents. These sites are organized by subjects and arranged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers.

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives, and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader.

Thomson Gale has assembled a collection of activities and information to complement classroom topics. This site contains biographies of significant African Americans.

A notable website with a collection of biographies about famous African Americans.

African American
Biography Megasites

A list of sites recommended by the Multnomah County Library Homework Center.

Thomson Gale
Hispanics Biographies

Biographies of Women Mathematicians

Thomson Gale
Poets

Presidents of the United States

NASA Astronaut Biographies provides biographical information on the members of the space flight crews and candidates for future missions in NASA's space flight program. The links will direct you to biographical information on the astronauts.

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

Includes an alphabetical index, index by profession, and information on the first African Americans to receive Ph.D.s in a science as well as African American woman scientists. Presented by the Louisiana State University Libraries.

Includes a timeline from 3000 B.C. to 1994 and biographies of more than 60 women.

Biographical essays or comments about women mathematicians. Some photos.

African American Women Writers of the 19th Century is a digital collection of 52 published works by 19th-century black women writers. A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives, and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. A full text database of these 19th and early 20th- century titles, this digital library is key-word-searchable. Each individual title as well as the entire database can be searched to determine what these women had to say about "family", "religion", "slavery" or any other subject of interest to the researcher or casual reader.

This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive hundreds of years ago and some are living today.

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