| Current Biography 1996 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| Abacha, Sani. (Nigerian dictator) | History | |
| Albee, Edward. (playwright) | History | |
| Amanpour, Christiane. (news correspondent for the Cable News Network) | History | |
| Amis, Kingsley. (British novelist and short-story writer)(Obituary) | History | |
| Auster, Paul. (fiction writer) | History | |
| Barbour, Haley. (chairman of Republican National Committee) | History | |
| Bassett, Angela. (actress) | History | |
| Blair, Tony. (British Labour Party leader) | History | |
| Bloomberg, Michael. (founder of Bloomberg Financial Markets) | History | |
| Bok, Sissela. (writer, philosopher, educator) | History | |
| Borysenko, Joan. (psychologist, biologist, writer, yoga instructor) | History | |
| Botstein, Leon. (famed symphony conductor and president of Bard College) | History | |
| Bowden, Bobby. (Florida State University football coach) | History | |
| Bowe, Riddick. (boxer) | History | |
| Brady, Sarah. (gun-control activist) | History | |
| Breyer, Stephen G. (associate justice of Supreme Court) | History | |
| Brown, Larry. (professional basketball coach) | History | |
| Bruton, John. (Prime Minister of Ireland) | History | |
| Bubka, Sergei. (pole vaulter) | History | |
| Campbell, Bill. (mayor) | History | |
| Caputo, Philip. (author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) | History | |
| Cardoso, Fernando Henrique. (President of Brazil) | History | |
| Carrey, Jim. (comedic film actor) | History | |
| Case, Steve. (business executive) | History | |
| Claiborne, Loretta. (runner) | History | |
| Conroy, Pat. (novelist) | History | |
| Crowe, Cameron. (movie director and screenwriter) | History | |
| Cusack, John. (actor) | History | |
| Deford, Frank. (sportswriter) | History | |
| DeGeneres, Ellen. (stand-up comedian and actress) | History | |
| Devers, Gail. (runner)(Cover Story) | History | |
| Dith Pran. (Cambodian photographer; social activist) | History | |
| Dowd, Maureen. (journalist) | History | |
| Drexler, Clyde. (professional basketball player) | History | |
| Ebersol, Dick. (television executive) | History | |
| Evans, Janet. (swimmer) | History | |
| Exon, James. (U.S. senator from Nebraska) | History | |
| Fallows, James. (journalist and editor of U.S. News & World Report) | History | |
| Favre, Brett. (football player, Green Bay Packers)(Cover Story) | History | |
| Fiennes, Ralph. (actor) | History | |
| Fishburne, Laurence. (motion picture actor) | History | |
| Fleck, Bela. (virtuoso banjoist and composer) | History | |
| Forbes, Steve. (Forbes magazine publisher Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.) | History | |
| Frazier, Ian. (essayist) | History | |
| Freeh, Louis J. (director of Federal Bureau of Investigation) | History | |
| Fuchs, Michael J. (former CEO of Home Box Office and Time Warner's music division) | History | |
| Galliano, John. (British fashion designer) | History | |
| Glover, Savion. (tap dancer and choreographer) | History | |
| Goizueta, Roberto C. (chairman of Coca-Cola Co) | History | |
| Grammer, Kelsey. (actor) | History | |
| Green, Al. (rhythm and blues singer) | History | |
| Griffey, Ken, Jr. (baseball player) | History | |
| Gumbel, Greg. (sportscaster) | History | |
| Guterson, David. (author) | History | |
| Gwynn, Tony. (baseball player) | History | |
| Hansen, James E. (climatologist) | History | |
| Harris, E. Lynn. (writer) | History | |
| Heloise. (household-advice columnist) | History | |
| Henderson, Joe. (saxophonist) | History | |
| Herrera, Carolina. (fashion designer) | History | |
| Hilfiger, Tommy. (fashion designer) | History | |
| Hockenberry, John. (broadcast journalist) | History | |
| Hoffman, Dustin. (film actor) | History | |
| Hunt, Helen. (actress) | History | |
| Imus, Don. (radio talk-show personality) | History | |
| Jackson, Joe. (English musician) | History | |
| Jackson, Samuel L. (actor) | History | |
| Jones, Chuck. (cartoon animator) | History | |
| Jones, Jerry. (Dallas Cowboys football team owner) | History | |
| Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. (management consultant and Harvard University professor) | History | |
| Karolyi, Bela. (gymnastics coach) | History | |
| Katzen, Mollie. (cookbook writer)(Cover Story) | History | |
| Keaton, Diane. (actress) | History | |
| Keenan, Mike. (coach of the St. Louis Blues hockey club) | History | |
| Kemmis, Daniel. (Mayor of Missoula, MT) | History | |
| Kennedy, John F., Jr. (magazine editor and son of the 35th president of US) | History | |
| Kerkorian, Kirk. (billionaire financier) | History | |
| Kilmer, Val. (film actor) | History | |
| Kravitz, Lenny. (rock musician) | History | |
| Kroft, Steve. (CBS broadcast journalist) | History | |
| Kumaratunga, Chandrika Bandaranaike. (president of Sri Lanka) | History | |
| Lane, Nathan. (actor) | History | |
| Lee, Henry C. (forensic scientist) | History | |
| Lee Teng-hui. (president of Taiwan) | History | |
| Leiber, Judith. (designer) | History | |
| LeVay, Simon. (neurologist; writer; educator) | History | |
| Lewis, Juliette. (film actress) | History | |
| Lewis, Ramsey. (musician) | History | |
| Lindgren, Astrid. (Swedish writer) | History | |
| Lithgow, John. (actor) | History | |
