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George A.M. Cross
George A.M. Cross is a British molecular parasitologist, first to identify the variant surface glycoprotein family of Trypanosoma brucei, opening the molecular study of antigenic variation.
George A.O. Alleyne
George A.O. Alleyne is a Barbadian physician and public health leader who directed the Pan American Health Organization from 1995 to 2003, championing health equity.
George Abbot
George Abbot (1562–1633) was archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633, a Calvinist churchman who helped translate the King James Bible and later clashed with William Laud.
George Abel
George Gordon Abel (1916-1996), Canadian ice hockey forward from Melville, Saskatchewan; won 1952 Oslo Olympic gold with the Edmonton Mercurys, Canada's last hockey gold until 2002; nicknamed Mr. Hockey.
George Abraham Grierson
George Abraham Grierson (जॉर्ज ग्रियर्सन) was an Anglo-Irish philologist and Indian Civil Service administrator in Bihar who proposed and directed the Linguistic Survey of India, published 1903 to 1928.
George Abram Miller
George Abram Miller (1863–1951) was an American mathematician at the University of Illinois who determined the groups of order 32 and 64 and published over 800 papers on finite groups.
George Ahlgren
George Lewis Ahlgren (1928-1951), American rower for California Golden Bears, won gold in the men's eight at the 1948 London Olympics (5:56.7) in the number five seat; he died in a plane crash in Arizona aged 23.
George Aiken
George David Aiken (1892–1984), Vermont horticulturist and Republican politician: governor 1937–1941, US senator 1941–1975; St. Lawrence Seaway advocate, McCarthy censure backer, and author of the Vietnam 'declare victory and withdraw' proposal.
George Akerlof
George A. Akerlof (born 1940) is an American economist, 2001 Nobel laureate with Spence and Stiglitz for asymmetric information analysis, author of the 1970 'Market for Lemons' paper, Berkeley professor, and husband of Janet Yellen.
George Alagiah
George Maxwell Alagiah (1955-2023), British Sri Lankan BBC newsreader and Africa correspondent, presented BBC News at Six for 20 years, reported on Somalia, Rwanda and Kosovo, won an OBE, and died of bowel cancer.
George Alencherry
George Alencherry, also known as Mar George Alenchery, is an Indian cardinal who led the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church as Major Archbishop from 2011 to 2023.
George Alexander McGuire
George Alexander McGuire (1866–1934) was an Antigua-born priest who founded the African Orthodox Church in New York in 1921 and served as Chaplain-General of Marcus Garvey's UNIA.
George Alvarez
George Alvarez is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Assembly from the 78th district in the Bronx, representing neighborhoods including Kingsbridge Heights, Fordham, Bedford Park, and Belmont.
George and Mildred
George and Mildred: ITV Thames Television sitcom (1976-1979, five series, 38 episodes) spin-off of Man About the House, starring Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy as the Ropers, moving to middle-class Hampton Wick next to the Fourmiles; 1980 film and US remake The Ropers.
George and the Dragon (film)
George and the Dragon is a 2004 fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Tom Reeve. It stars James Purefoy and was retitled Dragon Sword for Syfy in 2006.
George and Willie Muse
George and Willie Muse, also billed as Eko and Iko or the Ambassadors from Mars, were African American albino brothers from Truevine, Virginia, taken from their sharecropping family and exhibited in circus sideshows until their mother Harriett reclaimed them in 1927 and won back wages from Ringling Brothers.
George Anderson
George Charles Anderson (1883-1975), English track cyclist for Great Britain; rode the sprint at the 1908 London Olympics and set a 33-second standing-start quarter-mile grass record; formerly misnamed Gerald Anderson.
George Andrews (mathematician)
George Andrews, born 1938 in Salem, Oregon, is an American number theorist at Penn State known for integer partitions and finding Ramanujan's lost notebook in 1976.
George Armitage Miller
George Armitage Miller (1920–2012) was an American psychologist who helped found cognitive psychology and is best known for the 1956 paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two."
George Armstrong (ice hockey)
George "Chief" Armstrong (1930-2021), Canadian NHL right wing, played 21 seasons entirely with the Toronto Maple Leafs, captained them longest and to four Stanley Cups (1962-64, 1967), Hall of Fame 1975.
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), US Army cavalry officer, Civil War 'boy general' and lieutenant colonel of the 7th Cavalry, killed with five companies at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876.
George Arundale
George Sydney Arundale (1878–1945) was an English Theosophist, educator, and Liberal Catholic bishop who served as the third President of the Theosophical Society from 1934 until his death in 1945.
George Ashley Campbell
George Ashley Campbell (1870–1954) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories whose loading coil made economical long-distance telephony possible and whose electric wave filter underlies frequency-division multiplexing.
George Atzerodt
George Andrew Atzerodt (1835-1865), German-born carriage painter and boatman, was the Booth conspirator assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson on April 14, 1865; he lost his nerve, was arrested April 20, convicted by military commission, and hanged July 7, 1865.
George Augustine
George J. Augustine is a neuroscientist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who studies synaptic communication, calcium signaling, and optogenetic brain-circuit mapping, and co-authors the textbook Neuroscience.
George Austin (Connecticut politician)
George Austin is an American politician and small business owner from Suffield, Connecticut, the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Connecticut's 2nd district, facing incumbent Democrat Joe Courtney.
George Averoff
George Averoff (Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ) was a Greek merchant and banker based in Egypt, born in Metsovo in 1818, who financed the restored Panathenaic Stadium for the 1896 Olympics.
George B. Benedek
George B. Benedek, also known as G. B. Benedek, was an American physicist and MIT professor who invented quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and applied it to cataract and Alzheimer's research.
George B. Cortelyou
George B. Cortelyou (1862–1940), American presidential aide and three-post cabinet secretary under Theodore Roosevelt: first Commerce and Labor secretary, Postmaster General, Treasury secretary during the Panic of 1907, later Consolidated Gas president.
George B. Craig
George B. Craig was an American entomologist at Notre Dame who pioneered genetic study of the yellow fever mosquito and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.