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David Gill (Scottish astronomer)
Sir David Gill (1843–1914) was a Scottish astronomer who served as Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope from 1879, known for precision parallax measurements and pioneering astronomical photography.
David Gilmour
David Gilmour (born 1946), English guitarist, singer, and songwriter who joined Pink Floyd in 1968, led the band from 1985, and released five solo albums including On an Island and Luck and Strange.
David Ginola
David Ginola, French winger born in Gassin, starred for PSG, Newcastle, and Tottenham; won the 1999 PFA and FWA Player of the Year awards and the League Cup, later survived a 2016 cardiac arrest and became a French TV personality.
David Ginsburg (physician-scientist)
David Ginsburg is an American physician-scientist at the University of Michigan known for cloning the von Willebrand factor gene and defining genetic causes of bleeding and clotting disorders.
David Gitlin
David Gitlin (born 1921, New York) was an American immunologist and pediatrician who worked out the clinical physiology of the gamma globulins, the antibody-carrying serum proteins.
David Giuntoli
David Giuntoli (born 1980, Milwaukee) is an American actor known as Nick Burkhardt on Grimm (2011-2017) and Eddie Saville on A Million Little Things (2018-2023), married to Elizabeth Tulloch, and a director of TV episodes.
David Givol
David Givol (1929–2012) was an Israeli molecular biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, known for mapping the antibody combining site by affinity labeling and for later work on the p53 tumor suppressor gene.
David Gleirscher
David Gleirscher, Austrian artificial-track luge athlete (born 1994, Hall in Tirol), policeman; won surprise 2018 PyeongChang men's singles gold in 3:10.702, first Austrian in the event in 50 years, plus 2018 team relay bronze and four World Championship medals.
David Glen Eisley
David Glen Eisley is an American rock singer, lead vocalist of Giuffria (1984–1986) and Dirty White Boy, later replaced in House of Lords by James Christian, and co-writer of SpongeBob's "Sweet Victory."
David Glendenning Cogan
David Glendenning Cogan was an American ophthalmologist who led Harvard's Howe Laboratory from 1943 to 1973, founded neuro-ophthalmology, and gave his name to Cogan's syndrome, a rare autoimmune eye-and-ear disease.
David Goeddel
David Goeddel is an American molecular biologist who was the first scientist hired at Genentech, where his cloning work underpinned human insulin and other therapeutics.
David Goffin
David Goffin, Belgian tennis player (born 1990, Rocourt), career-high ATP No. 7 in 2017, six singles titles, four Grand Slam quarterfinals, Davis Cup finalist 2015 and 2017, retired after the 2026 season.
David Goggins
David Goggins, also known as Dave Goggins, is an American retired Navy SEAL, ultramarathon runner, and author known for extreme endurance feats and his 2018 memoir Can't Hurt Me.
David Gold (businessman)
David Gold (1936-2023), British businessman, Ann Summers owner via Gold Group International, Birmingham City chairman from 1993, and West Ham United joint chairman with David Sullivan from 2010 until his death.
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt (1930–2018) was a South African documentary photographer who chronicled South African life from 1948 through apartheid, publishing books such as On the Mines and In Boksburg.
David Goldhaber-Gordon
David Goldhaber-Gordon is an American experimental condensed matter physicist and Stanford professor, known for the first Kondo effect demonstration in a semiconductor nanostructure and work on graphene moiré superlattices.
David Goldman (neurogeneticist)
David Goldman is an American physician and neurogeneticist who has headed the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism since 1991, studying genes affecting psychiatric vulnerability.
David Goodwillie
David Goodwillie, born 1989, is a Scottish former footballer who played for Dundee United, Blackburn Rovers and Aberdeen and was capped by Scotland.
David Gordon Green
David Gordon Green (born 1975) is an American director, writer, and producer of George Washington, Pineapple Express, the Halloween trilogy, The Exorcist: Believer, and Nutcrackers.
David Goss
David Goss (1952–2017) was an American mathematician at Ohio State University who founded modern function field arithmetic, introduced the Goss zeta functions, and wrote their standard monograph.
David Gottlieb (applied mathematician)
David Gottlieb (1944–2008) was an applied mathematician, a pioneer of spectral methods for partial differential equations, and a Brown University professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
David Gowan
David Gowan is an American Republican politician serving in the Arizona Senate from the 19th district, and a former Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives from 2015 to 2017.
David Gower
David Ivon Gower (born 1957), English left-handed batsman, 1978-1992; 117 Tests, 8,231 runs at 44.25, 18 centuries; England captain in 1985 Ashes win and 1989; later Sky Sports lead cricket presenter.
David Gozal
David Gozal is a physician-scientist in pediatric sleep medicine known for research on childhood obstructive sleep apnea, and dean of Marshall University's medical school since 2023.
David Graeber
David Graeber (1961–2020), American anthropologist and anarchist activist, LSE professor, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs, cofounder of Occupy Wall Street and coauthor of "We are the 99 percent."
David Graf
David Graf (Paul David Graf, 1950–2001), American character actor, played Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry in Police Academy and its six sequels; also Star Trek guest roles; died of a heart attack in 2001. Distinct from actor David Alan Graf.
David Graham (actor)
David Graham (1925-2024), English voice actor; voiced Parker, Brains, Gordon Tracy and Kyrano in Thunderbirds, original Dalek voices with Peter Hawkins in Doctor Who, and Grandpa Pig in Peppa Pig from 2004 to 2022.
David Grann
David Grann (born 1967, New York) is an American narrative nonfiction author and New Yorker staff writer since 2003, known for Killers of the Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, and The Wager.
David Grant (singer)
David Grant (David Beresford Grant, born 1956, Hackney, London), English soul singer and vocal coach; co-founder of Brit-funk band Linx, solo star of "Watching You, Watching Me" (no. 10, 1983) and 1985 Jaki Graham duets; Fame Academy judge, BAFTA and MOBO winner, MBE 2019.
David Gray (British musician)
David Gray, also known as David Peter Gray, is a British singer-songwriter whose fourth album White Ladder became one of the bestselling British albums, selling over seven million copies.