Find information on the lives of the famous and infamous from these sites.

• Internet Movie Database
• Yahoo! film people

• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• Australian of the Year
• Bright Sparks

• Essentials of Music - Composers

• About - inventors
• Bright Sparks
• Encarta - inventors

• Down Beat
• Rolling Stone
• VH1
• Yahoo! music artrists

• Nobel Prize offical site
• Nobel Prize Internet Archive
• Yahoo! - Nobel Laureates 

• Eric Weisstein's Scientific Biographies
• Science Odyssey - 20th century scientists
• Yahoo! scientists

Other Links:

Biography Resource Center
Access over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from over 100 resources from this database, featuring both detailed and brief profiles (for Library members only).

Biography.com 
Search for biographies of over 25,000 personalities. This site is particularly useful for contemporary celebrities and features related links.

Infoplease - biographies 
From this online encyclopaedia access (mostly) brief biographies of famous people.

Time 100: the people who shape our world
This site from Time magazine features detailed biographies, photos and links.

Who2.com 
Brief biographies plus links for famous people. This site is particularly useful for contemporary celebrities.

Directories

• Open Directory - biographies
• Yahoo! - people