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Individual Biographies
Individual biographies and autobiographies are divided up among a number of webpages, per the list below. Click the header above the box to go to the page.
Biography – A & B
- Aaron, “Hank”
- Adams, Charles Francis
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, John, U.S. President
- Adams, Abigail Smith
- Adams, John Quincy, U.S. President
- Adams, Samuel
- Addams, Jane
- Agassiz, Louis
- Ailes, Roger
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Alexander the Great
- Alfred the Great, King of England
- Ambrose, Stephen
- Andersen, Hans Christian
- Angelou, Maya
- Anthony, Susan B.
- Antin, Mary
- Appleseed, Johnny
- Audubon, John James
- Austen, Jane
- Barnum, Phineas Taylor “P.T.”
- Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
- Barton, Clara Harlowe
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Belafonte, Harry
- Benny, Jack
- Benton, Thomas Hart
- Bernhardt, Sarah
- Berra, Lawrence Peter “Yogi”
- Bird, Larry
- Bismarck, Otto von
- Black Elk
- Black Hawk
- Blake, William
- Bloch, Robert
- Bly, Nellie (Seaman, Elizabeth)
- Bochkareva, Maria Leontievna (Frolkova)
- Bolton, Sarah Knowles
- Bombeck, Erma
Bonaparte, Napoleon (Napoleon I)
Boone, Daniel
Booth, Catherine Mumford
Borgia, Lucrezia
Bourdain, Anthony
Brahms, Johannes
Bronte, Charlotte
Bronte, Emily
Bronte, Anne
Brooke, James, Rajah of Sarawak
Browning, Robert
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Bryan, William Jennings
Buffalo Bill (Cody, William Frederick)
Bush, Barbara Pierce
Bush, George Herbert Walker, U.S. President
Bush, Laura Lane
Biography – C – Biography Books PDF – Autobiography Books PDF
- Caesar, Gaius Julius
Calhoun, John Caldwell
Calvin, John
Cantacuzène, Julia Dent Grant (Princess Cantacuzène)
Carlyle, Thomas
Carmichael, Hoagy
Carnegie, Andrew
Carroll, Lewis
Carson, Christopher
Cartier, Jacques
Cary, Alice
Cary, Phoebe
Cass, Lewis
Caterina da Siena, Saint
Cavour, Camillo Benso, Conte di
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Champlain, Samuel de
Chapman, John (Johnny Appleseed)
Charlemagne
Chase, Salmon Portland
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chopin, Fryderyk
Clark, George Rogers
Clarke, Mrs. Caroline Cowles
Clay, Henry
Clemenceau, Georges
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain)
Clinton, Hilary Rodham
Cobb, Ty
- Cobden, Richard
Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill)
Coffin, Levi
Cohen, Rose Gollup
Columbus, Christopher
Cook, James
Cooper, James Fenimore
Coughlin, Father Charles
Crane Gartz, Kate
Cromwell, Oliver
Cumming, Kate
Curie, Marie Sklodowska
Curie, Pierre
Custer, George Armstrong
Biographies – D, E & F
- Daly, Augustin
- Dante (Alighieri, Dante)
- Darwin, Charles Robert
- Davies, William Henry
- Davis, Jefferson
- Davis, Miles
- Dean, James
- Debs, Eugene
- Deutsch, Leo
- Dewey, George
- Dewey, Thomas E.
- Dickens, Charles
- Diderot, Denis
- Disraeli, Benjamin
- Dostoevsky, Fedor
- Douglas, Stephen A.
- Douglass, Frederick
- Du Bois, W.E.B.
