» Aleksandr Friedmann - A biography with reference to contemporaries, and a list of references.
» Georg Riemann - Although he died before the development of general relativity, his work in non-Euclidean geometries is very important to studying a curved spacetime.
» Georgio Ricci-Curbastro - The mathematician who developed much of tensor calculus before Einstein found a use for it.
» Hendrik Lorentz - Brief biography.
» Hermann Minkowski - A brief biography with quotations and a bibliography.
» Hermann Weyl - One of the first people to combine general relativity with the laws of electromagnetism
» Karl Schwarzschild - The man who solved Einstein's equations and predicted the existence of black holes
» Luigi Bianchi - A mathematician who developed many theorems regarding Riemannian geometry
» Marcel Grossmann - A brief biography on Marcel Grossmann, a classmate of Einstein who was the first to find a connection between tensor calculus and the theory of relativity.
» Southampton GR Explorer - An introduction to Einstein's theory of General Relativity and related topics. Includes text, pictures and movies.
» Willem DeSitter - Mathematician who studied solution to general relativity and developed DeSitter space
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