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George Steele
George "The Animal" Steele, real name William James Myers (1937-2017), American WWE Hall of Fame wrestler famed for green tongue, turnbuckle-eating, and "Mine"; also Tor Johnson in Ed Wood.
George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner (1930-2010), 'The Boss,' Cleveland shipbuilder who led a 12-member group buying the New York Yankees from CBS for $10 million on January 3, 1973; seven World Series, 11 pennants, two suspensions, 37-year tenure.
George Steiner
George Steiner (1929–2020), Francis George Steiner, was a Paris-born, Jewish-European literary critic and translation theorist, author of After Babel (1975), professor at Geneva, Churchill College Cambridge fellow, and New Yorker reviewer.
George Stephanopoulos
George Robert Stephanopoulos is an American broadcast journalist who co-anchors ABC's Good Morning America and hosts This Week, after serving as a senior adviser in the Clinton White House.
George Stephen Morrison
George Stephen Morrison (1919–2008), U.S. Navy rear admiral from Rome, Georgia, father of Doors singer Jim Morrison; Naval Academy 1941, Pearl Harbor survivor aboard USS Pruitt, Bon Homme Richard captain during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, Guam refugee commander in 1975.
George Stephenson
George Stephenson (1781–1848) was an English civil and mechanical engineer, called the "Father of Railways," who engineered the Stockton and Darlington and Liverpool and Manchester railways.
George Sterling
George Sterling (1869-1926), American lyric poet called the King of Bohemia, founded the Carmel-by-the-Sea artist colony, wrote A Wine of Wizardry, mentored by Ambrose Bierce, friend of Jack London, died by cyanide in 1926.
George Stevens
George Stevens (1904–1975) was an American film director and cinematographer of Swing Time, Gunga Din, A Place in the Sun, Shane, and Giant, a two-time Best Director Oscar winner who filmed D-Day and Dachau in color during World War II.
George Stewart
George Stewart: name shared by several athletes and coaches, notably an American distance runner who ran 30:07 for 10 km at Tulsa in 1971, a Canadian masters track athlete born 1959, an NFL special teams coach born 1958, and a Scottish Dundee forward born 1927.
George Stibitz
George Stibitz (1904–1995) was an American research mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories who built the first relay-based digital computers and demonstrated remote computing over telephone lines in 1940.
George Stigler
George Joseph Stigler was an American economist at the University of Chicago who won the 1982 Nobel Memorial Prize for studies of markets and regulation.
George Stinney
George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy from Alcolu, South Carolina, executed in 1944 at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States that century.
George Stoneman
George Stoneman (1822–1894), Union major general and California governor, led the 1863 Chancellorsville cavalry raid and the 1865 Carolina raid, was captured near Macon in 1864, and governed Virginia and California.
George Strait
George Strait, born 1952 in Poteet, Texas, is an American country singer known as the King of Country who holds 60 No. 1 singles and 33 platinum albums.
George Streisinger
George Streisinger (1927–1984) was a Hungarian-born American molecular biologist and geneticist at the University of Oregon who worked on T-even phage genetics and in 1981 published the first method for cloning a vertebrate, using zebrafish.
George Stroumboulopoulos
George Stroumboulopoulos, known as Strombo, is a Canadian broadcaster born 1972 in Malton, Ontario; MuchMusic VJ, host of CBC's The Hour/George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, CNN's Stroumboulopoulos, Hockey Night in Canada, and Apple Music's STROMBO.
George Stubbs
George Stubbs (1724–1806) was a British painter and anatomist best known for his accurate portraits of horses and for The Anatomy of the Horse (1766).
George Stults
George Stults (George Sheehy Stults, born 1975) is an American actor, brother of Geoff Stults, best known as police officer Kevin Kinkirk on 7th Heaven (2002–2007, 114 episodes) and later TV movies.
George Sudarshan
George Sudarshan (1931–2018) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who, with Robert Marshak, co-formulated the V-A theory of weak interactions and contributed to quantum optics and open quantum systems.
George Sugihara
George Sugihara is a theoretical ecologist and professor of biological oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for empirical dynamic modeling, convergent cross mapping, and early-warning signals of ecological collapse.
George Sumner Huntington
George Sumner Huntington (1861–1927) was an American comparative anatomist who held Columbia University's anatomy chair for 35 years and pioneered linking evolutionary theory with human anatomy.
George Sweigert
George Sweigert, also known as George H. Sweigert, was an American inventor from Euclid, Ohio, who patented a wireless two-way telephone link in 1969 that anticipated the cordless telephone.
George Syncellus
George Syncellus (Γεώργιος ὁ Σύγκελλος) was a Byzantine monk and chronicler, secretary to Patriarch Tarasius of Constantinople, whose world chronicle to 284 CE was continued by Theophanes the Confessor.
George Szekeres
George Szekeres (1911–2005) was a Hungarian-born Australian mathematician who laid foundations of Ramsey theory with the 1935 Erdős–Szekeres theorem and co-created the Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates for black holes, working at Adelaide and UNSW.
George T. Ligler
George T. Ligler is an American systems integration engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, known for satellite-based aircraft navigation and ADS-B standards.
George T. Whitesides
George T. Whitesides is an American Democratic politician and former NASA chief of staff and Virgin Galactic CEO, representing California's 27th district in Congress since 2025.
George Takei
George Takei (born 1937, Los Angeles) is an American actor and activist, Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, incarcerated as a child in WWII Japanese American camps, later a civil rights, LGBTQ+, and remembrance advocate.
George Tate (software entrepreneur)
George Tate (c. 1944 – August 1984) was an American software entrepreneur who co-founded Ashton-Tate, the California publisher of the dBASE database program, and was its first president.
George Tchobanoglous
George Tchobanoglous is a professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis, an international authority on wastewater treatment, and coauthor of the textbook Wastewater Engineering.
George Tenet
George Tenet, born 1953, American intelligence official; Director of Central Intelligence 1997-2004 under Clinton and Bush; led CIA through 9/11, Iraq WMD failure, and interrogation program; author of At the Center of the Storm.