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George K. Muellner
George K. Muellner (1943–2019) was an American aeronautical engineer and retired Air Force lieutenant general who led Boeing's Phantom Works and directed the program that became the Joint Strike Fighter.
George Kambosos Jr (Γιώργος Καμπόσος)
George Kambosos Jr (Γιώργος Καμπόσος), 'Ferocious', Greek-Australian boxer born 1993 in Sydney; unified lightweight champion by upsetting Teófimo López in 2021, lost to Haney twice in 2022, later fought at 140 lbs, stopped by Hitchins in 2025.
George Karl
George Karl (born 1951) is a Hall of Fame NBA head coach with 1,175 wins, sixth-most all-time, who coached six franchises, led the 1996 SuperSonics to the NBA Finals, won the 2013 Coach of the Year, and was known for feuds with star players.
George Karniadakis
George Em Karniadakis is a Cretan-born applied mathematician who joined Brown University in 1994, pioneered physics-informed neural networks in 2018, and won the 2021 SIAM/ACM Prize.
George Kassiotis
George Kassiotis, also published as Georgios Kassiotis, is an immunologist who leads Retroviral Immunology at The Francis Crick Institute and is Professor of Retrovirology at Imperial College London.
George Kempf
George Kempf was an American algebraic geometer who earned his Ph.D. at Columbia in 1970, proved the instability and Kempf–Ness theorems, and completed Mumford's geometric invariant theory program.
George Kennedy
George Kennedy (George Harris Kennedy), 1925 to 2016, was an American character actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (1967).
George Kenneth Mallory
George Kenneth Mallory was an American pathologist, son of Frank Burr Mallory, who directed the Mallory Institute at Boston City Hospital and co-described the Mallory–Weiss bleeding syndrome in 1929.
George Khoury (molecular biologist)
George Khoury (1943–1987) was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute who produced the first transcription map of an animal virus and identified genetic enhancers.
George Kingsley Zipf
George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950) was a Harvard linguist who formulated Zipf's law, the inverse rank–frequency pattern of word use, and spent his career explaining it through the principle of least effort.
George Kirgo
George Kirgo, born George Blumenthal, was an American screenwriter whose credits include Red Line 7000, Spinout, and Don't Make Waves, and who led the Writers Guild of America, West from 1987 to 1991.
George Kistiakowsky
George Kistiakowsky was a Ukrainian-born American physical chemist, a Harvard professor from 1930, who designed the explosive lenses for the first atomic bomb and later advised President Eisenhower.
George Kittle
George Kittle, born 1993, San Francisco 49ers tight end from Iowa, drafted 146th overall in 2017; 2018 single-season TE record 1,377 yards, six Pro Bowls, highest-paid TE ($76.4M, 2025), torn Achilles January 2026.
George Klein (cancer biologist)
George Klein, born Georg Klein (1925–2016), was a Hungarian-born Swedish cancer biologist at Karolinska Institutet who pioneered tumor immunology and linked Burkitt lymphoma to Epstein-Barr virus.
George Knight (EastEnders)
George Knight (born Kwame Asare) is a fictional EastEnders character played by Colin Salmon since June 2023; a former British heavyweight boxing champion, Queen Vic landlord, ex-husband of Cindy Beale as "Rose", and adoptee in a baby-farming storyline.
George Kojac
George Harold Kojac (1910–1996), American swimmer, won 100 m backstroke and 4x200 m freestyle relay gold at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, set 23 world records, and missed 1932 for Columbia Medical School.
George Kollias (Greek drummer)
George Kollias (Γιώργος Κόλλιας) is a Greek drummer, born in 1977 in Corinth, best known as the drummer of the American technical death metal band Nile since 2004.
George Koob
George F. Koob is an American neuroscientist known for establishing the neurobiology of drug and alcohol addiction and for directing the NIAAA at NIH since 2014.
George Koovakad
George Jacob Koovakad (born 1973) is an Indian Syro-Malabar cardinal, former Vatican diplomat and coordinator of papal travels, and since January 2025 Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.
George Kunos
George Kunos is a Hungarian-born pharmacologist, Scientific Director of NIAAA at NIH, known for linking endocannabinoids to appetite and developing peripheral CB1 antagonists.
George Kuo
George Kuo, also known as George Kuo Ching-Hung, is a Taiwanese-born virologist who co-discovered the hepatitis C virus at Chiron in 1989 and developed its first antibody test.
George L. Bakris
George L. Bakris was an American nephrologist and hypertension researcher who directed the University of Chicago's Comprehensive Hypertension Center and led trials including SYMPLICITY HTN-3 and KARDIA-1.
George L. King
George L. King is an American physician-scientist who directs research at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard, known for identifying VEGF as a driver of diabetic retinopathy.
George L. Nardi
George L. Nardi, born 1923, was a general surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School known for esophageal and pancreatic operations and surgical textbooks.
George L. Russell III
George L. Russell III, born 1965 in Baltimore, is a United States district judge in Maryland since 2012 and its chief district judge since 2024, nominated by President Obama.
George L. Stegemeier
George L. Stegemeier is an American petroleum engineer whose scaled steam-drive models underpinned Shell's heavy-oil production in California, and who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
George L. Turin
George Lewis Turin (1930–2014) was an American electrical engineer who joined UC Berkeley in 1960, chaired its EECS department, and did pioneering work on urban radio multipath.
George Lakoff
George Lakoff, American cognitive linguist and UC Berkeley professor emeritus, founder of generative semantics, cognitive linguistics, and Neural Theory of Language; co-author of Metaphors We Live By and author of Moral Politics on strict father versus nurturant parent political framing.
George Lamb
George Martin Lamb is an English presenter and farmer, known for his controversial BBC 6 Music show and for co-founding the regenerative farming business Wildfarmed in 2018.
George Lamming
George Lamming (1927–2022) was a Barbadian novelist and essayist, a central figure of Caribbean literature whose debut novel In the Castle of My Skin appeared in 1953.