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George B. Daniels
George B. Daniels, born 1953 in South Carolina, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Clinton in 2000.
George B. Field
George B. Field (1929–2024) was an American theoretical astrophysicist, founding director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, known for work on the interstellar medium and magnetic fields.
George B. Kaiser
George Kaiser is a Tulsa, Oklahoma energy and banking executive who took over Kaiser-Francis Oil in 1969, bought the Bank of Oklahoma in 1991, and founded a philanthropic foundation.
George B. Koelle
George Brampton Koelle (1918–1997) was an American pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania who developed the Koelle–Friedenwald stain for cholinesterase and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
George B. McClellan
George B. McClellan (1826–1885), Union general-in-chief and organizer of the Army of the Potomac, led the failed Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Antietam, ran against Lincoln in 1864, and later served as governor of New Jersey.
George B. Pegram
George B. Pegram was an American experimental physicist who spent his career at Columbia University, studied radioactivity and slow neutrons, and helped launch the government's uranium program in 1939.
George B. Wislocki
George B. Wislocki (1892–1956) was an American anatomist and histochemist, Parkman and James Stillman Professor at Harvard, known for his work on the placenta and the blood-brain barrier.
George B. Witman
George B. Witman is an American cell biologist and Professor Emeritus at UMass Chan Medical School who pioneered biochemical and molecular genetic approaches to studying cilia and flagella.
George Bacovia
George Bacovia, born George Andone Vasiliu, was a Romanian symbolist poet whose debut volume Plumb (1916) is considered the point at which Romanian symbolism gained definitive recognition.
George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life)
George Bailey is the protagonist of Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, played by James Stewart; a Bedford Falls Building & Loan operator shown by angel Clarence what the world would be without him.
George Baird
George Hetzel Baird (1907-2004), American quarter-miler for the University of Iowa; won 1928 Olympic 4x400m relay gold in world record 3:14.2 and set a 4x440y world record of 3:13.4 in London a week later.
George Balanchine (გიორგი ბალანჩივაძე)
George Balanchine (გიორგი ბალანჩივაძე, 1904–1983), Georgian-Russian-born choreographer, father of American ballet; co-founded School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet, created over 425 works including Serenade, Agon, and The Nutcracker.
George Baldock
George Baldock (9 March 1993 – 9 October 2024), Greek international right-back; MK Dons, Sheffield United (205 apps, promotions 2019 and 2023), Panathinaikos; died by accidental drowning in Athens.
George Bancroft (actor)
George Bancroft (1882-1956), American film actor from Philadelphia, Paramount silent-era star of von Sternberg's Underworld and Thunderbolt (Oscar-nominated), later Marshal Curly Wilcox in Stagecoach; retired 1942 as a rancher.
George Barany
George Barany, born in Hungary in 1955, is an American chemist and University of Minnesota professor known for peptide chemistry, the Dts protecting group, and orthogonality in synthesis.
George Barger
George Barger (1878–1939) was a British chemist and biochemist, born in Manchester, who isolated tyramine and histamine and, with Henry Dale, laid the foundation for chemical neurotransmission.
George Bariț
George Bariț, also spelled Barițiu, was a Romanian historian and publicist from Transylvania who founded the Romanian press there, editing Gazeta de Transilvania from 1838.
George Barris (auto customizer)
George Barris, born George Salapatas (1925–2015), was an American custom car builder in Los Angeles who founded Barris Kustoms and built the original 1966 Batmobile.
George Batchelor
George Batchelor was an Australian-born fluid dynamicist at Cambridge who founded DAMTP in 1959, founded the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and led research in turbulence.
George Beadle
George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum and Joshua Lederberg for the one gene–one enzyme hypothesis.
George Bellows
George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925), American realist painter of the Ashcan School; known for boxing paintings like Both Members of This Club and Dempsey and Firpo, New York urban scenes, and Maine seascapes; died at 42 of appendicitis.
George Benson
George Benson (born 1943, Pittsburgh) is an American jazz guitarist and singer, NEA Jazz Master with ten Grammys; his 1976 album Breezin' was the first jazz album to go platinum, and 'This Masquerade' won Record of the Year.
George Benson discography
George Benson discography: catalog of the Pittsburgh-born jazz guitarist (born 1943), from 1964's The New Boss Guitar through CTI albums, the platinum 1976 Breezin', Warner Bros. pop hits, and 2024's Dreams Do Come True.
George Bergman
George M. Bergman (born 1943) is an American mathematician who spent his career at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the diamond lemma for ring theory.
George Berkeley
George Berkeley (1685–1753), Irish philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, defended idealism and immaterialism via esse est percipi in the Principles (1710) and Three Dialogues (1713), influencing Hume and Kant.
George Bernard Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (1914–2005) was an American mathematician known as the father of linear programming, which he founded and solved with the simplex method in 1947.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright, critic, and Fabian socialist, wrote over fifty plays including Pygmalion, Man and Superman, and Saint Joan; only person to win both the Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).
George Best
George Best (1946-2005), Northern Irish winger for Manchester United and Northern Ireland; 1968 European Cup and Ballon d'Or winner; career cut short by alcoholism; died 2005.
George Best Belfast City Airport
George Best Belfast City Airport is a single-runway airport three miles north-east of Belfast city center, serving short-haul and business travel, which handled about 2.4 million passengers in 2024.
George Biddell Airy
George Biddell Airy was an English astronomer and mathematician who served as Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881, re-equipped the Royal Observatory, and established the world's prime meridian.