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Award/Achievement
- For Valour: Canadian Victoria Cross Winners, WWII, Veterans Affairs
- National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Nobel Prize
- Nobel Laureates in Physics, 1901 forward, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Library
- Amherst College Biographical Record 1821-1921, originally the Amherst College Biographical Record, Centennial Edition, published in 1927
- Cambridge Alumni Database, Alumni Cantabrigieness, [1261]-1921, ancestry.com
- Harvard Law School Graduates: A Biographical Research Guide, Harvard Law School Library
- Biographical Record of the Class of 1850, of Yale College, by Yale University Class of 1850, Making of America Collection
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Gender
- Biography Index, Women's International Center
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present, Danuta Bois
- Biographies, Women's History Month, free resource, Gale
- National Women's Hall of Fame
- Celebrating Women's Achievments, National Library of Canada
- Women in Congress, US Congress
- Emancipation of Women 1750-1920, Spartacus Schoolnet UK
- Women's Legal History Biography Project, Stanford
- Women Musicians, International Alliance for Women in Music
- 4000 Years of Women in Science
- Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Iowa State University
- Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, 2nd ed., National Academy Press, 2001
- The Door in the Dream: Conversations with Eminent Women in Science, Elga Wasserman, Joseph Henry Press, 2000
- Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
- Past Notable Women of Computing, the ADA project
- Women in Photography International Archives, Purdue
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Nationality/Ethnicity
Americas
Collective Resources
Canada
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, National Archives of Canada
- Memorable Canadians, National Library of Canada
- Celebrating Women's Achievments, National Library of Canada
- Canadian Poets, University of Toronto
- Canadian Who's Who 1997, searchable, online edition
- Canadian men and women of the time: a handbook of Canadian biography, Henry J. Morgan, originally published Toronto : W. Briggs, 1898
- Prominent men of Canada: a collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life, and in the commerce and industry of Canada, G. Mercer Adam, originally published Toronto : Canadian Biographical Pub. Co., 1892
- A Cyclopaedia of Canadian biography: being chiefly men of the time : a collection of persons distinguished in professional and political life : leaders in the commerce and industry of Canada, and successful pioneers, George Maclean Rose, originallly published Toronto : Rose Pub. Co., 1886
- Canadian Portrait Gallery, John Charles Dent, originally published Toronto : J.B. Magurn, 1880
- First Among Equals: the Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics, National Library of Canada
- Senators and Members, Parliament, Canada
- Former Governors General, Governor General of Canada
- Canadian Scientists, GCS Research Society
Provinces, Territories, Municipalities
- Biographical dictionary of well-known British Columbians: with a historical sketch, J. B. Kerr, Vancouver : Kerr & Begg, 1890
- The Canadian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men: Quebec and the Maritime provinces volume, originally published Toronto :Chicago ; American Biographical Pub. Co. ; H.C. Cooper Jr. & Co. , 1881
- Transcriptions of Various Business Directories (Transcribed from the Original Documents), Newfoundland's Grand Banks
- The Canadian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men: Ontario volume, originally published Toronto :Chicago ; American Biographical Pub. Co., 1880
- Halton's [Halton County, Ontario] Historical Directories
- Prince Edward Island Directories, Island Register
United States
- Social Security Death Index
- Social Security Death Index
- Ellis Island Family History Center, searchable passenger records, 1892-1924
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Parks Service
- Biographical Directory of the US Congress, US Congress
- Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-1995, Library of Congress
- First Ladies' Gallery, Whitehouse
- National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Biographies, Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
- Hayden Arizona Pioneer Biographies Collection, Arizona State University
- Florida Subject and Biography Index, State Library of Florida
- Indiana Biography Index, Indiana State Library
- A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Biography Index, 1918
- Kentucky Biographies Project, KyGenWeb, RootsWeb
- Revolutionary War Warrants, Kentucky
- Amherst College Biographical Record 1821-1921, originally the Amherst College Biographical Record, Centennial Edition, published in 1927
- Harvard Law School Graduates: A Biographical Research Guide, Harvard Law School Library
