Biographies of famous people in history including Winston Churchill, Cleopatra, Cromwell, Charles De Gaulle, Yassar Arafat, Richard the Lionheart, William the Conqueror and more.
URL: http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/browse/biographies.html [metadata]Time magazines profiles of the most important people of the 20th century including Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Mao Zedong, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Pope John Paul II.
URL: http://www.time.com/time/time100/index_2000_time100.html [metadata]Biographies of famous explorers with information on their voyages, ships and navigation aids. Includes James Cook, Christopher Columbus and Magellan, Francis Drake, Sebastian del Cano, Elcano, Eric the Red, Leifr Eiriksson, Vasco da Gama, Prince Henry, the Navigator, Kublai Khan, Ferdinand Magellan, Luis de Mendoza etc
URL: http://www.mariner.org/exploration/index.php?page=theexplorers [metadata]Biographies and images of famous people throughout history including the American presidents.
URL: http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/ [metadata]Profiles of Nobel Prize winners including Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Elie Wiesel and in 2005 Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Warren for Medicine.
URL: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/ [metadata]Short biographies of famous historic figures.
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ [metadata]