Biographical databases

The Nederlands

• Biografisch portaal van Nederland
• Biografisch woordenboek van Nederland
• Digitaal vrouwenlexicon
• Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland
• Album Academicum (UvA)
• Digitaal Album Promotorum (Universiteit Utrecht)
• Website van het Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
• Digitale Historische Bibliotheek van Friesland

Genealogical aids

• Central Genealogical Bureau of the Netherlands (in Dutch)
• Genlias
• Stadsarchief Amsterdam: genealogische zoekindex
• Uitgevaren met de VOC
• Zeeuwen gezocht

Canada

• Newton Project Canada

Germany

• Sommerfeld-Projekt, München
• Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der Geophysik

Ireland

• Mathematicians of the 17th and 18th Centuries (adapted from W.W. Rouse Ball)

Italy

• Panopticon Lavoisier “Panopticon Lavoisier aims at creating a virtual museum of the collections of the French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) scattered throughout the world.”

Great Britain

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Royal Society – Biographical information on fellows
• Digital Database of the British Chemical Community, 1880-1970
• The Isaac Newton Project
• The complete work of Charles Darwin online

United States

• Scholarly Societies Project (University of Waterloo)
• California Digital Library
• The Galileo Project.
• The Scientific Community in the 16th/17th Centuries.
• The Bruce Medalists.
• The Einstein Papers Project, Caltech