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Georg Naue
Georg Naue is a German sailor with the Berliner Yacht-Club who competed in three sailing events at the Paris 1900 Olympics, winning gold in the 1-2 ton class and silver in the Open class aboard Aschenbrödel.
Georg Nemetschek
Georg Nemetschek, born in 1934, is a German engineer and software entrepreneur who founded the construction-software company Nemetschek SE as an engineering office in 1963.
Georg Neumark
Georg Neumark (1621–1681) was a German Lutheran poet, composer, and hymn writer, remembered for the hymn "Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten" and his Weimar offices.
Georg Nickenig
Georg Nickenig is a German cardiologist, chair of Internal Medicine (Cardiology and Pneumology) at the University of Bonn and director of the University Hospital Bonn heart center since 2005.
Georg Ohm
Georg Simon Ohm (1789–1854) was a German physicist who discovered Ohm's law, that current is proportional to voltage, in his 1827 book on galvanic circuits.
Georg Peterson
Georg Peterson (John Georg Peterson, 1883–1964), Swedish distance runner for IFK Norrköping; competed in the 5 miles and 3-mile team race at the 1908 London Olympics and held the Swedish 10,000 m record, 31:30.0, from 1910 to 1918.
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767), German Baroque composer of the mixed taste, Kantor of the Johanneum and music director of Hamburg's five main churches from 1721; over 3,600 works, first German music periodical, self-publisher, friend of Bach and Handel.
Georg Raphael Donner
Georg Raphael Donner (1693–1741) was an Austrian sculptor, medallist, and goldsmith, the leading Austrian sculptor of the 18th century, known for the Donnerbrunnen fountain in Vienna.
Georg Rietschel
Georg Rietschel (1842–1914) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor, and professor of practical theology at the University of Leipzig, rector in 1904, best known for his two-volume Lehrbuch der Liturgik.
Georg Ritter von Schönerer
Georg Ritter von Schönerer (1842–1921), Austrian Pan-German and antisemitic politician, author of the 1882 Linzer Programm, founder of the Alldeutsche Vereinigung, stripped of title after the 1888 Tagblatt raid, ideological forerunner of Hitler.
Georg Schett
Georg Schett, born 1969, is an Austrian physician-scientist who directs rheumatology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen and led the world's first CAR T-cell therapy for autoimmune disease in 2021.
Georg Seelig
Georg Seelig is a physicist turned molecular programming researcher, professor at the University of Washington, known for DNA strand displacement circuits, SPLiT-seq single-cell sequencing, and co-founding Parse Biosciences.
Georg Selenius
Georg Selenius (1884-1924), Norwegian gymnast from Fredrikstad Turnforening; won gold in the men's team free system event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; later an art turner, umbrella maker, and cigar dealer.
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel (1858–1918), German philosopher and sociologist, founder of formal sociology; author of Philosophy of Money (1900) and Soziologie (1908); known for dyad-triad analysis, the stranger, metropolis essays, and Durkheim/Weber relations.
Georg Sohn
Georg Sohn (1551–1589) was a German Reformed theologian of the Melanchthonian party, professor of theology at Marburg and then Heidelberg, who blocked the Formula of Concord in Hesse.
Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti, born György Stern, was a Hungarian-born conductor who served as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's music director from 1969 to 1991 and won 31 Grammy awards.
Georg Spalatin
Georg Spalatin, born Georg Burckhardt (1484–1545), was a German Lutheran reformer and court official who mediated between Martin Luther and Elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony.
Georg Spohr
Georg Spohr (born 1951, Magdeburg) is an East German rowing coxswain, not the composer Louis Spohr; he won Olympic gold in the men's coxed pairs at Montréal 1976 and Moscow 1980 with Ulrich and Jährling.
Georg Stanford Brown
Georg Stanford Brown (born 1943, Havana) is a Cuban-American actor and director known as Officer Terry Webster on The Rookies and Tom Harvey in Roots and Roots: The Next Generations, and winner of a 1986 Emmy for directing Cagney & Lacey.
Georg Sticker
Georg Sticker (1860–1960) was a German internist and medical historian who discovered that fleas transmit plague, first described erythema infectiosum, and became in 1921 the first professor of the history of medicine at Würzburg.
Georg Stiernhielm
Georg Stiernhielm, born Göran Olofsson, was a Swedish civil servant, linguist, and poet (1598–1672), traditionally called the father of Swedish poetry for his classical verse, especially Hercules (1658).
Georg Stingl
Georg Stingl is an Austrian dermatologist and immunologist whose laboratory showed how imiquimod destroys basal cell carcinoma via dendritic cells, and who led phase 3 brodalumab psoriasis trials.
Georg Stüve
Georg Stüve (1888–1935) was a German physicist and meteorologist who helped found the evaluation of aerological measurements and created the Stüve thermodynamic diagram, still used worldwide.
Georg Thoma
Georg Thoma (born 20 August 1937, Hinterzarten) is a German Nordic combined skier, 1960 Squaw Valley Olympic champion, 1964 bronze medalist, 1966 world champion, three-time Holmenkollen winner, uncle of Dieter Thoma.
Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl (1887–1914) was an Austrian lyric poet and principal figure of early German-language Expressionism whose dark, imagistic verse appears in Gedichte (1913) and Sebastian im Traum (1914).
Georg Veesenmeyer
Georg Veesenmeyer (1760–1833) was a German Lutheran theologian, librarian, and professor of rhetoric at Ulm's Gymnasium from 1793 to 1826, remembered chiefly as a historian of Reformation-era Ulm.
Georg von Békésy
Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian-born biophysicist who alone won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the ear detects pitch.
Georg von Below
Georg von Below (1858–1927) was a German historian of medieval constitutional, town, and economic history, long professor at Freiburg and regarded as the leading constitutional historian of his time.
Georg von Braun
Known as Georg Gustaf Wilhelm von Braun, the Swedish equestrian rider won an Olympic gold medal in the team three-day event at Antwerp in 1920.
Georg von Trapp
Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (1880-1947), Austro-Hungarian submarine commander who sank the cruiser Léon Gambetta in 1915, patriarch of the Trapp Family Singers, refused the Nazis, and settled in Stowe, Vermont.