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Georges Pire

Georges Pire (1910–1969) was a Belgian Dominican friar who won the 1958 Nobel Peace Prize for helping postwar refugees leave camps through family sponsorship and purpose-built European Villages.

Georges Pompidou

Georges Pompidou was a French statesman who served as Prime Minister from 1962 to 1968 and as President from 1969 until 1974. He was the second president of the Fifth Republic.

Georges Reeb

Georges Reeb (1920–1993) was a French mathematician from Alsace who founded foliation theory, proving Reeb's theorem and creating the Reeb graph and foliation of the 3-sphere.

Georges Lucien Rigal (1890-1974), French swimmer and water polo player of Libellule de Paris; first French crawl swimmer, 1912 Olympian, and gold medalist in water polo at Paris 1924; later coached France at Berlin 1936 and led the French Swimming Federation 1959-64.

Georges Rouault

Georges Rouault (1871–1958), French painter and printmaker trained under Gustave Moreau; exhibited with the Fauves in 1905 but developed a somber, religiously inflected style of clowns, judges, and Christ, best known for the Miserere engraving series.

Georges Scelle

Georges Scelle (1878–1961) was a French professor of public international law at Dijon and then the University of Paris, known for the theory of sociological objectivism and the concept of dédoublement fonctionnel.

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Georges Schehadé

Georges Schehadé (جورج شحادة), born in 1905 or 1907, was a Lebanese poet and playwright who wrote in French, and his play L'Émigré de Brisbane entered the Comédie-Française repertoire in 1967.

Georges Seurat

Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859–1891), French painter, founder of Neo-Impressionism and originator of pointillism, using dots of pure color; creator of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte and seven large canvases of modern Parisian life.

Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon (1903–1989), Belgian French-language novelist, creator of Inspector Maigret (75 novels, 28 stories) and author of 117 psychological romans durs; about 600 million books sold, over 180 film adaptations.

Georges Sorel

Georges Sorel (1847–1922), French social theorist, author of Reflections on Violence (1908); theorist of the general strike as myth, proletarian violence, and precursor figure claimed by both Marxist and fascist traditions.

Georges St-Pierre

Georges "Rush" St. Pierre is a retired Canadian mixed martial artist from Quebec who twice held the UFC welterweight title and won the middleweight crown at UFC 217 in 2017.

Georges Tainturier

Georges Tainturier (1890–1943), French épée fencer, Olympic team gold at Paris 1924 and Los Angeles 1932, 1926 world champion; later Resistance leader executed in Cologne.

Georges Turlier

Georges Turlier (born 16 July 1931), French sprint canoeist; with Jean Laudet won C2 10,000 m gold at Helsinki 1952, France's first Olympic canoe title; 1959 wildwater world champion; Légion d'Honneur 2022.

Georges Urbain

Georges Urbain (1872–1938) was a French chemist who discovered lutetium by separating ytterbium in 1907, won a 1909 priority ruling over Auer von Welsbach, and taught mineral chemistry at the Sorbonne.

Georges Vallerey, Jr.

Georges Vallerey, Jr. (Yo-Yo, Georges-Urbain Vallerey), French swimmer (1927–1954): bronze in the 100 m backstroke at London 1948, 1946 world medley relay record, Croix de Guerre for wartime rescues at Casablanca.

Georges Valois

Georges Valois (Alfred-Georges Gressent, 1878-1945), French militant and writer, founder of the Faisceau (1925), the first French fascist movement; later Resistance member who died at Bergen-Belsen.

Georges Vendryès

Georges Vendryès (1920–2014) was a French engineer who directed reactor research at the French CEA and is regarded as the father of fast neutron reactors.

Georges Wambst

Georges Eugène Wambst (1902–1988), nicknamed the Hornet, was a French cyclist who won team road race gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics and five six-day races with Charles Lacquehay.

Georges Washington de La Fayette

Georges Washington de La Fayette (1779-1849), son of the Marquis de Lafayette and godson of George Washington, was a French soldier and liberal deputy who served in Napoleon's campaigns and sat in the Chamber of Deputies and the 1848 Constituent Assembly.