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Geoffrey Fieger
Geoffrey Nels Fieger, Michigan trial lawyer, Kevorkian defense attorney, and 1998 Democratic gubernatorial nominee; founder of Fieger Law in Southfield, known for the $144 million birth-trauma verdict and 2007 federal acquittal.
Geoffrey Francis Fisher
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, was the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961, who crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and chaired the World Council of Churches' inaugural assembly in 1948.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (1970/1971–2017), also known as Dr G Yunupingu, was a blind Yolngu (Gumatj) Australian singer-songwriter from Elcho Island; ex-Yothu Yindi and Saltwater Band member whose 2008 debut became Australia's best-selling Aboriginal album.
Geoffrey Hawtin
Geoffrey Hawtin is a British and Canadian agricultural scientist who shared the 2024 World Food Prize for preserving crop biodiversity and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton, also known as Geoff Hinton, is a British-Canadian computer scientist who won the 2018 Turing Award and 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for deep learning.
Geoffrey Holder
Geoffrey Lamont Holder (1930–2014), Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer, painter, and actor; Tony-winning director and costume designer of The Wiz (1975), Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die, Punjab in Annie, and the 7-Up 'Uncola' spokesman.
Geoffrey Horrocks (mathematician)
Geoffrey Horrocks was a British mathematician who worked on vector bundles on projective space, a professor at Newcastle University until 1998, and namesake of the Horrocks construction, the Horrocks–Mumford bundle, and monads.
Geoffrey Howe
Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon (1926–2015), British Conservative chancellor of the Exchequer 1979–83 and foreign secretary 1983–89 under Margaret Thatcher; his 13 November 1990 resignation speech triggered the leadership challenge that ended her premiership.
Geoffrey Hughes (actor)
Geoffrey Hughes (1944–2012), English actor; Eddie Yeats in Coronation Street, Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances, Twiggy in The Royle Family, Vernon Scripps in Heartbeat, and the voice of Paul McCartney in Yellow Submarine (1968).
Geoffrey Hutchings
Geoffrey Albert Hutchings (1939-2010) was an English character actor, RSC associate artist who played Shakespearean clowns, won the 1982 Olivier Award for Poppy, played Sid James in Cleo Camping Emmanuelle and Dick, and Mel Harvey in Benidorm.
Geoffrey I. Shapiro
Geoffrey I. Shapiro is a physician-scientist in medical oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and a Harvard Medical School professor who leads early-phase anticancer drug trials.
Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany
Geoffrey II (1158–1186), fourth son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, was duke of Brittany by marriage to Constance from 1181, issued the 1185 Assize, and fathered Arthur of Brittany.
Geoffrey Ingram Taylor
Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886–1975) was a British physicist and mathematician at Trinity College, Cambridge, known for work on turbulence, shock waves, and plastic deformation.
Geoffrey J. Barton
Geoffrey J. Barton, known as Geoff Barton, is a British bioinformatician who holds the Chair of Bioinformatics at the University of Dundee and created the Jalview and JPred tools.
Geoffrey J. Faulkner
Geoffrey J. Faulkner is an Australian molecular biologist who studies somatic retrotransposition, the movement of mobile DNA such as LINE-1 within the genomes of individual brain cells.
Geoffrey Keating
Geoffrey Keating (Irish: Seathrún Céitinn, c. 1580–1644) was an Irish Catholic priest, poet, and historian whose prose history Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (c. 1634) shaped Irish historiography for centuries.
Geoffrey Keynes
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (1887–1982), English surgeon, brother of economist John Maynard Keynes; pioneer of blood transfusion, radium treatment of breast cancer, and thymectomy, and a leading bibliographer and book collector.
Geoffrey Kipkoech Rono
Geoffrey Kipkoech Rono, Kenyan middle-distance runner (born 1987), 1500 m specialist; ran third leg on Kenya's 4x1500 m relay world record team (14:36.23, Brussels 2009); PB 3:32.55.
Geoffrey Kiprono Mutai
Geoffrey Kiprono Mutai, Kenyan marathon runner born 1981; won 2011 Boston Marathon in 2:03:02, then the fastest marathon ever but not a ratified world record, and won the New York City Marathon in 2011 and 2013.
Geoffrey Kondogbia
Geoffrey Kondogbia (born 1993, Nemours) is a French-born defensive midfielder at Olympique Marseille who won the 2013 U-20 World Cup with France, earned 5 friendly caps, then switched to the Central African Republic in 2018, after Lens, Sevilla, Monaco, Inter, Valencia, and Atlético Madrid.
Geoffrey L. Cohen
Geoffrey L. Cohen is an American social psychologist at Stanford University who studies belonging and self-integrity, and whose brief interventions halved the minority achievement gap.
Geoffrey L. Greene
Geoffrey L. Greene, also known as Geoffrey Greene, is a University of Chicago cancer researcher who helped clone the human estrogen receptor and solved how tamoxifen blocks its action.
Geoffrey L. Smith
Geoffrey L. Smith is a virologist and professor at Oxford's Dunn School of Pathology, known for showing that vaccinia virus, the smallpox vaccine, evades immunity with secreted receptors.
Geoffrey Lewis (actor)
Geoffrey Bond Lewis (1935-2015), American character actor, father of Juliette Lewis; appeared in seven Clint Eastwood films from High Plains Drifter onward and earned a Golden Globe nomination for the sitcom Flo.
Geoffrey M. Cooper
Geoffrey M. Cooper (born 1948) is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at Boston University, known for discovering oncogenes in human cancers and writing The Cell: A Molecular Approach.
Geoffrey M. Wahl
Geoffrey M. Wahl, also known as Geoffrey Wahl, is an American molecular biologist and cancer researcher at the Salk Institute, known for linking p53 to genetic stability.
Geoffrey Ma (马道立)
Geoffrey Ma Tao-li (馬道立), Hong Kong jurist and second Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal (2010 to January 2021), former Chief Judge of the High Court, Queen's Counsel, civil justice reform leader, Grand Bauhinia Medal recipient.
Geoffrey Marcy
Geoffrey Marcy, born 1954, is an American astronomer who discovered more than 100 exoplanets and resigned from UC Berkeley in 2015 after a harassment investigation.
Geoffrey Mason
Geoffrey Mason names two Americans: Geoffrey Travers Mason (1902–1987), 1928 St. Moritz five-man bobsleigh gold medalist recruited by newspaper ad, and Geoffrey Sheridan Mason (1940–2026), ABC producer of the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage coverage, 24 Emmys.
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100–1154) was a cleric, bishop of St Asaph, and Latin writer whose Historia Regum Britanniae created a pseudo-history of Britain including King Arthur.