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Famous Person Search

Using netTrekker's Famous Person Search, you can quickly and easily locate information about well-known people, including political leaders, athletes, scientists, artists, writers, and more.

To perform a Famous Person Search, click "Famous Person" from the Features toolbox, located at the right of the page. Your results will reflect which section you begin your search in; e.g. if you search from Elementary netTrekker, you will receive Elementary Famous Person results.

Location of Famous Person Search:

Features Box

Famous Person Search enables you to focus your Search Results to include only sites that contain information about the famous person of your choice.

Search by Name
Enter a name in the Name box. This can be a full name, just a last name, or even just a first name. This will produce a list of Famous People who have that name.
Create a Famous Person List
Generate a list of famous people based on your own criteria. Place a check in each box that fits your requirements in the categories of Gender, Time Period, Occupation/Profession, Ethnic/Cultural Heritage. You may check more than one box in each category. You may also leave all boxes unchecked in a category.

Once you generate a list of famous people, you can click on any name on the list to get a Search Result page.

Example: Search by Name

Let's say you are at the Subject Search page in High School netTrekker. If you click on Famous Person in the Features toolbox, enter "Martin" in the Name box and click , you will receive a list of more than 10 famous Martins found in netTrekker. Some of these "Martins" are first names, some middle and some last.

Example of "Martin" list

You will also note that there is a Timeline icon () next to some of these names. Click on to go to a Timeline based on the dates of this famous person's life.

Example: Create a Famous Person List

If you have a particular category, but not a particular person in mind, use the "Famous Person Filter" feature.

Let's say you are interested in American women authors of the 18th century. Just click on the boxes next to "Female," "18th Century," "Authors/Writers," and "American." Then click .
Click on any of these names to go to a Search Result page about that person.
If you want Eastern European Philosophers, regardless of gender or time period, click only the boxes next to "European [East]" and "Philosophers" but do not put checks in any boxes in the Gender or Time Period columns. Then click .
Click on any of these names to go to a Search Result page about that person.

If you wish, you can save any of your Famous Person lists into your Portfolio by clicking on the button.