Biographies
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Biography
Find
Produced by A& E Television Networks. Over 20,000 short
entries arranged in alphabetical order.
Biographical
Dictionary
This dictionary includes more than 27,000 notable men and
women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
Dictionary of Canadian biography online
A Dictionary of political biography
Lives, the
Biography Resource
Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies,
memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. * Individual
lives of the famous, the infamous and the not so famous. * Group biographies
about people who share acommon profession, historical era or geography. * Also
general collections, resources on biographical criticism and Special Collections
Nobel Prize Archive on the Internet
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
The Oxford DNB is the leading source of information on the
lives of people from the British Isles or with a connection to British life and
culture. It includes people from all walks of life, from the earliest times to
the end of the year 2000, but it does not include any living persons; articles
are confined to people who died before 31 December 2000.