4000 Years of Women in Science.
From the University of Alabama, lists biographies alphabetically by last name, by time, and by field of study.

Biographical Dictionary.
Includes more than 25,000 notable people from ancient times to the present day. Can be searched by name, birth year, death year, position held, profession, literary and artistic works, miscellaneous achievements, and other keywords.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
1774 to the present. Search by name, position, and/or state.

Biographies of America's Founding Fathers.
This site is divided into three categories: Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution. The biographies are mostly scanned from two sources: Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence (1829), and The United States Manual of Biography and History (1856).

Biography.
From A&E Television Network. Includes 15,000 cross-referenced biographies (provided by the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia). Also provides the full text of selected opening chapters and reviews from best selling biographies, and schedules of upcoming episodes of the Biography television program.

Biography Index of Mathematicians.
From the MacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews Scotland, search for biographies alphabetically by name or by time period.

Egyptian Kings, Governors and other Rulers.
From the 1st Dynasty through the Ottoman Rulers, this site include brief biographies, histories, and photos of artifacts.

Genghis Khan.
From The National Geographic Society, includes a timeline of events and many other resources.

Notable Names Database (NNDB) Decalogue.
Includes over 34,000 selected profiles you can browse by last name or keyword search by "living people," "dead people," "band names," "book titles," or "movie titles." The unique feature of this database is its abilities to cross-reference and make maps between people.

Samuel F. B. Morse Papers, 1793-1919.
From the Library of Congress, this site contains nearly 6,500 items documenting the invention of the telegraph, Morse's career as a painter, his family life, this travels, his interest in photography, religion, and the nativist movement.

TIME 100 Most Important People of the Century.
TIME Magazine has profiled those individuals who, for better or worse, they believe have most influenced the last 100 years. They are considered in five fields of endeavor: Leaders & Revolutionaries; Artists & Entertainers; Builders & Titans; Scientists & Thinkers; Heroes & Icons; and the "Person of the Century."

Tubman, Harriet.
The Moses of Her People: Electronic Edition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's collection "Documenting the American South."