A&E Television Network's Biography, where you can read the first chapters of the top 10 This Month's Bestselling Biographies, as well as a searchable online database of 25,000 of the greatest names, past and present, provided by the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.

S9.com is a Wikipedia type system and everyone can edit biographies or even create their own. S9.com was established in 1997.

By Public Information Research, Inc. A cumulative name index that cites sources where the name is mentioned. These sources cover: the international intelligence community (thousands of intelligence officers and agents are listed, mostly from the US, Britain, and the former USSR), political elites and activist groups from the Right and Left, the foreign policy establishment, big business and banking scandals, assassinations and conspiracies, and organized crime.

Each entry includes birth and death dates, birthplace, what the person is best known for, a couple of paragraphs with assorted other biographical information, and four links to good Web sites.

The site that helps you keep track of which famous people have died and which are still alive! In short, Who's Alive and Who's Dead is the best source on the internet for finding out which of the noted personalities of our time are still with us. It also includes birth/death dates and current ages for each person.

This site presents brief facts about each United States President. You can also search by state or President for landmarks--birthplaces, gravesites, museums, etc.--associated with each President.

The Library of Congress has extensive resources for the study of the United States presidents, first ladies, and vice presidents. Frequent requests for presidential portraits inspired Prints and Photographs Division staff to compile this ready reference aid of formal and informal pictures in the division's custody. The selected images include at least one likeness of each of the forty-one presidents, each of the vice presidents, and most of the first ladies. The collection is searchable by keyword or browse-able by name or subject.

This directory covers senators, representatives, and other elected officials from 1774 to the present. Search by name, position, and/or state. Each entry consists of a short biography, including information about when the individual served. Research collections with the person's papers as well as a bibliography are also provided.

Provides names and timelines of rulers, politicians, and statesmen for most nations that have existed since 1760. Supplemented by national timelines, flags, and other national information.

This is an online encyclopedia of the rulers of Rome. In the Latin West, rulers were known as Imperator and Augustus, and in the Greek East, Basileus, Augustus. This site offers short biographical essays of all the Roman emperors from the accession of the Emperor Augustus to the death of the Emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus. Each peer reviewed essay is written by a scholar and is accompanied by a bibliography, illustrations, and footnotes.

This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders which don't occupy either of those formal positions) of all currently existing countries and territories. Inasmuch as countries which no longer exist are included, they are found under their main successors (e.g., for the Soviet Union, look under Russia).