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George Hammell Cook
George Hammell Cook (1818–1889) was an American geologist and chemist at Rutgers College who served as State Geologist of New Jersey from 1864 until his death.
George Harliono
George Harliono (born 2001) is a British-Indonesian concert pianist, Silver Medalist at the 2023 XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, a child soloist from age nine, and a Royal College of Music graduate.
George Harris
George Harris, full name George Lee Harris, was an American heavyweight judoka who competed at judo's Olympic debut in Tokyo in 1964 and later reached ninth-degree black belt.
George Harrison
George Harrison (1943–2001), the Beatles' lead guitarist and the 'quiet Beatle', first Beatle to top charts solo with All Things Must Pass and My Sweet Lord, Concert for Bangladesh organizer, Dark Horse founder.
George Harrison discography
George Harrison discography: solo albums by the Beatles guitarist, 1968 to 2002, from Wonderwall Music and the triple All Things Must Pass to posthumous Brainwashed, plus Dark Horse label, Traveling Wilburys, live albums, and reissues.
George Harrison Shull
George Harrison Shull (1874–1954), American botanist at Cold Spring Harbor and Princeton, whose 1905–1909 maize experiments founded hybrid corn breeding and the term heterosis.
George Hawkins (actor)
George Hawkins is a British actor trained at Mountview Academy (2023), known as Cadet Darem Reymi in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026), Dylan in Tell Me Everything, and roles in Boiling Point and Gassed Up.
George Hearst
George Hearst was a Missouri-born geologist and mining magnate, a Democratic US Senator from California, and the father of publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose claims included the Comstock Lode, Homestake, and Anaconda.
George Heaton
George Heaton is a British fashion entrepreneur who founded the streetwear label Represent with his brother Michael in 2011, growing it from printed T-shirts into a brand approaching £100 million in turnover.
George Helffrich
George Helffrich is a seismologist who studies the Earth's deep interior, known for Nature papers on outer-core stratification and inner-core anisotropy, most recently at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo.
George Helmy
George Samir Helmy, Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey (August 23 to December 8, 2024), appointed by Governor Phil Murphy after Bob Menendez's resignation; first Coptic Orthodox senator; former Murphy chief of staff, now RWJBarnabas Health executive.
George Hemmings
George Lawrence Hemmings (born 2007) is an English midfielder for Aston Villa, shirt 53, formerly of Nottingham Forest's academy; Premier League debut December 2025, regular under Unai Emery in 2026/27.
George Henry Fox
George Henry Fox (1846–1937) was an American dermatologist, born in Ballston Spa, New York, who co-founded the American Dermatological Association and pioneered photographically illustrated atlases of skin disease.
George Henry Thomas
George Henry Thomas (1816–1870), the "Rock of Chickamauga," was a Virginia-born Union general of the American Civil War who won at Mill Springs, commanded the Army of the Cumberland, crushed Hood's army at Nashville in 1864, and fought the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.
George Henry Tyrrell
George Henry Tyrrell (1861–1909) was an Irish-born Jesuit priest and theologian, a leading Catholic Modernist expelled from the Jesuits in 1906 and deprived of the sacraments in 1907.
George Hepplewhite
George Hepplewhite (died 1786) was an English cabinetmaker and furniture designer whose name identifies a neoclassical furniture style known for shield-backed chairs and tapered legs.
George Herbert
George Herbert (1593-1633), Welsh-born English metaphysical poet and Church of England clergyman, public orator at Cambridge, rector of Bemerton; posthumous The Temple (1633), reprinted twenty times by 1680.
George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead (1863–1931), American pragmatist philosopher at the University of Chicago, founder of social behaviorism; his posthumous Mind, Self and Society (1934) grounded symbolic interactionism with concepts of the significant symbol, generalized other, and the I and Me.
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866–1923), British aristocrat and amateur Egyptologist of Highclere Castle who financed Howard Carter and co-discovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, dying in Cairo in April 1923.
George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon
George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (born 1956), British peer and farmer, owner of Highclere Castle, the Downton Abbey filming location; succeeded his father Henry, 7th Earl, in 2001; married Fiona Aitken in 1999.
George Herbig
George Herbig (1920–2013) was an American astronomer, regarded as the father of star-formation studies, who spent over seventy years studying how stars are born at Lick Observatory and in Hawaii.
George Heriot's School
George Heriot's School, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh: co-educational independent day school founded from George Heriot's 1624 bequest, opened 1659, with a charitable Foundation educating bereaved children and a 2024 'excellent' inspection rating.
George Herrmann
George Herrmann (1921–2007) was an applied mechanician and Stanford professor known for work on deformable solids and for founding the International Journal of Solids and Structures.
George Hickes
George Hickes (1642–1715) was an English Anglican divine and Anglo-Saxon scholar who, deprived as dean of Worcester for refusing the oath to William and Mary, led the Nonjuring communion as a bishop until his death.
George Hill (basketball)
George Hill, NBA point guard/shooting guard drafted 26th overall by San Antonio in 2008 out of IUPUI; traded for Kawhi Leonard rights, starred for Pacers' 2013-14 conference finalists, later Jazz, Kings, Cavs, Bucks, 76ers, Thunder.
George Hillyard
George Whiteside Hillyard (1864-1943), British tennis player, 1908 Olympic men's doubles gold medalist with Reginald Doherty, first-class cricketer, and All England Club secretary 1907-1925 who oversaw Wimbledon's move to Church Road; husband of Blanche Bingley.
George Hirst
George Hirst (1909–1994) was an American virologist who discovered in 1941 that influenza virus clumps red blood cells, giving a quantitative measure of the virus.
George Hirst (footballer)
George Hirst (George David Eric Hirst, born 1999, Sheffield), Scottish international striker at Stoke City, formerly Sheffield Wednesday, OH Leuven, Leicester City, Ipswich Town; 10 Scotland caps; 2026 World Cup squad; distinct from the rugby league player of the same name.
George Hockham
George Alfred Hockham (1938–2013) was a British electronics engineer who, with Charles Kao, co-authored the 1966 paper founding optical fiber communication, supplying the waveguide theory and fiber-dimension calculations.
George Hodel
George Hill Hodel Jr. (1907–1999) was a Los Angeles physician who became a leading, never-charged suspect in the 1947 Black Dahlia murder of Elizabeth Short.