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Gabriel Gerberon

Gabriel Gerberon (1628–1711) was a French Benedictine of the Maurist Congregation who edited St Anselm's works, wrote a history of Jansenism, and used at least sixteen pseudonyms.

Gabriel Gonzaga

Gabriel "Napao" Gonzaga, Brazilian heavyweight MMA fighter and jiu-jitsu black belt; UFC 2005-2016; knocked out Mirko Cro Cop at UFC 70 in 2007, challenged Randy Couture, retired 17-11.

Gabriel González Videla

Gabriel González Videla was a Chilean Radical Party politician who served as President of Chile from 1946 to 1952, granting women full suffrage in 1949 and outlawing the Communist Party in 1948.

Gabriel H. Travis

Gabriel H. Travis is an American vision scientist and physician, Professor of Ophthalmology at UCLA since 2001, known for identifying Rpe65 as the visual cycle's retinoid isomerase.

Gabriel Hanotaux

Gabriel Hanotaux (1853–1944) was a French diplomat, historian, and member of the Académie française who twice served as foreign minister and directed French policy at the Fashoda crisis of 1898.

Gabriel Heinze

Gabriel Heinze, Argentine defender and coach born 1978 in Crespo; played for PSG, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Marseille; 72 Argentina caps, 2004 Olympic gold; managed Vélez, Atlanta United, Newell's; Arsenal coach since 2025.

Gabriel Hogan

Gabriel Hogan (born 1973, Toronto) is a Canadian actor, son of Michael and Susan Hogan, known for Traders, Heartland's Peter Morris, Rent-a-Goalie, Tacoma FD's Ike Crystal, and five Gemini nominations.

Gabriel Horn

Gabriel Horn (1927–2012) was a British neuroscientist and zoologist at Cambridge who, through chick imprinting experiments, first identified a brain region where memory is stored, and was knighted in 2002.

Gabriel Howell

Gabriel Howell is a British actor, RADA graduate (2021), known as Elias in Netflix's Bodies (2023), Tobi McKnight in BBC's Nightsleeper, and Snotlout Jorgensen in the 2025 live-action How to Train Your Dragon.

Gabriel I

Gabriel I (Γαβριήλ Α΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1596, formerly metropolitan of Thessaloniki, chosen in place of Matthew II and dying in Constantinople after a few months.

Gabriel Iglesias

Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias, American stand-up comedian and voice actor from Long Beach; clean storytelling with character voices, Hot and Fluffy (2007), Dodger Stadium 2022, The 1976 Tour.

Gabriel II

Gabriel II (Γαβριήλ Β΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for about a week in April 1657; executed by Ottoman authorities in 1659, he is venerated as a hieromartyr.

Gabriel III

Gabriel III (Γαβριήλ Γ΄) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1702 until his death in 1707. Born in Smyrna, he canonized Dionysios of Zakynthos and founded the first Greek school of Smyrna.

Gabriel Índio

Gabriel Índio (Gabriel dos Santos Queiroz), Brazilian center-back born 2008 in Rio de Janeiro; played for Athletic Club (MG), joined SL Benfica in 2026 on a contract to 2031.

Gabriel IV

Gabriel IV was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1780 to 1785. Born in Smyrna, he restored Athanasius Parios to communion in 1781 and blessed Mount Athos's lasting typikon in 1783.

Gabriël J.E. Rinkel

Gabriël J.E. Rinkel (born 1961) is a Dutch neurologist and professor of neurology at UMC Utrecht, an authority on subarachnoid hemorrhage and intracranial aneurysms known for the PHASES rupture-risk score.

Gabriel Jacoby

Gabriel Jacoby (born 1998, Anderson, South Carolina) is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter and producer based in Tampa, Florida, signed to Pulse Records; his debut EP gutta child (2025) blends blues, funk, and Dirty South hip-hop.

Gabriel Jesus

Gabriel Jesus (Gabriel Fernando de Jesus, born 1997, São Paulo) is a Brazilian forward for FC Barcelona, formerly Palmeiras, Manchester City and Arsenal; Olympic gold 2016, Copa América 2019, four Premier League titles.

Gabriel Kotliar

Gabriel Kotliar, born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1957, is a condensed matter theorist at Rutgers University known as a founding father of dynamical mean-field theory.

Gabriel LaBelle

Gabriel LaBelle (born 2002, Vancouver) is a Canadian actor known for playing young Steven Spielberg in The Fabelmans (2022), for which he won NBR Breakthrough Performance and a Critics' Choice young-performer award, and Lorne Michaels in Saturday Night (2024), earning a 2025 Golden Globe nomination.

Gabriel Lameirinhas

Gabriel Lameirinhas is a Brazilian computer engineer, educated at the Universidade de São Paulo, who co-founded the industrial technology company Tractian in 2019 and serves as its Co-CEO.

Gabriel Lander

Gabriel C. Lander is a structural biologist and Professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for cryo-electron microscopy studies of the proteasome and molecular glue degraders.

Gabriel Landeskog

Gabriel Landeskog, known as Gabe Landeskog, is a Swedish ice hockey left wing and captain of the Colorado Avalanche, winner of the 2012 Calder Trophy.

Gabriel Laub

Gabriel Laub (1928–1998) was a German-language writer born in Bochnia, Poland, known above all for his aphorisms and satires; he settled in Hamburg after emigrating in 1968.

Gabriel Lippmann

Gabriel Lippmann, born in Hollerich, Luxembourg, in 1845, was a French physicist at the Sorbonne who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of reproducing colors photographically based on interference.

Gabriel Luna

Gabriel Luna (born 1982, Austin, Texas) is an American actor known as Robbie Reyes/Ghost Rider in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Rev-9 in Terminator: Dark Fate, and Tommy Miller in HBO's The Last of Us.

Gabriel Macht

Gabriel Macht (born 1972, Bronx, New York) is an American actor, Carnegie Mellon drama graduate, director, and producer. Known for Harvey Specter in Suits (2011–2019, 134 episodes), The Spirit (2008), and a 2025 three-episode Suits LA return.

Gabriel Magalhães

Gabriel Magalhães (Gabriel dos Santos Magalhães, born 1997) is a Brazilian left-footed centre-back for Arsenal and Brazil; signed from Lille for £27m in 2020, set-piece goal threat, 2026 World Cup starter.

Gabriel Malagrida

Gabriel Malagrida (1689–1761) was an Italian-born Jesuit missionary who worked nearly thirty years in Brazil, then was garroted and burned at Lisbon's auto-da-fé in 1761, the Portuguese Inquisition's last execution.

Gabriel Mann

Gabriel Mann names two Americans: an actor born 1972 in Middlebury, Vermont, known as Nolan Ross in Revenge and the Bourne films, and a composer who scored Modern Family and Emily in Paris with the band The Rescues.