Free Biography Index - A
- A. H. Sturtevant
- A. M. Klein
- A. P. Giannini
- A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
- A.A. Milne
- Aaron Burr
- Aaron Copland
- Aaron David Gordon
- Aaron Henry
- Abba Arika
- Abba Eban
- Abba Hillel Silver
- Abbas I
- Abbie Hoffman
- Abbott Lawrence
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell
- Abbé Prévost
- Abbé de Saint-Pierre
- Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud
- Abd al-Hamid Ben Badis
- Abd al-Malik
- Abd al-Mumin
- Abd al-Rahman I
- Abd al-Rahman III
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun
- Abd el-Kadir
- Abdallah al-Mamun
- Abdoulaye Ly
- Abdul Rahman Tunku
- Abdul-Baha
- Abdul-Hamid II
- Abdullah II
- Abdullah Yaccoub Bishara
- Abdullah ibn Husein
- Abdullah ibn Yasin
- Abe Fortas
- Abebe Bikila
- Abel Janszoon Tasman
- Abigail Adams
- Abigail Kelley Foster
- Abraham
- Abraham Cahan
- Abraham Cowley
- Abraham Darby
- Abraham Demoivre
- Abraham Flexner
- Abraham Gottlob Werner
- Abraham Issac Kuk
- Abraham Ortelius
- Abraham Ruef
- Abraham and Mary Putnam Jacobi
- Abram Stevens Hewitt
- Abu Bakr
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Tufayl
- Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali
- Abu Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Mansur
- Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm
- Abu Musa
- Abu Nuwas
- Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
- Abu Yusuf Yakub al-Mansur
- Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Ashari
- Abu al-Qasim ibn Muhammad al Junayd
- Abu-I A'la Mawdudi
- Abu-L-Ala al-Maarri
- Abu-Yusuf Yaqub ibn-Ishaq al-Kindi
- Achille Claude Debussy
- Achille Lauro
- Achim von Arnim
- Acknowledgments
- Ada Byron Lovelace
- Ada E. Deer
- Adalet Agaoglu
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr
- Adam Ferguson
- Adam Sedgwick
- Adam Smith
- Adelbert Ames
- Adlai Stevenson
- Adolf Augustus Berle Jr
- Adolf Loos
- Adolf von Harnack
- Adolfo López Mateos
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
- Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
- Adolph Coors
- Adolph Gottlieb
- Adolph Simon Ochs
- Adolph Zukor
- Adolphe Appia
- Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboué
- Adolphus Busch
- Adolphus Egerton Ryerson
- Adolphus Washington Greely
- Adoniram Judson
- Adonis
- Adriaen Brouwer
- Adrian Willaert
- Adriano Olivetti
- Adrienne Rich
- Advisory Board
- Aelbert Cuyp
- Aelfric
- Aeschylus
- Affonso I
- Afonso de Albuquerque
- Aga Khan
- Agatha Christie
- Agesilaus II
- Agha Mohammad Khan
- Agis IV
- Agnes Martin
- Agnes Maude Royden
- Agnodice
- Agostino di Duccio
- Agrippina the Younger
- Agustin Pedro Justo
- Agustín de Iturbide
- Ahad Haam
- Ahmadou Ahidjo
- Ahmed Ali
- Ahmed Ben Bella
- Ahmed Köprülü
- Ahmed Zaki Yamani
- Aimee Semple McPherson
- Ajuma Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Akiba ben Joseph
- Akihito
- Akio Morita
- Akira Kurosawa
- Al Capone
- Al Jolson
- Al Oerter
- Al Sharpton
- Al Unser
- Al-Farabi
- Al-Hajj Omar ibn Said Tal
- Al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
- Alain René Lesage
- Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Alain Touraine
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras
- Alan Dugan
- Alan Francis Brooke
- Alan Greenspan
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
- Alan Mathison Turing
- Alan Menken
- Alan Shepard
- Alan Stewart Paton
- Alan Watts
- Alaric
- Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre
- Alauddin Khilji
- Alaungpaya
- Alban Berg
- Albert
- Albert Abraham Michelson
- Albert Bierstadt
- Albert Brisbane
- Albert Bruce Sabin
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Fink
