Links to a wide range of sites providing biographical information.

• Australian Dictionary of Biography - over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history.
• Biography.com
• Biographical Dictionary - biographical information on over 28,000 people from ancient times to the present day.
• Biography Resource Center - combines reliable biographies on more than 320,000 people from Gale group sources and full text articles from hundreds of periodicals. You can search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender or you can combine criteria. Very useful for general information or for students doing assignments.
  - Available for use on Ryde Library Services PCs. Also available for access at home by members of Ryde Library Services, by use of the Ryde Library membership card number.
• British Royal Family Home Page
• Current Biography Excerpts - a selection of brief excerpts from articles on some of the sports figures that have appeared in Current Biography. Each excerpt cites the year of the Current Biography Yearbook in which the full 2,500-4,500 word article appeared.
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography - provides access to biographies of over 3,000 New Zealanders    
• Infoplease Almanac: Biography - biographies by category or subject area.
• The Nobel Prize Internet Archive