All articles starting with G
18,970 articles
Georges Danton
Georges Jacques Danton (26 October 1759, Arcis-sur-Aube – 5 April 1794), French revolutionary leader, Cordeliers founder, minister of justice in August 1792, member of the Committee of Public Safety, and leader of the Indulgents executed during the Terror.
Georges Darboy
Georges Darboy (1813–1871) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Paris from 1863 and was executed by the Paris Commune in May 1871.
Georges de La Tour
Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), Lorraine Baroque painter of candlelit nocturnes and austere daylight genre scenes; Caravaggesque, forgotten until Hermann Voss's 1915 rediscovery; about 40 autograph works, 18 signed, 2 dated.
Georges de Morsier
Georges de Morsier (1894–1982) was a Swiss neurologist in Geneva who created Switzerland's first hospital neurology unit and is remembered for de Morsier syndrome, the older name for septo-optic dysplasia.
Georges de Rham
Georges de Rham (1903–1990) was a Swiss mathematician, professor at Lausanne and Geneva, whose 1931 thesis proved de Rham's theorem and who created de Rham cohomology and the theory of currents.
Georges Delerue
Georges Delerue (1925-1992), French composer and conductor, wrote over 350 film and TV scores for the New Wave (Hiroshima mon amour, Jules et Jim, Le Mépris) and Hollywood (Platoon), winning an Oscar for A Little Romance and three Césars.
Georges Destriau
Georges Destriau (1903–1960) was a French physicist known as the discoverer of electroluminescence in phosphors, a phenomenon long called the "effet Destriau", and later worked at Westinghouse Electric.
Georges Detreille
Georges Detreille (Georges Henri Détreille, 1893-1957), French road cyclist; Olympic team road race gold and sixth individually at Antwerp 1920, later pro with J.B. Louvet and 19th in the 1926 Tour de France.
Georges Dor
Georges Dor, born Georges Henri Dor, was a Quebec singer, songwriter, and writer best known for "La Manic" (1966), a ballad about the loneliness of dam builders.
Georges Doriot
Georges Doriot (1899-1987) was a Paris-born financier, Harvard Business School professor, and Army brigadier general who co-founded American Research and Development, widely credited as the first US venture capital firm.
Georges Duhamel (author)
Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) was a French physician-turned-writer and frontline surgeon of World War I whose novel cycles Vie et aventures de Salavin and Chronique des Pasquier made him one of the most widely read French authors.
Georges Elhedery
Georges Elhedery is a Lebanese-born banker who became Group Chief Executive of HSBC in September 2024, succeeding Noel Quinn, and announced the bank's biggest restructuring in a decade weeks later.
Georges Fontené
Georges Fontené (1848–1923) was a French mathematician and Paris school inspector known for the Rouché-Fontené theorem on linear equations, and for work on hyperspace geometry and Poncelet's theorem.
Georges Franju
Georges Franju (1912-1987), French filmmaker, co-founder of the Cinémathèque française, documentarist of Le Sang des bêtes, and director of Les Yeux sans visage, Judex, and Thérèse Desqueyroux.
Georges Glaeser
Georges Glaeser (1918–2002) was a French mathematician and educator who worked in analysis, proving the Glaeser inequality and a 1963 theorem on composing differentiable functions, before directing the IREM of Strasbourg.
Georges Guétary
Georges Guétary, born Lambros Vorloou in Alexandria in 1915, was a Greek-born French operetta singer who starred in An American in Paris and died in 1997.
Georges Guiochon
Georges Guiochon (1931–2014) was a French-born analytical chemist known for the theory of nonlinear chromatography and preparative separations, and a Distinguished Scientist at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Georges Guynemer
Georges Guynemer (1894–1917), French First World War fighter ace with 53 confirmed victories, captain and Legion of Honor officer, killed 11 September 1917; his motto "Faire face" was adopted by the French Air Force.
Georges Hadziioannou
Georges Hadziioannou is a Greek-born French polymer scientist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Bordeaux, known for semiconducting polymers for printable electronics and solar cells.
Georges Hebdin
Georges Hebdin (George Hebden, 1889-1970), Belgian footballer of British parentage with Union Saint-Gilloise; 12 Belgium caps and 1920 Antwerp Olympic football gold, playing only the 3-1 quarter-final win over Spain.
Georges Köhler
Georges Köhler (1946–1995) was a German immunologist who co-developed the hybridoma technique for monoclonal antibodies and shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Georges Lefebvre
Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959), French historian of the French Revolution, born in Lille; pioneer of peasant history and the social or orthodox interpretation; author of The Great Fear of 1789 and The Coming of the French Revolution.
Georges Lemaître
Georges Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, and astronomer at the Université catholique de Louvain who first proposed the expanding universe and the primeval atom, the basis of Big Bang theory.
Georges Matheron
Georges Matheron (Georges François Paul Marie Matheron, 1930–2000) was a French mathematician and mining engineer who founded geostatistics, formalized kriging, and co-founded mathematical morphology with Jean Serra.
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès (Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, 1861–1938), French illusionist and film pioneer, founder of Star Film (1896), creator of about 500 films including A Trip to the Moon (1902), and inventor of early special effects such as the stop trick, multiple exposures, and hand-painted color.
Georges Mer
Georges Mer is a structural biologist and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who studies chromatin modifications in DNA damage repair.
Georges Miez
Georges Miez (Georg Miez, Giorgio Miez, 1904–1999), Swiss artistic gymnast; four Olympics 1924–1936, eight medals (4 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze), a Swiss record; 1928 all-around, team, and horizontal bar champion.
Georges Mikautadze
Georges Mikautadze (Giorgi Mikautadze, გიორგი მიქაუტაძე), born 2000 in Lyon, is a Georgian centre-forward for Villarreal and Georgia; former Metz, Ajax, and Lyon striker, EURO 2024 top scorer of the group stage with three goals.
Georges Niang
Georges Niang, "Minivan," born 1993, is an American NBA forward (Warriors) and career 40% three-point shooter. Drafted 50th in 2016 by Indiana out of Iowa State (2,228 points), he played for the Jazz, 76ers, Cavaliers, and Hawks.
Georges Perec
Georges Perec (1936–1982) was a French novelist and leading member of the Oulipo, known for La Disparition, a novel without the letter e, and Life: A User's Manual.