- Academy of Achievement
The mission of this web site is to bring students face-to-face with leaders, thinkers, and pioneers who have shaped our world. Includes interviews, profiles of selected people, curriculum materials, some audio files.
- Biography.com
Campanion web site for the A & E television program Biography. Search their database for hundreds of brief biographies.
- Biographies of Female Heroes and Rulers
This page gathers together brief biographies of women heroes and leaders from many time periods and is part of a larger web site about women in world history.
- MyHERO.com
Educational web site that celebrates the best of humanity. Users may contribute their own stories about heroes in their lives. Browse the directory for brief biographies of famous individuals grouped by profession.
- TIME Magazine: the World's Most Influential People.
Fifth annual list of the 100 of the most influential people alive in the world today as reported by Time.
- WHO2
Web site provides brief biographies and links to other web sites on famous people and pop personalities.
updated 7/5/2011