- Edison, Thomas Alva
- Edwards, Jonathan
- Eggleston, Edward
- Elizabeth, Queen of England
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Isabella d’Este, Consort of Giovanni Francesco II
- Evans, Robley Dunglison
- Farragut, David Glasgow
- Ferber, Edna
- Fink, Mike
- Ford, Betty
- Ford, Gerald R., U.S. President
- Ford, Henry
- Francis of Assisi, Saint
- Franklin, Aretha
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Franklin, John
- Fraser, Mary Crawford
- Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
- Friedan, Betty
- Fulton, Robert
Biographies – G, H – Biography Books PDF – Autobiography Books PDF
- Gale, Zona
Galileo
Gallatin, Albert
Gambetta, Leon Michel
Garfield, James A., U.S. President
Garrison, William Lloyd
Garvey, Marcus
Gauguin, Paul
George, Henry
Geronimo, Apache Chief
Gladstone, William Ewart
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldsmith, Oliver
Goodman, Benny
Gordon, Charles George
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, U. S. President
Grey, Zane
Grissom, Virgil “Gus”
Guevara, Ernesto “Che”
- Hale, Edward Everett
Hamilton, Alexander
Hannibal
Hardie, James Keir
Harding, Warren G., U.S. President
Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Townsend
Harrison, Benjamin, U.S. President
Harrison, William Henry, U.S. President
Harte, Bret
Haviland, Laura
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hayes, Rutherford B., U.S. President
Hefner, Hugh
Hegermann-Lindencrone, Lillie de
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry the Navigator
Henry, Patrick
- Herman, Woody
Hickok, “Wild Bill”
Hill, Lucy Ann
Hoffa, James
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Homer, Winslow
Houdini, Harry
House, Edward Mandell
Houston, Samuel
Howe, Julia (Ward)
Hugo, Victor
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hyndman, Henry Mayers
Biographies I, J, K, L
- Iacocca, Lee
- Ibsen, Henrik
- Irving, Washington
- Isabella d’Este
- Iswolsky, Alexander Petrovich
- Jackson, Andrew, U.S. President
- Jackson, Thomas Jonathan
- James, William
- Jaures, Jean
- Jay, John
- Jeanne d’Arc, Saint (Joan of Arc)
- Jefferson, Thomas, U. S. President
- Johnson, James Weldon
- Johnson, William
- Jones, John Paul
- Kartini, Raden Adjeng
- Keats, John
- Keller, Helen Adams
- Kellogg, Clara Louise
- Kennan, George
- Kenton, Simon
- Kevorkian, Jack
- King, Martin Luther
- Kropotkin, Pyotr, Prince
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul, Marquise de
- Lardner, Ring
- Laurier, Wilfrid
- Lee, Robert Edward
- LeMay, Curtis
- Leopold, Aldo
- Letterman, David
- Liberace
- Lincoln, Abraham, U. S. President
- Lincoln, Mary Ann Todd
- Liszt, Franz
- Livermore, Mary Ashton
- Livingstone, David
- Lloyd George, David
- Lombardi, Vince
- London, Jack
- Louis, Joe
- Loyola, Ignacio de, St
- Luther, Martin
Biographies – M, N, O
- MacDonald, John Alexander
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Madison, Dolley Payne
- Madison, James Jr., U.S. President
- Madonna
- Magellan, Ferdinand
- Mann, Horace
- Marquette, Jacques
- Marshall, John
- Martin, Dean
- Marx, Karl
- Mather, Cotton
- McCarthy, Joseph
- McKinley, William, U. S. President
- McQueen, Steve
- Catherine de Medicis, Queen of Henry II, King of France
- Meir, Golda
- Melville, Herman
- Milton, John
- Monroe, James, U. S. President
- Moody, Anne
- Morgan, James Morris
- Morris, Gouverneur
- Morris, William
- Morrison, Toni
- Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
- Mozart, Johann Wolfgang Amadeus
- Muir, John
- Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
- Napoleon III, Emperor of the French
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount
- Ness, Eliot
- Newman, John Henry, Cardinal
- Nicklaus, Jack
- Nightingale, Florence
- Nixon, Richard Milhous, U.S. President
- Oakley, Annie
- O’Connell, Daniel
- O’Keeffe, Georgia
- Owen, Robert
- Owens, Jesse
Biographies – P, Q, R – Biography Books PDF – Autobiography Books PDF
- Page, Larry
Paine, Ralph Delahaye
Paine, Thomas
Parkman, Francis
Pasteur, Louis
Patrick, Saint
St. Vincent de Paul
Pauley, Jane
Penn, William
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Pepys, Samuel
Perry, Oliver Hazard
Peter I, the Great, Emperor of Russia
Petrarca, Francesco
Pitt, William,
Pizarro, Francisco
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pontiac, Odawa Indian Chief
Porter, Cole
Post, Marjorie Merriweather
Prince, Erik
Pryor, Sara Agnes (Rice)
Pumpelly, Raphael
Pyle, Ernest “Ernie”
- Raleigh, Sir Walter
Randolph, John
Ravage, Marcus Eli
Reagan, Ronald, U.S. President
Redmond, John Edward
Reed, Anna Stevens
Rehnquist, William H.
