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Gabiniani
The Gabiniani were Roman soldiers left in Egypt by Aulus Gabinius in 55 BC as a garrison for Ptolemy XII, serving the Ptolemaic court until 47 BC.
Gabino Barreda
Gabino Barreda (1818–1881) was a Mexican physician, positivist philosopher, and politician who reorganized public education in Mexico after the Republic's restoration in 1867, writing the 1867 law that made primary schooling obligatory, free, and secular.
Gabion
A gabion, from the Italian gabbione meaning big cage, is a wire mesh basket filled with rock or soil and stacked into retaining walls, channel linings, and erosion controls.
Gabit Musirepov
Gabit Musirepov (1902–1985) was a Kazakh Soviet writer, playwright, and literary official recognized as a founder of Kazakh Soviet literature and author of enduring folklore dramas.
Gabito Ballesteros
Gabito Ballesteros (Gabriel Ballesteros Abril, b. 1999, Cumpas, Sonora) is a corridos tumbados singer-songwriter behind "AMG" and "Lady Gaga", signed to Los CT, with albums The GB (2024) and Ya No Se Llevan Serenatas (2025).
Gable roof
A gable roof is a roof with a central ridge sloping in two directions, forming a triangular gable at each end wall; it is one of the two most common sloped roof types.
Gable Steveson
Gable Steveson (born 2000), American heavyweight wrestler named after Dan Gable; Tokyo 2020 Olympic 125 kg gold medalist, two-time NCAA champion for Minnesota, ex-WWE and Buffalo Bills, now 4-1 UFC fighter.
Gabo Reforms
The Gabo Reforms (갑오개혁) were reform movements in Joseon Korea from July 1894 to February 1896 that abolished the hereditary status system and reorganized central and local government.
Gabon
Gabon: Central African Atlantic-coast country of about 3.5 million, oil- and forest-rich, capital Libreville. Ruled by the Bongo family until the August 2023 coup; Brice Oligui Nguema elected president in April 2025 under a new constitution.
Gabon national football team
Gabon national football team, Les Panthères, Gabon's men's team run by FEGAFOOT (founded 1962). Nine AFCON appearances, quarter-finals best (1996, 2012), never at a World Cup; Aubameyang record scorer with 33 goals.
Gaboon viper
Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica, Gaboon adder): Africa's largest viper, a sub-Saharan ambush predator with 5 cm fangs, record venom yield over 2 g per milking, docile temperament, and IUCN Vulnerable status.
Gábor A. Somorjai
Gábor A. Somorjai (1935–2025) was a Hungarian-born American chemist at UC Berkeley who founded the molecular surface science of heterogeneous catalysis and won the Wolf, Priestley, and Fermi awards.
Gábor Balázsi
Gábor Balázsi is a systems and synthetic biologist who is the Henry Laufer Professor at Stony Brook University, studying how gene expression noise shapes drug resistance and cancer metastasis.
Gábor Baross
Gábor Baross de Bellus (1848–1892) was a Hungarian politician and transport minister known as the "iron minister" who nationalized railways and created the 1889 zone tariff.
Gabor Benedek
Gabor Benedek (Gábor Benedek, born 1927) is a Hungarian modern pentathlete who won individual silver and team gold at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, and the 1953 world title.
Gábor Bethlen
Gábor Bethlen (Bethlen Gábor) was prince of Transylvania from 1613 to 1629, who attacked the Habsburgs, was elected king of Hungary in 1620, but was never crowned.
Gabor C. Temes
Gabor C. Temes is a Hungarian-born electrical engineer, professor at Oregon State University, known for pioneering work on switched-capacitor circuits and delta-sigma data conversion, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
Gábor Csányi
Gábor Csányi is a Hungarian-born computational scientist and Professor of Molecular Modelling at Cambridge, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2025, known for machine-learned interatomic potentials like Gaussian approximation potentials.
Gabor Csapo
Gabor Csapo (Gábor Csapó), Hungarian water polo player (1950-2022), Olympic gold 1976 and bronze 1980, 1973 world champion, 272 caps for Hungary, later Vasas coach and lawyer.
Gábor Csupó
Gábor Csupó (Csupó Gábor, born 1952, Budapest) is a Hungarian animator and co-founder of Klasky Csupo, which animated early The Simpsons and created Rugrats; he directed Bridge to Terabithia and runs Tone Casualties.
Gabor David Kelen
Gabor David Kelen, known as Gabe Kelen, is a Canadian-trained American emergency physician who has chaired Johns Hopkins' Department of Emergency Medicine since 1993 and founded its disaster-preparedness office, CEPAR.
Gabor Delneky
Gábor Delneky (Gábor László Delneky), Hungarian sabre fencer, 1960 Rome Olympic team sabre gold medalist, 1959 world silver and 1961 bronze; later a US civil engineer in Orlando.
Gabor filter
A Gabor filter is a linear image filter, a sinusoidal wave modulated by a Gaussian envelope, that measures local orientation and frequency in images for texture analysis and biometric recognition.
Gabor Horvath
Gabor Horvath (Horváth Gábor, born 1971, Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist, K4 1000 m Olympic champion at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 and silver medalist at Atlanta 1996, with three world titles; distinct from Swedish pentathlete George Horwath.
Gábor Kemény
Baron Gábor Kemény (báró Kemény Gábor, 1830–1888) was a Hungarian politician and publicist who served as minister of agriculture, industry and trade from 1878 to 1882.
Gábor Király
Gábor Király is a Hungarian former goalkeeper, known as the "Pyjama Man" for playing in gray tracksuit bottoms and the oldest player to appear at a European Championship.
Gabor Kis
Gabor Kis (Gábor Kis), Hungarian water polo center born 1982 in Budapest; 2008 Beijing Olympic champion with Hungary, 2016 Rio fifth place, six Hungarian titles and 2017 Champions League with Szolnok; distinct from sprinters named Gábor Kiss.
Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté (born 1944, Budapest) is a Hungarian-Canadian retired physician and author on addiction, trauma, and stress; Holocaust survivor, Downtown Eastside physician, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, Order of Canada recipient.
Gábor Pósfai
Gábor Pósfai is a Hungarian politician and business executive, Minister of Interior since 2026, who was operative director of the Tisza Párt and formerly led Decathlon in Hungary.
Gabor sisters
Gabor sisters: Magda, Zsa Zsa (Sári Gábor), and Eva Gabor, Budapest-born Hungarian-American actresses and socialites famous for being famous; Eva starred in Green Acres, Zsa Zsa married nine times and slapped a Beverly Hills cop in 1989.