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Biography

General Biographical Resources

Lives the Biography Resource
University of Sydney Staff and students only
url: Access The International Who's Who

Lives the Biography Resource
"Links to thousands of biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, diaries, letters, narratives, oral histories and more. Individual lives of the famous, the infamous and the not so famous. Group biographies about people who share a common profession, historical era or geography. Also general collections, resources on biographical criticism and special collections. " This resource collection is organised by profession, eras, regions and criticism and has a keyword search facility.
url: http://amillionlives.com

Cambridge Biographical Encyclopediae
Biographical information for over 15,000 noted people.
url: http://www.biography.com/search/

The World Biographical Index
Searchable biographical source published by K.G. Saur Publishing. Fourth edition of the World Biographical Index containing over 2 million short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. This edition is also a compiled index to many biographical archives.The Biographical Dictionary is searchable by name and occupation.
url: http://www.saur-wbi.de/

Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
url: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/

The Nobel Channel
url: http://www.nobelchannel.com/

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
url: http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/

Biography
Biographical Information about a wide range of mainly contemporary persons produced by the Women's International Center.
url: http://www.wic.org/bio/idex_bio.htm

Gifts of Speech: Women's speeches from around the world
url: http://gos.sbc.edu

The Internet Movie Database
Search this database for information on anyone invovled in the film industry.
url: http://www.imdb.com/

Dead Sociologists' Society
Biographical source for information on Sociologists. Each entry contains biographical information, a summary of ideas and a bibliography of major works. All entries are clearly referenced.
url: http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/DEADSOC.HTML

Homepages of Sociologists from Sociosite
Entries for each Sociologist include texts, books and articles and biography and bibliography.
url: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/topics/sociologists.html

Art & Artists

The Union List of Artists Names
From the Getty Institute the "The ULAN currently contains some 200,000 names representing approximately 100,000 individual artists (or "creators," including performance artists, decorative artists, etc.) and architects, cumulated from nine participating Getty documentation projects." ULAN is available on the Web, and allows searches for artists or architects and retrieves their variant names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations.
url: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/index.html

Artists Index
Part of the World Wide Arts Resources Guide providing links to pages by and about over 5,000 artists.
url: http://wwar.com/categories/Artists/

Women Artists in History
Pages produced and maintained by Wendy Murdock and Carrie Carolin.
url: http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html

Masters of Photography
url: http://masters-of-photography.com/

Australian Women's Art Register
"The Women's Art Register is a resource of national significance. It is an archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources, both old and new, documenting Australian women artists, their art practice, their images and their writings. A diverse range of media and art disciplines, including craft, design, photography, installation, are represented in the archive, as well as various styles and all eras from the Victorian period."
url: http://yarranet.net.au/womar/womar1.htm

Genealogy & Heraldry

Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web
url: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/GEDCOM.html

Royal Genealogies Database
url: http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html

Heraldry on the Internet
url: http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/

Australian Family History Compendium
Excellent directory for locating public rcords available on the Internet.
url: http://www.cohsoft.com.au/afhc/

Royalty in History Website
url: http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/kings.htm

Literary Biography

Ozlit: Database of Australian Authors
Part of the the Ozlit Australian Literature database compiled by Mareya & Peter Schmidt.
url: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/

Australian Aboriginal Writers
Part of the Ozlit Australian Literature database compiled by Mareya & Peter Schmidt. Entries for some authors are not yet available.
url: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/aborigwr.html

AWARD Australian Writers and Reader's Database.
Database compiled and maintained by the Australian Society of Authors search by genre, author, title or keyword. Information for each author includes brief biographical details.
url: http://www.asauthors.org/award/index.html

Australian Authors
Copyright 1995-1999 by Perry Middlemiss, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Biographical information and lists of works for many Australian authors.
url: http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/lit.html#authors

South Australian Creative Writers; Women Writers Database
"A database of women writers in South Australia from 1836 to 1999 aiming to provide brief biographies and lists of their published writing. Compiled by researchers at the State Library of South Australia and Flinders University."
url: http://www.austlit.edu.au/specialistDatasets/SAWW

Literary Calendar
Monthly Calendar of literary events past and present, with some links to additional information about persons and events. Provides some biographical information about literary figures currently in the news.
url: http://english.yasuda-u.ac.jp/lc/

Nobel Prize for Literature
Biographical information for prize winners for Literature.
url: http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/alpha.html

Great Writers
inks to biographical and bibliographic resources for many writers. Also includes award information.
url: http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwessel/writers.html

A Celebration of Women Writers
Links to Web Sites for many women writers.
url: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

Musicians & Composers

Australian Composers
Biographical information for over 300 Australian Composers compiled and maintained by the Australian Music Centre.
url: http://www.amcoz.com.au/comphome.htm

