Biography

Canada

• Dictionary of Canadian Biography

  Freely available online.
• Canadian Biographical Archive (World Biographical Information System Online)
• Order of Canada
• National Research Council Canada Expertise Database

  "Provides a direct link to more than 1,500 men and women at the National Research Council of Canada who have scientific, technical and professional expertise in literally thousands of topics".
• Ordre national du Québec
• Media Guide to McGill Experts

  Tool designed for members of the press looking for in-depth commentary on "the day's most pressing issues".
• Science.ca: Scientists

  "Combines rich narrative biography with clear graphic explanation to describe Canada's greatest scientists and their achievements."

Classics

• Who's Who in the Classical World
  Focusing exclusively on real people in ancient Greece and Rome.

China

• Chinese Biographies (WWW Virtual Library)

  Links to sites re current and historical figures, missionaries, sinologists from China, Singapore, Taiwan, etc.

Literature

• Dictionary of Writers and Their Works (Oxford Reference)
  Mainly British literature 15^th cent.-   but also includes major American and Commonwealth writers.
• LION (Literature Online)
  Includes biographical entries for 4,000+ authors.
• Literary Index (Gale)
  Master index to every literary series published by Gale, many of which are located in the McLennan Reference collection and now partly available online at Literature Resource Center including Contemporary Authors , Dictionary of Literary Biography,and Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.
• Allibone"s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors

  Searchable digital copy of 1859-71 edition from the Making of America project: 30,000 biographies and literary notices.

Medicine

• Osler Library — History of Medicine

  Osler Library provides information on biographical sources for history of medicine and allied fields for Canada and other countries.
• Munk's Roll (Royal College of Physicians)

  Obituaries of some members. Others in printed volumes available in Osler Library.

Peerage

• Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage
  Of England, Scotland and Ireland. Includes deaths, new life peers, peerages in and out of abeyance.
• Almanach de Gotha

  A Register of the reigning and formerly reigning imperial and royal sovereign houses and the non-sovereign princely & ducal houses of Europe, together with the complete listing of the imperial nobility of the Holy Roman Empire.
• Gothaischer Hofkalender: Genealogisches Taschenbuch der fürstlichen Häuser

  Various editions on Google Books.

UK

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  " ... more than 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women from around the world who shaped all aspects of Britain's past."
• Kings and Queens of Britain (Oxford Reference)

USA

• American National Biography Online

  About 17,500 deceased notable American men and women from all eras of American history. Includes illustrations and links to other web resources. Search methods include name, occupation, sex, birth date, death date, birthplace, contributor, keyword.
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present

  Includes bibliographies.
• Political Graveyard: A Database of Historic Cemeteries

  Biographical information culled from Biographical Directory of the US Congress (1989), state legislative manuals, Congressional Directory, newspaper obituaries, library vertical files, etc.
• Find a Grave

  The famous and the obscure, people and pets, mainly US Information provided by submissions.

Women

• Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
• Black Women in America (Oxford Reference)
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present

  Links to biographical articles posted on the Internet by others and some that were written by Danuta Bois who created and maintains this web page.
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians.

  "Part of an on-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia."
• Women's Legal History Biography Project

  Student biographical papers on women lawyers in the US from Stanford Law School. Site includes obituaries and bibliographies sections.
• 4000 Years of Women in Science: Biographies
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics

  Descriptions of important contributions to science made by 83 women.