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Biography and People Finders

QUICK LINKS: Biography,  People Finders,  Stars & Celebrities

If you are researching your own family, you may want to try our Genealogy page.

Biography 

 

Library Databases

 
. Biography Resource Center
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Requires Library Card for login. A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It contains approximately 250,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.

 

 

 



General Biography Sites

Biographical Dictionary
Biography.com
People Index: Librarian's Index to the Internet
Time 100: Choosing the Century's Most Influential People

Inventors, Mathematicians, and Scientists

4000 Years of Women in Science

  About.com's Famous Inventors A-Z
 

African American Faces of Science
History of Mathematics-Biographies
NASA Astronaut Biographies

 


Famous Women

National Women's Hall of Fame
Women's International Center

Presidents and Politicians

American Presidents: Life Portraits
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present
Internet Public Library - Presidents of the United States

 

People Finders

Information Please People Page
Yahoo! People Search
The Ultimate Email Directory
MESA: Meta E-mail Search
Nom de Guerre - Pseudonyms and Aliases
FAQ: How to find people's E-mail addresses

Stars and Celebrities

Seeing Stars in Hollywood
Celebrity Graves at Find-a-Grave

Addresses.com - includes some email addresses of the stars