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George Edwards (aircraft designer)
Sir George Robert Edwards (1908–2003) was a British aircraft designer and industrialist who led Vickers and chaired the British Aircraft Corporation, directing the Viscount and VC10 airliners.
George Efstathiou
George Efstathiou is a Cambridge astrophysicist, one of the architects of the standard Lambda cold dark matter model of cosmology, honored with the 2022 RAS Gold Medal.
George Eliava Institute (გიორგი ელიავა)
George Eliava Institute (გიორგი ელიავა), Tbilisi, Georgia; founded 1923 with Félix d'Hérelle; world's longest-operating phage therapy institute, maker of pyophage, with the Eliava Phage Therapy Center treating 500+ foreign patients yearly.
George Eliot
George Eliot, pen name of Mary Anne Evans (1819–1880), English Victorian novelist of Middlemarch, Adam Bede, and Daniel Deronda; also Westminster Review editor, translator of Strauss and Feuerbach, partner of George Henry Lewes.
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale (1868–1938) was an American astronomer who invented the spectroheliograph, discovered magnetic fields in sunspots in 1908, built the Yerkes, Mount Wilson, and Palomar observatories, and founded Caltech.
George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith
George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith (1746–1823), Scottish Royal Navy admiral; captured the Cape of Good Hope 1795, commanded Mediterranean, North Sea, and Channel fleets, and received Napoleon's surrender in 1815.
George Emanuel Pararas-Carayannis
George Emanuel Pararas-Carayannis, also published as George Pararas-Carayannis, is a Chartered Financial Analyst and portfolio manager at Arrowstreet Capital, a Boston-based quantitative equity manager, after earlier analyst work at Putnam Investments.
George Emerson Brewer
George Emerson Brewer (1861–1939) was an American surgeon and urologist, a professor of clinical surgery at Columbia and a colonel directing a U.S. Army base hospital in France during World War I.
George Enescu
George Enescu, also spelled Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, and teacher, regarded as the most important Romanian musician, known for the Romanian Rhapsodies.
George Eng
George Eng is a physician-scientist in pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and MIT's Koch Institute, known for showing how SOX17 lets early colorectal tumors evade immunity.
George Engelmann
George Engelmann (1809–1884) was a German-born American physician and botanist in St. Louis, Missouri, known for monographs on the cacti, conifers, oaks, and grape vines of western North America.
George Englund
George Englund (1926–2017), born George Howe Ripley, American producer, director, and author; directed The Ugly American (1963) with Marlon Brando, produced The Shoes of the Fisherman, and was married to Cloris Leachman.
George Eustice
George Eustice, Conservative MP for Camborne and Redruth 2010-2024, was UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2020-2022, steered the Fisheries Act 2020, led post-Brexit fishing negotiations, and later advised waste firm Augean.
George Evangelos Leventis
George Evangelos Leventis is a Greek-American geotechnical engineer who leads Langan Engineering's international practice and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering's Class of 2026.
George Everest
Sir George Everest (1790–1866) was a Welsh military engineer who completed the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India; Mount Everest was named in his honor in 1865.
George Eyser
George Eyser (Georg Ludwig Friedrich Julius Eÿser, 1870–1919), German-American gymnast of Concordia Turnverein, St. Louis; won 3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze in gymnastics at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics while competing with a wooden left leg.
George Ezra
George Ezra (George Ezra Barnett, born 1993) is an English singer-songwriter from Hertford known for his bass-baritone voice; albums Wanted on Voyage, Staying at Tamara's, and Gold Rush Kid, and the hit singles Budapest and Shotgun.
George F. Cahill
George F. Cahill Jr. was an American physician-scientist who worked out how the body switches fuels during fasting, directing research at the Joslin Diabetes Center from 1962 to 1978.
George F. Cahill, Jr.
George F. Cahill, Jr. (1927–2012) was an American physician and metabolism researcher who showed the brain shifts from glucose to fat-derived ketones during starvation, and directed research at the Joslin Diabetes Center.
George F. Carrier
George F. Carrier (1918–2002) was an American applied mathematician and engineer at Brown and Harvard, known for work on fluid mechanics, combustion, and tsunami run-up theory.
George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan, American diplomat and historian, author of the Long Telegram (1946) and the 1947 'X' article in Foreign Affairs, formulated the US Cold War containment policy and later criticized its militarization.
George F. L. Charles Airport
George F. L. Charles Airport, formerly Vigie Airport (SLU), is a small regional airport on Saint Lucia's northwest coast, about 2 km north of Castries, handling mainly inter-island Caribbean flights.
George F. Mechlin
George F. Mechlin was an American engineer who led Westinghouse Electric's Research and Development Laboratories from 1973 to 1987, after joining the company in 1949.
George F. Pinder
George F. Pinder is an American and Canadian environmental engineer and hydrogeologist at the University of Vermont known for applying numerical mathematics on digital computers to groundwater contamination and supply.
George F. R. Ellis
George F. R. Ellis, or George Francis Rayner Ellis, is a South African cosmologist at the University of Cape Town known for general relativity and criticizing multiverse proposals.
George F. Sheldon
George F. Sheldon (1934–2013) was an American academic surgeon who chaired surgery at UNC Chapel Hill and served as the 79th president of the American College of Surgeons.
George F. Sowers
George F. Sowers was an American geotechnical engineer, Regents Professor at Georgia Tech and consultant at Law Engineering, known for his textbook Introductory Soil Mechanics and Foundations and work on dams and sinkholes.
George F. Sprague
George Frederick Sprague was an American corn geneticist who spent 48 years with the USDA at Ames, Iowa, creating the Iowa Stiff Stalk Synthetic germplasm.
George F. Vande Woude
George F. Vande Woude (1935–2021) was an American molecular oncologist who discovered the human MET oncogene in 1984 and led research at the National Cancer Institute.
George Farmer (businessman)
George Farmer is a British businessman and former hedge fund professional who was chief executive of Parler from 2021 until its 2023 sale, and is married to Candace Owens.