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George Bush Intercontinental Airport
George Bush Intercontinental Airport, formerly Houston Intercontinental Airport, is Houston's primary commercial airport, opened in 1969 and renamed for President George H. W. Bush in 1997.
George C. Cotzias
George C. Cotzias was a Greek-born American neurologist who developed high-dose oral L-DOPA as a treatment for Parkinson's disease while at Brookhaven National Laboratory, receiving the 1969 Lasker Award.
George C. Ebers
George C. Ebers, born 1946 in Budapest, Hungary, is a Canadian neurologist who showed a major genetic component in multiple sclerosis susceptibility and led the 1986 Canadian twin study.
George C. Hanks, Jr.
George C. Hanks, Jr., also known as George Carol Hanks, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Texas since 2015.
George C. Hill
George C. Hill (1939–2026) was an American microbiologist and medical educator at Vanderbilt University, known for first culturing the African sleeping sickness parasite and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1998.
George C. Homans
George C. Homans (1910–1989) was an American sociologist at Harvard, known for The Human Group (1950) and for founding social exchange theory in Social Behavior (1961).
George C. Maling Jr.
George C. Maling Jr. (1931–2022) was an American noise control engineer at IBM who shaped noise measurement for computers, led INCE/USA, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
George C. Marshall
George Catlett Marshall Jr. (1880–1959), American General of the Army and statesman; not to be confused with Chief Justice John Marshall. Chief of Staff 1939–45, Secretary of State 1947–49, Secretary of Defense 1950–51, architect of the Marshall Plan and 1953 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
George C. Pimentel
George C. Pimentel, also known as G. C. Pimentel, was an American physical chemist at UC Berkeley who developed matrix isolation spectroscopy and discovered the first chemically pumped laser.
George C. Prendergast
George C. Prendergast is an American cancer researcher who developed IDO inhibitors and studied the Bin1 tumor suppressor gene, leading the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research since 2004.
George C. Scott
George C. Scott (George Campbell Scott, 1927-1999), American stage, film, and TV actor known for Patton and Dr. Strangelove; won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for Patton and refused it, also declining an Emmy for The Price.
George C. Steeh III
George C. Steeh III, also known as George Caram Steeh, III, is an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
George C. Tsokos
George C. Tsokos is a physician-scientist studying the immunology of systemic lupus erythematosus, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Rheumatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
George Cadbury
George Cadbury (1839–1922) was an English Quaker cocoa manufacturer and social reformer who built Cadbury Brothers into a major firm and created the Bournville model village near Birmingham.
George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879) was an American painter and Missouri politician, known as "the Missouri Artist" for genre scenes of river boatmen and election-day crowds.
George Calombaris
George Calombaris (Γεώργιος Δημήτριος Καλομβάρης, born 1978) is a Greek-Australian chef and restaurateur, judge of MasterChef Australia 2009–2019, founder of The Press Club and Hellenic Republic, whose MAdE group underpaid staff $7.83m and collapsed in 2020.
George Canning
George Canning (1770-1827), British Tory statesman and briefly Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1827, was twice Foreign Secretary, fought a famous 1809 duel with Castlereagh, backed Catholic emancipation, and died after 119 days in office.
George Carey
George Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, is a retired Anglican bishop who served as the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, overseeing the first ordination of women priests.
George Carlin
George Carlin (1937–2008), American stand-up comedian and social critic, famed for the 'Seven Dirty Words' routine, FCC v. Pacifica, 14 HBO specials, 22 albums, 4 Grammys.
George Carman
George M. Carman is a Rutgers professor whose laboratory identified the yeast PAH1 gene, the homolog of mammalian fat-regulating lipin proteins, and founded its Center for Lipid Research.
George Carr Frison
George Carr Frison (1924–2020) was an American archaeologist at the University of Wyoming who specialized in Paleoindian archaeology of the central Rocky Mountains and northern High Plains.
George Cassady
George Cassady (1934–2023) was an American neonatologist who founded the Division of Neonatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1964 and led a landmark 1989 ductus ligation trial.
George Cassander
George Cassander (Georg Cassander, 1513–1566) was a Flemish humanist and Catholic theologian of Cologne whose mediation tracts, including the Consultatio of 1564, drew opposition from Catholic and Protestant leaders alike.
George Catlin
George Catlin (1796–1872) was an American self-taught painter, author, and showman who traveled the frontier in the 1830s recording Native American life in his Indian Gallery, now held by the Smithsonian.
George Cattanach
George James Cattanach (1878-1954), Canadian lacrosse player with the Montreal and Winnipeg Shamrock clubs; won gold in men's lacrosse for the Winnipeg Shamrocks at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.
George Cayley
Sir George Cayley (1773–1857) was an English engineer and Yorkshire landowner who established the science of aeronautics, defining the modern aeroplane and flying the first manned gliders.
George Chaconas
George Chaconas is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the University of Calgary, a Canada Research Chair from 2003 to 2017, known for bacteriophage Mu transposition and the molecular biology of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete.
George Chakiris
George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is an American dancer-actor who won the 1962 Best Supporting Actor Oscar and Golden Globe as Bernardo in West Side Story after playing Riff in London.
George Chapman
George Chapman (1559–1634) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of Homer whose Iliad and Odyssey were the first English versions; Keats's 1816 sonnet fixed his fame.
George Christopher Williams
George Christopher Williams (1926–2010) was an American evolutionary biologist at Stony Brook University whose 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection argued that selection acts on genes and individuals, not groups.