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Biography

20th Century Great American Business Leaders database
Academy of Achievement, The Achiever Gallery
American Experience, Biographies (PBS)
American President, Online Reference Resource Center (from the Univ. of Virginia)
Answers.Com, People/Biography Library
Artist Biographies
Astronaut Biographies (from NASA)
BBC, Historic Figures (brief biographical entries)
Biographical Dictionary
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (1774- present)
Biographical Sources in the Sciences (Library of Congress, Science Tracer Bullet Series)
Biographies (PBS Programsand Series sites)
Biographies in U.S. History
Biographies of Famous Women
Biographies of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (brief entries)
Biography (A&E)
Biography Base
Business Biographies (from Info Please)
Canadian Biographies Online
Contemporary Black Biography
Dead or Alive (Famous people are they..)
ECHO, Biography Browse by Category
Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
Governors Biographical, Searchable Database (from the National Governor's Association)
InfoPlease Almanac, Biographies
Inventors Hall of Fame, List of Inductees by Last Name
Justices of the Supreme Court Biographies
Lit Links, 700 Brief Biographical Sketches of Authors (from Bedford St. Martins)
Math World, Biographies of Mathematicians
National Academy of Science, Biographical Memoirs
Notable Names database (more than 18,000 listings)
Obit Finder
Omni Biography
POTUS (Presidents of the United States)
Profiles in Science (from the National Library of Medicine)
Rulers (1700- present)
Spark Notes Biography
Time Magazine, 100 People of the Century
U.S. Presidents (from the White House)
Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
Who2.Com