Famous Global Figures

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Famous International People

Alexander the Great Amundsen, Roald Archimedes Aristotle Armstrong, Neil Assisi, St Francis of Babbage, Charles Bach, Johann Sebastian Beethoven, Ludwig von Bolivar, Simon Bonaparte, Napoleon Braille, Louis Buddha, Gautama Caesar, Julius Carnegie, Andrew Chaucer, Geoffrey Christ, Jesus Churchill, Sir Winston Confucius Columbus, Christopher Copernicus, Nicolaus Curie, Marie D’Arc, Jeanne Daguerre, Louis Da Vinci, Leonardo Darwin, Charles Einstein, Albert Also try Einstein, A. : Image & Impact Edison, Thomas Alva Elizabeth I Freud, Sigmund Gagarin, Yuri Galilei, Galileo Gandhi, Mohandas Also try Gandhi Genghis Khan Gutenberg, Johann Herodotus

Hillary, Sir Edmund Joan of Arc Multiple pages Khan, Genghis King, Martin Luther Lincoln, Abraham Also try Lincoln, A. Linnaeus, Carolus Luther, Martin Magellan, Ferdinand Mandela, Nelson Mao, Zedong Marx, Karl Mendel, Gregor Michelangelo Min, Ho Chi Mohammed Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Newton, Sir Isaac Nightingale, Florence Nobel, Alfred Nostradamus Osman Oppenheimer, J. Robert Pasteur, Louis Petrarch Picasso, Pablo Polo, Marco Rhodes, Cecil Saladin Scott, Robert Falcon Schweitzer, Albert Shakespeare, William Socrates Washington, George Wilberforce, William William the Conqueror Wright, Wilbur & Orville

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General Information

1. General Sites & Portals :
• About Famous People
  Very Americanised site but still with some access to other areas.
• Audio Links :
• BBC Four - Audio Interviews
  Listen to short audio interviews from the BBC. Covers a range of famous people from a variety of walks of life and goes back as far as the 1930s to achieve this.
• Vincent Voice Library
  Based in the US this has 50 000 people recorded over the last century or so. You can listen to a selected person.
• Biographical Dictionary
  Find out about some of the world’s best known people.
• Biography.com
  Search a database of more than 25 000 entries of famous people past and present.
• Biography of the Millennium
  Find who they thought were the most important 100 people of the last millennium.
• Celebrities Worldwide
  Find connections to a range of celebrities around the world from show business to politics.
• Encyclopaedia of World Biography
  While the front page looks fairly simple, the content of the site is quite extensive, with an emphasis on the present and the recent past. Each biography is expansive, with most having multiple links to further information, graphics and considerable detail.
• Famous Birthdays
  Find who among the glitterati and the famous have the same birthday as yourself. Other things included as well.
• Famous People
  Searchable database of famous people from around the world.
• Famous People Worldwide
  Find information about a range of famous people.
• Infoplease Biography
  22 categories of ‘famous people’, plus a mix of related information including a perpetual calendar, special people ‘features’, today’s birthday and more.
• OmniBiography
  ‘OmniBiography is the largest directory of biographies available on the Web containing information on more than 110 000 important people from antiquity to the present time. It includes biographies from the most important sites on the web in all languages.’
• Project Bartleby
  [Index to Biographical Entries, Columbia Encyclopaedia]
  More information on people through the ages and around the world.
• Unusual Links :
• Dead or Alive ?
  Extensive information on who is still alive and who isn’t. Done alphabetically, as well as a listing for the last six months.
• Dead People Server
  ‘More than 3 300 inclusions in the listings.’
• Find A Grave
  Find the final resting places of a range of famous people.
• Good Quotations from Famous People
  ‘Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.’ Read what these famous people had to say.
• Who’s Alive & Who’s Dead ?
  A second page that lists who is and who isn’t alive.
• Who2
  ‘The fastest way to find famous people online’. Basic set of information about each of the entries.
• World Biographical Index
  With over 2 million entries [short obviously !] this has to be one of the biggest sites for gaining biographical details.
2. Specific Groups of Famous People :
• Astronaut Biographies
  ‘Providing biographical information on the members of the space flight crews and candidates for future missions in NASA’s space flight program. The links will direct you to biographical information on the astronauts.’
• Catholic Saints [& Angels]
  Browse an alphabetical listing of Saints, Patron Saints, female and popular Saints and more. Access links to information about Angels.
• Composer’s Biographies
  Want to know about famous composers ? Then this is the place for you.
• Eric Weisstein’s World of Science Biography
  Find biographies by branch of science, gender/minority status, historical periods, nationality or prize winners.
• Inventors :
• Inventors and Inventions Index
  Find details about the world’s greatest inventors and their inventions.
• Inventors Hall of Fame
  ‘Search the Hall of Fame inductee library, or browse information by inventor, invention, induction date, and by decade.’
• LIFE Online
  [Top People of the Millennium]
  Find who Life Magazine believed were the top 100 people of the last millennium and see if you agree with them. Brief annotations are provided with a link to further information.
• MacTutor Biographies of Mathematicians
  [About 1 400 listed]
• Nobel Prize Winners
  ‘This site maintains information on all winners in all categories. Click on any Nobel category [Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Peace, Economics, Or Physiology & Medicine] to see an annotated, hyperlinked list of all Nobel laureates in that category.’
• Presidents of the United States
  Images and information about each of the Presidents and also information about all First Ladies.
• The Immortals
  [Greek Mythology]
  Provides the Greek name, the Roman equivalent, a brief description and keywords, with a link to a greatly expanded level of information, even down to citation examples if required.
• Time 100
  Their ‘list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming our world.’
• Women - Biographies
  Covers a range of areas from the sciences to the past, from the present to … .
• 4 000 Years of Women in Science
  Includes, news, an introduction, the biographies, references and photographs.
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present
  ‘This site has biographies of women who contributed to our culture in many different ways. There are writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others. Some were alive hundreds of years ago and some are living today.’
• Female Nobel Prize Laureates
  ‘In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, a Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman, Marie Curie, for the first time. Women have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since.’ A full listing is provided.
• Pioneering Women in Technology
  From the Ada Project. Brief biographies, but many with links to further information on other sites.
• Women Mathematician’s Biographies
  Yes, there are famous women Mathematicians, and they are all included here.
• Women of the Past & Present
  The emphasis is usually on men so this is a good change. Also has links to other sites.