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Gavin Leatherwood
Gavin Thomas Leatherwood is an American actor and musician, born 1994 in Maui, Hawaii, known for Nicholas Scratch in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Nico in The Sex Lives of College Girls, It's What's Inside, and Fox Thornton in It Happened One Summer.
Gavin MacIntosh
Gavin MacIntosh (born 1999, Tucson, Arizona) is an American actor and former Ford model, best known as Connor Stevens on The Fosters, in TV's reported youngest gay kiss, plus Bones, Bosch, and American Fable.
Gavin MacLeod
Gavin MacLeod (Allan George See, 1931-2021), American actor known as Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat, later Princess Cruises global ambassador.
Gavin Maxwell
Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969), Scottish naturalist and author of Ring of Bright Water (1960), the otter memoir that sold over two million copies; also SOE instructor and Soay basking shark fishery operator.
Gavin McInnes
Gavin McInnes (born 1970) is a British-born Canadian far-right commentator, co-founder of Vice media and founder of the Proud Boys in 2016, its leader until November 2018, later deplatformed and suing the SPLC.
Gavin McKenna
Gavin McKenna (born 2007) is a Canadian left wing from Whitehorse, Yukon; former Medicine Hat Tigers WHL star and Penn State freshman drafted first overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2026 NHL Draft.
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom, Democratic 40th Governor of California since January 2019, former San Francisco mayor and 49th lieutenant governor; known for same-sex marriage licenses as mayor, the PlumpJack business, and 2028 presidential speculation.
Gavin O'Connor (filmmaker)
Gavin O'Connor (born 1963, Long Island, New York) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer of Tumbleweeds, Miracle, Warrior, The Accountant, The Way Back, and The Accountant 2; distinct from the Irish actor of the same name.
Gavin O'Reilly
Gavin O'Reilly, Irish media executive, son of Sir Anthony O'Reilly; chief executive of Independent News & Media 2009-2012 and first president of WAN-IFRA; later CEO of The Agency Group; distinct from Gavan Reilly, the Virgin Media journalist.
Gavin P Dunn
Gavin P Dunn is an American neurosurgeon and neuro-oncology researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital who develops personalized neoantigen vaccines for glioblastoma.
Gavin P. Towler
Gavin P. Towler is a chemical engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led R&D at Honeywell UOP and co-authored the textbook Chemical Engineering Design.
Gavin Packard
Gavin Packard (1964–2012) was an Indian actor and bodybuilder who played villains and henchmen in Hindi and Malayalam cinema and trained stars like Sanjay Dutt.
Gavin Power Plant
The Gavin Power Plant, formally the General James M. Gavin Plant, is a 2,600-megawatt coal-fired station in Cheshire, Ohio, and the largest power plant in Ohio.
Gavin Price
Gavin R. Price is a cognitive neuroscientist studying numerical cognition with fMRI, an Associate Professor at the University of Exeter and recipient of the 2025 PECASE award.
Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale (Gavin McGregor Rossdale) is the English singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist who founded Bush in 1992, fronted Institute, released solo albums, and reunited Bush in 2010.
Gavin Salam
Gavin P. Salam is a theoretical particle physicist and professor at Oxford whose work centers on quantum chromodynamics for LHC measurements; he invented the anti-k_t jet algorithm in 2008.
Gavin Sawchuk
Gavin Sawchuk (born 2003) is an American college football running back from Littleton, Colorado, playing for Northwestern after stops at Oklahoma and Florida State; 2023 All-Big 12 honorable mention, 2027 NFL Draft prospect.
Gavin Screaton
Gavin Screaton is a British immunologist who has headed the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford since 2017, known for work on dengue antibodies and SARS-CoV-2 variant escape.
Gavin Sherlock
Gavin Sherlock is a yeast geneticist and Professor of Genetics at Stanford, coauthor of the Gene Ontology paper and known for lineage tracking of evolving yeast.
Gavin Smith (film studio executive)
Gavin Smith (1954–2012) was a 20th Century Fox film distribution executive and UCLA's 1975 NCAA championship basketball player, murdered in 2012 by John Creech, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 2017.
Gavin Williamson
Sir Gavin Williamson (born 1976, Scarborough) is a British Conservative MP for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge, formerly South Staffordshire, who served as chief whip, defence secretary (sacked 2019 over the Huawei NSC leak), education secretary (sacked 2021), and briefly Cabinet Office minister.
Gavin Wood
Gavin Wood is a British computer scientist who co-founded Ethereum, wrote its formal specification, created Solidity, coined the term Web3 in 2014, and later founded Polkadot.
Gavins Point Dam
Gavins Point Dam is an earth and chalk-fill dam on the Missouri River near Yankton, South Dakota, operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since 1955.
Gavkhouni (گاوخونی)
Gavkhouni (گاوخونی), also Gavkhuni or Gavkhooni, is a shallow saline Ramsar wetland (476 km2, designated 1975) east of Isfahan, Iran, terminal to the Zayandeh-Rud River, now almost completely dry from over-abstraction and drought.
Gävle goat
Gävle goat (Gävlebocken): giant straw goat erected each Advent in Gävle, Sweden, since 1966; famous for repeated arson, 34 destructions through 2018, webcam fame, and only one burning since 2016.
Gävleborg County
Gävleborg County (Gävleborgs län) is a Swedish county in southeastern Norrland, established in 1762, with Gävle as its seat. It had 287,502 inhabitants in 2020.
Gavriil Derzhavin
Gavriil Derzhavin (Гавриил Романович Державин) was a Russian poet and statesman who served Catherine II and Alexander I, becoming minister of justice in 1802; his ode "Felitsa" (1782) made his name.
Gavriil Golovkin
Gavriil Golovkin (Гавриил Иванович Головкин) was a Russian statesman who became the first state chancellor of the Russian Empire, serving Peter the Great from 1709 until his death in 1734.
Gavriil of Novgorod
Gavriil of Novgorod, in monastic life Grigory, was Archbishop of Novgorod from 1187 to 1193, younger brother of predecessor Ilya, consecrated in Kiev and venerated among Novgorod's saints.
Gavril Genovo
Gavril Genovo (Гаврил Геново) is a village in Montana Province, Bulgaria, formed in 1958 by merging Ilica and Sochotino and named for revolutionary Gavril Genov, leader of the 1923 Vratsa uprising; population 273.