Biography

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 is the online version of the multi-volume reference work. It contains authoritative biographical entries on over 10,000 significant Australians who died before 1980. It can be searched by name, gender, religion, cultural heritage, and occupation.

A database of over 3000 pioneer doctors from the 1700s through to 1875. The site covers Australian medical history with a database of medical pioneers and educational background material. It includes doctors who were registered or qualified in Australia, were resident in Australia, or visited here in a professional capacity, before 1875. Ships' surgeons, convict doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists are included.

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.

A biographical and bibliographical database of more than 3000 Australian scientists with links to related articles and images. It includes scientists who were Australian by birth and those who undertook significant scientific work in Australia.

This online database provides information on Australian public and private companies including company activities, contact details, company directors, branches, subsidiaries, company websites, tradenames and agencies. The company information is fully searchable which allows you to locate information such as companies within specific industries, companies by region or see who sits on which boards.

Biographical information on the veterans of the American Civil War (1861-1865) who later settled in Australia and New Zealand.

DAAO provides biographical data, contextual information, commentary and links to images databases.

The DAAO’s foundation biographies come from:

- The dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870, edited by Joan Kerr

- Heritage: The national women's art book, edited by Joan Kerr

- Aboriginal artists of the western desert: a biographical dictionary, by Vivien Johnson

- and biographies from collecting institutions and fine arts academics.

Born digital biographies are now being added by:

- The Storylines Project, College of Fine Arts, UNSW

- National Gallery of Australia

- Queensland Art Gallery

- commercial galleries

- academics and postgraduate researchers

- artists and art lovers.

Published by Angus & Robertson in 1949, the Dictionary of Australian biography by Percival Serle contains 1030 biographies of Australians, or people closely connected with Australia, who died before the end of 1942.

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.

This site provides information about the National Australia Day awards, Australians of the Year and celebrations.

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.

Ozlife, produced by the National Library of Australia, is an index to Australian biographical articles and book reviews from major Australian newspapers and select journals. A complete list of newspaper and journal titles indexed in OzLife is available from the main Search/Browse screen.

Biographical information on 700 women who have stood for Parliament in New South Wales. Produced by the Australian Women's Archives Project

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.

Find biographical information about significant people and organisations; resources by and about them and their relationships to other parties. Information sourced from Australia Dancing, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australian Mines Atlas, Australian Women's Register, Collections Australia Network, Libraries Australia and Music Australia.

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

A browsable and searchable database of biographies of prominent Australians. It includes various categories like Nobel Prize Winners, Diplomats in Australia and more.