Biography of famous people

Thousands of Reliable Full-Text Biographies

Biography Reference Source provides superior coverage for several of the most popular and heavily researched biographies and genres, including those contained within Biography Today and Biography (both dating back to the first issue published).

Sources Include

• Biography Today's complete collection
• Biography's complete collection
• Congressional biographies from the American Reference Library
• Biographies from Encyclopædia Britannica
• Harvard University Press: Notable American Women, a Biographical Dictionary
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  Biography Reference Bank

  FULL-TEXT DATABASE

  This biographical database offers in-depth profiles from Current Biography and World Authors, the periodical coverage of Biography Index and specialist content of Junior Authors & Illustrators. It provides full-text articles, images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals.

  Full-Text Articles, Images and Abstracts

  Biography Reference Bank allows students and patrons to quickly find the content they're are looking for. Users can search for individuals based on any combination of occupation, activity, gender, place of origin, birthday and lifespan.

  Results can be limited by source type, and searchable indexes can be used to browse by biography name, document type, geographic terms and more.

  Notable Sources Include:

  • Current Biography
  • New Grove Music
  • New Grove Artists
  • H.W. Wilson Biographical series (Junior Authors, Composers, World Authors)
  • Library of North American Bio Series

  This collection of original content is

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  Welcome

  Introduction

  The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information about approximately 641,568 individuals as of August 2024, currently mainly from the 7th through 19th centuries. With both online and offline versions, the data is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference. The image below shows the spatial distribution of a cross dynastic subset of 190,000 people in CBDB by basic affiliations (籍貫).

  The long term goal of CBDB is systematically to include all significant biographical material from China’s historical record and to make the contents available free of charge, without restriction, for academic use. That data is regularly being enriched and new biographical entries are being created for Tang, Five Dynasties, Liao, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing figures.
  
  CBDB originates with the work of Robert M. Hartwell (1932–1996). Professor Hartwell bequeathed his estate, including the first version of this database, to the