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- Academy of Achievement: The Hall of Science & Exploration
- Contemporary role models have been categorized into five areas: the Arts, Public Service,
Sports, Business and Science and Exploration. The biography and profile of each featured achiever are also
available.
- AWM's Links for Biographies
- Individual biographies as well as links to other sources for biographies of women in the mathematical sciences.
- Biographical Dictionary
- Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
- Biographical information for all individuals who have served in the United States Congress and the Continental Congress.
- Biography.com
- Search 25,000 personalities. From the magazine and television program Biography.
- Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
- Thomson Gale's site provides biographies of notable Hispanic American women and men.
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- A comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers.
- Composers Bureau Online
- Biographies, lists of works, audio clips, score samples, photographs and contact information for American composers.
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present
- Search by subject or name for women who contributed to our culture in many different ways.
- Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
- Contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics.
- The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
- African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.
- Famous Hispanics
- Very brief biographies with some links.
- Great Books Five Stars Sites
- Hundreds of important authors, artists, and philosophers are covered at this site.
- Indexes of Biographies
- Mathematicians are searchable alphabetically or chronologically. Brief entries with some portraits.
- Info Please: Biography
- More than 30,000 biographies from their almanacs, dictionary, and encyclopedia.
- Internet Public Library: Biographies
- Included are artists, architects, authors, entertainers, musicians, composers, politicians, rulers, scientists, and inventors.
- Invent Now: National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Celebrates the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of great inventors. The creative genius of invention is showcased through exhibits and presentations which allow visitors to experience the excitement of discovery, creativity, and imagination.
- Invention Dimension
- From MIT, this site includes inventor of the week archives.
- Lives, the Biography Resource
- Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more.
- The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
- The lives and accomplishments of Nobel Prize winners are included here.
- PeopleSpot
- See the "Notable People" section of this site, particularly.
- Public Figure
- Includes "life story" biographies to the latest breaking news, exclusive photographs, overviews of
the projects or work that brought them to the headlines, interactive video and audio with live interviews and exclusively hosted chat rooms with the most prominent people in world.
- SACNAS Biography Project
- Details the accomplishments of Chicano/Latino and Native American scientists.
- Time 100
- The most important people of the 20th Century, according to Time.