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George Romney (painter)
George Romney (painter), 1734–1802, English portraitist rivalling Reynolds and Gainsborough; painted Emma Hamilton over 60 times; left 1,719 catalogued portraits and 18 surviving cartoons.
George Roth
George Helm Roth (1911–1997), American gymnast, won gold in men's club swinging with 26.900 at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics; later a Shell Oil draftsman and California petroleum consultant.
George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill (1921-2002), American film director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, Oscar winner for Best Director, also made Slap Shot and The World According to Garp.
George Russell (composer)
George Russell (1923-2009), American jazz composer, arranger, and theorist from Cincinnati; wrote Cubano Be, Cubano Bop for Dizzy Gillespie and authored the Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953), the first major music theory from jazz, influencing Miles Davis's Kind of Blue.
George Russell (racing driver)
George Russell (born 1998, King's Lynn) is a British Formula One driver for Mercedes, formerly Williams. GP3 2017 and F2 2018 champion; first win Brazil 2022; beat Hamilton in qualifying 39-29 over 2022-24.
George Ryan
George Ryan (1934-2025), 39th governor of Illinois (1999-2003), Republican from Kankakee; halted executions, commuted 167 death sentences in 2003, then convicted of federal corruption and imprisoned 2007-2013.
George S. Alexopoulos
George S. Alexopoulos is an American psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus at Weill Cornell Medical College, known for the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia and the vascular depression hypothesis.
George S. Eisenbarth
George S. Eisenbarth (1947–2012) was an American diabetologist and immunologist who established type 1 diabetes as a chronic autoimmune disease, arguing insulin is its principal autoantigen.
George S. Hammond
George S. Hammond (1921–2005) was an American physical organic chemist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963, known for the Hammond postulate and as a founder of organic photochemistry.
George S. Kaufman
George S. Kaufman (George Simon Kaufman, 1889–1961), American Broadway playwright, director, and Algonquin Round Table wit; collaborator of Moss Hart, Edna Ferber, and the Gershwins; two Pulitzer Prizes for Of Thee I Sing and You Can't Take It With You.
George S. Kurland
George S. Kurland was an American cardiologist and clinical investigator at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, known for inducing hypothyroidism with radioactive iodine to treat severe heart disease.
George S. Patton
George S. Patton (1885–1945), US Army general, led the Third Army across Europe in World War II after commanding in North Africa and Sicily; also a 1912 Olympic modern pentathlete.
George S. Patton slapping incidents
George S. Patton slapping incidents: two August 1943 episodes in Sicily where Patton slapped soldiers with battle fatigue (Charles Kuhl, Paul Bennett), prompting Eisenhower-ordered apologies and a November 1943 press scandal.
George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army
Patton's Speech to the Third Army, or "The Speech," was General George S. Patton Jr.'s profanity-laced motivational address to Third Army troops in England, most famously June 5, 1944, before D-Day; delivered in variants to many units and immortalized, sanitized, by the 1970 film Patton.
George S. Schairer
George S. Schairer was an American aerodynamicist who led Boeing's aerodynamics from 1939 and pushed the swept wing into the B-47, the pattern for Boeing's jetliners.
George Sachs
George Sachs (1935–2019) was an Austrian-born physician-scientist who trained in Edinburgh, identified the gastric proton pump at UCLA, and helped develop omeprazole, the first proton pump inhibitor.
George Sachs (German metallurgist)
George Sachs (1896–1960) was a German mechanical metallurgist, born in Moscow, who developed the iso-stress polycrystal model and the boring-out method for measuring residual stresses in tubes and bars.
George Saintsbury
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) was an English literary critic and historian, professor of rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh, known for large histories of English and French literature.
George Salazar
George Ernest Salazar (born 1986) is an American actor, singer, and musician known for originating Michael Mell in Be More Chill on and off Broadway, and for Grover in The Lightning Thief, Superstore, and Disney's Snow White.
George Saliba
George Saliba is a Lebanese-American historian of Arabic and Islamic science, based at Columbia University since 1978, best known for challenging the classical narrative of Islamic science's decline.
George Saling
George J. Saling, Jr. (1909–1933), American hurdler for the University of Iowa; won 110 m hurdles gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics in 14.6, equaled the 14.4 world record in his semi-final, died in a car crash at 23.
George Salmon
George Salmon (1819–1904) was an Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian at Trinity College Dublin, Provost from 1888, known for proving a cubic surface contains exactly 27 lines.
George Sampson
George William Sampson (born 1993, Warrington) is the English street dancer who won Britain's Got Talent series 2 in 2008 at 14 with 'Singin' in the Rain', then became an actor in Waterloo Road and Emmerdale.
George Sand
George Sand, pen name of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1804-1876), French novelist of Indiana, La Mare au Diable and about seventy books; feminist, 1848 republican, friend of Flaubert and lover of Chopin.
George Sanders
George Sanders (1906–1972), English actor born in Saint Petersburg, Oscar winner as Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, famed for suave cad roles, the Saint and Falcon series, Shere Khan's voice, and Memoirs of a Professional Cad.
George Santayana
George Santayana (Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, 1863–1952), Spanish-born Harvard philosopher, poet, and novelist; naturalist author of The Sense of Beauty, The Life of Reason, and The Last Puritan, known for animal faith and his Dewey controversy.
George Santos
George Anthony Devolder Santos, Republican U.S. representative for New York's 3rd District (2023), expelled from the House in December 2023 after a House Ethics report, pleaded guilty in 2024 to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, and had his prison sentence commuted by Trump in 2025.
George Sarton
George Sarton (1884–1956) was a Belgian-American chemist turned historian considered the founder of the history of science as a discipline; he founded the journal Isis and taught at Harvard.
George Saunders
George Saunders (born 1958) is an American satirical short-story writer and novelist, author of CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Tenth of December, and the 2017 Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo; former geophysical engineer, Syracuse professor, MacArthur Fellow, and 2025 National Book Foundation medalist.
George Savalas
George Savalas (George Nicholas Tsavalas, 1924–1985), Greek-American actor, brother of Telly Savalas; played Detective Stavros on Kojak (1973–78), billed as Demosthenes early on, and appeared in Kelly's Heroes.