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George Frederick James Temple
George Frederick James Temple (1901–1992) was a British applied mathematician who rose from insurance clerk to Oxford's Sedleian Professor and ended life as a Benedictine priest.
George Frederick Maclear
George Frederick Maclear (1833–1902) was an English Anglican clergyman and theological writer who served as headmaster of King's College School, London, and warden of St Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury.
George Friedman
George Friedman, Hungarian-American geopolitical forecaster, founder of Stratfor (1996) and Geopolitical Futures (2015), author of The Next 100 Years; known for structural geopolitical forecasting and its mixed record.
George Furth
George Furth, born George Schweinfurth, was an American playwright and librettist. He is best known for writing the books for Stephen Sondheim's Company and Merrily We Roll Along.
George Fytas
George Fytas (Γεώργιος Φυτάς) is a Greek physical chemist who studies hypersonic phonons in polymers and colloids, professor at the University of Crete until 2016.
George G. Glenner
George G. Glenner was an American physician and research pathologist who worked out the chemistry of amyloid and in 1984 isolated the beta-amyloid protein central to Alzheimer's disease.
George G. Lorentz
George G. Lorentz (1910–2006) was a Russian-born American mathematician and a founder of modern approximation theory, known for the function spaces called Lorentz spaces and books like Approximation of Functions.
George G. Reader
George G. Reader (1919–2005) was an American physician and public health educator who chaired Cornell's Department of Public Health from 1972 to 1992 and advised on Medicare.
George G. Rhoads
George G. Rhoads is an American epidemiologist who led an NIH epidemiology branch and spent over 30 years as a Rutgers professor before retiring in 2020.
George Galloway
George Galloway (born 1954, Dundee) is a British politician elected seven times to the Commons for Labour, Respect and the Workers Party of Britain, expelled from Labour in 2003 over Iraq, and MP for Rochdale in 2024.
George Gamow (Георгий Антонович Гамов)
George Gamow (Георгий Антонович Гамов), 1904 to 1968, was a Russian-born American theoretical physicist who explained alpha decay, initiated Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and popularized science.
George Garbutt
George Frederick "Tic" Garbutt (1903-1967) was a Canadian ice hockey forward from Winnipeg who won gold at the 1931 World Championships and the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics, scoring one goal in one game for The Winnipegs.
George Gascón
George Gascón, Cuban-born former San Francisco police chief and district attorney, served as Los Angeles County's 43rd DA from 2020 to 2024; his first-day reform directives, staff lawsuits, and 20-point 2024 defeat by Nathan Hochman defined his tenure.
George Gasper
George Gasper, born 1939, is an American mathematician and Northwestern University professor emeritus known for the Askey–Gasper inequality and the standard reference book Basic Hypergeometric Series, written with Mizan Rahman.
George Gaynes
George Gaynes (born George Jongejans, 1917–2016), Finnish-born American actor and opera singer; Henry Warnimont on Punky Brewster, Commandant Lassard in all seven Police Academy films, John Van Horn in Tootsie, and Robert Baker in Broadway's Wonderful Town.
George Gee Jackson
George Gee Jackson (1920–2020) was an American infectious-diseases physician-researcher who spent 37 years at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and edited the Journal of Infectious Diseases from 1979 to 1983.
George Genereux
George Patrick Genereux (1935-1989), Canadian trapshooter from Saskatoon; won 1952 Helsinki Olympic trap gold at 17 with 192x200, Canada's only gold that year, later a McGill-trained radiologist.
George Georgiou
George Georgiou is an American chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for protein engineering, antibody repertoire analysis, and co-inventing the FDA-approved anthrax antitoxin obiltoxaximab.
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (1898–1937), American composer born Jacob Gershovitz in Brooklyn, wrote Broadway musicals with lyricist brother Ira, Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and the opera Porgy and Bess; died at 38 after brain tumor surgery.
George Gervin
George Gervin, "the Iceman" (born 1952, Detroit), ABA/NBA shooting guard for the Virginia Squires, San Antonio Spurs, and Chicago Bulls; four NBA scoring titles, 26,595 career points, Hall of Fame 1996.
George Getty
George Franklin Getty was an American lawyer turned oil investor who founded the Minnehoma Oil Company in Oklahoma in 1903, father of J. Paul Getty.
George Gillanders Findlay
George Gillanders Findlay (1849–1919) was a Welsh-born Wesleyan Methodist theologian and biblical scholar who trained ministers at Headingley and Richmond colleges from 1870 to 1917.
George Gipp
George Gipp (1895-1920), Notre Dame halfback 1917-1920, consensus All-American and inaugural College Football Hall of Fame inductee; source of the 'Win one for the Gipper' legend and Ronald Reagan's nickname.
George Gissing
George Gissing (1857–1903) was an English novelist who chronicled London poverty and the educated-but-poor lower middle class; his masterpiece is New Grub Street (1891), and he wrote 23 novels.
George Gloeckler
George Gloeckler, born 1937 in Odessa, Ukraine, is an American space physicist at the University of Maryland who discovered interstellar pickup ions and designed instruments for Ulysses and ACE.
George Gobel
George Gobel (1919–1991), American comedian George Leslie Goebel, nicknamed Lonesome George; deadpan host of The George Gobel Show (NBC 1954–1959, CBS 1959–1960), catchphrases 'Well, I'll be a dirty bird,' later a Hollywood Squares panelist.
George Gordon Meade Memorial
The George Gordon Meade Memorial, or Meade Memorial, is a marble and granite allegorical monument in Washington, D.C. honoring the Union commander at Gettysburg; designed by Charles Grafly, given by Pennsylvania, dedicated 1927, moved to Pennsylvania Avenue NW in 1983-1984.
George Goulding
George Henry Goulding (1885–1966), Canadian race walker born in Hull, England; 1912 Stockholm Olympic 10km walk gold medalist, world mile record holder (6:25.8), distinct from hurdler Grantley Goulding and rugby league's Bobby Goulding.
George Graham (clockmaker)
George Graham (1673–1751) was a British clockmaker and instrument maker who succeeded Thomas Tompion at Fleet Street, London, and invented the deadbeat escapement and mercury pendulum.
George Gray (television personality)
George Gray (born 1967), American comedian, game show host, and announcer of The Price Is Right since 2011; previously hosted Weakest Link, Junkyard Wars (Emmy-nominated), and Extreme Gong.