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Georgetown Preparatory School

Georgetown Preparatory School (Georgetown Prep) is a Jesuit Catholic day and boarding boys' school in North Bethesda, Maryland, founded 1789 by John Carroll; oldest Jesuit high school in the US, relocated from Georgetown University in 1919, independent since 1927.

Georgetown University

Georgetown University, founded 1789 by John Carroll in Washington, D.C., is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit university in the United States, with roughly 12,000 students, Hilltop and Capitol campuses, a Qatar branch, schools of law, medicine, and foreign service, and 49th president Eduardo Peñalver from July 2026.

Georgetown, Guyana

Georgetown, Guyana: capital and only city, on the Demerara River estuary, formerly Dutch Stabroek, city by Royal Warrant 1842. About 311,000 residents, largely below sea level, protected by seawalls, sluices, and pumps against recurrent flooding.

Georgetown, Ontario

Georgetown is a community in Halton Hills, Ontario, about 29 km west of Toronto, founded as a milling settlement by the Kennedy family in the 1820s.

Georgetown, Texas

Georgetown, Texas: county seat of Williamson County on I-35 and the San Gabriel River, founded 1848 and named for George Washington Glasscock; home of Southwestern University (1873), a 100% renewable municipal utility, and one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities, reaching 106,907 in 2025.

Sep 27, 2026

Georgette Castner

Georgette Castner, born 1979 in Philadelphia, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of New Jersey since 2022, nominated by President Biden.

Georgette Gagneux

Georgette Gagneux (1907–1931), French track and field athlete, six-time French champion in 80 m, long jump, and shot put; 1928 Olympian, 4x100 m relay world record holder; died at 23.

Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer (1902–1974), British novelist called the mother of Regency romance; wrote 56 novels from The Black Moth (1921) and Regency Buck (1935), which established the Regency romance genre.

Oct 20, 2026

Georgette Lenoir

Georgette Lenoir, French middle-distance runner of 1922; first ratified women's 1000 m world record (3:17.4h, Paris) and 800 m world record (2:30.4+, Paris, 20 Aug 1922); silver in the 1000 m at the first Women's Olympic Games behind Lucie Bréard.

Georgi Benkovski

Georgi Benkovski (Георги Бенковски), born Gavril Gruev Hlutev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary who organized and led the April Uprising of 1876 against Ottoman rule, heading the Fourth revolutionary district.

Georgi Dimitrov (Георги Димитров Михайлов)

Georgi Dimitrov (Георги Димитров Михайлов, 1882–1949), Bulgarian communist leader, Reichstag fire trial defendant acquitted at Leipzig 1933, Comintern general secretary 1935–1943, and prime minister of Bulgaria 1946–1949.

Georgi Gerganov (Георги Герганов)

Georgi Gerganov (Георги Герганов) is a Bulgarian software engineer and former medical physicist who created ggml and llama.cpp, founded ggml.ai in 2023, and joined Hugging Face with his team in 2026.

Georgi Izmirliev

Georgi Izmirliev (Георги Измирлиев), known as Makedoncheto, was a Bulgarian revolutionary, assistant-apostle and military leader of the Tarnovo district in the April Uprising of 1876, hanged at age 25.

Georgi Kitov

Georgi Kitov (Георги Китов, 1943–2008) was a Bulgarian archaeologist who led large-scale excavations of Thracian burial mounds, discovering the Alexandrovo tomb, the Starosel cult complex, and the tomb of King Seuthes III.

Georgi Kostadinov

Georgi Kostadinov (Георги Костадинов) names two Bulgarian athletes: the boxer born 1950 in Burgas, first Bulgarian Olympic boxing champion (flyweight gold, Munich 1972), and the footballer born 1990 in Tsarevo, a Bulgaria midfielder and Levski Sofia sporting director.

Georgi Kyoseivanov

Georgi Kyoseivanov (Георги Кьосеиванов) was a Bulgarian diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1935 to 1940, heading four cabinets and declaring neutrality at the start of the Second World War.

Georgi Markov (olympedia 57437)

Georgi Nikolov Markov (Георги Мърков), born 1946, Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic featherweight champion at Munich 1972, world champion Sofia 1971, European champion Katowice 1972; grandfather of 2026 U17 European champion Georgi Petrov Markov.

Georgi Markov (olympedia 94929)

Georgi Markov (Георги Марков, born 1978), Bulgarian weightlifter, Sydney 2000 Olympic silver at 69 kg, 165 kg snatch world record, 2002 world and 2002–2003 European champion at 77 kg; lifetime doping ban in 2008.

Georgi Markov (Георги Иванов Марков)

Georgi Ivan Markov (Георги Иванов Марков), Bulgarian novelist, playwright, and dissident broadcaster (1929–1978); author of In Absentia Reports on Radio Free Europe; assassinated in London in 1978 with a ricin pellet fired from an umbrella, the unsolved "umbrella murder".