Biography Sites on the Web

A&E Biography on the Web
    http://www.biography.com/
American National Biography
    http://www.oup-usa.org/ANB/
    There is a free biography of the day and about ten or so free biographies each month.
    It's a good site to see what the print reference material would consist of.
Biographical Dictionary Search Page (these are short)
    http://www.s9.com/biography/search.html
Biographical Sources for Science, Technology, and Medicine
    http://www.asap.unimedlb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_bio.htm
Celebsite from Mr. Showbiz
    http://mrshowbiz.go.com/celebrities/
International Women's Air and Space Museum
    http://www.infinet.com~iwasm/
Internet Movie Database
    You can search for people involved in the movie business
Lives the Biography Resource
    http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives/index.html
Medieval People
    http://netserf.cua.edu/people/default.cfm
    Artists, authors, religious figures, royalty and nobility and others.
Multnomah County Library Homework Help
    http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/biohc.html
National Inventors Hall of Fame
    http://www.invent.org/book/index.html
Nobel Prize Internet Archive
    http://almaz.com/nobel
    Easy to search by name or date
Rollingstone
    http://rollingstone.com/sections/artists/text/default.asp
Who's Who
    http://zelda.thomson.com/routledge/who/whowho.html
Women's History
    http://www.thehistorynet.com/WomensHistory/
Women's History Month --
    http://www.nwhp.org/links.html
Multnomah County Library Explorers Links
    http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/explorhc.html
Discoverers Web
    http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/index.html
Most Significant People of the 20th Century
    http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/20thcen-e/main.htm
    Not a lot of detail, but long lists of people you could choose from
The Time 100
    http://www.time.com/time/time100/index.html
IPL Ready Reference Collection: Biographies
 

Specific People
    Americans
       John F. Kennedy
            http://www.cs.umb.edu/jfklibrary/index.htm
       Richard Nixon
            http://www.nixonfoundation.org/
       Ronald Regan
            http://www.reaganlibrary.net/
       Harry Truman
            http://www3.negia.net/~stu/truman/

    Others
       Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
            http://artnet.net/~upstart/khru.html
            This is a detailed timeline of Khrushchev's life and accomplishments.
       Napoleon
            http://www.napoleon.org/home_us.html
       Josef Stalin
            http://www.cyberenet.net/~lking/stal.htm
            Check the links to additional sites on Stalin