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Biography
Official site of A&E's Biography television series. The site contains the searchable text of 15,000 entries from The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.
 
Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Explore the history of Canada's inhabitants and their culture. In Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online you will find people who played an important role in the formation of what is now Canada. This phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.
 
Memorable Canadians
Canadian biographies with an emphasis on Canadian history and society, literature, music, and library and information science. The biographies are accessible through a name index, field of endeavour index, a subject index and a resources index. A National Library of Canada site.
 
The National Inventors Hall of Fame
From the National Inventors Hall of Fame (info@invent.org), this site provides biographical sketches of  great inventors of America such as: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Eli Whitney, among others. (Note: contains American Inventors).

The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Collection of searchable information about all of the past Nobel Laureates that is organized by prize and year. Entries include brief biographical information plus links to related Internet sites.

Popes Through the Ages: The Complete List of Popes
This site provides a biography of all the Popes of the Roman Catholic Church from 32 AD to the present. Includes a detailed entry for Pope John Paul II with links to online speeches and writings.

Rulers
Contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders which don't occupy either of those formal positions) of all currently existing countries and territories.

CelebSite
Biographical information about celebrities plus links to web sites with further information. Searchable by name or category (actor, actress, athlete, comedian, director, model, musician, producer, publisher, TV personality, writer).

Find-A-Grave
Find where famous people are buried, alphabetically or geographically.
 

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