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George Terter I
George Terter I (Георги Тертер I) was tsar of the Second Bulgarian Empire from 1280 to 1292, founder of the Terterid dynasty and a prince of Cuman origin.
George Thomas (molecular biologist)
George Thomas is an American molecular biologist known for purifying and cloning S6K1 and S6K2, kinases downstream of mTORC1, and for work linking S6K1 to obesity and diabetes.
George Thomas Stokes
George Thomas Stokes (1843–1898) was a Church of Ireland clergyman and historian who held the professorship of ecclesiastical history at Trinity College Dublin from 1883 to 1898.
George Thorogood
George Thorogood, born 1950 in Wilmington, Delaware, is an American blues-rock guitarist and leader of George Thorogood and the Destroyers, known for "Bad to the Bone," the 1981 50/50 tour, and about 15 million albums sold.
George Tiller
George Tiller (1941-2009), Wichita, Kansas physician and medical director of Women's Health Care Services, one of few US providers of late-term abortions; survived a 1986 clinic bombing and 1993 shooting, was acquitted in 2009, then murdered by Scott Roeder.
George Tilton
George Tilton (1923–2010) was an American geochemist who pioneered uranium-lead geochronology, helped produce the first accurate age of the Earth, and taught at UC Santa Barbara.
George Tobias
George Tobias (1901-1980), American character actor of Broadway and Hollywood; Warner Bros. films Sergeant York and Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Abner Kravitz on the sitcom Bewitched from 1964 to 1971.
George Topîrceanu
George Topîrceanu (1886–1937) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, and publicist known for his humorous and parodic verse, and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.
George Town, Cayman Islands
George Town, Cayman Islands: capital, seat of government, and main port on Grand Cayman's southwest coast. Largest district (43,220 residents, 48.7% in 2024), offshore finance hub, tender-only cruise port after the 2025 referendum rejecting piers.
George Town, Penang
George Town, Penang: Malaysian state capital founded 1786 by Francis Light as a British free port; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008 with Melaka, known for shophouse townscape and multicultural heritage.
George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd (1842–1921) was an American philosopher and psychologist at Yale whose 1887 textbook, Elements of Physiological Psychology, helped establish experimental psychology in America.
George Tupou I
George Tupou I, born Taufa'ahau and baptised Siaosi, was the first King of modern Tonga, unifying the islands in 1845 and granting Tonga's constitution in 1875.
George Tupou II
George Tupou II, also known as Siaosi Tupou II, was King of Tonga from 1893 to 1918, under whom Tonga became a British protected state in 1900.
George Tupou V
George Tupou V (Siaosi Tāufaʻāhau Manumataongo Tukuʻaho Tupou) was King of Tonga from 2006 until his death in 2012, and ceded most of the monarchy's near-absolute executive powers to a democratically elected government.
George Udny Yule
George Udny Yule (1871–1951) was a British statistician who worked under Karl Pearson and at Cambridge, pioneering regression-based correlation, Yule's Q, Simpson's paradox, and the Yule–Walker equations.
George Uhlenbeck
George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900–1988) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist who proposed electron spin with Samuel Goudsmit in 1925, developed the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, and won the Wolf Prize.
George Underwood
George Bernard Underwood (1884-1943), American middle-distance runner with the New York Athletic Club; won 1904 Olympic gold in the four-mile team race, ran the 400 m and 800 m, and later became a sportswriter and Madison Square Garden publicity director.
George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert, 1865–1936), King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India 1910–1936, first Windsor monarch; Parliament Act 1911 crisis, 1917 name change, 1911 Delhi Durbar.
George V Coast
George V Coast, East Antarctic coastal region between Point Alden (142°02′E) and Cape Hudson (153°45′E), named by Mawson's 1911–14 expedition for King George V; home of Mertz and Ninnis glaciers.
George V of Georgia
George V the Brilliant (Georgian: გიორგი V ბრწყინვალე) was king of Georgia from 1318 to 1346, remembered for reuniting the fractured kingdom and ending nearly a century of Mongol rule.
George V of Hanover
George V of Hanover (Georg Friedrich Alexander Karl Ernst August, 1819–1878), last King of Hanover 1851–1866, blind from youth, son of Ernest Augustus; deposed when Prussia annexed Hanover in 1866 after Langensalza, died in exile in Paris.
George V. Mann
George V. Mann (1917–2013) was an American physician and biochemist at Vanderbilt whose Maasai field studies and 1977 editorial "Diet-Heart: End of an Era" made him a leading critic of the diet-heart hypothesis.
George Van Cleaf
George W. Van Cleaf (1879–1905), American swimmer and water polo player with the New York Athletic Club; won 1904 Olympic water polo gold, fourth in the 4x50-yard relay, died of typhoid fever months after the St. Louis Games.
George Van Smith
George Van Siclen Smith (1900–1984) was an American gynecology researcher who spent his career at Harvard Medical School and the Free Hospital for Women in Boston.
George Vancouver
George Vancouver, an English Navy officer, led the 1791–1795 expedition that mapped the west coast of North America and proved the Northwest Passage unnavigable.
George Varoff
George Varoff (1914-2002), American pole vaulter, set the ratified world record of 4.43 m (14 ft 6½ in) on 4 July 1936 at Princeton with a bamboo pole; missed the 1936 Olympics, later an Army Air Forces B-29 captain.
George Venables
George Venables (1821–1906) was a Church of England clergyman who served in Oxfordshire and Suffolk, published two 1850s pamphlets on church order, and died at Burgh Castle Rectory.
George VI
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George, 1895-1952), also called Bertie, was King of the United Kingdom 1936-1952 after Edward VIII's abdication; crowned 12 May 1937, led wartime monarchy, instituted the George Cross, died 6 February 1952, succeeded by Elizabeth II.
George VI Sound (landform)
George VI Sound: flooded block-faulted rift valley between Alexander Island and Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, covered by George VI Ice Shelf; over 800 m deep, filled with warm Circumpolar Deep Water, discovered 1935 by Ellsworth.
George Vicesimus Wigram
George Vicesimus Wigram (1805–1879) was a wealthy English ex-army officer who, after leaving the Church of England, helped found the Plymouth Brethren, buying Providence Chapel in Plymouth.