- (AU) Burke, Robert O'Hara (1821-1861)@
- (AU) Ross, Henry
 - Canadian leader of the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat on December 3, 1854. - (AU) Williams, William Joseph (1800-1902)
- The story of a free settler in New South Wales.
- (AU) Wills, William John (1834-1861)@
- Adams, Abigail Smith (1744-1818)@
- Learn about Abigail Smith Adams, the wife of the second President of the United States, John Adams. Sites feature biography, vital stats, birthplace, history of the house, virtual tour, photos, and online resources for the First Lady and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States.
- Amundsen, Roald (1872-1928)@
- Anderson, William "Bloody Bill" (1840-1864)@
- Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)@
- Learn about Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), the American civil rights leader who fought to secure women's suffrage in the United States. Sites include life, career profile, achievements, historical background of suffrage movement, museum exhibits, and annotated directory of sites about the independent social reformer and abolitionist.
- Armistead, Lewis (1817-1863)@
- Aury, Louis-Michel (1788-1821)
- French privateer/pirate who participated in the revolutions of Mexico and Columbia and was a contemporary of Jean Laffite.
- Baartman, Sara (1789-1816)@
- Babbage, Charles (1791-1871)@
- Baden-Powell, Robert (1857-1941)@
- Find sites for Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941), the British Lieutenant-General and founder of the world's Scouting Movement. Sites feature his biography, genealogy, military career profile, as well as scouting and military books written by Baden-Powell.
- Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1814-1876)@
- Barton, Clara (1821-1912)@
- Barton, Edmund (1849-1920)@
- Benjamin, Judah P. (1811-1884)@
- Billy the Kid (1860-1881)@
- Bismarck, Otto von (1815-1898)@
- Black Donnellys, The@
- Black Elk (1863-1950)@
- Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910)@
- Bonaparte, Napoléon (1769-1821)@
- Find sites for Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821), the Emperor of the French and King of Italy considered as one of the greatest military geniuses ever. Sites offer biography, history, genealogy, military campaigns, battles fought, books, quotes, political cartoons, and fan meetings for the general of French Revolution who established the Napoleonic Code, a civil code.
- Booth, Charles (1840-1916)@
- Learn about Charles Booth, the British philanthropist and social researcher, most famed for his work on documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century through sites featuring biography, archive of his work, 1889 poverty map of London, and excerpts from his book The Life and Labour of the People in London.
- Booth, John Wilkes (1839-1865)@
- Learn about John Wilkes Booth, the American actor who assassinated the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Sites offer biography, trial, as well as the mystery around his death, autopsy, and burial.
- Bragg, Braxton (1817-1876)@
- Braille, Louis (1809-1852)@
- Breckinridge, John C. (1821-1875)@
- Brock, Isaac (1769-1812)@
- Brown, George (1818-1880)@
- Brown, John (1800-1859)@
- Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925) (5)
- Buffalo Bill (Cody, William F.) (1846-1917)@
- Find sites for Buffalo Bill or Willaim F. Cody (1846-1917), the legendary American buffalo hunter and showman. Sites offer biography, documentary, museum exhibits, and news reports which analyze the life of the man and the myth behind the founder of "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show. Also find sites for Buffalo Bill Musuem and grave.
- Bunker, Eng and Chang (1811-1874)@
- Learn about Chang and Eng Bunker, the conjoined twins upon whose condition the term "Siamese Twins" was coined. Sites include biography, pictures, and articles about the twin brothers who were joined at the sternum and had a fused liver.
- Burnside, Ambrose Everett (1824-1881)@
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890)@
- Butch Cassidy, The Sundance Kid, and The Wild Bunch@
- Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893)@
- Calamity Jane (Cannary, Martha) (1852?-1903)@
- Find out about Calamity Jane or Martha Canary, the frontierswoman who gained fame by fighting the Native Americans in the 1870s through sites featuring her writings, photos, biography, and articles about her famous association with the legendary gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok.
