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Geoffrey Oryema
Geoffrey Oryema (1953–2018) was a Ugandan-born singer-songwriter who fled Idi Amin's rule in 1977 for France, where his Brian Eno-produced debut Exile (1990) made him a world music figure.
Geoffrey Owens
Geoffrey Owens (born 1961) is an American actor, Elvin Tibideaux on The Cosby Show (1985-1992), Yale graduate, founder of The Brooklyn Shakespeare Company, known for the 2018 Trader Joe's job-shaming incident and roles in The Haves and the Have Nots and The Pitt.
Geoffrey Oxnard
Geoffrey Oxnard is an American thoracic oncologist and liquid-biopsy researcher who developed rapid blood-based EGFR genotyping at Dana-Farber and first described the C797S resistance mutation to osimertinib in 2015.
Geoffrey Palmer (actor)
Geoffrey Dyson Palmer (1927-2020), English character actor known for sitcom roles as Jimmy in Reginald Perrin, Ben in Butterflies, and Lionel opposite Judi Dench in As Time Goes By, plus Admiral Roebuck in Tomorrow Never Dies.
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou
Geoffrey Plantagenet (Geoffrey V, Geoffrey le Bel), 1113–1151, count of Anjou and duke of Normandy, husband of Empress Matilda and father of Henry II; origin of the Plantagenet name.
Geoffrey R. Hill
Geoffrey R. Hill (Geoff Hill) is a New Zealand–trained hematologist and immunologist who studies graft-versus-host disease and directs stem cell transplantation at Fred Hutch in Seattle.
Geoffrey Rehnert
Geoffrey Rehnert is an American private equity investor who co-founded Audax Group in Boston in 1999 with Marc Wolpow, after helping start Bain Capital in 1984.
Geoffrey Ronoh
Geoffrey Ronoh (born 1982), Kenyan road runner; 2014 Olomouc Half Marathon pacemaker-turned-winner (1:00:17) who beat Kipsang and Mutai; PBs 59:45 half marathon, 27:28 10 km, 2:09:29 marathon.
Geoffrey Rose (epidemiologist)
Geoffrey Rose (1926–1993) was a British physician and epidemiologist who coined the prevention paradox and led cardiovascular epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine until 1991.
Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Rush (born 1951, Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian actor and producer, Oscar winner for Shine (1996), Triple Crown of Acting winner, Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean, and 2012 Australian of the Year.
Geoffrey S. Ginsburg
Geoffrey S. Ginsburg is an American physician-scientist in genomic and precision medicine, chief medical and scientific officer of the NIH All of Us Research Program.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild (born 1975, England) is an English stage, TV, and film actor and RADA graduate. Known for Prince Hal/Henry V in the RSC Histories, Calum Reed in Spooks, Fergus Williams in The Thick of It, and films Match Point, Kinky Boots, Rush.
Geoffrey the Giraffe
Geoffrey the Giraffe, formerly Dr. G. Raffe, is the mascot of Toys "R" Us since 1965, redesigned with orange star spots in 2007, retired with the 2018 U.S. closures, and revived under WHP Global and Macy's.
Geoffrey W. Coates
Geoffrey W. Coates (born 1966) is an American chemist, the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University, known for catalysts that make polymers from carbon dioxide and recyclable plastics.
Geoffrey W. Crawford
Geoffrey William Crawford, born 1954, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Vermont, appointed by Obama in 2014 and its chief judge from 2017 to 2024.
Geoffrey Watson
Geoffrey Stuart Watson (1921–1998) was an Australian statistician who co-invented the Durbin–Watson test, co-authored the Nadaraya–Watson estimator, and founded directional statistics while chairing Princeton's statistics department.
Geoffrey Watterson
Geoffrey Anton Watterson is an Australian population geneticist who spent 1963 to 1993 at Monash University and created the Watterson estimator, a 1975 formula still used in population genomics.
Geoffrey West
Geoffrey West, born 1940 in England, is a British-born theoretical physicist and Santa Fe Institute professor known for scaling laws of life, cities, and companies.
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996) was a British inorganic chemist at Imperial College London who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on organometallic sandwich compounds.
Geoffrey Y. Yang
Geoffrey Y. Yang is an American venture capitalist and founding partner of Redpoint Ventures since 1999, known for investing in media, internet, and infrastructure companies and serving on the Warner Bros. Discovery board.
Geoffrey Zakarian
Geoffrey Zakarian, known as Geoff Zakarian, is an American chef, restaurateur, and television personality known for his New York restaurants Town and Country and his roles on Food Network.
Geoffroy Hautier
Geoffroy Hautier is a computational materials scientist, Trustee Professor at Rice University, co-developer of the Materials Project database, and a 2025 fellow of the American Physical Society.
GeoGebra
GeoGebra is a free, open-source suite of interactive mathematics software combining geometry, algebra, and calculus, founded by Markus Hohenwarter in 2001 and used by over 100 million students.
Geoglobus
Geoglobus is a genus of hyperthermophilic, anaerobic Archaeoglobaceae archaea from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, with two species, G. ahangari and G. acetivorans, that respire obligately on Fe(III).
Geoglyph
A geoglyph is a large-scale design made by removing stones, digging trenches, or piling earth, and the best-known examples are the Nasca Lines of Peru.
Geographe Bay
Geographe Bay is a north-facing bay in southwest Western Australia, named by Baudin's 1801 expedition. It has 50 km of arcuate sandy beach, temperate WA's most extensive seagrass meadows, and lies in the Ngari Capes Marine Park.
Geographic center of the United States
Geographic center of the United States: balance point of all 50 states at 44°58'N 103°46'W, ~20 miles north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, fixed in 1959 after Hawaii's statehood; the 48-state center lies near Lebanon, Kansas.
Geographic circque
Geographic cirque (glacial cirque; corrie, cwm): an armchair-shaped, glacier-eroded mountain hollow with a steep arcuate headwall and gently sloping floor, 200 m to 4 km across, used as a palaeoclimate indicator.
Geographic coordinate conversion
Geographic coordinate conversion changes coordinate values between reference systems with no change of datum, for example map projections, unit changes, or reformatting degrees-minutes-seconds as decimal degrees.
Geographic coordinate system
Geographic coordinate system (GCS): latitude-longitude angular coordinates on a reference ellipsoid, defined by datum, prime meridian, and unit. Covers WGS 84 (EPSG:4326), NAD 83, ellipsoid parameters, and the 1-2 m NAD83-WGS84 plate-motion offset.