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George IV
George IV (1762–1830), King of the United Kingdom and Hanover, formerly Prince Regent from 1811. Known for the Royal Pavilion, extravagant collecting, his failed marriage to Caroline of Brunswick, and forced acceptance of Catholic Emancipation in 1829.
George IV Lasha
George IV Lasha (Lasha-Giorgi) was a king of Georgia from the Bagrationi dynasty, son of Queen Tamar and David Soslan, who died in 1223 from a wound fighting the Mongols.
George J. Annas
George J. Annas was an American health lawyer and Boston University professor known as "the father of patient rights" for establishing patients' rights as a legal concept.
George J. Brush
George J. Brush (1831–1912) was an American mineralogist at Yale who directed the Sheffield Scientific School and wrote the Manual of Determinative Mineralogy of 1874.
George J. Dvorak
George J. Dvorak was a Czech-born American researcher in the mechanics of materials, known for transformation field analysis of composites and his career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
George J. Gabuzda
George J. Gabuzda is an American physician-investigator whose research on cirrhosis and ascites at Boston City Hospital and Case Western Reserve University established how ascitic fluid forms, is absorbed, and should be managed.
George J. Gleghorn
George J. Gleghorn, also recorded as George Jay Gleghorn, is an aerospace engineer who retired as Vice President and Chief Engineer of TRW's Space and Technology Group.
George J. Hayes
George J. Hayes (George Joseph Hayes, 1918–2002) was a United States Army neurosurgeon who led neurosurgery at Walter Reed, trained 12 neurosurgeons, and retired in 1974 as a major general.
George J. Hirasaki
George J. Hirasaki (born 1939) is an American chemical and petroleum engineer, a Rice University professor who spent 26 years at Shell before joining the faculty in 1993.
George J. Huebner Jr.
George J. Huebner Jr. (1910–1996) was an American automotive research engineer at Chrysler, best known for developing the first practical passenger-car gas turbine, tested in 50 turbine cars in 1963.
George J. Isham
George J. Isham is an American physician executive who served as Chief Health Officer of HealthPartners in Minnesota and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.
George J. Klein
George J. Klein is a Canadian cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist, a Professor of Medicine at Western University in London, Ontario, known for work on arrhythmias and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
George J. Mitchell
George J. Mitchell (b. 1933, Waterville, Maine), Democratic senator from Maine 1980-1995 and Senate majority leader from January 1989, later chaired the Northern Ireland talks that produced the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and served as U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace; Medal of Freedom recipient.
George J. Pappas
George J. Pappas is an American control theorist and computer scientist, the UPS Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for hybrid systems and cyber-physical safety verification.
George J. Schroepfer
George J. Schroepfer was an American civil and sanitary engineer who led the Minneapolis–St. Paul Sanitary District and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981.
George J. Todaro
George J. Todaro (born 1937) is an American virologist and cancer researcher who established the NIH 3T3 cell line and proposed the 1969 oncogene hypothesis at the National Cancer Institute.
George Jackson (activist)
George Jackson (1941-1971), American prison activist and author of Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye, a leading voice of the prison movement, shot dead at San Quentin in 1971 during an alleged escape.
George Janossy
George Janossy is an immunologist at University College London and the Royal Free Hospital in London, known for leukemia immunophenotyping, bone-marrow transplantation, and affordable CD4 monitoring for HIV.
George Jaques
George Jaques is a British writer-director, producer, and actor, founder of Athenaeum at 16, director of Black Dog (2023) and the Berlinale comedy Sunny Dancer (2026) starring Bella Ramsey.
George Jefferson
George Jefferson is the fictional dry-cleaning-chain owner played by Sherman Hemsley on All in the Family (1973) and The Jeffersons (1975–1985), Archie Bunker's Black neighbor turned Upper East Side millionaire, distinct from the real Jefferson family name.
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (Judge Jeffreys, the Hanging Judge), English judge under Charles II and James II; Lord Chief Justice 1683, Lord Chancellor 1685, notorious for the Bloody Assizes of 1685; died in the Tower in 1689.
George Jetson
George Jetson is the fictional father and protagonist of Hanna-Barbera's animated sitcom The Jetsons (1962), voiced by George O'Hanlon, working for Mr. Spacely at Spacely Sprockets in Orbit City with wife Jane, kids Judy and Elroy, and dog Astro.
George Jones
George Jones (1931–2013), American country singer from Saratoga, Texas, nicknamed the Possum; over 160 charting singles, first #1 "White Lightning" (1959), signature song "He Stopped Loving Her Today" (1980), Country Music Hall of Fame 1992.
George Joseph Popják
George Joseph Popják (1914–1998) was a Hungarian-born biochemist who, with John W. Cornforth, worked out the reactions forming squalene, the precursor of cholesterol, and pioneered radioisotopic studies of metabolism in Britain.
George Jung
George Jacob Jung, known as Boston George, was an American drug trafficker who introduced powder cocaine to the United States on a large scale from the mid-1970s.
George K. Aghajanian
George K. Aghajanian (1932–2023) was an American neuroscientist and psychiatrist at Yale who made the first recordings of serotonin and dopamine neurons in the living brain.
George K. Burgess
George K. Burgess (1874–1932) was an American physicist, known for high-temperature measurement and metallurgy, who directed the National Bureau of Standards from 1923 until his death.
George K. Davis
George Kelso Davis (1910–2004) was an American animal and nutritional scientist at the University of Florida, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
George K. H. Shimizu
George K. H. Shimizu is a Canadian inorganic materials chemist and University of Calgary professor known for CALF-20, a metal-organic framework for industrial-scale carbon dioxide capture.
George K. Michalopoulos
George K. Michalopoulos (Γεώργιος Μιχαηλόπουλος) is a Greek-born American physician-scientist who has studied liver regeneration since 1975 and chaired pathology at the University of Pittsburgh.