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George of Trebizond
George of Trebizond (Γεώργιος Τραπεζούντιος), also Georgius Trapezuntius, was a Cretan-born Greek humanist and papal secretary in Italy who translated Aristotle and started the Renaissance Plato–Aristotle controversy in 1458.
George Oliver (physician)
George Oliver (1841–1915) was an English physician and physiologist who showed in 1894–95 that adrenal extract powerfully raises blood pressure, laying the groundwork for adrenaline.
George Oliver Curme
George Oliver Curme was an American industrial chemist, research chief at Union Carbide, known as the father of ethylene for building a chemical industry on petroleum-derived ethylene.
George Oppen
George Oppen (1908–1984) was an American Objectivist poet who published Discrete Series in 1934, abandoned poetry for 25 years, and won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Of Being Numerous.
George Orton
George Washington Orton (1873-1958), Canadian distance runner from Strathroy, Ontario; first Canadian Olympic medallist, winning 1900 Paris gold in the 2500m steeplechase and 400m hurdles bronze for the University of Pennsylvania.
George Orwell
George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), English novelist, essayist, and critic; author of Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and a democratic socialist critic of totalitarianism.
George Osborn (mathematician)
George Osborn (1864–1932) was an English schoolmaster and mathematician, Senior Physics Master at The Leys School in Cambridge, whose 1902 Mathematical Gazette note gave his name to Osborn's rule.
George Osborne
George Osborne, born Gideon George Oliver Osborne, is a British Conservative politician who was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016, defining policy through austerity.
George Oster
George Oster, also known as George F. Oster, was an American mathematical biologist and biophysicist at UC Berkeley who modeled cells as mechanochemical machines and the ATP synthase motor.
George Owen Squier
George Owen Squier was a U.S. Army major general and inventor who invented telephone carrier multiplexing in 1910, became the first airplane passenger in 1908, and founded Muzak.
George P. Browman
George P. Browman is a Canadian medical oncologist and clinical epidemiologist known for head and neck cancer research and for founding Cancer Care Ontario's Program in Evidence-Based Care.
George P. Bush
George P. Bush, also known as George Prescott Bush, is an American attorney who served as the 28th Texas Land Commissioner from 2015 to 2023.
George P. Canellos
George P. Canellos is an American medical oncologist known for combination chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, first at the National Cancer Institute and then as founding chief of medical oncology at Dana-Farber.
George P. Chrousos
George P. Chrousos, born 1951 in Patras, Greece, is a Greek pediatric endocrinologist known for systematizing the stress system concept and serving as President of the Hellenic Pasteur Institute.
George P. Cosmatos
George P. Cosmatos (George Pan Cosmatos, 1941-2005), Greek-Italian film director who began as assistant director on Exodus, known for Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra, Leviathan, and Tombstone (1993), father of director Panos Cosmatos.
George P. Hess
George P. Hess (1922–2015) was an American biochemist who spent 60 years at Cornell University developing rapid chemical-kinetic techniques that made neurotransmitter receptors measurable on millisecond time scales.
George P. L. Walker
George P. L. Walker, born George Patrick Leonard Walker (1926–2005), was a British volcanologist who made volcanology quantitative, best known for his 1973 lava-flow and pyroclastic-deposit methods.
George P. Merrill
George P. Merrill (1854–1929) was an American geologist and meteoriticist who spent nearly fifty years at the United States National Museum, becoming head curator of geology.
George P. Mitchell
George P. Mitchell was a Texas oil and gas engineer, wildcatter, and philanthropist whose two-decade Barnett Shale campaign earned him the title Father of the Shale Gas Revolution.
George P. Putnam
George P. Putnam, also known as George Palmer Putnam, was an American publisher, author, and explorer who signed Charles Lindbergh's memoir and managed and married Amelia Earhart.
George P. Smith (chemist)
George P. Smith, born 1941 in Connecticut, is an American molecular biologist who invented phage display at the University of Missouri, sharing the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
George Padmore
George Padmore, born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, was a Trinidadian Pan-Africanist writer and organizer who led the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress and advised Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana.
George Paget Thomson
George Paget Thomson (1892–1975) was a British physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering electron diffraction, and later chaired the MAUD atomic bomb committee.
George Pake
George Pake was an American condensed matter physicist who founded and led Xerox PARC from 1970, and whose 1948 NMR work became a cornerstone of MRI research.
George Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos, Trump 2016 campaign foreign policy adviser whose contacts with Joseph Mifsud and Russian intermediaries triggered the FBI's Russia investigation; he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was pardoned in 2020.
George Papandreou
George Papandreou (Γιώργος Α. Παπανδρέου), Greek PASOK politician, prime minister 2009–2011 during the debt crisis, first EU/IMF memorandum, 2011 referendum climbdown and resignation; later Socialist International president.
George Parker
George Richard Parker (1897–1974), Australian race walker, Antwerp 1920 silver medallist in the 3,000 m walk behind Ugo Frigerio, Australia's first Olympic walker and 1920 opening-ceremony flagbearer.
George Parshall
George Parshall (1929–2019) was an American organometallic chemist at DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware, known for homogeneous catalysis, catalytic hydrocarbon activation, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984.
George Pataki
George Pataki, Republican governor of New York 1995-2007, who defeated three-term incumbent Mario Cuomo in 1994, led the state's response to the September 11 attacks, cut taxes and welfare rolls, and later ran for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
George Patton
George C Patton (1954–2022) was an Australian child and adolescent psychiatrist at Melbourne's Centre for Adolescent Health who chaired the 2016 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health.