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George Lamond
George Lamond, born George LaMond Garcia in 1967, is an American freestyle and salsa singer from the Bronx, best known for the 1990 hit "Bad of the Heart."
George Lang (Ohio politician)
George Lang is an American Republican politician who represents most of Butler County in the Ohio Senate, elected in 2020 after two terms in the Ohio House.
George Lansbury
George Lansbury (1859–1940), British Labour leader 1932–1935 and MP for Bow and Bromley, led the 1921 Poplar Rates Rebellion, edited the Daily Herald, and resigned over pacifism in 1935.
George Lansing Raymond
George Lansing Raymond (1839–1929) was an American educator, clergyman, poet, and philosopher of art who taught at Williams College and Princeton and wrote the multi-volume Comparative Aesthetics series.
George Larner
George Edward Larner (1875-1949), English race walker and Brighton policeman; won both 1908 Olympic walks (3,500 m in 14:55.0 and 10 miles in world record 1:15:57.4), set nine world records, wrote the first serious racewalking book.
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (1923–2011), British arts administrator and cousin of Elizabeth II; ran Edinburgh Festival, ENO, founded Opera North, president of Leeds United.
George Latimer (New York politician)
George Latimer is an American Democratic politician who has represented New York's 16th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2025, after serving as Westchester County Executive.
George Layton
George Layton (born 1943, Bradford; born George Lowy) is an English actor, writer and director, Paul Collier in Doctor in the House, Bombardier Solly in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, creator of Don't Wait Up.
George Lazenby
George Lazenby (born 1939, Goulburn, Australia) is an Australian actor and former model who played James Bond once, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), succeeding Sean Connery, then declined a seven-film contract.
George Lazenby filmography
George Lazenby filmography: screen career of the Australian actor (born 1939) who played James Bond once in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), plus 1970s Hong Kong and Euro films, TV work, Emmanuelle movies, and documentaries.
George Ledyard Stebbins
George Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000) was an American botanist and geneticist who extended the modern evolutionary synthesis to plants through his 1950 book Variation and Evolution in Plants.
George Leitmann
George Leitmann (1925–2025) was an Austrian-born American control theorist and professor of engineering science at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering guaranteed control of uncertain systems and dynamic game theory.
George Liddard
George Liddard (born 2002), Billericay middleweight boxer, unbeaten at 15-0 (9 KOs); holds British, Commonwealth, and European middleweight titles; Matchroom fighter trained by Tony Sims.
George Lilanga
George Lilanga (1934–2005) was a Tanzanian Makonde artist best known for colorful paintings and sculptures of shetani, playful devil figures performing scenes of daily life in Tanzanian villages and cities.
George Lincoln Goodale
George Lincoln Goodale (1839–1923) was an American botanist and Harvard professor known for Physiological Botany (1885) and for building Harvard's botanical museum around the Blaschka glass models of plants.
George Lincoln Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967), American founder and Commander of the American Nazi Party (founded 1959, later National Socialist White People's Party); assassinated August 25, 1967 in Arlington, Virginia by former member John Patler.
George Lindsey
George Smith Lindsey (1928-2012), American character actor born in Fairfield, Alabama, best known as Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., and Hee Haw; UNA graduate and founder of the George Lindsey UNA Film Festival.
George Linius Streeter
George Linius Streeter (1873–1948) was an American embryologist who directed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology from 1917 to 1940 and devised the developmental horizons for staging early human embryos.
George Lister
George Lister is an American pediatrician-researcher, the Jean McLean Wallace Professor of Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, known for the National Infant Sleep Position studies on SIDS prevention.
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein, born in 1955, is an American behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University, known for work on intertemporal choice and the hot-cold empathy gap.
George Lopez
George Lopez, born 1961 in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, is a Mexican-American stand-up comedian and actor whose ABC sitcom George Lopez (2002-2007) and TBS show Lopez Tonight made him a leading Latino figure in US television.
George Lopez (TV series)
George Lopez (The George Lopez Show) is an ABC sitcom, 2002-2007, six seasons and 120 episodes, starring comedian George Lopez as an LA factory manager; the first successful Latino-lead network sitcom since Chico and the Man, created by Robert Borden, Bruce Helford, and Lopez with Sandra Bullock producing.
George Loros
George Loros (George Kandiloros), American character actor and Lee Strasberg Institute acting teacher; played Raymond Curto on The Sopranos (1999–2006), Broadway's Thieves (1974), and over 100 TV guest roles.
George Low
George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer who managed the Apollo program after the 1967 fire, then served as NASA Deputy Administrator and RPI president.
George Lucas
George Lucas (born 1944) is the American filmmaker who created Star Wars, founded Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic, sold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion in 2012, and opened the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles in 2026.
George Lusztig
George Lusztig, born Gheorghe Lusztig, is a Romanian-born American mathematician and MIT professor emeritus known for the Kazhdan–Lusztig polynomials, Deligne–Lusztig theory, and canonical bases, winning the 2014 Shaw Prize and 2022 Wolf Prize.
George Lynch (musician)
George Lynch (born 1954, Spokane, Washington), American hard rock guitarist of Dokken and Lynch Mob, also The End Machine, KXM, Mr. Scary Guitars builder, ESP signature artist, 1989 Grammy nominee.
George Lyon
George Seymour Lyon (1858–1938), Canadian golfer, won the 1904 St. Louis Olympic golf gold at 46, beating Chandler Egan 3&2; eight-time Canadian Amateur champion; declined a second gold at London 1908.
George M. C. Fisher
George M. C. Fisher is an American engineer who served as President and CEO of Motorola from 1988 to 1993 and as CEO of Eastman Kodak from 1993 to 1999.
George M. Church
George M. Church is an American geneticist and Harvard Medical School professor whose lab's methods underlie next-generation sequencing and whose 2013 work helped establish CRISPR-Cas9 in human cells.