- Calment, Jeanne (1875-1997)@
- Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)@
- Find sites for Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), the Scottish-born American businessman, philanthopist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company which later became U.S. Steel. Sites feature biography, career overview, television series, sponsored peace programmes, as well as organisations and institutions set up by and in the name of the industrialist who built one of the most influential corporations in the U.S. history.
- Carney, William H. (1840-1908)@
- Carrington, Henry Beebee "H.B." (1824-1912)
- Served as a Union general.
- Carson, Christopher "Kit" (1809-1868)@
- Cartier, George-Étienne (1814-1873)@
- Cartwright, Alexander (1820-1892)@
- Carver, George Washington (1861?-1943)@
- Learn about George Washington Carver, the African American African American botanist and chemist. Sites provide biography, articles, and pictures of the inventor whose work led to advances in agriculture, chemistry, and textiles.
- Catt, Carrie Chapman (1859-1947)@
- Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828-1914)@
- Chase, Salmon Portland (1808-1873)@
- Chesnut, Mary (1823-1886)@
- Chief Joseph (1840-1940)@
- Chisholm, Caroline (1808-1877)@
- Clanton Gang, The
- Created by a member of the Clanton family, a history of the gang, its members, and their role in the gunfight at the OK Corral.
- Cleburne, Patrick (1828-1864)@
- Crazy Horse (1845?-1877)@
- Learn about Crazy Horse, the Sioux leader who fought to preserve the traditions and values of Lakota people. Sites include biography, lifestyle, the struggle against the Federal government's attempt to takeover the native people's lands, and other achievements of the leader who was also known as Tashunka Witco, "his horse is crazy."
- Crockett, Davy (1786-1836)@
- Read about Davy Crockett, the 19th-century American folk hero, soldier, and politician. Sites provide an overview of his biography, timeline, quotes, articles, and text of a speech by the King of the Wild Frontier.
- Cruzatte, Pierre@
- Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876)@
- Daimler, Gottlieb (1834-1900)@
- Dalton Gang@
- Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889)@
- Find sites for Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), the first and the only president of the Confederate States of America. Sites offer biography, political life, handwriting samples, retirement home, and the documentary editing project about the American statesman who advocated for slavery and for States' Rights.
- de Cleyre, Voltairine (1866-1912)@
- Debs, Eugene V. (1855-1926)@
- Díaz, Porfirio (1830-1915)@
- Disraeli, Sir Benjamin (1804-1881)@
- Dix, Dorothea (1802-1887)@
- Doubleday, Abner (1819-1893)@
- Douglas, Stephen A. (1813-1861)@
- Dreyfus, Alfred (1859-1935)@
- Duke of Wellington (Wellesley, Arthur) (1769-1852)@
- Dunglison, Robley (1798-1869)
- The first professor of anatomy and medicine at the University of Virginia and personal physician to Thomas Jefferson.
- Early, Jubal (1816-1894)@
- Earp, Wyatt (1848-1929)@
- Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)@
- Explore the sites for Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), the American inventor of electric bulb and many more who was one of the first to apply mass production to the process of invention. Sites feature biography, family mementos, inventions, numerous patents, photos, motion pictures, sound recordings, and commemoration of Fort Myers' most famous citizen who was dubbed as "The Wizard of Menlo Park."
- Empress Carlota (1840-1927)@
- Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908)@
- Learn more about the Empress Dowager Cixi or Tzu-Hsi who ruled China from 1861 to her death in 1908. Sites includes biographiy and historical facts about her rule.
- Farragut, David (1801-1870)@
- Finney, Charles G. (1792-1875)@
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford (1821-1877)@
- Fremantle, Arthur (1835-1901)
- British Coldstream Guards officer who travelled throughout America during the U.S. Civil War. Site includes analysis of the British government's recognition of the Southern Confederacy.
- Fremont, John C. (1813-1890)@
- Fulton, Robert (1765-1815)@
- Galt, Alexander Tilloch (1817-1893)@
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882)@
- Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879)@
- Gates, John W. (1855-1911)@
- Geddes, Patrick (1854-1932)@
- George III (1738-1820)@
- George IV (1762-1830)@
- Geronimo@
- Gladstone, William (1809-1898)@
- Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885)@
- Grant, Ulysses S. (1822-1885)@
- Find sites for Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), the General who led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War and who was elected the 18th President of the United States. Sites offer life, historical background, trivia, photographs, obituary, and biographical notes capturing glimpses of his presidency and private life.
