Biographies


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African-Americans

 * [|The Top 10 African-American Inventors]
 * [|Harlem : 1900 - 1940] - Biographies of the people who participated in the Harlem Renaissance.
 * [|Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music] - Biographies of African Americans in classical music.
 * [|Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color] - Biographical information on African-American women authors.
 * [|African Americans in the Visual Arts]
 * [|Marian Anderson: A Life in Song] - Biography with illustrations by the University of Pennsylvania library.
 * [|The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project]

Artists

 * [|Web Museum] - Biographies of European and American artists. Most biographies also have examples of works by the artist.
 * [|Artnet] - Biographies of artists from all time periods.
 * [|Yahoo! List for Artists]

Authors

 * [|Great Writers and Poets] - Links to Web sites.
 * [|Author Webliography] - Links to pages for individual authors
 * [|American Authors on the Web] - Links to biographical information.
 * [|Voices from the Gap: Women Writers of Color] - Biographical information on African-American, Hispanic, Native American and Asian-American women authors.
 * [|Modern American Poetry] - This site has biographical information on poets of the 1800's and 1900's.

General Biographies

 * [|Biography-Center] - Another good starting point for biographical information with over 10,000 biographies.
 * [|Biography.com] - Short biographies from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
 * [|Biographical Dictionary] - Search by name, date, or by subject (keyword). Very brief biographies.
 * [|Who2] - Brief biographies of famous people. Here is where you will find movie, television, and music stars. Each biography has a link to 4 other web sites for the person.

Government and History

 * [|POTUS : Presidents of the United States] - Lots of information here including members of the cabinet, presidential highlights and links to other biographical sites.
 * [|The Presidents of the United States] - Biographies, and inagural addresses. This is a good site to visit if you need information on the presidents' wives. From the White House.
 * [|The Hall of Presidents] - A picture of each president, and a short biography. If you click on the small picture of the president, you can see a much larger version of the picture.
 * [|Colonial Hall] - Biographies of the founding fathers such as the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
 * [|Biographical Directory of the United States Congress] - From 1774 to the present. This site has biographies of senators, representatives, presidents and vice-presidents.
 * [|Explorers] - Biographies of a large number of explorers.

Hispanics

 * [|Las Mujeras] - Famous Hispanic Women
 * [|Chicana and Latina Profiles] - includes Gloria Estefan, Selena, and Rigoberta Menchu Tum.
 * [|Famous Hispanics]
 * [|Discover Hispanic History Makers] - Short biographies of famous Hispanics from before 1900 to the present.
 * [|Govenor Luis Munoz Marin] - Puerto Rico's first govenor.

Mathematicians

 * [|Biographies of Women Mathematicians] - Biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians and some photos
 * [|MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive] - Biographies of over 1100 mathematicians which you can search by name or by date.
 * [|Mathematicians of the African Diaspora] - Exhibiting the accomplishments of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora within the Mathematical Sciences.
 * [|Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries] - Lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball

Miscellaneous

 * [|The List of Popes] - Biographies of all the Popes.

Musicians and Composers

 * [|The Essentials of Music] - Look in the composers section for biographies. If you have Real Player, you can listen to their music, too.
 * [|The Classical Composer Picture Gallery] - Pictures of composers. Not a lot of biographical information.
 * [|Classical Net Composer Data] - Lists of compositions and some biographical information.

Science and Technology

 * [|Great Canadian Scientists]
 * [|Inventors and Inventions] - Arranged by name of inventor or invention, and also arranged by date and by type of invention.

Women

 * [|The National Women's Hall of Fame] - Biographies of outstanding American women.
 * [|Women Nobel Prize Laureates] - Links to web sites and biographies.
 * [|Distinguished Women of Past and Present] - Search here for biographical information in many different subject areas.
 * [|Feminist Foremothers] - Short biographies of women who wrote about women's rights in the time between 1400 and 1800.
 * [|Biographies of Notable Women in History] - Biographies for notable women, African American women, and women in science.

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