- Biographical Record of the Class of 1850, of Yale College, by Yale University Class of 1850, Making of America Collection
- Michigan Local History Resources, several portrait and biographical albums in full-text, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University
- North Dakota Biography Index, Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU Libraries
- Index to [Ohio] Prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia, and Salisbury, North Carolina Prisons, 1864-1865, Ohio Historical Society
- Ohio Death Certificate Index, 1913-1944, Ohio Historical Society
- War of 1812 Roster of Ohio Soldiers, Ohio Historical Society
- Index to Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1912, [1914-1925], Tennessee State Library
- Confederate Pension Claims, 1899-1975, Texas State Library
- Journals, Diaries, Biographies and Autobiographies of Some Early Mormons and Others Who Knew Joseph Smith, Jr. and/or His Contemporaries, Book of Abraham Project
- Land Records, Virginia State Library
- Military Records and Resources, Virginia State Library
- Vital Statistics (Marriage, Birth, Death Records), Virginia State Library
- Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows Database, Virgina State Library
- Death Records Indexing Project, 1853 through 1896 and 1912-1939, Virginia State Library
- Henley Marriage and Obituary Database, Virginia State Library
- Index to the War of 1812 Pay Rolls and Muster Rolls, Virginia State Library
- Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants and Northern Neck Grants and Surveys, Virginia State Library
Asia-Pacific
Europe
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Occupation
Government/Politics
- See also: Rulers
- Political Graveyard, Lawrence Kestenbaum
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments [World Leaders], CIA
- Senators and Members, Parliament, Canada
- First Among Equals: the Prime Minister in Canadian Life and Politics, National Library of Canada
- Former Governors General, Governor General of Canada
- Biographical Directory of the US Congress, 1774 to present, Congress
- Congresswomen's Biographies, US Congress
- Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-1995, Library of Congress
- Presidents of the United States, Whitehouse
- Presidents of the United States, IPL
- American Presidents: Life Portraits, CSpan
- Who's Who in the [US] Federal Government, University of Memphis
Literature
Military Personnel
- See also: Nationality / Ethnicity, above
- Medal of Honor Citations, US Army Center for Military History
- Medal of Honor Recipients: 1979-2007, CRS Report for Congress
- George Cross Database, Chameleon HH Publishing Ltd
- Victoria Cross Registers, National Archives
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Senior Officer Biographies, National Defence, Canada
- ArchiviaNet: Soldiers of the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force, National Archives
- Soldiers of the South African War (1899 - 1902), National Archives
- Canadian Merchant Navy War Dead Database, Veterans Affairs
- For Valour: Canadian Victoria Cross Winners, WWII, Veterans Affairs
- Death Registration of Soldiers, 1941-1947 (RS141C6), Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
Music and the Arts
Philosophy and Religion
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Spring 1998 edition
- Dictionary of Early Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies, Henry Wace and William C. Percy, eds., reprinted from the edition originally titled A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature, published by John Murray, London, 1911, Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Early Church Fathers, 38 vols., Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- The Holy Father, biographies of the popes, Vatican
- List of Popes, from the Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent, Inc.
- Methodist Archives Biographical Index, John Rylands University Library of Manchester
- Saints Lives, Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Rulers
Science, Medicine, Technology
- Directories of Membership, National Academies
- Biographical Memoirs: A Series, volume 58 forward, National Academies
- Archives of Women in Science and Engineering, Iowa State University
- Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Albert Van Helden
- Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences, Mitchell C. Brown
- Biographical Database of the British Chemical Community, 1880-1970, Open University
- Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908)
- Indexes of Biographies, MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
- Biographical Memoirs, Australian Academy of Sciences
- Physics in Australia to 1945, Bibliography and Biographical Register, University of Melbourne
- Nobel Laureates in Physics, 1901 forward, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Library
- National Inventors Hall of Fame
- Men and Women of Seismology, USGS
Social Sciences
Sports
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