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George Gregan
George Gregan is a retired Australian rugby union scrum-half who played 139 Tests for the Wallabies from 1994 to 2007 and won the 1999 Rugby World Cup.
George Grey Turner
George Grey Turner (1877–1951) was a British surgeon judged pre-eminent in England, professor at Durham and Hammersmith, remembered for Grey Turner's sign, flank bruising in severe acute pancreatitis.
George Grosz
George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, was a German-born painter and caricaturist of Berlin Dada and New Objectivity, known for satirizing Weimar militarism and bourgeois society.
George Groves (boxer)
George Groves is a retired English super-middleweight boxer from London who won the WBA world title in 2017 and is known for his two fights with Carl Froch.
George Gulack
George Gulack (George Julius Gulack, 1905–1987), Latvian-born American gymnast; won rings gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, the last US men's gymnastics Olympic title for 52 years, then became a leading gymnastics administrator and FIG vice president.
George Gumbs Jr.
George Gumbs Jr. is an American football defensive end, No. 52 for the Indianapolis Colts, drafted 156th overall in 2026 after playing at Northern Illinois and Florida; a Chicago native who converted from wide receiver to edge defender in 2023.
George Gurdjieff (Георгий Иванович Гюрджиев)
George Gurdjieff, also known as G. I. Gurdjieff, was a Greek-Armenian spiritual teacher (c. 1866–1949) whose Fourth Way system of inner development survives in foundations worldwide.
George H Brimhall
George H. Brimhall is an emeritus Professor of Geology at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for work in economic geology.
George H. Denton
George H. Denton (born 1939) is an American glacial geologist at the University of Maine known for dating glacier chronologies in New Zealand, South America, and Antarctica.
George H. Elder
George H. Elder is an Emeritus Professor of Medical Biochemistry at Cardiff University whose research defined the biochemistry and management of the porphyrias, inherited disorders of haem biosynthesis.
George H. Heilmeier
George H. Heilmeier was an American electrical engineer who demonstrated the first working liquid crystal display at RCA Laboratories, and later directed DARPA and led Bellcore.
George H. Hepting
George H. Hepting (1907–1988) was an American forest pathologist with the U.S. Forest Service and, in 1969, the first forester elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
George H. Hitchings
George H. Hitchings (1905–1998) was an American pharmacologist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Gertrude Elion for rational drug design at Burroughs Wellcome.
George H. Lorimer
George H. Lorimer is a biochemist who worked out the reaction mechanism of Rubisco, the enzyme that fixes carbon dioxide in photosynthesis, and helped discover GroE chaperonin protein folding.
George H. Markstein
George H. Markstein (1911–2011) was a combustion scientist at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo who showed that a flame's burning velocity depends on stretch, giving the Markstein length and number, standard parameters in flame theory.
George H. McCracken
George H. McCracken Jr. was a pediatric infectious diseases researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who shaped the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of childhood meningitis.
George H. Trilling
George H. Trilling (1930–2020) was an American experimental particle physicist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, known for strange-particle work and the SLAC–LBL discovery of the J/ψ particle and tau lepton.
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018), 41st U.S. president (1989–1993) and 43rd vice president, ex-CIA director and World War II Navy pilot; led the Gulf War coalition, signed the ADA, and lost the 1992 election.
George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
The George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is NARA's tenth presidential library, at Texas A&M University, holding 23,371 cubic feet of records and 61,271 artifacts of the 41st president.
George H. W. Bush vomiting incident
George H. W. Bush vomiting incident: January 8, 1992 Tokyo state dinner where the U.S. president vomited on Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainted from acute gastroenteritis, spawning the slang term bushusuru.
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple was an American pathologist who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on liver therapy in anemia, and founded the University of Rochester medical school.
George H. Williamson
George H. Williamson (1888–1967) was an American confectioner who founded the Williamson Candy Company in Chicago in 1917 and created the Oh Henry! candy bar.
George H. Wu
George H. Wu, born 1950 in New York, is a senior United States district judge for the Central District of California, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2007.
George H. Xanthis
George H. Xanthis (George Harrison Xanthis), born 1989 in Earlwood, Sydney, is an Australian actor, writer, producer, and comedian who plays John the Apostle in The Chosen and was AACTA-nominated for Open Slather.
George Habash (جورج حبش)
George Habash (جورج حبش), known as al-Hakim, Palestinian physician born in Lydda who founded the Arab Nationalist Movement and the Marxist-Leninist PFLP in 1967, led it until 2000, pioneered aircraft hijackings culminating at Dawson's Field 1970, opposed Oslo, died in Amman 26 January 2008.
George Hackenschmidt
George Hackenschmidt (Georg Karl Julius Hackenschmidt, 1877–1968), the "Russian Lion", was an Estonian-born strongman and the first undisputed World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, twice defeated by Frank Gotch (1908, 1911) and author of The Way to Live.
George Hajishengallis
George Hajishengallis (Georgios Hajishengallis) is an immunologist and periodontal researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the keystone pathogen hypothesis and for linking periodontitis to systemic inflammatory disease.
George Halas
George Halas (1895-1983), "Papa Bear", founded the Chicago Bears and co-founded the NFL in 1920; coached 40 seasons, won 324 games and six NFL titles, charter Hall of Fame inductee 1963.
George Hamilton (actor)
George Hamilton (born August 12, 1939, Memphis) is an American actor known for his tan and playboy image, from MGM dramas like Home from the Hill to comedies Love at First Bite and Zorro, The Gay Blade; not the Hamilton musical or the country singer.
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), British Peelite statesman, Foreign Secretary 1828-30 and 1841-46, and Prime Minister 1852-55 of a coalition felled by the Crimean War.