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George Patton IV
George Smith Patton IV (1923-2004), also George S. Patton IV, U.S. Army major general, son of WWII general George S. Patton Jr.; West Point 1946, Korea and Vietnam veteran, two Distinguished Service Crosses, commanded the 11th Armored Cavalry and 2nd Armored Division.
George Paz
George Paz (1955–2022) was an American executive who led Express Scripts, the largest US pharmacy benefit manager, as chairman and CEO from 2005 to 2016.
George Peabody
George Peabody (1795–1869) was a Massachusetts-born merchant and banker whose London firm sold American state bonds to British investors and became the root of the J.P. Morgan banking firm.
George Pell
George Pell, also known as Cardinal Pell, was an Australian cardinal who served as Archbishop of Melbourne and Sydney and headed Vatican finances before his 2018 conviction was quashed in 2020.
George Pemba
George Pemba, full name George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba (1912–2001), was a South African painter known for portraits and depictions of township life in the Eastern Cape.
George Peppard
George Peppard (1928–1994), American actor, Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Hannibal Smith in The A-Team; also Banacek, fired from Dynasty pilot, six marriages.
George Percy, Earl Percy
George Dominic Percy, Earl Percy (born 1984) is the contemporary heir apparent to the Dukedom of Northumberland, elder son of the 12th Duke, a former Page of Honour to Elizabeth II and Cluff Geothermal co-founder, distinct from earlier Percy namesakes.
George Pérez
George Pérez (1954–2022), American comic book artist and writer, co-creator of New Teen Titans and Crisis on Infinite Earths with Marv Wolfman, relauncher of Wonder Woman, artist of Avengers and Infinity Gauntlet, died of pancreatic cancer.
George Perkins Clinton
George Perkins Clinton (1867–1937) was an American botanist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station from 1902 to 1937, known for his monographs on the smut fungi of North America and Connecticut.
George Perkins Marsh
George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was an American diplomat, philologist, and polymath from Woodstock, Vermont, whose 1864 book Man and Nature is treated as the founding argument of modern conservation.
George Perlegos
George Perlegos (Γιώργος Πελέγος) is a Greek-born American semiconductor engineer who pioneered EEPROM memory at Intel, founded Atmel in 1984, and led it until his 2006 ouster.
George Petty
George Petty (George Brown Petty IV, 1894–1975), American pin-up artist; creator of the airbrushed "Petty Girl" in Esquire from 1933, pioneer of the gatefold/centerfold, source of Memphis Belle nose art, not the 17th-century mezzotint sitter of the same name.
George Pickens
George Pickens (born 2001) is an NFL wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, formerly the Pittsburgh Steelers, who drafted him 52nd overall in 2022 out of Georgia; he led the NFL with 18.1 yards per catch in 2023 and made his first Pro Bowl after a 1,429-yard 2025.
George Pickering (British physician)
Sir George White Pickering (1904–1980) was a British physician who showed that high blood pressure is the upper end of a continuous distribution, not a distinct disease.
George Pickett
George Edward Pickett (1825–1875), Confederate major general, namesake of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg; also failed at New Berne, ordered the Kinston hangings, was defeated at Five Forks, and sold insurance after the war.
George Plafker
George Plafker was an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who showed that the world's largest earthquakes result from huge slip on subduction megathrusts.
George Platt Lynes
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955) was an American photographer known for fashion and portrait work in major magazines and for his ballet photographs of Balanchine and Kirstein's companies.
George Plimpton
George Plimpton, or George Ames Plimpton, was an American journalist and editor who co-founded The Paris Review in 1953 and pioneered participatory journalism in books like Paper Lion.
George Pólya
George Pólya (György Pólya, 1887–1985) was a Hungarian-born mathematician at ETH Zürich and Stanford who proved the random walk theorem and wrote How to Solve It.
George Pólya Prize
The George Pólya Prize is a family of mathematics awards given by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, established in 1969 and named for George Pólya.
George Pomeroy Sayre
George Pomeroy Sayre (born 1911) was an American physician and pathologist at the Mayo Clinic who co-described Kearns-Sayre syndrome with Thomas P. Kearns in 1958.
George Porter
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, was a British photochemist who invented flash photolysis, shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and championed solar energy.
George Poste
George Poste is a British-born scientist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1997, who led research and development at SmithKline Beecham and now works at Arizona State University.
George Pratt (footballer)
George Pratt (George Christopher John Pratt, born 2003) is an English left-footed centre-back at Blackburn Rovers, on loan to Bradford City for 2026/27 after Chorley and a Championship breakthrough.
George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (1831–1897) was an American industrialist who designed the Pullman sleeping car, founded the Pullman Palace Car Company, and built the company town of Pullman.
George Pușcaș
George Pușcaș, full name George Alexandru Pușcaș, is a Romanian footballer born in 1996 in Marghita who came through Inter Milan's academy and plays as a center-forward for Dinamo București.
George Q. Daley
George Q. Daley, also known as George Daley, is an American physician-scientist and dean of Harvard Medical School known for stem cell science and cancer biology.
George R. Buchanan
George R. Buchanan is an American pediatric hematologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas who led sickle cell research and co-chaired 2014 national treatment guidelines.
George R. Cotter
George R. Cotter is an American cryptologic engineer and retired NSA executive. He was the first NSA employee elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
George R. Fraser
George R. Fraser, also known as George Robert Fraser, is a human geneticist born in 1932 who delineated Fraser syndrome and studied deafness and blindness in childhood.