| Lott, Trent. (Senator) | History | |
| Love, Courtney. (singer) | History | |
| Lubic, Ruth Watson. (midwife) | History | |
| Lydon, John. (lead singer of 'The Sex Pistols,' songwriter, record producer) | History | |
| Maddux, Greg. (Atlanta Braves pitcher) | History | |
| Marshall, Barry J. (gastroenterologist) | History | |
| Matalin, Mary. (Republican political consultant) | History | |
| McCurry, Michael D. (White House press secretary) | History | |
| McKinney, Cynthia A. (Congresswoman from Georgia) | History | |
| McNealy, Scott. (CEO and co-founder of Sun Microsystems Inc) | History | |
| McPherson, James Alan. (author) | History | |
| Metheny, Pat. (jazz guitarist) | History | |
| Mfume, Kweisi. (US Representative from Maryland) | History | |
| Michael Johnson. (runner) | History | |
| Miller, Reggie. (professional basketball player) | History | |
| Miller, Shannon. (gymnast) | History | |
| Miller, Zell. (governor of Georgia) | History | |
| Molinari, Susan. (Congresswoman from New York) | History | |
| Morrison, Van. (singer)(Cover Story) | History | |
| Mullis, Kary B. (Nobel Prize-winning biochemist) | History | |
| Ndour, Youssou. (Senegalese drummer, composer, singer, and bandleader)(Cover Story) | History | |
| Neiman, LeRoy. (artist) | History | |
| Netanyahu, Benjamin. (Israeli politician) | History | |
| O'Brien, Conan. (television talk-show host) | History | |
| O'Brien, Dan. (decathlete) | History | |
| Oe, Kenzaburo. (writer) | History | |
| Oldman, Gary. (British film actor) | History | |
| O'Neal, Shaquille. (basketball player) | History | |
| Pagels, Elaine. (noted writer and historian of religion) | History | |
| Pataki, George E. (governor of New York) | History | |
| Perry, Anne. (British author) | History | |
| Pitt, Brad. (movie actor) | History | |
| Plowden, David. (renowned American photographer) | History | |
| Price, Nick. (golfer) | History | |
| Rabin, Yitzhak. (prime minister of Israel)(Obituary) | History | |
| Redstone, Sumner. (entertainment industry mogul and chairman of Viacom Inc) | History | |
| Reed, Ralph. (executive director of the Christian Coalition) | History | |
| Reiser, Paul. (actor and stand-up comedian) | History | |
| Richardson, Bill. (Democratic congressman from New Mexico) | History | |
| Ringgold, Faith. (artist and social activist) | History | |
| Robinson, Arthur H. (cartographer and geographer) | History | |
| Rodman, Dennis. (basketball player) | History | |
| Rodriguez, Robert. (filmmaker) | History | |
| Roeg, Nicolas. (British movie director) | History | |
| Sadik, Nafis. (social activist and United Nations official) | History | |
| Samuelson, Joan. (Olympic marathon runner) | History | |
| Shcherbo, Vitaly. (gymnast) | History | |
| Shorter, Wayne. (jazz musician) | History | |
| Shortz, Will. (puzzle editor of the New York Times) | History | |
| Shriver, Eunice Kennedy. | History | |
| Simmons, Ruth J. (president of Smith College) | History | |
| Smith, Mary Carter. (African-American storyteller and folklorist) | History | |
| Smith, Will. (rap singer and actor) | History | |
| Snyder, Solomon H. (noted neuroscientist) | History | |
| Spielberg, Steven. (movie producer and director) | History | |
| Spivakov, Vladimir. (Russian violinist and conductor) | History | |
| Stahl, Lesley. (broadcast journalist) | History | |
| Stern, Howard. (radio and TV star) | History | |
| Stevenson, Bryan. (attorney and human rights activist) | History | |
| Stoddard, Alexandra. (interior designer) | History | |
| Stone, Sharon. (motion picture actress) | History | |
| Sweeney, John J. (AFL-CIO president) | History | |
| Swoopes, Sheryl. (basketball player) | History | |
| Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall. (author of 'The Hidden Life of Dogs') | History | |
| Thurman, Uma. (actress) | History | |
| Tilson Thomas, Michael. (conductor) | History | |
| Torrence, Gwen. (runner) | History | |
| Totenberg, Nina. (broadcast journalist for National Public Radio) | History | |
| Travers, P.L. (writer) | History | |
| Travolta, John. (actor) | History | |
| Turturro, John. (actor) | History | |
| Tyler, Steven. (rock-and-roll singer) | History | |
| Tyson, Laura D'Andrea. (economist) | History | |
| Van Allsburg, Chris. (artist/writer) | History | |
| Varmus, Harold E. (biomedical researcher and director of the National Institutes of Health) | History | |
| Vernon, Lillian. (founder of Lillian Vernon Corp, a mail-order catalog business) | History | |
| Vogelstein, Bert. (cancer researcher) | History | |
| Walesa, Lech. (Polish political leader) | History | |
| Wallerstein, Judith S. (psychologist and author) | History | |
| Weil, Andrew. (alternative medicine guru) | History | |
| Wiles, Andrew J. (mathematician and discoverer of a proof to Fermat's last theorem) | History | |
| Wilkens, Lenny. (basketball coach) | History | |
| Wolff, Tobias. (American short-fiction writer) | History | |
| Wu, Gordon. (real-estate developer) | History | |
| Wu, Harry. (human-rights activist) | History | |
| Wynonna. (country-music singer) | History | |
| Zedillo Ponce de Leon, Ernesto. (president of Mexico) | History | |
| Zyuganov, Gennadi A. (leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation) | History | |
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