Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A biography is a description of an individual person's life, including short articles, multivolume book works, radio documentaries, and films. The term also describes the scholarly discipline of creating such descriptions. See List of biographers for well-known exponents of biography as a genre. In Wikipedia, biographies are collected under Lists of people, they are also found in several higher level articles, such as: authors chemists scientists mathematicians explorers inventors artists politicians kings and queens economists actors and actresses popes musicians People who contributed work to Wikipedia also often describe themselves (see the list of Recent Changes). This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.