Biography — General

American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the American nation.It is updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.

This database contains over 627,000 article and book citations. It covers public figures, including actors, artists, business people, educators, military leaders, politicians, religious leaders, scientists, sports figures, statesmen, teachers, writers, etc.

This database covers over 550,000 people with narrative profiles and links to related full text articles, with more than 36,000 images. Search this database by name, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnicity, birth/death dates, titles of works, and keyword. This database also contains book review excerpts from Wilson's Book Review Digest Plus.

Biography Resource Centre is a comprehensive biographical database containing nearly 415,000 brief biographies of more than 320,000 people gathered from over 780 volumes from 120 reference sources published by Gale. In addition it includes the full text of articles from over 280 periodicals.

More than 3000 biographies of New Zealanders of historical note, originally published in the printed Dictionary of New Zealand biography series and in the parallel Maori-language series, Nga Tangata Taumata Rau. The editorial policy aims to include not only figures of national importance but also those who were representative in a regional, tribal, ethnic or occupational context. The site does not include people who are alive.

This site provides information on 'where everybody who was anybody is buried' although the emphasis is on American individuals. Categories include architects and artists, criminals, eccentrics and oddities, explorers and adventurers, musicians and composers.

The website contains information for over 200,000 cemeteries, most with maps.

Oxford Art Online contains Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms with 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.

50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2001.

Oxford Music Online contains Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music with articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres, as well as biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists etc from 1900 to the present.

This site provides biographical information on more than 28 000 people from ancient times to the present day.

This is the official site for the British royal family. It provides historical information about the monarchy including information about Princess Diana and the royal palaces and castles.

Provides biographical detail as well as web links for contemporary celebrities. Includes individuals both living and deceased, and includes thematic lists.