- Albert Frederick Pollard
- Albert Gallatin
- Albert Gore Jr
- Albert I
- Albert II
- Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
- Albert John Luthuli
- Albert Kahn
- Albert Lacombe
- Albert Lasker
- Albert Mathiez
- Albert Namatjira
- Albert Pinkham Ryder
- Albert Reynolds
- Albert Roussel
- Albert Schweitzer
- Albert Shanker
- Albert Sorel
- Albert Taylor Bledsoe
- Alberto Burri
- Alberto Evaristo Ginastera
- Alberto Giacometti
- Alberto Keinya Fujimori
- Alberto Lleras Camargo
- Alberto Moravia
- Alberto P. Calderón
- Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Albion Winegar Tourgée
- Albion Woodbury Small
- Albrecht Altdorfer
- Albrecht Benjamin Ritschl
- Albrecht Dürer
- Albrecht Von Haller
- Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein
- Alcibiades
- Alcide De Gasperi
- Alcuin of York
- Aldo Moro
- Aldo Rossi
- Aldous Huxley
- Aldus Manutius
- Alec Douglas-Home
- Alec Guinness
- Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
- Aleksandr Andreievich Baranov
- Aleksandr Fedorovich Kerensky
- Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen
- Aleksandr Profirevich Borodin
- Aleksandr Vasilievich Kolchak
- Aleksandr Vasilievich Suvorov
- Aleksandra Mikhailovna Kollontai
- Aleksandra Pavlovna Biryukova
- Aleksei Ivanovich Adzhubei
- Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin
- Alessandro Farnese
- Alessandro Magnasco
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Alessandro Volta
- Alex Haley
- Alexander Archipenko
- Alexander Brown
- Alexander Calder
- Alexander Campbell
- Alexander Cartwright
- Alexander Dallas Bache
- Alexander Duff
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens
- Alexander Helwig Wyant
- Alexander II
- Alexander III
- Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
- Alexander Ivanovich Lebed
- Alexander Jackson Davis
- Alexander M. Haig Jr
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Alexander McGillivray
- Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko
- Alexander Nevsky
- Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin
- Alexander Parkes
- Alexander Pope
- Alexander Spotswood
- Alexander Sutherland Neill
- Alexander Tcherepnin
- Alexander Todd
- Alexander Turney Stewart
- Alexander VI
- Alexander Wilson
- Alexander of Yugoslavia
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Alexandre Dumas
- Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
- Alexis De Tocqueville
- Alexis Mikhailovich Romanov
- Alexius I
- Alexius Ritter von Handschuchsheim Meinong
- Aleš Hrdlicka
- Alfonso García Robles
- Alfonso I
- Alfonso III
- Alfonso Reyes
- Alfonso VI
- Alfonso X
- Alfonso XIII
- Alfred
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel
- Alfred Binet
- Alfred C. Kinsey
- Alfred Deakin
- Alfred Du Pont Chandler Jr
- Alfred Edward Housman
- Alfred Emmanuel Smith
- Alfred Firmin Loisy
- Alfred Fuller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Jules Ayer
- Alfred Lothar Wegener
- Alfred Louis Kroeber
- Alfred Marshall
- Alfred Milner
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr
- Alfred Stieglitz
- Alfred Tarski
- Alfred Tennyson
- Alfred Thayer Mahan
- Alfred Thompson Denning
- Alfred Vincent Kidder
- Alfred von Tirpitz
- Alfredo Cristiani
- Alfredo Stroessner
- Alger Hiss
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Alhadji Abubakar Imam
- Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello
- Ali
- Ali Shariati
- Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Masudi
- Ali' Abdallah Salih
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher
- Alice Eastwood
- Alice Evans
- Alice Hamilton
- Alice Paul
- Alice Walker
- Alija Izetbegovic
- Allan Aubrey Boesak
