The Macdonald DeWitt Library has biographies available on the following subjects.  These are just suggestions.  If there is a person you would like to research who is not on this list, we can help you find resources.  Please come to the information desk and a librarian will help you.

• Alexander von Humboldt
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Angela Merkel
• Ataturk
• Bach
• Beethoven
• Berthe Morisot
• Bismarck
• Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
• Catherine the Great (1729-1796)
• Cervantes
• Charles Darwin
• Charles Dickens
• Charlie Chaplin
• Charlotte Bronte
• Coco Chanel
• Cromwell
• Dostoevsky
• Einstein
• Eleanor Marx
• Elisabeth of Bohemia (1596-1662)
• Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
• Emily Bronte
• Florence Nightingale
• Freud
• Galileo
• Gertrude Bell
• Goya
• Handel
• Henry Prince of Wales 1594-1612
• Indira Gandhi
• Ingmar Bergman
• Isaac Newton
• J.M.W. Turner
• James Hutton
• Jane Goodall
• John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough
• John Dee
• John Lennon
• John Locke
• Josephine Bonaparte
• C.G. Jung
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Karl Marx
• King Edward VII of England (1841-1910)
• Lord Nelson
• Louis XIII (1601-1643)
• Louis XIV (1638-1715)
• Louis XVI (1754-1793)
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Mahler
• Margaret Thatcher
• Marie Curie
• Mary Anning
• Mary Seacole
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Maud Gonne
• Monet
• Maria Montessori
• Mountbatten
• Mozart
• Napoleon I (1769-1821)
• Nelson Mandela
• Nikola Tesla
• Paul McCartney
• Peter the Great (1672-1725)
• Picasso
• Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022)
• Queen Victoria of England (1819-1901)
• Rasputin
• Robespierre
• Rommel
• Rosalind Franklin
• Sarah Bernhardt
• Stalin
• Stephen Hawking
• T.E.Lawrence
• Vladimir Putin
• Voltaire
• Wallenberg
• Gerrard Winstanley
• Winston Churchill
• Yoko Ono

Tcherny, Andreï Ivanovich. Portrait of Catherine the Great. enamel on copper, 1765. Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (Russia). Visual Arts Legacy Collection. Artstor, JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.13937919. Accessed 17 June 2025.

The Literacy Lab offers writing tutoring for all subjects on a drop-in basis, both in person and virtually (by request). Professional and peer tutors are available to assist students with a variety of writing assignments, including essays, research, lab reports, and more. Space and computers are also available for independent work. We welcome you to join us!

Location: Vanderlyn 208 & 210

Hours: Refer to the Academic Support portal page.

Stop by or email literacylab@sunyulster.edu for more information.