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George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven
George Ivar Louis Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven (born 1961), British hereditary peer and head of the House of Mountbatten; founded uSwitch.com, sold in 2006 for about £100 million to him.
George Mueller (electrical engineer)
George Mueller (1918–2015) was an American electrical engineer who, as NASA's associate administrator for Manned Space Flight from 1963 to 1969, directed Gemini and Apollo to the Moon landing.
George Müller
George Müller (1805–1898) was a Prussian-born Plymouth Brethren pastor in Bristol whose Ashley Down orphan houses cared for over 10,000 orphans, funded by prayer alone.
George Murdock
George Peter Murdock (1897–1985) was an American anthropologist at Yale and Pittsburgh who founded the Human Relations Area Files and wrote Social Structure (1949), a landmark study of kinship.
George Murphy
George Lloyd Murphy (1902–1992), American song-and-dance man and Republican politician; Screen Actors Guild president 1944–46, over 40 Hollywood films, and U.S. senator from California 1965–1971, defeated by John Tunney in 1970.
George Murphy (American chemist)
George Moseley Murphy (1903–1968) was an American chemist who codiscovered deuterium, the heavy isotope of hydrogen, with Harold Urey and Ferdinand Brickwedde at Columbia University in 1931.
George N. Hatsopoulos
George N. Hatsopoulos (1927–2018) was a Greek-born American mechanical engineer who founded Thermo Electron Corporation, grew it to over 24,000 employees, and reshaped the teaching of thermodynamics at MIT.
George N. Ioannou
George N. Ioannou is an American hepatologist who is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and Director of Hepatology at the VA Puget Sound in Seattle.
George N. Pavlakis
George N. Pavlakis is a virologist who led the National Cancer Institute's Human Retrovirus Section until 2021, known for mammalian-cell hormone production and codon/RNA optimization used in vaccines.
George N. Somero
George N. Somero is a marine scientist and emeritus Stanford professor at Hopkins Marine Station, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, known as the father of biochemical adaptation.
George Nader
George Nader (October 19, 1921 - February 4, 2002) was an American actor of 1950s Hollywood films, star of Robot Monster and eight German Jerry Cotton thrillers, and author of the gay sci-fi novel Chrome.
George Nakashima
George Nakashima (1905–1990) was a Japanese American architect turned woodworker and furniture designer in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and a leading figure of the American studio craft movement.
George Nash
George Nash (George Christopher Nash, born 1989, Guildford) is a British Olympic rower: Rio 2016 gold in the men's coxless four, London 2012 pair bronze, three world titles; distinct from the Negro leagues pitcher of the same name.
George Neal Station North
George Neal Station North, also called Neal North Energy Center, is a coal-fired power plant in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, operated by MidAmerican Energy Company, with one 584 MW unit running since 1975.
George Nelson (designer)
George Nelson (1908–1986) was an American architect and furniture designer who, as director of design at Herman Miller, created the Ball Clock, Bubble Lamps, and Marshmallow Sofa and shaped postwar American modernism.
George Nemhauser
George Nemhauser (born 1937) is an American operations researcher and Institute Emeritus Professor at Georgia Tech whose work spans integer optimization, airline scheduling, and Major League Baseball scheduling.
George Nevinson
George Wilfred Nevinson (1882-1963), English water polo player and Salford SC back, won gold with Great Britain at the 1908 London Olympics, beating Belgium 9-2 in the final; a leg injury kept him from the 1912 Games.
George Newbern
George Newbern (George Young Newbern), American actor born 1964 in Little Rock, Arkansas; voice of Superman since 2001's Justice League, Sephiroth in Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, Charlie in Scandal, and Bryan MacKenzie in Father of the Bride.
George Noory
George Ralph Noory (born 1950) is an American radio talk show host who has been the primary weeknight host of the syndicated overnight program Coast to Coast AM since 2003.
George Norcross
George E. Norcross III, South Jersey insurance executive and unelected Democratic boss of Camden County politics; indicted June 2024 on Camden waterfront racketeering charges, dismissed 2025-2026.
George North
George North, Welsh rugby union wing or centre, born 1992, Anglesey; 121 Wales caps, 47 tries, four Six Nations, two Grand Slams; Lions 2013 and 2017; retired from professional rugby in 2026 after Provence.
George O. Curme, Jr.
George O. Curme, Jr. (1888–1976) was an American industrial chemist at Union Carbide, called the father of ethylene for building the commercial chemistry that launched the petrochemical industry.
George O. Gore II
George O. Gore II, also credited as George Gore II, is an American actor born in 1982 in Fort Washington, Maryland, known for Gregory "G" Williams on New York Undercover (1994-1998) and Michael "Junior" Kyle on My Wife and Kids (2001-2005), later a writer on Sneakerella.
George O'connor
George T. O'Connor is an American pulmonologist and genetic epidemiologist at Boston University and Boston Medical Center whose research focuses on asthma, allergy, COPD, and sleep apnea.
George O'Malley
George O'Malley, also called 007, is a fictional surgical intern on Grey's Anatomy played by T.R. Knight from 2005; he marries Callie Torres, dies heroically in the season 5 finale, and returns in season 17.
George of Poděbrady
George of Poděbrady (Jiří z Poděbrad) was King of Bohemia from 1458 to 1471, known as the "Hussite king" who proposed a peace project for Christendom.
George of Polentz
George of Polentz (Georg von Polentz, c. 1478–1550) was a Saxon nobleman who served as the last Catholic and first Lutheran Bishop of Samland in Prussia.
George of the Jungle
George of the Jungle is a comedy franchise begun in 1967 by Jay Ward Productions as a Tarzan spoof, later a 1997 Disney live-action film with Brendan Fraser, a 2003 sequel, and 2007 and 2015 animated reboots.
George of the Jungle (film)
George of the Jungle is a 1997 American live-action comedy from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Sam Weisman and starring Brendan Fraser, based on Jay Ward's 1960s animated series.
George of the Jungle 2
George of the Jungle 2 (2003) is Disney's direct-to-video sequel to the 1997 comedy, directed by David Grossman, starring Christopher Showerman as George, with Julie Benz, Thomas Haden Church, and John Cleese, released October 21, 2003.