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George Wendt
George Wendt (1948–2025), American actor and Second City alumnus, played Norm Peterson on all 11 seasons of Cheers, earning six Emmy nominations, and later performed on Broadway in Art, Hairspray, and Elf.
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse Jr. was an American inventor and industrialist who patented the railroad air brake in 1869, founded Westinghouse Electric in 1886, and led the adoption of alternating current.
George Weston Limited
George Weston Limited is a Toronto-based Canadian holding company founded in 1882 by baker George Weston and still controlled by his descendants, holding a majority stake in Loblaw.
George Wetherill
George Wetherill (1925–2006) was an American physicist and planetary scientist at the Carnegie Institution whose simulations of planet formation earned him the title father of Earth-formation models.
George Whitefield
George Whitefield (1714–1770) was a Church of England clergyman and itinerant evangelist who led Calvinistic Methodism and drove the transatlantic revivals of the First Great Awakening.
George Wilkins
George Wilkins (1858–1920) was a Church of Ireland clergyman who became professor of Hebrew at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1900, and was a Fellow and Tutor there.
George Wilkinson
George Wilkinson (1879-1946), English water polo player from Gorton, Manchester; called the world's first great water polo player; won Olympic gold 1908 and 1912, captained Hyde Seal 22 years; 1900 participation disputed.
George Will
George F. Will (born 1941), American conservative political columnist; Washington Post twice-weekly column since 1974, Pulitzer Prize for commentary 1977; author of Statecraft as Soulcraft and The Conservative Sensibility; later broke with the Republican Party.
George William Bartelmez
George William Bartelmez (1885–1967) was an American embryologist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1949.
George William Gilmore
George William Gilmore was an American Congregationalist editor and educator who taught at Bangor and Meadville seminaries and served on the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia editorial staff.
George William Gordon
George William Gordon (c. 1820–1865) was a Jamaican businessman, magistrate, and member of the House of Assembly hanged after the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion and now a National Hero.
George William Gray
George William Gray (1926–2013) was a British organic chemist at the University of Hull whose stable cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals, invented in 1972, made the modern LCD industry possible.
George William Hill
George William Hill (1838–1914) was an American astronomer and mathematician who rebuilt the theory of the Moon's motion, working alone on a farm in West Nyack, New York.
George William Kitchin
George William Kitchin (1827–1912) was an Anglican clergyman and scholar who served as Dean of Winchester and Dean of Durham and wrote the hymn "Lift high the cross."
George William Lamplugh
George William Lamplugh (1859–1926) was a British geologist who rose from self-taught amateur on the Yorkshire coast to Assistant Director of the Geological Survey, establishing the standard subdivision of the Speeton Clay.
George William Russell
George William Russell (Æ, 1867–1935), Irish poet, painter, editor, and mystic of the Irish Literary Revival; IAOS co-operative organizer, editor of the Irish Homestead and Irish Statesman, early publisher of Joyce.
George Williams (philanthropist)
Sir George Williams (1821–1905), English draper and philanthropist, founded the YMCA in London on 6 June 1844 with fellow young drapers; knighted 1894, buried in St Paul's Cathedral crypt.
George Wilson
George Wilson (1942-2023), "Big George" or "Jif", American basketball forward: 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist, 1962 NCAA champion with Cincinnati, seven NBA seasons with the Cincinnati Royals and five other teams.
George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews
George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews (George Philip Nicholas Windsor, born 1962), eldest son of the Duke of Kent and heir to that dukedom; former diplomat, Christie's antiquarian books specialist, philanthropist; married Sylvana Tomaselli in 1988; father of Lord Downpatrick, Lady Marina, and Lady Amelia Windsor.
George Winston
George Winston (1949-2023), American pianist and composer of rural folk piano; creator of Autumn (1980) and December (1982) on Windham Hill, a new-age star with 15 million albums sold and a 1994 Grammy for Forest.
George Wishart
George Wishart (c. 1513–1546) was a Scottish Reformer and itinerant preacher who introduced Swiss reformed theology to Scotland and was burned for heresy at St Andrews in 1546.
George Wither
George Wither (1588–1667) was an English poet, satirist, and hymn writer who was repeatedly imprisoned for his verse and served Parliament as a cavalry officer in the Civil War.
George Woolf
George Monroe Woolf (1910-1946), "The Iceman," Canadian-born American Hall of Fame jockey; rode Seabiscuit past War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico Special, won the 1936 Preakness, and died in a 1946 Santa Anita fall.
George Wulff
George Wulff, also known as Georg or Yuri Viktorovich Wulff (Вульф Георгий Викторович), was a Russian and Soviet crystallographer who created the Wulff construction and net.
George Wyner
George Wyner (born 1945) is an American character actor best known for playing ADA Irwin Bernstein on Hill Street Blues and Colonel Sandurz in Spaceballs.
George XII of Georgia
George XII of Georgia (გიორგი XII, 1746–1800), son of Erekle II, was the last king of Kartli-Kakheti, reigning from 1798 until his death in Tbilisi.
George Yanagi
George Yanagi (柳ジョージ) was a Japanese blues and rock singer and guitarist from Yokohama, leader of the Rainy Wood band and known as the Japanese Clapton, who died in 2011.
George Yancopoulos
George Damis Yancopoulos is an American physician-scientist and co-founder of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. He is known for his work in molecular immunology, having been the principal inventor of nine FDA-approved medicines.
George Young (actor)
George Young (吴宇卫, born George Ng, 1980, London) is a British actor, writer, and presenter; former lawyer, ELLE award winner, host of Million Dollar Money Drop Singapore, and actor in Containment, Malignant, and Falling for Christmas.
George Young (rock musician)
George Redburn Young (1946-2017), Glasgow-born Australian musician: Easybeats rhythm guitarist and co-writer of 'Friday on My Mind'; with Harry Vanda produced AC/DC's early albums and wrote 'Love Is In The Air'. Distinct from the saxophonist George Young.