Politicians & Leaders

Parliament of Australia. Who's Who
Includes brief biographical information for members of the Senate and House of Representives and members of the Shadow Ministry organised alphabetically and by political party, state and electorate. Includes brief biographical information for members of the Senate and House of Representives and members of the Shadow Ministry organised alphabetically and by political party, state and electorate.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/whoswho/

Women in the Australia Parliament: Historical information.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parl/hist/women.htm

Australia's Prime Ministers.
A one-stop shop of information and features about Australia's 25 Prime Ministers. Featuring Fast Facts, Meet a PM, Research Map and Who's Who. Look at the evidence, check the facts, discover their stories.
url: http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/

Australia. Parliament. Parliamentary Library. Ministries since 1901.
This "...list shows each Ministry and its term of office since 1901. The termination date of each Ministry coincides with the date on which the Prime Minister submitted his resignation and that of each of his ministers to the Governor-General."
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parl/hist/ministries.htm

Facts and Figures Relevant to NSW Parliament and Politics.
Compiled and maintained by the Parliamentary Library, Parliament of New South Wales.
url: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/Web/common.nsf/key/resourcesfacts

Rulers
Web site containing lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders who don't occupy either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, usually going back to at least 1900. Also included are the subdivisions of some countries, as well as some international organizations. Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately.
url: http://64.33.17.104/rulers/index.html

Roberto Ortiz de Zarate's World Political Leaders
Includes: World Leaders 1945-, Current leaders Worldwide, Women Leaders, Current Rulers Longest time in office , European Governments, Leaders who died violently, African Leaders and political obituary.
url: http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/00index.htm

Women in Politics
Inter Parliamentary Union Web Page on the representation of in Women in the Political systems of the Worlds's Sovereign states. Statistical rather than biographical information.
url: http://www.ipu.org/iss-e/women.htm

Women Leaders Online
Produced by Cynthia Bledsoe. This not a complete biographical source.
url: http://wlo.org/

Women in National Parliaments.
Not a biographical source but a table showing the representation of women in the parliaments of over 100 countries. This table was compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
url: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm

Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
Frequently updated listing from the CIA. Names rather than biographical information.
url: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/index.html

Presidents of the United States (POTUS)
Biographical information for the Presidents of the United States from the Internet Public Library. Includes "Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site.
url: http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
Online encyclopedia of the rulers of Rome compiled and maintained by Michael DiMaio & G.Ginty Salve Regina University. Includes biographical information, battles index and atlas. This encyclopedia is not yet complete.
url: http://www.roman-emperors.org/

The Marxist Internet Archive
"The Marxists Internet Archive provides the most complete database of Marxism hitherto made. The archive is divided into three major sections: Marxist writers, Marxist history, and reference materials."
url: http://www.marxists.org/

Scientists

Profiles in Science
"This site makes the archival collections of prominent twentieth-century biomedical scientists available to the public through modern digital technology. The collections have been donated to the National Library of Medicine and contain published and unpublished materials, including books, journal volumes, pamphlets, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes, and other audiovisual materials"
url: http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archives
Biographies of over 1,000 mathematicians with 200 detailed biographies. MacTutor can be searched chronologically, alphabetically and via a topic index.
url: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/

The Ada Project
The Ada Project (TAP) is a WWW site designed to serve as a clearinghouse for information and resources relating to women in computing. The site was developed by Elisabeth Freeman and Susanne Hupfer, Yale University.
url: http://tap.mills.edu/

Biographies of Women Mathematicians
Produced by Larry Riddle, Dept. Mathematics, Agnes Scott College, GA., USA.
url: http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm

Bright Sparcs: Australian Scientific Biography
Comprehensive collection of biographical infromation on Australian Scientists. Definition of science is broad, including the social sciences as well the more traditional areas of science. Produced by the Australia Science Archives Project.
url: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/bsparcshome.htm

Physics in Australia to 1945: Biography and Biographical Register
url: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/

Australian Academy of Science, Biographical Memoirs of Deceased Fellows
url: http://www.science.org.au/academy/memoirs/

History of Astronomy: Persons
Part of Wolfgang R. Dick's History of Astronomy Site
url: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr/ha_pers.html

Online Biographical Sources for Scientists and Mathematicians
Part of Wolfgang R. Dick's History of Astronomy Site
url: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers-sources.html

Astronomical Society of the Pacific- Bruce Medalists
Biographical Information about Winners of this Prize.
url: http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/index.html

Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-1997
"This page is a service of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Library. It contains a list in reverse chronological order of the award winners with brief biographical information and a description of the discovery taken from the Nobel Foundation's text describing each Laureate's discovery and other sources."
url: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/nobel/

Religious Biography

Saints and Angels
url: http://saints.catholic.org/index.shtml

Saints and Christian Hagiography
Societe des Bollandistes.
url: http://www.kbr.be/~socboll/index.html#contents

Patron Saints Patronage Index
url: http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm

The Complete List of Popes
Brief biographical information for Popes from St Peter onward.. from the New Advent Catholic Site
url: http://www.knight.org/advent/Popes/ppindx.htm