- Greenhow, Rose O'Neal (1817-1864)
- One of the most renowned spies of the American Civil War.
- Harper, William Rainey (1856-1906)
- The story of the first president of the University of Chicago.
- Hauser, Kaspar (c.1812-1833)@
- Hearst, William Randolph (1863-1951)@
- Helmcken, John Sebastian (1824-1920)@
- Henson, Josiah (1789-1883) (3)
- Herschel, Sir William Frederick (1738-1822)@
- Find out about Sir Frederick William Herschel, the British astronomer and composer known for his discovery of the planet Uranus. Sites feature biography and scientific works of the genius who discovered infrared radiation, two satellites of Saturn and Uranus, the movement of our solar system through space, and also coined the term asteroid.
- Herzl, Theodor (1860-1904)@
- Hickok, Wild Bill (1837-1876)@
- Explore the life and times of Wild Bill Hickok, the U.S. Marshall and western hero known for capturing the McCanles gang and for his work in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show through sites offering biography, historical background, quotes, and newspaper report of his death.
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911)@
- Hill, Ambrose Powell (A.P.) (1825-1865)@
- Hill, Benjamin Jefferson (1825-1880)
- Holliday, Doc (John Henry) (1851-1887)@
- Hood, James Bell (1831-1879)
- Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879)@
- Houston, Samuel (1793-1863)@
- Howard, Oliver Otis (1830-1909)@
- Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)@
- Jackson, Thomas J. "Stonewall" (1824-1863)@
- Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942)@
- Find sites about American landscape photographer, painter, and explorer William Henry Jackson, famous for his images of the American West.
- James, Jesse (1847-1882)@
- Jay, John (1745-1829)@
- Johnny Appleseed (Chapman, John) (1774-1845)@
- Explore sites about John Chapman, the nurseryman popularly known as Johnny Appleseed. Sites feature history, articles, timeline, puzzles, and images of the man who introduced the apple to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
- Jones, Casey (1863-1900)@
- Read about Casey Jones, the legendary engineer from Jackson, Tennessee through sites featuring stories, articles, essays, and info on the Casey Jones Railroad Museum State Park.
- Juárez, Benito (1806-1872)@
- Kaiser Wilhelm II@
- Kelly, Ned (1854-1878)@
- Key, Francis Scott (1779-1843)@
- King David Kalakaua (1836-1891)@
- King Kamehameha I (1758?-1819)@
- King Kamehameha IV (1834-1863)@
- Kossuth, Lajos (1802-1894)@
- La Trobe, Charles Joseph (1801-1875)@
- Lafayette, Marquis de (1757-1834)@
- Lafitte, Jean (1780?-1825?)@
- Learn about the famous early 19th century pirate Jean Lafitte known for his piracy in the Gulf of Mexico and recognised for his heroism in the Battle of New Orleans. Find links to legends of gold, buried treasure, and smuggling activities.
- Latimer, Lewis Howard (1848-1928)@
- Laurier, Wilfrid (1841-1919)@
- Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)@
- Find sites for Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870), one of the most successful generals of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Sites feature life, family, pictures, personal letters, museum exhibits, views of slavery, and biographical notes delineating the U.S. General as a soldier, educator, friend, and father.
- Leopold II (1835-1909)@
- Lincoln, Mary Todd (1818-1882)@
- Learn about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln remembered for her high-strung, touchy, and "spend-thrift" ways. Sites feature biographical profile, historical background, movie, and research site about the First Lady of the United States from 1861 till the assassination of her husband in 1865.
- Lister, Joseph (1827-1912)@
- Livingstone, David (1813-1873)@
- Lodge, Henry Cabot
- Includes a text of his essay, For Intervention in Cuba.
