Business Biography: Reference Sources

General

• American Business Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present
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• American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries
  Print resource
  
  
• American National Biography
  Online resource
  
  
• Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders
  Print resource
  
  
• Business Leader Profiles for Students
  Print resource
  
  
• Contemporary American Business Leaders
  Print resource.  Brings the Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders up-to-date through the 1980s.
  
  
• Corporate Eponymy: A Biographical Dictionary of the Persons Behind the Names of Major American, British, European, and Asian Businesses
  Print resource
  
  
• Current Biography
  Print resource.  A monthly magazine containing two or three page biographies with bibliographies of people currently prominent in the U.S. news.
  
  
• Dictionary of American Biography
  Print resource.  The standard, highly selective, scholarly source for biographies of important Americans. The articles are written and signed by noted scholars and include bibliographies. There is a basic set of volumes with supplements. The last supplement contains an index for the entire set of volumes.
  
  
• Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography [Classified separately]
  Print resource.  The Library owns several volumes of this series covering the airline industry, automobiles, banking and finance, iron and steel, and railroads.
  
  
• International Directory of Business Biographies
  Free internet resource covering over 600 business leaders.
  
  
• Marquis Who's Who
  
  
• Who Was Who in America
  Print resource
  
  
• Who's Who in Canadian Business
  Print resource
  
  

Women

• A to Z of American Women Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs
  Print resource
  
  
• Historical Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs : 1776 to the Present
  Print resource

Minorities

• African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
  Print resource
  
  
• Distinguished Asian American Business Leaders
  Print resource