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

Who2 Biographies

Humanities and Social Sciences

Dictionary of Art Historians

Political Figures

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

Hispanic Americans in Congress (1822-1995)

Political Graveyard.com

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

 

Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences

 

History of Mathematics