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George VIII of Georgia
George VIII of Georgia (გიორგი VIII) was the last king of a unified Georgia, reigning from 1446 to 1466, and then the first king of Kakheti.
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592–1628), English royal favourite of James I and Charles I, Lord High Admiral, created duke in 1623, impeached 1626, assassinated at Portsmouth by John Felton in 1628.
George Voinovich
George Voinovich was an American Republican politician from Ohio who served as mayor of Cleveland, the 65th governor of Ohio, and a US senator from 1999 to 2011.
George Volkoff
George Volkoff (1914–2000) was a Russian-Canadian physicist who, with Oppenheimer in 1939, co-predicted the maximum mass of neutron stars, the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit, and built physics research at the University of British Columbia.
George W. Bush
George W. Bush (born 1946, New Haven, Connecticut), 43rd U.S. president (2001-2009) and two-term Texas governor, son of George H.W. Bush; led the war on terror, Iraq War, No Child Left Behind, and PEPFAR.
George W. Bush military service controversy
Dispute over George W. Bush's 1968-1973 Texas Air National Guard service, focused on his unproven 1972-73 Alabama duty, and the separate 2004 CBS Killian memos forgery scandal that ended Dan Rather's anchor tenure.
George W. Clark
George W. Clark was an American MIT physicist and astronomer, a pioneer of X-ray astronomy who took part in the 1962 discovery of Sco X-1.
George W. Corner
George W. Corner (1889–1981) was an American anatomist and reproductive physiologist who helped identify progesterone, proposed its name in 1935, and led the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology.
George W. Govier
George W. Govier (George Wheeler Govier) was a Canadian chemical engineer who led the University of Alberta's engineering faculty and chaired Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board.
George W. Housner
George W. Housner (1910–2008) was an American engineer at Caltech, called the father of earthquake engineering and winner of the 1988 National Medal of Science.
George W. Huber
George W. Huber is a chemical engineer, the Richard L. Antoine Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, known for converting biomass into liquid fuels and co-founding Anellotech and Pyran.
George W. Jeffs
George W. Jeffs (1924–2019) was an American aerospace engineer and Rockwell International executive who directed the Apollo command and service module program through nine lunar missions.
George W. Lewis
George W. Lewis (1882–1948) was an American aeronautical research administrator who directed NACA research from 1924 to 1947, overseeing the NACA engine cowling and airfoil research.
George W. Luther
George W. Luther III, born in Philadelphia in 1947, is an American marine chemist at the University of Delaware known for trace metal speciation and electrochemical ocean sensors.
George W. McLaurin
George W. McLaurin, retired Langston University professor, first Black student admitted to the University of Oklahoma (1948); his segregated treatment produced McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U.S. 637 (1950).
George W. Norris
George W. Norris (1861-1944), Nebraska progressive congressman and senator 1903-1943, led the 1910 revolt against Speaker Cannon, authored the Twentieth Amendment, Norris-La Guardia Act, and TVA, and created Nebraska's unicameral legislature.
George W. Preston
George W. Preston is an American astronomer and Director Emeritus of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, known for his spectroscopic work on RR Lyrae stars and metal-poor stars.
George W. Romney
George W. Romney (1907–1995), American automobile executive and politician; chairman and president of American Motors, 43rd governor of Michigan 1963–1969, first-term HUD Secretary 1969–1973, and 1968 Republican presidential contender.
George W. Scherer
George W. Scherer is a materials scientist and emeritus Princeton professor known for research on how porous solids like gels, cement, and stone deform and deteriorate.
George W. Sledge
George W. Sledge is an American medical oncologist who spent 30 years at Indiana University, led the TAILORx and MONARCH 2 breast cancer trials, and served as ASCO president.
George W. Snedecor
George W. Snedecor, also known as George Waddel Snedecor, was an American statistician who built the first US statistical laboratory at Iowa State and wrote Statistical Methods (1937).
George W. Stocking
George W. Stocking, also known as George Ward Stocking, was an American economist who studied monopoly and antitrust policy and was president of the American Economic Association in 1958.
George W. Sutton
George W. Sutton (1927–2021) was an American aerospace engineer who invented the ablation heat-protection material for hypersonic reentry and served as the AIAA Journal's longest-serving editor in chief.
George W. Swenson Jr.
George W. Swenson Jr. (1922–2017) was an American electrical engineer and radio astronomer at the University of Illinois, known for the 400-foot telescope at the Vermilion River Observatory.
George W. Thorn
George W. Thorn (1906–2004) was an American endocrinologist, Hersey Professor at Harvard and Physician-in-Chief at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, known for treating Addison's disease.
George W. Whitehead
George W. Whitehead (George William Whitehead Jr., 1918–2004) was an American mathematician who taught at MIT from 1949 to 1985 and is known for the J-homomorphism in algebraic topology.
George Walbridge Perkins
George Walbridge Perkins was an American financier and junior partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. who negotiated the 1902 International Harvester merger and later managed Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive campaign.
George Wald
George Wald (1906–1997) was an American biologist at Harvard who identified vitamin A as the light-absorbing molecule of vision, winning the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
George Wallace
George Wallace (1919-1998), four-time Alabama governor and four-time presidential candidate, symbol of segregationist resistance, famed for his 1963 'segregation forever' speech and later shift toward black-voter-supported politics.
George Wallace (American comedian)
George Wallace (born 1952, Atlanta) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, not the Alabama governor; known for clean observational comedy, Las Vegas residencies at the Flamingo and Westgate, the 1995 American Comedy Award, and the 2025 sitcom Clean Slate with Laverne Cox.