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Adoptees
Famous Adoptees and Foster Children: Using adoption as its basis, this website provides a searchable subject index with over 800 listings of women and men with an adoption background. Some of the entries are detailed, whereas some are still be developed.
http://www.dil.aber.ac.uk/dils/Research/RFocus9/ind_int.htm
 

Anthropologists
Cyberantrhopologists provides a brief profile with links to additional information about women and men in the field of anthropology.
http://web3.cas.usf.edu/main/depts/ANT/cma/CMAnthropologists.htm

Explorers
Female Explorers:Women Exploring Their World using article format, biographical information is provided about women who dared to go beyond society imposed sanctions in various fields.
http://femexplorers.com/more_articles.php?cat_id=1
 
 
 

Feminists
Individual Feminists: provides biographies of international and national women who are feminists.
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/indiv.html

Feminist Foremothers provides biographical information about 30 women who wrote feminist tracts or were published between 1400 and 1800.
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/march99/whm_99.html
 

Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame profiles 125 inductees.
http://www.greatwomen.org/

WITI Hall of Fame's Inductees includes biographical information about women scientists, engineers, and technologist who make a difference from 1996 through 1998.
http://www.witi.com/center/witimuseum/halloffame/index.php

 
 

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Inventors
National Inventors Hall of Fame   provides biographies of nationally recognized (1973 - 1999) women and men inventors.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/1_1_search.asp
 
 
 

Lesbians
List of Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual People is a partial list of confirmed famous people who were or are gay, lesbian or bisexual. Links for additional information is also available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gay,_lesbian_or_bisexual_people/A-E

 

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Philosophers
Women Philosophers of Ancient Times: Short paragraphs about various philosophers.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9974/old.html

Women Philosophers of the Middle Ages provides links to 14 biographies about these philosphers.
http://faculty.msmc.edu/lindeman/mo1.htm
 
 

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Nobel Prize
Female Nobel Prize Laureates includes biographies since 1903.
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/women.html

Nobel e-Museum biographical accounts of women and men who have been awarded a Nobel Prize.
http://nobelprize.org/

Sociologists
 

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