General

Biographies
from the Arts & Entertainment Cable Channel

Dead People Server
A nonscholarly site to search for brief information about celebrities and contemporary people in the news.

Internet Public Library: Biographies

Nobel Prize Winners

Political Figures

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (1774 - present)

Hispanic Americans in Congress (1822-1995)

Presidents of the United States (Internet Public Library)

Rulers "This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1800."

By Region

Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Florida Heritage Collection
Biographies and autobiographies of Floridians.

People in the West
"Interactive biographical dictionary of historical figures" in the United States

Science & Technology

African Americans in the Sciences, The Faces of Science

History of Mathematics

Science, Technology & Medicine Biographies
WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine

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Please note that the following materials are restricted to current UF Faculty, Students, and Staff:

American National Biography Online
Covers the lives of over 17,000 notable men and women.

Britannica Online

Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Artists, patrons of the arts, and others involved in the arts.

Grove Music Online
Composers and musicians.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Search (Choose Reference, then Biographical Information).

Oxford African American Studies Center