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George Dickel
George Dickel is a brand of Tennessee whisky produced in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and owned by Diageo. It is the world's second best-selling Tennessee whisky, behind Jack Daniel's.
George Dietz
George John Dietz (1880-1965), American rower of the Century Boat Club, St. Louis; won gold in the men's coxless fours at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics with Stockhoff, Erker, and Nasse; later Shardell Hotel manager.
George Dimopoulos
George Dimopoulos is a Greek venture capital investor who co-founded VentureFriends in Athens after investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch; the firm manages over €300 million.
George Dixon
George Dixon, called Little Chocolate (1870–1908), was a Canadian boxer from Halifax, Nova Scotia, the first Black world boxing champion, winning the 1890 bantamweight title and three featherweight reigns; distinct from the 1924 Olympic rugby gold medalist and the Negro leagues catcher of the same name.
George Dole
George Stuart Dole (1885-1928) was an American wrestler and Yale athlete who won gold in men's freestyle featherweight at the 1908 London Olympics, pinning Britain's James Slim in the final, and later became an economics professor.
George du Maurier
George du Maurier, born in Paris in 1834, was a British Punch cartoonist and novelist whose best-selling 1894 novel Trilby introduced the character Svengali to literature.
George du Rand
George du Rand (Johannes du Rand, born 1982, Bloemfontein) is a South African backstroke swimmer who competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and set the short course 200 m backstroke world record of 1:47.08 in Moscow on 7 November 2009, beating Markus Rogan's mark.
George Duffield
George Duffield Jr. (1818–1888) was an American Presbyterian minister and hymn writer whose "Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus" (1858) appears in thousands of hymnals.
George Duke
George Duke (1946-2013), American jazz-fusion keyboardist, composer, and producer; played with Jean-Luc Ponty, Frank Zappa, Cannonball Adderley; funk breakthrough Reach for It (1978); produced R&B stars; died of leukemia in Los Angeles.
George Dyson (science historian)
George Dyson is an American historian of technology and son of physicist Freeman Dyson, known for books on kayaks, artificial intelligence, Project Orion, and early computing.
George Dzundza
George Dzundza (born 1945, Rosenheim, Germany) is a German-born American actor known as Sgt. Max Greevey on Law & Order season one and for The Deer Hunter, Basic Instinct, and Crimson Tide.
George E. Barnett
George E. Barnett was an American labor economist and professor of statistics at Johns Hopkins University who served as president of the American Economic Association in 1932.
George E. Cartwright
George E. Cartwright (1917–1980) was an American hematologist who founded the University of Utah's hematology division and became an authority on Wilson's disease and hemochromatosis.
George E. Coghill
George Ellett Coghill (1872–1941) was an American neuroembryologist and anatomist known for decades of study of how the nervous system and behavior develop together in salamanders.
George E. Dieter
George E. Dieter was an American mechanical metallurgist and educator who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for his work in materials design.
George E. Holbrook
George E. Holbrook (1909–1987) was an American chemical engineer who became a Du Pont vice president and a charter member of the National Academy of Engineering.
George E. Keller II
George E. Keller II (1933–2019) was an American chemical engineer at Union Carbide, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for novel separation processes.
George E. Kimball
George E. Kimball (1906–1967) was an American quantum chemist and Columbia professor who became a founder of operations research, co-authoring Methods of Operations Research and winning the Navy's Presidential Citation of Merit.
George E. P. Box
George E. P. Box (1919–2013) was a British statistician known for the Box–Jenkins method, Box–Cox transformations, and the phrase "all models are wrong, but some are useful."
George E. Palade
George E. Palade was a Romanian-born American cell biologist, widely called the founder of modern cell biology, who discovered ribosomes and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
George E. Schreiner
George E. Schreiner was an American nephrologist who founded and led Georgetown University Hospital's Division of Nephrology from 1951 and became a founding father of dialysis.
George E. Shambaugh Jr.
George E. Shambaugh Jr. (1903–1999) was an American otolaryngologist and Northwestern professor in Chicago who introduced the operating microscope to American ear surgery, refined otosclerosis surgery, and wrote Surgery of the Ear.
George E. Smith
George E. Smith (1930–2025) was an American physicist at Bell Laboratories who co-invented the charge-coupled device, the sensor of digital cameras, and won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.
George E. Solomon
George E. Solomon was an American aerospace engineer at TRW who led design of the Atlas ICBM reentry vehicle and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1967.
George E. Thibault
George E. Thibault is an American physician and Harvard Medical School professor, best known as president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation from 2008 to 2018.
George E. Vaillant
George E. Vaillant (born 1934) is an American psychiatrist and Harvard professor known for directing the Harvard Study of Adult Development and for his hierarchy of ego defense mechanisms.
George Eacker
George I. Eacker, New York Republican lawyer, killed Philip Hamilton in a November 23, 1801 duel at Weehawken after a Park Theater confrontation; he died in 1804 around age 30.
George Earthy
George Robert Earthy (born 2004, London) is an English attacking midfielder who came through West Ham United, scored once in the Premier League, spent two loan spells at Bristol City, and joined Reading in August 2026.
George Eastman
George Eastman (1854–1932) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, popularizing photography through the Kodak camera and roll film.
George Edward Backus
George Edward Backus, born 1930 in Chicago, is an American geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for the Backus–Gilbert inversion method and dynamo theory of Earth's magnetic field.