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Gábor Szegő
Gábor Szegő (1895–1985) was a Hungarian-born classical analyst whose work on Toeplitz determinants and orthogonal polynomials named the Szegő kernel, limit theorem, and curve; he led Stanford's mathematics department from 1938.
Gábor Széles
Gábor Széles (born 1945) is a Hungarian electronics industrialist, chairman and CEO of Videoton Holding in Székesfehérvár, which he bought out of liquidation in 1991 and built into one of Hungary's largest manufacturers.
Gábor Tardos
Gábor Tardos, born 1964 in Budapest, is a Hungarian combinatorics researcher at the Rényi Institute who won the 2020 Gödel Prize with Robin Moser for the constructive Lovász local lemma.
Gabor transform
The Gabor transform is a time-frequency analysis method, the short-time Fourier transform taken with a Gaussian window, showing how a signal's frequencies change over time.
Gábor Tusnády
Gábor Tusnády is a Hungarian mathematician and Research Fellow at the Rényi Institute in Budapest, best known for the 1975 Komlós–Major–Tusnády strong approximation theorems and Tusnády's inequality, and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Gabor wavelet
A Gabor wavelet is a sinusoidal carrier multiplied by a Gaussian envelope, used for localized time-frequency analysis of signals and for feature extraction from images.
Gaboro
Gaboro, stage name of Ninos Khouri (also Ninos Moses Khouri), was a Swedish masked rapper from Norrköping known for BOGOTA and SUAVEMENTE; shot dead 19 December 2024, with his killer later sentenced to life.
Gaborone
Gaborone is the capital of Botswana, built after 1966 independence as a planned garden city. It grew from 7,000 people to over 230,000 by 2011, facing water scarcity and rapid sprawl.
Gabourey Sidibe
Gabourey Sidibe (born 1983) is an American actress, director, and memoirist, Oscar-nominated for Precious (2009), known for Queenie in American Horror Story, Becky on Empire, and directing Be Happy.
Gaboxadol
Gaboxadol (THIP), an extrasynaptic GABAA receptor agonist developed by Lundbeck and Merck for insomnia; development stopped in 2007 over variable efficacy and psychiatric side effects; later orphan-designated for Angelman syndrome and Fragile X.
Gabr-i Mader-i Soleiman
Gabr-i Mader-i Soleiman, 'tomb of the mother of Solomon', the Islamic-era local name for the gabled stone tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae, Fars, Iran; identified as his tomb in the 19th century after centuries of Solomonic veneration.
Gabra Heywat Baykadagn
Gabra Heywat Baykadagn, also written Gebrehiwot Baykedagn, was an Ethiopian physician and economist close to Emperor Menelik II's court, known for his Amharic works of reformist political economy.
Gabra Masqal
Gabra Masqal, "servant of the cross," was a sixth-century king of Aksum and son of Emperor Kaleb, remembered for church building and patronage of the hymnist Yared.
GABRA1
GABRA1 (EJM, ECA4, DEE19) is a human gene on chromosome 5q34 encoding the alpha-1 subunit of the GABA_A receptor, a chloride channel; mutations cause juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, childhood absence epilepsy, and epileptic encephalopathy.
GABRB3
GABRB3, also called ECA5/DEE43, is a human gene at 15q12 encoding the beta3 subunit of the GABA_A inhibitory chloride-channel receptor. Pathogenic variants split into gain- and loss-of-function groups causing distinct epileptic encephalopathies; reduced expression marks Angelman and Prader-Willi syndromes.
GABRG2
GABRG2 (OMIM 137164) encodes the gamma-2 subunit of the GABA_A receptor chloride channel at 5q34. Pathogenic variants cause febrile seizures, GEFS+, childhood absence epilepsy, and Dravet syndrome; transmembrane and gain-of-function variants are more severe.
Gabri Veiga
Gabriel Veiga Novas, Gabri Veiga, Spanish midfielder born 2002 in O Porriño; Celta academy product, 11 La Liga goals in 2022/23, sold to Al Ahli in 2023, AFC Champions League Elite winner, and FC Porto midfielder since 2025.
Gabrias
Gabrias: an ancient place in Lozere, France, recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer (BAtlas 17 A4) as a temple or sanctuary site occupied around 30 BC to AD 300; also a modern commune near Mende, and a variant spelling of the fabulist Babrias.
Gabriel
Gabriel (Hebrew Gavriel, Arabic Jibril) is the angel messenger named in Daniel, Luke's Annunciation, and the Quran, honored across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Gabriel A. Dover
Gabriel A. Dover is a geneticist who was Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester and originated molecular drive, his theory of evolution first published in Nature in 1982.
Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi is a climate scientist, the Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University, known for research on hurricanes, El Niño, monsoons, and climate change attribution.
Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich
Gabriel Adrián Rabinovich is an Argentine immunologist and glycobiologist at the University of Buenos Aires known for defining how galectin-glycan interactions let tumors escape immune attack.
Gabriel Aeppli
Gabriel Aeppli, born 1956, is a condensed matter physicist known for work on quantum magnetism, professor at ETH Zürich and head of Photon Science at the Paul Scherrer Institut.
Gabriel Agbonlahor
Gabriel (Gabby) Agbonlahor, born 1986, English striker who spent his whole career at Aston Villa (391 games, 86 goals, record Premier League scorer for the club), won 3 England caps 2008-09, captained Villa, retired 2019, now a talkSPORT pundit.
Gabriel Almond
Gabriel Almond was an American political scientist who helped establish comparative politics and political culture as research fields, and co-authored The Civic Culture (1963) with Sidney Verba.
Gabriel and the Mountain
Gabriel and the Mountain (Gabriel e a Montanha), 2017 Brazilian-French drama by Fellipe Barbosa about economist Gabriel Buchmann, who died of hypothermia in 2009 on Mount Mulanje, Malawi; Cannes Critics' Week, two awards.
Gabriel Andrew Dirac
Gabriel Andrew Dirac, born Gábor Balázs, was a Hungarian-born graph theorist and stepson of physicist Paul Dirac, best known for his 1952 Hamiltonian cycle theorem.
Gabriel Attal
Gabriel Attal (born 1989), French Renaissance politician, youngest-ever and first openly gay Prime Minister of France (January to September 2024), now party leader and 2027 presidential candidate.
Gabriel Aubry
Gabriel Aubry (born 1976, Montreal) is a French-Canadian male model, DKNY and Hugo Boss campaign star and Uomo Vogue cover subject, now also a painter, and father of Nahla with Halle Berry.
Gabriel Barbosa
Gabriel Barbosa, known as Gabigol, Brazilian striker born 1996; Santos youth product, Inter Milan and Benfica flop, 2019 Copa Libertadores hero with Flamengo, now back at Santos on loan from Cruzeiro.