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Georg Fleischhauer
Georg Fleischhauer (born 1988) is a German bobsleigh brakeman who won two-man and four-man gold with pilot Johannes Lochner at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Georg Gaffky
Georg Theodor August Gaffky (1850–1918) was a German bacteriologist and pupil of Robert Koch who first cultured the typhoid bacillus in 1884 and led the Robert Koch Institute from 1904.
Georg Gänswein
Georg Gänswein is a German archbishop who served as personal secretary to Pope Benedict XVI and is now Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
Georg Gustav Roskoff
Georg Gustav Roskoff (1814–1889) was an Austrian Protestant theologian and professor of Old Testament exegesis in Vienna, known for his two-volume History of the Devil (1869).
Georg Hackl
Georg Hackl, "Hackl Schorsch" (born 1966, Berchtesgaden), German luger; Olympic gold 1992, 1994, 1998 and silver 1988, 2002 in men's singles; first Olympian to medal in one individual event at five straight Games; later German and Austrian coach.
Georg Hamel
Georg Hamel (1877–1954) was a German mathematician known for the Hamel basis of the reals over the rationals, his 1903 solution of Hilbert's fourth problem, and his equations of motion.
Georg Heinrich Merz
Georg Heinrich Merz (1816–1893) was a German Lutheran theologian and Württemberg churchman who rose to prelate and general superintendent of Reutlingen and wrote on Christian social concern.
Georg Henrik von Wright
Georg Henrik von Wright (1916–2003), Finnish analytic philosopher, founder of deontic logic, Wittgenstein's successor at Cambridge 1948–1951 and one of his three literary executors, author of Explanation and Understanding and The Varieties of Goodness.
Georg Henry Schodde
Georg Henry Schodde (1854–1917) was an American Lutheran theologian and Semitic scholar, professor at the Columbus, Ohio seminary, whose 1882 Book of Enoch was the first American English translation.
Georg Herwegh
Georg Herwegh (1817–1875) was a German poet and revolutionary whose 1841 collection Gedichte eines Lebendigen made him famous; in 1848 he led German exiles into the Baden revolution.
Georg Hettich
Georg Hettich, born 1978, German nordic combined skier, nicknamed Schorsch; 2006 Torino Olympic champion in the individual Gundersen with gold, silver, and bronze medals; also 2002 and 2006 team silver medalist.
Georg Heym
Georg Heym (1887–1912) was a German poet, playwright, and writer of short fiction, a central figure of early Expressionism best known for his apocalyptic big-city poems.
Georg Hillmar
Georg Otto Hillmar (1876-1911), German artistic gymnast with TiB Berlin; a late substitute at Athens 1896, he won team gold on parallel bars and horizontal bar and was later banned by the German Gymnastics Association.
Georg Jensen
Georg Jensen, born Georg Arthur Jensen (1866–1935), was a Danish silversmith and sculptor who founded his Copenhagen silversmithy in 1904, a defining name in Scandinavian silver.
Georg Jensen silver
Georg Jensen silver is the silverware, hollowware, and jewelry of the Danish silversmithy founded by sculptor Georg Jensen in Copenhagen in 1904, a defining body of Scandinavian design.
Georg Johannesen
Georg Johannesen (1931–2005) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and literary scholar known for his society-critical essays and as Norway's first professor of rhetoric, at the University of Bergen.
Georg Kaiser
Georg Kaiser, full name Friedrich Carl Georg Kaiser, was a German dramatist and central figure of theatrical Expressionism, one of the most performed playwrights of the Weimar Republic.
Georg Karl David Loesche
Georg Karl David Loesche (1855–1932) was a German Protestant church historian who spent his career in Vienna and opened up the history of Austrian Protestantism from archival sources.
Georg Karl Hirsche
Georg Karl Hirsche (1816–1892) was a German Lutheran theologian, chief pastor at St. Nicolai in Hamburg, known for his research on Thomas von Kempen and the Imitatio Christi.
Georg Kippels
Georg Kippels, also known as Dr. Georg Kippels, is a German CDU politician and lawyer who has sat in the Bundestag since 2013 for Rhein-Erft-Kreis I.
Georg Konrad Morgen
Georg Konrad Morgen (1909–1982), SS-Sturmbannführer and SS judge, investigated corruption and unauthorized killings by SS members at Buchenwald, Majdanek, and Auschwitz, convicted commandants, sought Eichmann's arrest, and testified at Nuremberg and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial.
Georg Kresse
Georg Kresse, born in Vienna in 1967, is an Austrian theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Vienna, known as the main author of the VASP simulation package.
Georg Lammers
Georg Lammers (1905–1987), German sprinter nicknamed Schorse, won 100 m bronze and 4x100 m relay silver at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, set 13 world records, and later became a police superintendent.
Georg Leibbrandt
Georg Leibbrandt (1899–1982), German scholar and Nazi official, headed the East Ministry's political department and attended the Wannsee Conference; after 1945 he was classified unbelastet and worked for Salzgitter AG in Bonn.
Georg Lenz
Georg Lenz is a German hematologist-oncologist directing the Department of Internal Medicine A at University Hospital Münster, known for research on diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Georg Ludwig Zuelzer
Georg Ludwig Zuelzer was a German internist who patented Acomatol, a pancreatic extract that reduced glycosuria in diabetic patients, more than a decade before insulin was isolated.
Georg Lunge
Georg Lunge (1839–1923) was a German-born chemist, professor of technical chemistry at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum in Zürich from 1876 to 1907, best known for the nitrometer that bears his name.
Georg Meissner
Georg Meissner (1829–1905) was a German physiologist and anatomist who discovered the skin's tactile corpuscles and the gut's submucosal nerve plexus, both named for him.
Georg Melchers
Georg Melchers (1906–1997) was a German geneticist who directed the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen and pioneered plant protoplast fusion, producing tomato-potato hybrids.
Georg Nagel
Georg Nagel, born 1953 in Weingarten, Germany, is a German biophysicist who identified the light-gated channelrhodopsins, making optogenetics possible, and shares the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.