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George R. Irwin
George R. Irwin (1907–1998) was an American physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory whose stress intensity factor made him the father of fracture mechanics.
George R. Minot
George R. Minot, also known as George Richards Minot, was an American Harvard physician whose liver diet reversed pernicious anemia, earning the 1934 Nobel Prize.
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948, Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author; his A Song of Ice and Fire, begun with A Game of Thrones in 1996, inspired HBO's Game of Thrones and earned him the label 'the American Tolkien.'
George R. Siber
George R. Siber is a Canadian-trained physician-scientist and vaccinologist who led development of childhood vaccines against pneumococcus and Hib, winning the 2016 Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal.
George R. Siggins
George Robert Siggins was an American neuroscientist who used electrophysiology to show how norepinephrine and alcohol act on single neurons, working at NIMH, the Salk Institute, and Scripps.
George R. Stark
George R. Stark (born 1933) is an American biochemist and National Academy of Sciences member whose laboratory named the Northern blot and helped discover the JAK-STAT pathway.
George R. Uhl
George R. Uhl is an American neuroscientist and board-certified neurologist known for cloning the cocaine-sensitive dopamine transporter and for genetic and transporter-based studies of addiction, now a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
George Raft
George Raft (born George Ranft, 1901 or 1895) was an American actor and dancer famous for coin-flipping gangster roles like Scarface (1932) and Some Like It Hot's Spats Colombo, and for turning down High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca.
George Ramsay (footballer, born 1855)
George Burrell Ramsay (1855-1935), Glasgow-born footballer who joined Aston Villa in 1876, captained them, and as club secretary from 1884 for 42 years is regarded as football's first paid manager, winning six league titles and five FA Cups.
George Rankine Irwin
George Rankine Irwin (1907–1998) was an American physicist known as the father of fracture mechanics, who identified the stress intensity factor at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
George Rapall Noyes
George Rapall Noyes (1798–1868) was an American Unitarian minister and biblical scholar, Hancock professor of Hebrew at Harvard, who translated much of the Old Testament from the Hebrew.
George Rathmann
George Rathmann (1927–2012) was an American chemist and executive who co-founded Amgen, built it into the world's biggest biotechnology company, and later led ICOS, where Cialis was developed.
George Raveling
George Raveling (1937-2025), American college basketball coach and Hall of Famer; head coach at Washington State, Iowa, and USC; first Black head coach in the Pac-8; keeper of MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech; Nike executive behind Michael Jordan's deal.
George Rawlinson
George Rawlinson (1812–1902) was an English Anglican clergyman and Camden professor of ancient history at Oxford, best known for his four-volume Herodotus translation and histories of the great oriental monarchies.
George Reddy
George Reddy (జార్జి రెడ్డి), Osmania University MSc physics gold medalist and founder of Progressive Democratic Students, killed April 1972; his death seeded the Radical Students Union and India's Maoist student lineage.
George Reeves
George Reeves (1914-1959), born George Keefer Brewer, American actor who played Superman and Clark Kent in Adventures of Superman (1952-1958, 104 episodes) and Superman and the Mole Men (1951); died of a gunshot wound ruled a suicide in Beverly Hills in 1959.
George Remus
George Remus (1878-1952), German-born Cincinnati pharmacist turned criminal-defense lawyer, became Prohibition's 'King of the Bootleggers' by buying distilleries, diverting medicinal whiskey, and bribing officials; he killed his wife in 1927 and was acquitted by insanity.
George Rennie
George Haddow Rennie (1883-1966), Canadian lacrosse defender with the New Westminster Salmonbellies; won 1908 Olympic gold when Canada beat Great Britain 14-10; five national titles, Hall of Fame charter inductee.
George Rexstrew
George Rexstrew (born 1997) is a British actor from London, a Durham Modern Languages graduate and LAMDA alumnus (2020) who made his TV debut as co-lead Edwin Payne in Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives (2024, canceled after one season), cast via Warner Bros.' Actors In Training program.
George Rhoden
George Rhoden (Vincent George Rhoden, 1926-2024), Jamaican sprinter, 400m/4x400m double gold medalist at Helsinki 1952; 400m world record holder 45.8 from 1950; Morgan State NCAA champion; not the security trainer of the same name.
George Richard Crooks
George Richard Crooks (1822–1897) was an American Methodist minister, educator, and editor who edited the weekly The Methodist and taught historical theology at Drew Theological Seminary.
George Richey
George Richey, American country songwriter, producer, pianist, and label executive; wrote "The Grand Tour" and "'Til I Can Make It On My Own," headed Capitol Nashville, and was Tammy Wynette's fifth husband and manager.
George Roberts (financier)
George Roberts is an American financier who co-founded the private equity firm KKR in 1976, led landmark buyouts including RJR Nabisco, and remains its Co-Executive Chairman.
George Robinson (actor)
George Robinson (George Ross Robinson, born 1997, Nottingham) is a British actor and writer, quadriplegic since a 2015 school rugby accident in South Africa, best known as Isaac Goodwin in Netflix's Sex Education and later in Silo and My Fault: London.
George Robinson (hedge fund manager)
George Robinson, born 1956, is a British hedge fund manager who co-founded Sloane Robinson, a London emerging-markets manager that peaked near $15 billion before closing in 2020.
George Rochester
George Dixon Rochester (1908–2001) was a British cosmic-ray physicist who, with Clifford Butler, discovered the first strange particle, the V-particle, in cloud-chamber photographs at Manchester, published in Nature in 1947.
George Roden
George Roden (1938–1998) was a claimant to leadership of the Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, whose succession struggle with David Koresh ended in a 1987 gunfight.
George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney
George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718 or 1719 to 1792), was a British admiral who defeated the French fleet at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782.
George Rogers (American football)
George Rogers (born 1958), American NFL running back, 1980 Heisman Trophy winner at South Carolina, first overall pick of the 1981 draft by the Saints, 1981 NFL rushing leader and Offensive Rookie of the Year, Super Bowl XXII champion with Washington.
George Rogers Clark
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818), Virginia surveyor and Revolutionary War militia officer, led the 1778–1779 Illinois Campaign, capturing Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Fort Sackville at Vincennes and securing US claims north of the Ohio River.