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George Hodges
George Hodges (1856–1919) was an American Episcopal priest, dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge from 1894 to 1919, and an early Social Gospel exponent.
George Hodgson
George Ritchie Hodgson (1893-1983), Canadian swimmer, won gold in the 400 m and 1,500 m freestyle at Stockholm 1912 with world records, Canada's only swimming Olympic champion until 1984.
George Holani
George Holani, born 1999, is a Seattle Seahawks running back (No. 36) signed as a 2024 undrafted free agent from Boise State; he scored a kickoff-recovery touchdown in 2025 and won Super Bowl LX with Seattle.
George Holman Bishop
George Holman Bishop (1889–1973) was an American neurophysiologist at Washington University School of Medicine, known for nerve-fiber research with Erlanger and Gasser and EEG in epilepsy.
George Honeyman
George Honeyman (George Christopher Honeyman, born 1994, Prudhoe) is an English midfielder at Blackpool; ex-Sunderland captain, Hull City 2021 League One title winner, and Millwall midfielder (117 appearances) who joined Blackpool free in 2025.
George Horine
George Horine (1890-1948), American high jumper, Stanford and Olympic Club athlete; first man to clear 2.00 m (1912), holder of the first IAAF-ratified high jump world record, inventor of the Western Roll, and 1912 Stockholm Olympic bronze medalist.
George Hotz
George Hotz, known online as geohot, is an American security hacker who produced the first iPhone hardware unlock in 2007, later hacked the PlayStation 3, and founded Comma.ai.
George Howard Darwin
George Howard Darwin (1845–1912) was an English astronomer, the second son of Charles Darwin, and Plumian Professor at Cambridge who founded the mathematical theory of tidal friction.
George Howard Parker
George Howard Parker was an American zoologist and comparative physiologist at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1913, known for his work on animal color change and neurohumors.
George Hoyningen-Huene
George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968) was a Russian-born American fashion and portrait photographer who defined the elegant look of French Vogue in the 1920s and 1930s, later working in Hollywood.
George Hripcsak
George Hripcsak is an American physician and biomedical informatician, chair of biomedical informatics at Columbia University, who led Arden Syntax and co-founded OHDSI in 2013.
George Hug
George Hug was a Swiss-born physician-scientist in pediatric metabolic disease who spent his career at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, described new glycogen storage diseases, and died in 2021.
George Hungerford
George Hungerford (born 1944, Vancouver) is a Canadian rower and lawyer who, with Roger Jackson, won surprise coxless-pair gold at Tokyo 1964 as last-minute alternates, Canada's only gold there.
George Hunter
George Hunter (1927–2004), South African light-heavyweight boxer, won gold at the 1948 London Olympics by beating Don Scott and took the Val Barker Trophy; later a professional and steel company owner.
George Hunter White
George Hunter White (1908-1975), Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent and OSS truth-drug tester, ran the CIA's Operation Midnight Climax safe houses as Morgan Hall, dosing unwitting men with LSD; distinct from DEA agent George F. White (d. 1973).
George Hurley
George Hurley (born 1958) is the American drummer of San Pedro punk bands Minutemen and fIREHOSE, known for Double Nickels on the Dime, self-taught polyrhythmic jazz-punk drumming, and later work with The Unknown Instructors.
George I
George I (Γεώργιος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 679 to 686, best known for attending all eighteen sessions of the Sixth Ecumenical Council, which condemned Monothelitism.
George I of Great Britain
George I (Georg Ludwig), Elector of Hanover, was the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain, reigning 1714-1727 under the Act of Settlement after Queen Anne's death; his reign saw the 1715 Jacobite rising, cabinet government, and Walpole's first premiership.
George I of Greece
George I of Greece (Γεώργιος Α΄), born Prince William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Danish prince elected King of the Hellenes 1863, reigned nearly fifty years, doubled Greek territory, assassinated in Thessaloniki 1913.
George I Rákóczi
George I Rákóczi (Hungarian: I. Rákóczi György; 1593–1648) was Prince of Transylvania from 1630 to 1648, whose rule is remembered as the principality's last golden age.
George I. Haddad
George I. Haddad is an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan known for microwave electronics research and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
George I. Lythcott
George I. Lythcott (1918–1995) was an American pediatrician and public health administrator who led smallpox eradication in West Africa and served as an Assistant Surgeon General.
George II of Georgia
George II (Georgian: გიორგი II, Giorgi II) was king of the unified Kingdom of Georgia from 1072 to 1089, during the Seljuk invasions, and abdicated in favor of his son David IV.
George II of Great Britain
George II (George Augustus, 1683-1760), King of Great Britain and Ireland 1727-1760 and Elector of Hanover; last British monarch to lead troops in battle at Dettingen 1743, last monarch buried in Westminster Abbey, succeeded by grandson George III.
George II of Greece
George II of Greece (Γεώργιος Β΄, 1890–1947), King of the Hellenes 1922–1924 and 1935–1947, eldest son of Constantine I; twice exiled, consented to Metaxas's 1936 dictatorship, led the wartime government-in-exile, and returned after the disputed 1946 plebiscite.
George II Rákóczi
George II Rákóczi (Hungarian: II. Rákóczi György, 1621–1660) was Prince of Transylvania from 1648 to 1660, whose unauthorized 1657 Polish campaign provoked Ottoman invasions and ended the principality's golden age.
George II Xifilinos
George II Xifilinos (Greek Geṓrgios ho Xiphilînos) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1191 to 1198, the second patriarch of the Xiphilinos family of Trebizond.
George III
George III (1738-1820), third Hanoverian king of Great Britain and Ireland (r. 1760-1820), first Hanoverian born in England. Lost the American colonies, suffered recurrent mental illness (bipolar disorder, not porphyria), patronized arts, science, and farming.
George III of Georgia
Giorgi III (გიორგი III) was king of Georgia from 1156 until his death in 1184, the son of Demetre I and father of Queen Tamar, whom he crowned co-ruler in 1178.
George Inness
George Inness was an American landscape painter, born in Newburgh, New York, in 1825, who moved from Hudson River School detail toward the hazy style called Tonalism.