Individual People - Biography Resource Center - Licensed Database
This is a huge collection of biographies on people of all professions, nationalities, and backgrounds. The easiest way to search is by entering the name in the quick search box and hitting enter. A way to find a person of a specific ethnicity, nationality, or profession is by conducting a "Biographical Facts Search." Once you have the results, the tabs give you different types of articles: narrative (3-5 pages), thumbnail (a paragraph), Who's Who (just the facts), articles, and websites. If visiting this site from home, you'll need to enter your library card number to get in.

Biography.com
Biography.com is the companion website to the Biography channel on cable. It includes biographies of 25,000 people including celebrities and sports figures sometimes omitted from other databases.