Biographies  

A biographical dictionary of about 17,500 individuals significant to American history, from the earliest recorded European exploration to the 21st century. These are print books.

Thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary sources, creative works and multimedia elements comprise the Discovering Collection comprehensive online reference resource.

Includes Encyclopedia of World Biography, Contemporary Hispanic Biography, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, and more.

LexisNexis has the Who's Who publications and many other biographical resources. Use the RESEARCH PEOPLE box on the LexisNexis search page.

Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references more than 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source.

Provides biographies on famous people from the British Isles from the 4th century BC to present.

Provides selected biography articles

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the premier music encyclopedia. Includes the New Grove Dictionaries of Jazz and Opera.

Brief entries for over 28,000 people. Searchable by name, birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works. Wiki format.

Short biographies of over 25,000 people provided by the A & E Television network. Includes related web links.

Provides web links to over 4000 biographies.

Worldwide biographies provided by the British Broadcasting Company.

Search engine that correlates data from multiple biographical websites.

Provides biographical data on past and present congressmen.

Provides biographical data on U.S. Presidents.

Produced by the CIA.

Biographies of American Women.

Database of biographies of inventors