Digital Reference Resources

Biographies of 20th century and contemporary visual artists. Each entry has a portrait, brief biography, links to articles, related essays, and interviews.

Information on people who lived in what is now Canada between 1000 and 1920.

Site contains biographies, and links to biographies of important women.

Search for graves of famous people from around the world. Includes links for finding graves of non-famous people and cemeteries.

Composers, poets and writers, artists, and artistic and cultural movements that define the American song saga.

List of popes, with biographical articles, from the Catholic Encyclopedia (published 1910). No biographies available after Pius X (1903-14).

Profiles and portraits of monarchs of England and Great Britain, 802 to present. Lists of monarchs of earlier kingdoms, both historical and legendary.

Biographies of "the women and men responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible."

Brief biographies of all Nobel Prize winners.