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George Walter Stewart
George Walter Stewart (1876–1956) was an American physicist and acoustician who invented the acoustic filter and built the University of Iowa physics department into a doctoral program.
George Warner Swenson
George Warner Swenson (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 Warren Brown
George Warren Brown (1853–1921) was an American businessman who founded the Brown Shoe Company in St. Louis in 1878 and served as its president for 35 years.
George Washington
George Washington (1732-1799), Virginia surveyor and planter, commander in chief of the Continental Army 1775-1783, and first U.S. President 1789-1797, elected unanimously twice; set the two-term precedent and managed a 7,600-acre plantation with over 300 enslaved workers.
George Washington and slavery
George Washington and slavery covers the first U.S. president's 56-year career owning people at Mount Vernon and his choice to free all he owned in his will.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
George Washington Birthplace National Monument (Wakefield, Popes Creek) is an NPS park in Westmoreland County, Virginia, marking Washington's February 1732 birth site, with the 1896 War Department obelisk, 1930-31 Memorial House, and Building X archeology.
George Washington Bridge
The George Washington Bridge, also called the GW Bridge, is a double-decked suspension bridge carrying Interstate 95 across the Hudson River between Manhattan and Fort Lee, New Jersey.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (c. 1864 to 1943) was an American agricultural scientist at Tuskegee Institute who promoted crop rotation for poor Southern farmers and developed over 300 peanut products.
George Washington Carver National Monument
George Washington Carver National Monument is a 240-acre National Park Service unit in southwest Missouri, preserving the Moses Carver farm where the scientist was born.
George Washington Custis Lee
George Washington Custis Lee (1832-1913), eldest son of Robert E. Lee, Confederate staff officer under Jefferson Davis captured at Sailor's Creek, VMI engineering professor, and president of Washington and Lee University 1871-1897 who recovered Arlington.
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859–1896) was an American civil engineer from Pittsburgh who built the original Ferris wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
George Washington Goethals
George Washington Goethals (1858–1928) was an American army officer and civil engineer who directed the Panama Canal's completion and served as first governor of the Panama Canal Zone.
George Washington in the American Revolution
George Washington in the American Revolution: his 1775-1783 service as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, from the Siege of Boston and Trenton through Valley Forge to the French-allied victory at Yorktown and his December 1783 resignation.
George Washington Memorial Parkway
The George Washington Memorial Parkway is a 38.3-mile National Park Service scenic road along the Potomac River from Mount Vernon to the Capital Beltway, established by Congress in 1930.
George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857), adopted son of George Washington, built Arlington House as Washington's first memorial, wrote Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, and willed emancipation of nearly 200 enslaved people by 1862.
George Washington Tryon
George Washington Tryon Jr. (1838-1889) was a Philadelphia malacologist who founded the American Journal of Conchology, led the Academy of Natural Sciences' Conchological Section from 1866, and began the Manual of Conchology, continued by Pilsbry.
George Washington University
The George Washington University (GW), founded 1821 as Columbian College and renamed 1904, is a private R1 research university in Washington, D.C., with 27,000+ students, 10 schools, and AAU membership.
George Washington Vanderbilt II
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), youngest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, art collector and builder of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina; married Edith Dresser, father of Cornelia, died after an appendectomy.
George Washington Williams
George Washington Williams (1849-1891), American soldier, minister, lawyer, Ohio's first Black legislator, and historian who wrote the first comprehensive History of the Negro Race in America and the 1890 Open Letter exposing Congo atrocities under King Leopold II.
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, Christmas night 1776 from McConkey's Ferry, moved 2,400 Continental troops to a surprise victory over Hessians at Trenton; commemorated in parks and Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting.
George Washington's Farewell Address
Washington's Farewell Address, also called To the People of the United States, is his September 19, 1796 open letter announcing his retirement after two terms and warning against parties, sectionalism, and permanent foreign alliances.
George Washington's teeth
George Washington's natural teeth decayed from age 24, leaving one tooth at his 1789 inauguration. His dentures, made by John Greenwood from ivory, human, cow, and horse teeth with metals, were never wooden; some teeth were bought from enslaved people.
George Wassouf (جورج وسوف)
George Wassouf (جورج وسوف) is a Syrian singer known as the "Sultan of Tarab." He has released over thirty albums and sold an estimated sixty million records worldwide.
George Watsky
George Watsky (George Virden Watsky, born 1986) is a San Francisco rapper, slam poet, and author; Brave New Voices 2006 champion, viral 'Watsky Raps Fast' video, six albums, NYT-bestselling essayist.
George Watt (physician)
George Watt is a United States Army physician and infectious disease researcher at AFRIMS in Bangkok, known for clinical trials on scrub typhus treatment in northern Thailand.
George Weah
George Weah (born 1966), Liberian footballer and politician, 24th President of Liberia 2018-2024; only African to win the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year (1995); lost 2023 runoff to Joseph Boakai 49.36%-50.64%.
George Weah Jr.
George Weah Jr., born 1987 in Monrovia, is a Liberian retired second striker, son of Ballon d'Or winner and Liberian president George Weah and elder brother of US international Timothy Weah; AC Milan youth 2003-2007, retired 2018.
George Weber (biochemist)
George Weber was a biochemist and physician at the Indiana University School of Medicine who founded the enzymology of cancer cells and developed the Molecular Correlation Concept.
George Webster (presenter)
George Webster (presenter), born 2000 in Rawdon, West Yorkshire, English CBeebies presenter, actor and author; first BBC children's presenter with Down's syndrome (2021), BAFTA Best Children's Presenter winner, Strictly 2022 Christmas contestant.
George Weideman
George Weideman (1947–2008) was a South African poet, prose writer, and playwright who wrote in Afrikaans, gave literary voice to Namaqualand and Bushmanland, and won major literary prizes in several genres.