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George Mason University
George Mason University is Virginia's largest public research university, in Fairfax near Washington, D.C. Founded 1957 as a University of Virginia branch, independent since April 7, 1972; 40,000+ students, R1 research, Scalia Law School.
George Matheson
George Matheson (1842–1906) was a Church of Scotland minister, theologian, and hymn writer known as "the blind preacher", remembered for "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go".
George Mathew
George Mathew is a venture capitalist and former enterprise-software operator who has been a Managing Director at Insight Partners since 2021, investing in data infrastructure, AI, and analytics companies.
George McCall Theal
George McCall Theal (1837–1919) was a Canadian-born historian and civil servant in the Cape Colony, author of the multi-volume History of South Africa and the Records of South-Eastern Africa.
George McCrae
George McCrae, American soul and disco singer born 1944 in West Palm Beach, Florida, known for the 1974 TK Records hit "Rock Your Baby," a US and UK number one written by Casey and Finch.
George McDermott
George McDermott is an American Republican politician and contractor, the party's 2026 nominee for U.S. Representative from Maryland's 4th District, a seat he has sought repeatedly since 2014.
George McDonaugh
George McDonaugh is a digital asset investor who left an advertising career after discovering Bitcoin in 2011 and co-founded KR1 plc in 2016, a London-listed crypto investor that seed-funded Ethereum, Polkadot, and Cosmos.
George McGovern
George McGovern (1922–2012), South Dakota senator 1963–1981 and Food for Peace director, chaired the McGovern-Fraser Commission, was the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Nixon in a landslide, and shared the 2008 World Food Prize with Robert Dole.
George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign
George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign: the antiwar senator won the Democratic nomination under his own McGovern-Fraser reforms, then lost to Nixon in a landslide, carrying only Massachusetts and DC.
George Mcgrath
George Mcgrath (George Frederick McGrath, 1885-1956), English field hockey inside-forward for Wimbledon HC; won gold with Great Britain in men's hockey at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and umpired at the same Games.
George Meade
George Gordon Meade (1815-1872) was the Union Army of the Potomac commander who defeated Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg, July 1863, days after taking command, and led the army under Grant through Appomattox.
George Medal
The George Medal (GM) is the UK's second-highest civilian gallantry award, instituted 24 September 1940 by King George VI below the George Cross, for conspicuous gallantry not in the presence of the enemy.
George Mehnert
George Nicholas Mehnert (1881-1948), Newark, New Jersey freestyle wrestler; first American to win two Olympic wrestling golds (1904 flyweight, 1908 bantamweight) and six AAU titles 1902-1908.
George Melchers
George Melchers (Johann Georg Friedrich Melchers, 1906–1997) was a German plant biologist who spent about 30 years at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen and pioneered protoplast fusion.
George Meredith
George Meredith (1828–1909) was a British novelist and poet whose psychologically dense fiction, including The Egoist and Diana of the Crossways, won him honors but few general readers.
George Michael
George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, 1963–2016), English singer-songwriter of Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley and solo star; Faith (1987) sold 25 million copies and won the Album of the Year Grammy.
George Michael discography
George Michael discography: solo studio albums Faith to Patience, Wham! catalogue, UK and US chart history, duets, compilations, and posthumous releases including Last Christmas's 2023-2024 Christmas Number 1s.
George Michael Morris
G. Michael Morris is an American optical engineer who spent 19 years as Professor of Optics at Rochester and founded three photonics companies, including RPC Photonics.
George Mikan
George Mikan (1924-2005), Mr. Basketball, was the NBA's first superstar, a 6-foot-10 DePaul and Minneapolis Lakers center who won seven titles across the NBL, BAA, and NBA and prompted the goaltending ban and 12-foot lane.
George Miles Cycle
The George Miles Cycle is Dennis Cooper's five-novel sequence (Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, Period, 1989-2000), written as a tribute to his friend George Miles, who died by suicide in 1987.
George Miller
George Arthur Miller (1867–1935), British polo player, not the baseball catcher or the runner George Mills; won 1908 Olympic polo gold with Roehampton alongside brother Charles, six Hurlingham Champion Cups, England Westchester Cup captain 1902.
George Miller (filmmaker)
George Miller, born 1945, Australian director of Greek immigrant parents; directed Mad Max (1979), Fury Road (six Oscars), Happy Feet (2007 Oscar), produced Babe, and followed with Three Thousand Years of Longing and Furiosa.
George Moberly
George Moberly (1803–1885) was an English Anglican bishop who headed Winchester College for thirty-one years before Gladstone appointed him Bishop of Salisbury in 1869, the first high-church appointment in many years.
George Monbiot
George Monbiot, British author, Guardian columnist (since 1996) and environmental activist; former BBC Natural History Unit producer; books include Poisoned Arrows, Feral, Regenesis and The Invisible Doctrine; Orwell Prize winner 2022.
George Montgomery (actor)
George Montgomery (born George Montgomery Letz, 1916-2000), American Western film and TV actor of 87 pictures, Cimarron City star, Philip Marlowe in The Brasher Doubloon, later sculptor and furniture maker.
George Moore (novelist)
George Moore, full name George Augustus Moore (1852–1933), was an Irish novelist who brought French naturalism into English and Irish fiction, best known for Esther Waters (1894).
George Morrison (artist)
George Morrison (1919–2000) was an Ojibwe American abstractionist from Grand Portage, Minnesota, who joined the New York Abstract Expressionist scene and painted horizon-line Lake Superior landscapes.
George Moscone
George Richard Moscone was an American lawyer and Democratic politician, mayor of San Francisco from 1976 until he and Harvey Milk were assassinated by Dan White in 1978.
George Mostow
George Mostow (1923–2017) was an American mathematician at Yale University known for the strong rigidity theorems, which show certain symmetric spaces are determined by their fundamental groups.
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892–1938), born Prince George of Battenberg, was a Royal Navy captain, elder brother of Earl Mountbatten, husband of Nadejda de Torby, and father of the 3rd Marquess.