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Geoffrey A. Donnan

Geoffrey A. Donnan, also known as Geoffrey Donnan, is an Australian neurologist and stroke researcher who directed the Florey Institute and led the EXTEND stroke trials.

Sep 20, 2026

Geoffrey A. Ozin

Geoffrey A. Ozin is a Canadian materials chemist at the University of Toronto, widely called the father of nanochemistry, and won the 2011 Albert Einstein World Award of Science.

Geoffrey Arend (born 1978, Manhattan) is an American actor known for (500) Days of Summer, Body of Proof, and Madam Secretary, and for voicing Upchuck on Daria; distinct from the aviation author of the same name.

Geoffrey Bayldon

Geoffrey Bayldon (1924–2017), English actor; starred as Catweazle (1970–71) and the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge, played 'Q' in Casino Royale (1967), and twice declined the role of Doctor Who before voicing the Doctor in Big Finish audio plays.

Geoffrey Beach

Geoffrey S. D. Beach is a materials scientist and Toyota Professor at MIT who studies spin dynamics, domain walls, and skyrmions in magnetic thin films.

Oct 22, 2026

Geoffrey Blainey

Geoffrey Blainey, born 1930 in Melbourne, is a prolific Australian historian whose more than forty books include The Tyranny of Distance and A Short History of the World.

Geoffrey Blewitt

Geoffrey Blewitt is an American geophysicist at the University of Nevada, Reno, known for making GPS precise to the millimeter and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Geoffrey Bodenhausen

Geoffrey Bodenhausen (born 1951) is a Dutch-born French NMR spectroscopist, a pioneer of multidimensional NMR and professor emeritus at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Geoffrey Boothroyd

Geoffrey Boothroyd (1932–2024) was an English-born manufacturing engineer who co-created the DFMA methodology with Peter Dewhurst, taught at UMass Amherst and the University of Rhode Island, and received the 1991 National Medal of Technology.

Geoffrey Bowers

Geoffrey F. Bowers, New York lawyer at Baker & McKenzie whose 1986 AIDS discrimination complaint, one of the first in the US, won a record $500,000 NY human rights award in 1993 and inspired the film Philadelphia.

Geoffrey Boycott

Geoffrey Boycott, born 21 October 1940, England and Yorkshire opening batsman; 108 Tests 1964-1982, 8,114 runs at 47.72, 22 centuries, first England player past 8,000 Test runs; later a BBC commentator.

Geoffrey Burbidge

Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge (1925–2010) was a British-born astronomer who worked in the United States, co-author of the 1957 B²FH paper on element synthesis in stars.

Geoffrey Burnstock

Geoffrey Burnstock (1929–2020) was a British-born neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered that ATP acts as a neurotransmitter, founded purinergic signaling, and headed anatomy at University College London.

Geoffrey C. Farrell

Geoffrey C. Farrell is an Australian hepatologist who established non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and drug-induced liver injury as major fields, authored the first book on NAFLD, and led liver research units at Westmead and Canberra hospitals.

Geoffrey C. Gurtner

Geoffrey C. Gurtner is an American plastic surgeon and wound-healing researcher known for work on mechanotransduction and scarring, and chair of surgery at the University of Arizona.

Geoffrey C. Hsu, CFA

Geoffrey C. Hsu, CFA, is a General Partner at OrbiMed, a healthcare investment firm, and co-manager with Josh Golomb of the UK-listed Biotech Growth Trust PLC.

Geoffrey Cardozo

Geoffrey Cardozo is a retired British Army colonel of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards who organized the burial of Argentine war dead after the 1982 Falklands War.

Geoffrey Chang

Geoffrey Chang is a structural biologist and professor at UC San Diego's Skaggs School of Pharmacy, known for x-ray structures of multidrug resistance transporters including P-glycoprotein and NorM.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s-1400), English poet and royal civil servant, author of The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and Book of the Duchess; comptroller of wool customs under Edward III and Richard II; drew on Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch.

Geoffrey Chew

Geoffrey Chew (1924–2019) was an American theoretical particle physicist at UC Berkeley who led the S-matrix approach to the strong force and its bootstrap principle, called nuclear democracy.

Geoffrey Colin Shephard

Geoffrey Colin Shephard (1927–2016) was a British mathematician who worked on convex geometry and reflection groups, co-authoring the 1954 Shephard–Todd classification and the book Tilings and Patterns.

Geoffrey Cox (British politician)

Sir Geoffrey Cox KC, British Conservative barrister-politician; MP for Torridge and West Devon then Torridge and Tavistock since 2024; Attorney General 2018–2020; known for Brexit legal advice and large outside legal earnings.

Geoffrey de Havilland

Geoffrey de Havilland (1882–1965) was an English aviation pioneer and test pilot who founded the de Havilland Aircraft Company in 1920 and designed the Mosquito and the Comet, the first commercial jet airliner.

Geoffrey Dummer

Geoffrey Dummer (1909–2002) was a British electronics engineer at the Royal Radar Establishment who in 1952 published the first public description of the integrated circuit, though he never built one.

Geoffrey Durham

Geoffrey Durham (born 1949), English comedy magician and actor, stage name The Great Soprendo; Crackerjack, The Best of Magic, Countdown, Magic Circle Maskelyne Award, married to Victoria Wood.

Geoffrey Dusheiko

Geoffrey Dusheiko is a hepatologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at University College London, known for research on viral hepatitis B, C, and D and antiviral therapy.

Geoffrey Edelsten

Geoffrey Walter Edelsten (1943-2021), Australian medical entrepreneur and former GP, founder of Preventicare and 1980s bulk-billing superclinics, first private owner of the Sydney Swans, later deregistered, jailed, and bankrupted.

Geoffrey Eglinton

Geoffrey Eglinton (1927–2016) was a British chemist whose insights into the geological fate of organic compounds made him the father of modern organic geochemistry and pioneer of molecular-fossil research.

Geoffrey F. Miller

Geoffrey F. Miller is an evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico, best known for the "mating mind" hypothesis that sexual choice shaped human intelligence, art, and humor.