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George Farquhar
George Farquhar (1677?–1707) was an Irish playwright, one of the last major writers of Restoration comedy; his late comedies The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux' Stratagem are still performed.
George Feher
George Feher (1924–2017) was a Czechoslovak-born American physicist, a founding professor of physics at UC San Diego who invented ENDOR spectroscopy and applied it to bacterial photosynthesis, winning the Wolf Prize.
George Fenton
George Fenton (George Richard Ian Howe, 1949–2026), British composer of Gandhi, Groundhog Day, The Blue Planet and Planet Earth scores; five Oscar nominations, BAFTAs, Emmys, Ivor Novello Awards, CBE 2023.
George Ferdinand Becker
George Ferdinand Becker (1847–1919) was an American geologist and geophysicist with the US Geological Survey, known for the Comstock Lode and quicksilver monographs and for early mathematical work on rock deformation.
George Fernandes
George Fernandes (1930–2019), Indian socialist politician and trade unionist; led the 1974 railway strike, resisted the Emergency (Baroda Dynamite case), forced Coca-Cola and IBM out as Industries minister, and served as Defence Minister during the 1998 Pokhran tests and Kargil war.
George Fillmore Swain
George Fillmore Swain (1857–1931) was an American civil engineer who headed civil engineering at MIT and held the Gordon McKay Professorship at Harvard from 1909 to 1929.
George Finch (councillor)
George Finch is a Reform UK politician, youngest UK council leader, heading Warwickshire County Council from July 2025 aged 19 and Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council from May 2026, surviving a 2026 no-confidence vote by one vote.
George Fink
George Fink is an Austrian-born Australian neuroendocrinologist at the Florey Institute who discovered GnRH self-priming, directed the MRC Brain Metabolism Unit in Edinburgh, and founded the Encyclopedia of Stress.
George Finnegan
George V. Finnegan (1881-1913), American boxer of the Olympic Club of San Francisco, won 1904 St. Louis Olympic flyweight gold over Miles Burke and bantamweight silver behind Oliver Kirk on 22 September 1904.
George Fish
George Winthrop Fish (Dixie), 1895-1977, American rugby player and urologist; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic rugby gold with the USA, and inspired the Dr. Kildare character.
George Fisher (musician)
George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher is an American death metal vocalist from Baltimore, best known as the frontman of Cannibal Corpse since the mid-1990s, having replaced Chris Barnes.
George FitzGerald (Irish physicist)
George Francis FitzGerald was an Irish physicist at Trinity College Dublin who proposed in 1889 that moving bodies contract, and who led the group that established Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.
George Floudas
George Floudas (Γεώργιος Φλούδας) is a Greek polymer and soft-matter physicist, professor at the University of Ioannina and senior visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
George Floyd
George Floyd (1973–2020), Houston-raised Black American killed by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin on 25 May 2020; death ruled a homicide; his killing sparked the largest US protest wave and George Floyd Square.
George Floyd (American football)
George Floyd (George Floyd Jr., born 1960, Tampa, FL) is a former NFL defensive back, Eastern Kentucky star, Jets 1982/1984 draftee, and 1999 College Football Hall of Fame inductee; distinct from George Perry Floyd (1973-2020).
George Floyd protests
George Floyd protests: 2020 nationwide and international demonstrations after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020; the largest protest movement in US history, with 15-26 million participants, about 94% nonviolent.
George Floyd Square
George Floyd Square (George Perry Floyd Square), intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in South Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered in 2020; community memorial, Rise and Remember preservation, and 2026 reconstruction.
George Flynn
George W. Flynn (1938–2020) was an American physical chemist at Columbia University known for laser studies of molecular energy flow and pioneering scanning tunneling microscopy of graphene.
George Ford (rugby union)
George Ford (born 1993, Oldham) is an English rugby union fly-half for Sale Sharks and England, 100+ caps, record youngest professional debut at 16 years 237 days, 27-point 2023 World Cup game vs Argentina.
George Foreman
George Foreman (1949–2025), American heavyweight boxing champion and entrepreneur. Olympic gold 1968; beat Frazier 1973; lost to Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle 1974; oldest heavyweight champion at 45 in 1994; George Foreman Grill pitchman.
George Foreman Grill
George Foreman Grill: sloped double-sided electric contact grill invented by Michael Boehm, debuted 1994 via Salton Inc. with boxer George Foreman as endorser; over 100 million sold, name rights sold for $137.5 million in 1999.
George Formby
George Formby (George Hoy Booth, 1904–1961), Wigan-born English music hall comedian, singer, and banjo-ukulele player; star of 21 hit films, Britain's highest-paid entertainer by 1939, OBE 1946.
George Fountzilas
George Fountzilas is a Greek medical oncologist at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki who led HeCOG phase III trials in head and neck and breast cancer from the 1980s onward.
George Fouracres
George Fouracres, English actor and comedian from Willenhall, Black Country; Daphne sketch group member with Phil Wang and Jason Forbes; Globe Hamlet and Falstaff; SNL UK cast member.
George Fox
George Fox (1624–1691) was an English itinerant preacher from Leicestershire who founded the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, and created their system of monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings.
George Francis Atkinson
George Francis Atkinson (1854–1918) was an American mycologist and botanist who led Cornell University's botany department from 1896, described almost 300 fungal taxa, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1918.
George Fraser
George Fraser is the American co-founder and CEO of Fivetran, the automated data integration company founded in 2012 with Taylor Brown. A University of Pittsburgh neurobiology PhD and former Emerald Therapeutics scientist, he led Fivetran through its 2015 pivot, unicorn funding, and the 2026 dbt Labs merger.
George Frederic Still
George Frederic Still (1868–1941) was a British physician, the first full-time pediatrician in Britain and first professor of children's diseases, known for Still's disease and Still's murmur.
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) was an English painter and sculptor, among the most successful British artists of the 19th century, known for portraits of the Victorian elite.
George Frederick Barker
George Frederick Barker (1835–1910) was an American physicist and spectroscopist, professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania from 1872 to 1900, who tested Edison's electric lamp.