- Allan David Bloom
- Allan Nevins
- Allan Pinkerton
- Allan Rex Sandage
- Allen Ginsberg
- Allen Tate
- Alma Woodsey Thomas
- Alonso Berruguete
- Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga
- Alp Arslan
- Alphonse Bertillon
- Alphonse Daudet
- Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
- Althea Gibson
- Alvaro Siza
- Alvin Ailey
- Alvin Hansen
- Alvise da Cadamosto
- Amadou Bamba
- Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow
- Ambroise Paré
- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer
- Amenemhet I
- Amenhotep III
- American Horse
- Amerigo Vespucci
- Amin Gemayel
- Amina of Zaria
- Amintore Fanfani
- Amos
- Amos Bad Heart Bull
- Amos Kendall
- Amos Niven Wilder
- Amos Oz
- Amos Tutuola
- Amy Beach
- Amy Lowell
- Amy Tan
- Amílcar Lopes Cabral
- An Lu-shan
- An Wang
- Ana Blandiana
- Anais Nin
- Anan ben David
- Anastasia
- Anastasio Somoza
- Anastasio Somoza Debayle
- Anatole France
- Anatoly Alexandrovich Sobchak
- Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky
- Anaxagoras
- Anaximander
- Anaximenes
- Anders Celsius
- Anders Nygren
- Ando Hiroshige
- Andre Philippus Brink
- Andrea Doria
- Andrea Mantegna
- Andrea Palladio
- Andrea Pisano
- Andrea del Castagno
- Andrea del Sarto
- Andrea del Verrocchio
- Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof
- Andreas Bodenheim von Karlstadt
- Andreas Marggraf
- Andreas Papandreou
- Andreas Schlüter
- Andreas Vesalius
- Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky
- Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev
- Andrei Sakharov
- Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev
- Andrei Vyshinsky
- Andres Bonifacio
- Andrew Barton Paterson
- Andrew Bell
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Dickson White
- Andrew Fisher
- Andrew Gregg Curtin
- Andrew J. Wiles
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson Downing
- Andrew Jackson Goodpaster
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr
- Andrew Johnson
- Andrew Lewis
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Andrew M. Greeley
- Andrew Marvell
- Andrew McNaughton
- Andrew Newell Wyeth
- Andrew William Mellon
- Andries Pretorius
- André Breton
- André Derain
- André Gide
- André Le Nôtre
- André Lwoff
- André Marie Amp'e
- André Marie Chénier
- André-Gustave Citroën
- Andrés Bello
- Andrés Segovia
- Andrés de Santa Cruz
- Aneurin Bevan
- Ange-Jacques Gabriel
- Angel de Saavedra
- Angela Merici
- Angelo Poliziano
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
- Anita Brookner
- Anita Hill
- Anita Loos
- Ann Willis Richards
- Anna Akhmatova
- Anna Botsford Comstock
- Anna Comnena
- Anna Ella Carroll
- Anna Howard Shaw
- Anna Hyatt Huntington
- Anna Ivanovna
- Anna May Wong
- Anna Nzinga
- Anna Pavlova
- Anne Boleyn
- Anne Dudley Bradstreet
- Anne Marbury Hutchinson
- Anne Rice
- Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
- Anne Sexton
- Anne Sullivan Macy
- Anne Tyler
- Annie Dodge Wauneka
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Annie Leibovitz
- Annie Oakley
- Annie Wood Besant
- Ansel Adams
- Anson Burlingame
- Anthony Burgess
- Anthony Burns
- Anthony Caro
- Anthony Comstock
- Anthony Meuza Van Diemen
- Anthony Philip Heinrich
- Anthony Powell
- Anthony Quinn
- Anthony Trollope
- Anthony Van Dyck
- Anthony Wayne
- Anthony of Padua
- Antigonus I
- Antiochus III
- Antiochus IV
- Antisthenes
- Antoine Augustin Cournot
- Antoine Coysevox
- Antoine Henri Becquerel
- Antoine Henri Jomini
- Antoine Houdon
- Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
- Antoine Pevsner
- Antoine Watteau
- Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Antoinette Brown Blackwell
- Anton Lembede
