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George M. Cohan
George M. Cohan (1878–1942) was an American composer, playwright, producer, and performer of Providence, Rhode Island birth, the "Yankee Doodle Boy" who shaped Broadway musical comedy and wrote "Over There."
George M. Foster (anthropologist)
George M. Foster (1913–2006) was an American anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his "image of limited good" theory of peasant societies and his half-century field study of Tzintzuntzan, Mexico.
George M. Homsy
George M. "Bud" Homsy (1943–2024) was an American fluid mechanician known for research on viscous fingering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.
George M. Hornberger
George M. Hornberger is an American hydrologist elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996, known for connecting watershed science with water and energy decisions.
George M. Marovich
George M. Marovich, born 1931, is a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and taking senior status in 2000.
George M. Shaw
George M. Shaw is an American virologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the first molecular clones of HIV-1 and its quasispecies structure.
George M. Sheldrick
George M. Sheldrick (1942–2025) was a chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society, professor of structural chemistry at Göttingen, and author of the SHELX programs that refined most small-molecule structures.
George M. Stratton
George M. Stratton was an American experimental psychologist best known for wearing lenses that inverted his vision for days in 1896 and 1897, and he founded Berkeley's psychology department.
George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock is an American geneticist who co-led the Human Genome Project at Baylor College of Medicine and later directed microbial genomics at the Jackson Laboratory.
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides, born 1939, is an American chemist at Harvard known for molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, and microfluidics, and a winner of the Kavli Prize.
George M. Woodwell
George M. Woodwell (1928–2024) was an American ecologist who measured how ecosystems store and release carbon, documented DDT's persistence, and founded the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
George M. Zaslavsky
George M. Zaslavsky (Заславский Георгий Моисеевич; 1935–2008) was a Soviet and American physicist, one of three founders of Hamiltonian chaos theory, known for the Zaslavsky map and fractional kinetics.
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737–1806), Anglo-Irish diplomat and colonial governor who led Britain's first embassy to China (1792–1794) to the Qianlong emperor; the kowtow dispute and failed trade treaty made it a landmark of Sino-British relations.
George MacDonald
George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Congregational minister, a pioneering figure of modern fantasy and mentor of Lewis Carroll; author of Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, and Lilith.
George MacIntyre (quarterback)
George MacIntyre is an American college football quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers, a redshirt freshman from Brentwood Academy in Nashville who was one of the top-ranked quarterback recruits in 2025.
George Maciunas
George Maciunas (Jurgis Mačiūnas, 1931–1978), Lithuanian-born American artist and founder and chairman of Fluxus; coined the name in 1961, organized Fluxus festivals, published Fluxus 1 and fluxkits, drew the 1973 Fluxus chart, and created the SoHo Fluxhouse Cooperatives.
George MacKay (actor)
George MacKay (born 1992) is a British actor from Hammersmith, London, lead of 1917 and Captain Fantastic, BIFA-winning for Femme, and Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility (2026).
George Mackey
George Whitelaw Mackey (1916–2006) was an American mathematician at Harvard whose work joined group representation theory, ergodic theory, and the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics.
George Macready
George Macready (George Peabody Macready Jr., 1899-1973), American character actor of stage, film, and TV; Broadway from 1926; known for Gilda's Ballin Mundson, Paths of Glory's Gen. Mireau, and Peyton Place's Martin Peyton.
George Maharis
George Maharis (born George Mahairas, 1928–2023), American actor, singer, and painter; starred as Buz Murdock in Route 66 (CBS, 1960–1963), 1962 Emmy nominee, hit "Teach Me Tonight"; distinct from George Makris and George Maris.
George Malcolm Dyson
George Malcolm Dyson (1902–1978) was a British organic chemist and information scientist who developed Dyson Notation, a linear coding system for organic compounds adopted by IUPAC in 1961.
George Malliaras
George Malliaras is a materials scientist in organic electronics and bioelectronics, Prince Philip Professor of Technology at Cambridge since 2017 and a Royal Society Fellow elected in 2024.
George Mallory
George Leigh Mallory (1886-1924), English mountaineer of the 1921, 1922, and 1924 British Everest expeditions; vanished with Sandy Irvine on 8 June 1924 near the summit, which they may or may not have reached; body found 1999.
George Mara
George Edward Mara (1921-2006), Canadian ice hockey forward and executive; captain of the RCAF Flyers gold medalists at St. Moritz 1948 (17 goals in 8 games), later founder-chairman of the Olympic Trust of Canada, Order of Canada 1976.
George Marsaglia
George Marsaglia (1924–2011) was an American mathematician and statistician who shaped modern random number generation through the 1968 planes theorem, the xorshift and multiply-with-carry generators, and the Diehard battery of randomness tests.
George Marthins
George Marthins (George Eric McCarthy Marthins, 1905–1989), Indian field hockey inside-right who won gold with British India at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, scored 3 goals in 5 matches, and partnered Dhyan Chand.
George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin (1926–2016) was an English record producer, arranger, and composer who signed the Beatles to Parlophone in 1962, earning the title "fifth Beatle".
George Martinuzzi
George Martinuzzi (Fráter György) was a Pauline monk, bishop, and cardinal who governed Transylvania from 1540 and was assassinated on Ferdinand I's orders in 1551.
George Maryan
George Maryan (ஜார்ஜ் மரியன்), born 1963, is an Indian Tamil film actor and comedian in supporting roles, known for Constable Napoleon in Kaithi (2019) and Leo (2023), Bigil, and Dragon (2025), after a 1989–2002 theatre career with Koothu-P-Pattarai.
George Mason
George Mason (1725–1792), Virginia planter of Gunston Hall, authored the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, a model for the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights; he refused to sign the 1787 Constitution.