- Lord Palmerston (1784-1865)@
- Loring, William Wing (1817-1886)
- Soldier, statesman, author.
- Lovelace, Ada (1815-1852)@
- MacDonald, John A. (1815-1891)@
- Mackenzie, Alexander (1822-1892)@
- Macy, Anne Mansfield Sullivan (1866-1936)@
- Madison, Dolley Payne (1768-1849)@
- Find sites for Dolly Payne Madison, wife of the U.S President James Madison, who was known for her rescue of valuable treasures including state papers from the White House before it was burned by the British army in 1814. Sites offer life, history, online exhibits, personal letters, images, and the Easter egg roll custom which began in the White House at the First Lady's suggestion.
- Marconi, Guglielmo (1874-1937)@
- Explore Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), the Italian Nobel laureate physicist and inventor of wireless telegraphy system called radio. Sites feature biography, work, museum exhibits, and the scientific contributions of the physics nobelist which laid the foundation for modern communications.
- Marshall, John (1755-1835)@
- Masterson, Bat (1853-1921)@
- Maximilian of Wied (1782-1867)
- German explorer and naturalist known for his studies of the Northern Plains tribes of North America.
- Maximilian, Ferdinand (1832-1867)@
- Maybach, Wilhelm (1846-1929)@
- McBeth, Kate and Sue
- Letters, diary, photographs, and government documents from 1873 to 1893 related to the missionary experierce of the McBeth sisters on the Nez Perce Reservation, Idaho.
- McClellan, George Brinton (1826-1885)@
- McCoy, Elijah (1843-1929)@
- McGee, Thomas D'Arcy (1825-1868)@
- McKnight, Bernard
- Story of a Union soldier who was captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
- Meade, George Gordon (1815-1872)@
- Meiji (1852-1912)@
- Find sites for Meiji (1852-1912), the 122nd imperial ruler of Japan who brought about a revolution to Japan's political and social structure. Sites feature biography, images, memorial shrine to the emperor and his consort, guide to the memorial, and articles about political and cultural events during the Meiji Era.
- Merrick, Joseph [1862-1890]@
- Metternich, Klemens von (1773-1859)@
- Michel, Louise (1830-1905)@
- Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889)@
- Learn about Maria Mitchell, the American astronomer first to discover a comet with the use of a telescope and was the first woman admitted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Philosophical Society. Sites feature biography, scientific achievements, and the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association.
- Montez, Lola (1818-1861)@
- Morse, Samuel F.B. (1791-1872)@
- Find sites for Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph and the Morse Code. Sites provide biography, Morse family tree, and images.
- Moses, Jefferson
- Diary and later memoirs of Private Jefferson Moses, Company G, 93rd Illinois Volunteers.
- Nansen, Fridtjof (1861-1930)@
- Napoleon III (1808-1873)@
- Nelson, Horatio Lord (1758-1805)@
- Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)@
- Learn about Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the pioneer of modern nursing and noted statistician. Sites feature biography, war-time services, letters and diaries, essays, photos, and obituary for the "Lady of the Lamp."
- Nobel, Alfred Bernhard (1833-1896)@
- Norton, Joshua A. - Emperor of the United States (1819-1880)@
- Find sites for Joshua A. Norton, the celebrated citizen of San Francisco who declared himself as "the Emperor of these United Sates and Protector of Mexico" in 1859. Sites feature life, legacy, and portraits of the maverick 'emperor' who issued self-proclaimed decrees on matters of state and whose kaleidoscopic personality inspired many a classic.
- O'Higgins, Bernardo (1778-1842)@
- Oakley, Annie (1860-1926)@
- Osceola (c.1804-1838)@
- Otto, Nicolaus August (1832-1891)@
- Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858-1928)@
- Parker, Quanah (c.1845-1911)@
- Parkes, Henry (1815-1896)@
- Parnell, Charles Stewart@
- Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895)@
- Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850)@
- Pilsudski, Jozef Klemens (1867-1935)@
- Pinchot, Gifford (1865-1946)@
- Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902)@
- Prince Albert (1819-1861)@
- Learn about Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, husband and consort of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom who held the title of Prince Consort, through sites featuring history, biography, family tree, trivia, and articles on his marriage and relationship with the Queen.