Reid, Whitelaw
Resnik, Judith
Reuther, Walter
Rhodes, Cecil John
Richards, Caroline Cowles
Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal
Rickenbacker, Eddie
Riel, Louis
Riis, Jacob August
Ringling Brothers
Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore de
Rogers, Roy
Romney, George
Roosevelt, Theodore, U.S. President
Ross, Diana
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Christina Georgina
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Ruskin, John
Biographies – S
- Samuels, Captain Samuel
Savonarola, Girolamo
Schubert, Franz Peter
Schurz, Carl
Schuyler, Catherine (Van Rensselaer)
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Sevigne, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de
Seward, William H.
Shackleton, Sir Ernest Henry
- Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper
Shaw, Anna Howard
Shaw, George Bernard
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Skinner, Burrhus Frederic
Slessor, Mary Mitchell
Smith, Adam
Smith, John
Smith, Joseph Jr.
Spencer, Herbert
Stanley, Henry Morton
Steinbrenner, George
- Steinem, Gloria
Steiner, Edward Alfred
Stevens, Thaddeus
Stillman, William James
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Straus, Oscar Solomon
Strindberg, August
Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots
Sullivan, Louis Henry
Sumner, Charles
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Biographies – T, U, V
- Taft, William Howard, U.S. President
Talon, Jean
Taylor, Marshall “Major”
Tecumseh
Thomas, Augustus
Thoreau, Henry David
Thurston, Lucy G.
Titian, Vecelli
Tolstoy, Leo
- Torquemada, Tomas de
Tracy, Spencer
Trudeau, Edward Livingston
Truth, Sojourner
Tubman, Harriet
Twain, Mark (Clemens, Samuel Langhorne)
- Vaka, Demetra (Mrs. Kenneth Brown)
Van Buren, Martin, U.S. President
Venizelos, Eleftherios
Verlaine, Paul Marie
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain
Villiers, Frederic
St. Vincent de Paul
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
Vonnegut, Kurt
Biographies – W, X, Y, Z
- Waddington, Mary Alsop King
Wagner, Richard
Walker, Madam C. J.
Wallace, Lew
Ward, Mary Augusta
Warner, Jack
Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George, U.S. President
Washington, Martha Dandridge
Waterbury, Maria
Watson, Jeannette Grace
- Webster, Daniel
Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington
Wells, Ida B.
Wesley, John
Westinghouse, George
Whitman, Walt
Willard, Frances
William, the Conqueror, King of England
Williams, Roger
- Wilson, Woodrow, U.S. President
Winslow, Anna Green
Winthrop, John
Wister, Sarah
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal
Woolf, Virginia
Wright Brothers
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wycliffe, John
X, Malcolm
Yeats, William Butler
Younghusband, Sir George John
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- Composers
- Abolition and Emancipation
- Adventure
- African American
- People in American History
- People from Ancient Periods
- Artists
- Authors and Writers
- Business and Businessmen
- Canada and Canadians
- Catholics
- Children
- Christians and Christianity
- Civil War
- Colonial America
- Confederates and Confederacy
- Crime
- Explorers and Exploration
- France
- Frontier
- German
- Girls
- Greece and Greeks
- Heroes and Heroines
- History
- Industry
- Inventors
- Irish and Ireland
- Italy and Italians
- Kings and Royalty
- Literature
- Medical and Medicine
- Medieval and Middle Ages
- Missionaries
- Music
- Native Americans
- Novelists
- Painters and Artists
- Philosophy and Philosophers
- Pioneers
- Poets and Poetry
- Politics and Politicians
- Presidents
- Queens
- Religion
- Rome and Romans
- Saints
- Science and Scientists
- Sea
- Slaves and Slavery
- Spain and Spanish
- Stage and Theater
- Trade
- Travel
- War
- West and Western
- Woman and Women
- World War I
- Young Adult
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