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

Licensed for Acadia users onlyOxford 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.

Who's who in the twentieth century