- Pulitzer, Joseph (1847-1911)@
- Learn about Joseph Pulitzer, the American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and for originating yellow journalism.
- Quantrill, William Clarke (1837-1865)@
- Queen Emma Kaleleonalani
- Biography including sections on her youth, marriage to Alexander Liholiho, the future Kamehameha IV, and her charity work.
- Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917)@
- Queen Victoria (1837-1901)@
- Learn about Victoria, the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to1901 whose reign brought about significant social, economic, and technological development along with great expansion of the British Empire. Sites feature history, biography, photographs, genealogy, legacy, as well as a collection of personal correspondence and quotes from her journal.
- Rhodes, Cecil (1853-1902)@
- Riel, Louis (1844-1885)@
- Rockefeller Family, The@
- Rockefeller, John D. (1839-1937)@
- Sacagawea (1790?-1812 or 1884)@
- Sacagawea is the Shoshone Indian guide who assisted Lewis and Clark on their momentous expedition west. In 2000 she became immortalized on the golden dollar coin.
- Saigo Takamori (1828-1877)@
- Santa Anna, Antonio López de (1794-1876)@
- Scott, Robert Falcon (1868-1912)@
- Learn about Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), the Royal Naval officer and Antarctic explorer who came second to the Norwegian Roald Amundsen in the historical 'Race to the South Pole.' Sites offer biography, vital stats, and expeditions of the legendary "Scotts of the Antarctic" who died while attempting to return from the historic Terra Nova expedition of 1910-1913.
- Secord, Laura (1775-1868)@
- Seward, William (1801-1872)@
- Shaka Zulu (1785-1828)@
- Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)@
- Learn about George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, novelist, critic, essayist, and politician. Sites offer biography, plays, novels, essays, quotes, speeches, and letters of the socialist spokesman known for his caustic tongue.
- Shaw, Robert Gould (1837-1863)@
- Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)@
- Shigenobu Okuma (1838-1922)@
- Sitting Bull (1831-1890)@
- Smith, Amanda (1837-1915)@
- Smith, Jedediah Strong (1799-1831)@
- Speke, John Hanning (1827-1864)@
- Stanford, Leland (1824-1893)@
- Stanley, Frederick Arthur (1841-1908)@
- Stephens, Alexander H. (1812-1883)@
- Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de (1754-1838)@
- Tarbell, Ida (1857-1944)@
- Taylor, Frederick Winslow (1856-1915)@
- Learn about Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), one of the intellectual leaders whose dynamic "Taylorism" ideas highly influenced the Progressive Era in the U.S. history. Sites feature biography, career profile, time-and-motion studies for improved worker productivity, and other organisational psychology approaches initiated by the American engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency.
- Thomas, George H. (1816-1870)@
- Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805-1859)@
- Find sites for Alexis de Tocqueville, the French political thinker and historian whose political philosophy laid foundations to the present day U.S. democracy in America. Sites offer biography, pictures, as well as English translations and online editions of the political philosopher who emphasized upon equality of social conditions for better individuals and better society.
- Travis, William Barret (1809-1836)@
- Tupper, Charles (1821-1915)@
- Tweed, William Marcy (Boss) (1823-1878)@
- Vanderbilt, Cornelius (1794-1877)@
- Von Clausewitz, Carl (1780-1831)@
- Walker, Mary Edwards (1832-1919)@
- Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)@
- Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)@
- Wheeler, Joseph (1836-1906)@
- Whitney, Eli (1765-1825)@
- Learn about Eli Whitney, the American inventor and manufacturer credited with creating the first cotton gin in 1793. Sites feature biography, genealogy, museum exhibits, and his innovative concepts and designs which set standards for mass production in American manufacturing.
- Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877)@
- Williams, Cathay (1842-?)@
- Woods, Granville T. (1856-1910)@
- Zaragoza, Ignacio (1829-1862)@
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