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Anton Raphael Mengs
- Anton Webern
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Antonello da Messina
- Antoni Gaudí i Cornet
- Antonia Maury
- Antonia Novello
- Antonin Artaud
- Antonin Dvorák
- Antonio Cabezón
- Antonio Canova
- Antonio Gramsci
- Antonio Guzmán Blanco
- Antonio José de Sucre
- Antonio López de SantaAna
- Antonio Nariño
- Antonio Pollaiuolo
- Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
- Antonio Stradivari
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Antonio de Mendoza
- António Agostinho Neto
- António de Oliveira Salazar
- Antônio Vieira
- Anwar Sadat
- Apelles
- Aphra Behn
- Apolinario Mabini
- Apollodorus
- Apollonius of Perga
- Apolo Milton Obote
- Aram Ilich Khachaturian
- Arata Isozaki
- Aratus
- Arcangelo Corelli
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- Archbishop Oscar Romero
- Archibald Cox
- Archibald Dalzel
- Archibald Lampman
- Archibald MacLeish
- Archibald Percival Wavell
- Archibald Scott Couper
- Archimedes
- Aretha Franklin
- Ariel Sharon
- Aristarchus of Samos
- Aristide Briand
- Aristide Maillol
- Aristophanes
- Aristotle
- Aritomo Yamagata
- Arius
- Armand Hammer
- Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu
- Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
- Arnold Bennett
- Arnold Böcklin
- Arnold Daniel Palmer
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee
- Arnold Lucius Gesell
- Arnold of Brescia
- Arnolfo di Cambio
- Arnulfo Arias
- Arshile Gorky
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Artemus Ward
- Arthur Bowen Davies
- Arthur Burns
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur Cecil Pigou
- Arthur Charles Erickson
- Arthur F. Bentley
- Arthur Fiedler
- Arthur Garfield Dove
- Arthur Henderson
- Arthur Holly Compton
- Arthur Holmes
- Arthur Honegger
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Arthur James Balfour
- Arthur Joseph Goldberg
- Arthur Kornberg
- Arthur Lee
- Arthur Meier Schlesinger
- Arthur Meighen
- Arthur Michael Ramsey
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
- Arthur Phillip
- Arthur Robert Ashe Jr
- Arthur Rock
- Arthur Scargill
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Arthur St. Clair
- Arthur Sulzberger, Jr
- Arthur Tedder
- Arthur Vining Davis
- Artur da Costa e Silva
- Arturo Alessandri Palma
- Arturo Frondizi
- Arturo Rogerio Luz
- Arturo Toscanini
- Arvi Parbo
- Arvo Pärt
- Asa Gray
- Asaph Hall
- Asher Benjamin
- Asher Brown Durand
- Asher Ginzberg
- Ashikaga Takauji
- Ashley Montagu
- Ashurbanipal
- Asoka
- Aspasia
- Atahualpa
- Atal Behari Vajpayee
- Athol Fugard
- Attila
- Aubrey Vincent Beardsley
- Audie Murphy
- Audre Lorde
- August Belmont
- August Freidrich Leopold Weismann
- August Macke
- August Strindberg
- August Wilson
- Auguste Comte
- Auguste Escoffier
- Auguste Maurice Barrès
- Auguste Perret
- Auguste Piccard
- Auguste René Caillié
- Auguste Rodin
- Augustin Jean Fresnel
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Augustinus Bea
- Augusto Bernardino Leguìa y Salcedo
- Augusto C. Sandino
- Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
- Augustus
- Augustus Edwin John
- Augustus II
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus
- Aung San
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Aurangzeb
- Aurobindo Ghose
- Averroës
- Avicenna
- Avril Phaedra Douglas Campbell
- Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini
- Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei
- Ayn Rand
- al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham
- al-Razi
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
- Álvaro Obregón
- Álvaro de Mendaña de Neyra