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George Cross
George Cross (GC): UK's highest award for gallantry not in the presence of the enemy, equal to the Victoria Cross. Instituted by George VI on 24 September 1940; over 400 awards, including collective awards to Malta, the RUC, and the NHS.
George Cruikshank
George Cruikshank (1792–1878) was a British caricaturist, etcher, and book illustrator called the modern Hogarth, known for illustrating Dickens's Oliver Twist and for temperance works like The Bottle.
George Crumb
George Crumb (1929–2022), American avant-garde composer of Black Angels, Ancient Voices of Children, and Makrokosmos; Pulitzer Prize 1968, Grammy 2001, famed for hand-drawn scores and extended techniques.
George Cukor
George Cukor (1899-1983), American film director of Hollywood's Golden Age, directed Little Women, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, winning the 1965 Best Director Oscar; known as a "women's director" and mentor to Katharine Hepburn.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), British Conservative statesman: Viceroy of India 1899–1905 (Partition of Bengal, Kitchener dispute) and Foreign Secretary 1919–24 (Treaty of Lausanne).
George Cybenko
George Cybenko is a Dartmouth College engineering professor best known for proving the 1989 universal approximation theorem for neural networks, and a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM, and AAAS.
George D. Demetri
George D. Demetri is an American medical oncologist who directs the Sarcoma Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and developed kinase-inhibitor therapies for gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
George D. Lundberg
George D. Lundberg is an American pathologist and medical editor who led JAMA from 1982 to 1999 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1992.
George D. Rose
George D. Rose is a biophysicist and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, known for predicting protein chain turns from hydrophobicity and his 2006 backbone-based folding theory.
George D. Snell
George D. Snell, also known as George Davis Snell, was an American mouse geneticist who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize for discovering the mouse major histocompatibility complex.
George D. Watkins
George D. Watkins is an American physicist and Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus at Lehigh University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, known for identifying defects in semiconductors by magnetic resonance.
George D. Zuidema
George D. Zuidema (1928–2020) was an American academic surgeon who served as surgeon-in-chief at Johns Hopkins for 20 years, then led the University of Michigan medical center.
George Dangas
George D. Dangas is an interventional cardiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, known for leading the GALILEO trial of rivaroxaban after TAVR.
George Daniel
George Daniel (George Bedford Daniel, born 1990, Brussels) is the English drummer, co-writer, and producer of The 1975, producer of Charli XCX's Crash and Brat, founder of the dh2 electronic label, and solo dance artist behind Screen Cleaner.
George Daniels (watchmaker)
George Daniels (1926–2011) was a British watchmaker who made complete watches by hand from raw metal and invented the co-axial escapement later adopted by Omega.
George Davey Smith
George Davey Smith, born in 1959, is a British clinical epidemiologist at the University of Bristol who pioneered Mendelian randomization and directs the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit.
George David Birkhoff
George David Birkhoff (1884–1944) was an American mathematician at Harvard best known for proving Poincaré's last geometric theorem in 1913 and the pointwise ergodic theorem of 1931.
George Davidson (geodesist)
George Davidson (1825–1911) was an English-born American geodesist, astronomer, and geographer who spent fifty years with the United States Coast Survey mapping the Pacific Coast, then taught geography at Berkeley.
George Davies
George Davies (born 1940) is an American pole vaulter who set a world record of 4.83 m (15'10¼") on 20 May 1961 in Boulder, Colorado, the first fiberglass-pole world record, and won the 1961 NCAA title for Oklahoma State.
George Davis (wilderness preservationist)
George Davis, also known as George D. Davis, is an American environmental policy analyst who led the Adirondack Park land-use plans and won a 1989 MacArthur Fellowship.
George de Hevesy
George de Hevesy (Georg von Hevesy; Hungarian Hevesy György; 1885–1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist who invented the radioactive tracer method, winning the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and co-discovering hafnium.
George de Mestral
George de Mestral (1907–1990) was a Swiss engineer who invented the hook-and-loop fastener, marketed as Velcro, after studying how burdock burrs cling to fur and fabric.
George de Mohrenschildt
George de Mohrenschildt (1911-1977), Russian-born American petroleum geologist and Dallas friend of Lee Harvey Oswald from 1962; key Warren Commission witness, found by the HSCA not to have been a CIA agent, died by suicide in 1977.
George de Relwyskow
George de Relwyskow (George Frederick William de Relwyskow) was a British freestyle wrestler who won lightweight gold and middleweight silver at the 1908 London Olympics, the youngest Olympic wrestling champion until 1976.
George Deacon
Sir George Edward Raven Deacon (1906–1984) was a British oceanographer who systematized the Southern Ocean's circulation and founded the United Kingdom's first national institute of oceanography.
George Demiris
George Demiris is a Greek-born biomedical and health informatics scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on smart homes, telehealth, and support for older adults and family caregivers.
George Deukmejian
George Deukmejian (Courken George Deukmejian, Jr.) was California's 35th governor (1983–1991) and 27th attorney general, a Republican law-and-order conservative who defeated Tom Bradley twice and was the first Armenian-American state governor.
George Dewey
George Dewey (1837-1917), American naval officer and Admiral of the Navy; victor of the Battle of Manila Bay, 1 May 1898, destroying the Spanish Pacific fleet without losing a man or ship; later led the General Board of the Navy.
George Diamond
George A. Diamond (1941–2015) was an American cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles who pioneered Bayesian probability analysis in cardiovascular medicine, notably in a 1979 New England Journal of Medicine paper.
George DiCaprio
George Paul DiCaprio, born in 1943 in New York, is an American writer of underground comix who was a leading figure in the 1970s West Coast comix scene.