Biographical Resources

Compiled by Peter Y. Chou
Instructor for “Navigating the Internet”
CTIS Division, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California

General Biographies:
Biographical Index— http://www.bartleby.com/65/a0.html
(17,000 Biographies arranged in 140 categories from Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 2001)
Biography: The Web's Best Bios— http://www.biography.com/
(Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present)
Biographical Dictionary— http://www.s9.com/biography/
(Lives of 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world)
Lives, the Biography Resource— http://amillionlives.com/
(Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters)
Biography— http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~rsauzier/Biography.html
(Bio sketches from anthropologists to writers)
Biographies of People on Postage Stamps (by Paul G. Partington & Dr. Udo Skladny)— http://www.philately.com/philately/biographies.htm
(Alphabetical listing of people on stamps with country & year of issue)
Great Pacifists— http://www.nalejandria.com/utopia/english/people.htm
(Bio sketches on Lincoln, Gandhi, Russell, Lamas, Einstein, King, Theresa, Esquivel, Dalai Lama, Tum) Greek Mythology Biographies (By Carlos Parada, author "Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology")— http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Biographies.html
(Alphabetical listing from Achilles to Zeus with images and web links) Lives, the Biography Resource (By Kenneth P. Lanxner)— http://amillionlives.com/index.html
(Largest guide to biography sites on the Web; Arranged Alphabetically, Era, Professions, Regions)
Artists & Writers:
WebMuseum, Paris: Artist Index— http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/auth/
(Alphabetical listing of artists' biography with paintings)
Gale Literary Databases— http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/GLD?locID=foothill_main
(Search database for contemporary authors, literary biography, literary criticism)
Typographic Visionaries— http://www.slip.net/~graphion/type.html
(9 typographers: Gutenberg, Caxton, Manutius, Caslon, Baskerville, Bodoni, Goudy, Gill, Tschichold)
Celebrities:
Mr. Showbiz: Celebrities— http://mrshowbiz.go.com/celebrities/index.html
(Search for biographies of your favorite celebrities by name or category: actor, actress, athlete, comedian, director, model, musician, producer, publisher, TV personality, writer)
Internet Movie Database— http://us.imdb.com/
(Search database for Bios; Who was born on your birthday?; This day in movie history; Oscar nominees & winners)
Composers:
Compsers' Biographies & Their Works— http://www.hnh.com/qcomp.htm
(Alphabetical navigation bar with biographies in right frame)
Classical Composers Database— http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/jsmeets/frames.htm
(Alphabetical links to composers' works)
Classical Composer Biographies— http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mn200/music/composers.html
(17 short biographies with portraits compiled by Michael Norrish)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)— http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~simonj/lvb/lvb.html
(Beethoven's works & books compiled by Simon Johnston)
Inventors:
National Invention Hall of Fame (Akron, Ohio)— http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/indexbyname.html
(134 biographical sketches of inventors with portrait & patent numbers)
Online History (Henry Ford Museum)— http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/projects.html
(Biographies of Edison, Ford, & Wright Brothers)
Wright Brothers— http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/wright/wrights.html
(Biography of the inventors of airplane from the Henry Ford Museum)
Mathematicians:
Indexes of Mathematicians' Biographies— http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html
(Alphabetical & Chronological indexes of mathematicians)
Mathematicians Throughout the Year— http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Day_files/Year.html
(Click on a date to access mathematician born on that day)
Euclid of Alexandria (365-300 B.C.)— http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Day_files/Year.html
(Wrote the treatise on geometry The Elements)
Pythagoras of Samos (580-500 B.C.)— http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
(Proof of Pythagorean Theorem, contributions to astronomy, music, philosophy)
Nobel Laureates:
Nobel Laureates by Year of Award (Nobel Foundation, Sweden)— http://www.nobel.se/prize/progtable.html
(Biographies of Nobel Laureates in Literature, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics, Peace, Economics)
Nobel Laureates Database http://www.nobel.se/prize/database.html
(Search by prize, name, country, university, year of birth or death)
Literature Nobel Laureates— http://www.nobel.se/cgi-bin/laureate-search?literature=on&silent=on
(arranged chronologicaly from 1901-1998)
Philosophers:
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy— http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
(Site search to links on philosophers)
The Window: Philosophy on the Web— http://www.trincoll.edu/~phil/philo/philosophers.html
(48 biographies from Ambrose to Wittgenstein)
One-Stop Philosophers— http://www.rpi.edu/~cearls/dead.phil.html
(Famous philosophers & discussions about them)
Philosophers— http://www.knuten.liu.se/~bjoch509/philosophers/philosophers.html
(Click on a philosopher's portrait for one of the 27 biographies)
Presidents of the U.S.:
Presidents of the United State (White House)— http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/presidents.html
(Biographical sketch of Washington to Clinton with portraits)
First Ladies of the United States (White House)— http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Day_files/Year.html
(Biographical sketches of Martha Washington to Hillary Rodham Clinton)
Scientists:
Eric's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography— http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/bios/
(Research scientist Eric W. Weisstein spent 11 years compiling these biographies)
Einstein: Image & Impact (American Institute of Physics)— http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
(100 pages of text & photos of Einstein's life; chronology, bibliography, links to Einstein web sites)
Albert Einstein's Obituary (New York Times, April 19, 1955)— http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/000314onthisday_bday.html
[Obituary of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) from nytimes.com: "On This Day: March 14"]
Women:
Women in American History— http://women.eb.com/
(Biographies arranged by profession & timeline from Encyclopedia Britannica)
National Women's Hall of Fame— http://www.greatwomen.org/grtwmn.htm
(Short biographies with photos arranged alphabetically)
WIC Biography Index (Women's International Center)— http://www.wic.org/bio/idex_bio.htm
(Short biographies with photos arranged alphabetically)
WIC History of Women Through Art (Women's International Center)— http://www.wic.org/artwork/idex_art.htm
(Short biographies with artwork by Joanne Battiste)
Top 100 Women of the Millennium— http://www.women.com/news/top100/023.html
(Mini-Biographies arranged by profession & centuries from Women.com)
Biographies of Historical Women— http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Biographies/
(40 short biographies from the University of Maryland)
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics— http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/
(Archive of more than 75 citations of 20th century women's contribution to physics)

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