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Seminole Community Library's Guide
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Biographical Databases & General Resources

GaleNet Biography Resource Center - Login with a library card bar code number
for access outside the library
A&E Biography.Com
Virtual Reference Desk Biography Links
American Libraries Association Biographies for Kids
Biography Center
Infoplease Almanac Biographies
Biographical Dictionary

Multnomah County Library Biography Links

Artists & Performers

Carol Jackson Presents Fine Art
Time Magazine's Top Performers of the 20th Century
Salvador Dali
Michelangelo Buonarroti
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Online Picasso Project
Perspectives Women Artists in North America
Union Lists of Artist Names Online

Leonardo Da Vinci

Authors

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Author's Calendar
American Authors
Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books
Children's Authors and Illustrators on the Web
Science Fiction Authors
Nobel Prize Winners
Outline of American Literature Authors

Business Leaders

Time's Builders and Titans
Enterprising Women
Academy of Achievement--Business
The Revolutionaries Turning Inspiration to Innovation In Silicon Valley

The Trace of @dvertising Giants

Composers

Classical Composer Biographies
Classical Composers' Archive
Classical Net
Women Composers
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Classical Music Navigator
J.S. Bach Home Page
Info Chopin
Philip Glass on the Web
Charles Ives Society
Center for American Music--Stephen Collins Foster
The Prokofiev Page
Hildegard of Bingen
The Leonard Bernstein Collection
John Philip Sousa
Duke Ellington
The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
The Cole Porter Reference
George & Ira Gershwin Website
The Aaron Copland Collection

The Mozart Project

Inventors & Scientists

National Inventors Hall of Fame
Famous Inventors A-Z
People and Discoveries
MacTutor Mathematician Biographies
Biography Project of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
Super Scientists
Time's Scientists and Thinkers
4000 Years of Women in Science
Biographies of Women in Mathematics
Contribution of 20th Century Women to Physics
Women of NASA
Astronaut Biographies
The Galileo Project
Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Faces of Science African Americans in the Sciences
Famous Scientists
Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
Charles Darwin in his own words
Einstein Image and Impact
Hypatia of Alexandria
Leonardo Da Vinci
Innovative Lives
Greatest Inventions

The American Experience Forgotten Inventors

Political Leaders

The American Presidency
Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress
Colonial Hall Biographies of America's Founding Fathers
The Political Graveyard
Portraits of Presidents and First Ladies
Rulers
World Statesmen.org
Who's Who in the Federal Government
British Monarchs
Rulers of Rome

Kings and Queens of Scotland

Religious Leaders

Saints and Angels
List of Popes
James Kiefer's Christian Biographies
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope John Paul II
The Dalai Lama
Peter Abelard
Saint Anselm
Thomas Aquinas
Martin Buber
Jonathan Edwards
Maimonides
Confucius
John Calvin
Martin Luther
Saint Augustine
Reinhold Niebuhr
Karl Barth
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Soren Kierkegaard
Buddha

Muhammad

Women & Minorities

Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Biographies of Notable Women
Native American Leaders of the Past
North American Slave Narratives
Congresswomen's biographies
Black History--Biography Channel
Women's Legal History Biography Project
American Experience--Eleanor Roosevelt
The Life and Works of Hildegard of Bingen
National Women's Hall of Fame
Emancipation of Women: 1750-1920
Women of Note: Celebrating Two Hundred Fifty Years of Women in Music
Pearl S. Buck
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison
Anne Frank Center

Women's International Center Biography Center