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Georgics

The Georgics is Virgil's didactic poem on the farmer's year, four books of Latin hexameter finished around 29 BC, covering crops, vines, cattle, and bees.

Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage

Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage is a CBS multi-camera sitcom (premiered October 17, 2024) by Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro, and Steve Holland; a sequel to Young Sheldon and prequel to The Big Bang Theory starring Montana Jordan and Emily Osment as young married parents in 1990s Texas.

Georgie Brayshaw

Georgie Brayshaw, born 1993 in Leeds, is a British rower and Leander Club athlete who won Olympic gold in the women's quadruple sculls at Paris 2024, GB's first in the event, after recovering from a teenage horse riding coma; MBE 2025.

Georgie Clarke

Georgie Clarke (Georgina Clarke), Australian middle-distance runner born 1984 in Geelong; 2000 Sydney Olympic 1500m semifinalist, 1999 and 2001 World Youth champion, 2000 World Junior silver and bronze medallist, related to Ron Clarke.

Georgie Fame

Georgie Fame, born Clive Powell (1943, Leigh, Lancashire), English R&B/jazz singer and Hammond organist; led Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames at Soho's Flamingo Club; UK No.1 hits "Yeh Yeh", "Get Away", "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"; later with Van Morrison and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.

Georgie Glen

Georgie Glen (born 1956, Helensburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish character actress, ex-graphic designer, Bristol Old Vic graduate, known for Miss Higgins in Call the Midwife, Audrey McFall in Waterloo Road, and Lady Fermoy in The Crown.

Georgie Henley

Georgie Henley (Georgina Helen Henley, born 1995) is an English actress known for playing Lucy Pevensie in the three Chronicles of Narnia films (2005–2010), and later Meg Tudor in The Spanish Princess and Pensy in The Diplomat.

Georgie Porgie

Georgie Porgie (Roud 19532) is an English nursery rhyme first printed in 1841 in The Kentish Coronal as "Georgy Peorgy." Its third line changed from girls to boys by 1884; proposed royal identifications (George I, Villiers, George IV, Charles II) are unsubstantiated.

Georgie Stone

Georgie Stone is an Australian actress and transgender rights advocate who, as the youngest Australian granted pubertal suppression, helped change Family Court law on gender-affirming treatment, plays Mackenzie Hargreaves on Neighbours, and is the subject of the Netflix documentary The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone.

Georgie Thompson

Georgie Thompson (Georgina Jane Ainslie, born 1977) is a British TV presenter, Sky Sports News anchor 2001–2011, Sky Sports F1 presenter 2012, Fox Sports' Crowd Goes Wild panelist, wife of Sir Ben Ainslie.

Georgie Twigg

Georgie Twigg (Georgina Sophie Twigg), English field hockey midfielder born 1990 in Lincoln; Olympic bronze London 2012 and gold Rio 2016 with Great Britain, eight national titles with Surbiton, retired 2016 for a law career, MBE 2017.

Georgii P. Georgiev

Georgii Pavlovich Georgiev (Георгий Павлович Георгиев) is a Soviet and Russian molecular biologist, born in Leningrad in 1933, who discovered nuclear dRNA as the precursor of messenger RNA.

Georgina Bloomberg

Georgina Bloomberg (Georgina Leigh Bloomberg, born 1983) is an American professional show jumper, daughter of former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg; 2015 Pan Am Games team bronze medalist, founder of The Rider's Closet and the New York Empire GCL team, and co-author of The A Circuit novels.

Georgina Campbell

Georgina Campbell, British actress (born 1992, Maidstone, Kent), won the 2015 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Murdered by My Boyfriend as the first Black or mixed-race BAFTA winner, and later starred in Barbarian, Black Mirror's Hang the DJ, Krypton, and The Watchers.

Georgina Castle

Georgina Castle (born 1992) is an English musical theatre actress and singer trained at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, known for West End roles as Regina George in Mean Girls, Lucy in 50 First Dates: The Musical, Sophie in Mamma Mia!, and daughter of Andrew Castle.

Georgina Chapman

Georgina Chapman (born 1976) is an English fashion designer, co-founder and creative director of Marchesa with Keren Craig (2004), a red-carpet eveningwear label; former wife of Harvey Weinstein, now partner of Adrien Brody.

Georgina Evers Swindell

Georgina Evers-Swindell (Georgina Earl), born 1978 in Hastings, New Zealand, is a former rower who with twin sister Caroline won Olympic double sculls gold in 2004 and 2008, the first to defend that title, plus world titles in 2002, 2003, and 2005.

Georgina Haig

Georgina Haig (born Georgina Hagg, 1985, Melbourne) is an Australian actress, writer, and director known for Etta Bishop on Fringe, Queen Elsa on Once Upon a Time, Paula Yates in INXS: Never Tear Us Apart, and her AACTA-nominated short film Ashes.

Georgina M. Mace

Dame Georgina M. Mace (1953–2020) was a British conservation scientist, professor at University College London, who developed the IUCN Red List criteria for assessing species extinction risk.

Georgina Price

Georgina Price, British athlete who scored 4289 points in the first heptathlon ever held, at Enfield on 12 May 1973; a Middlesex WAAA experiment adding javelin and 800m to the pentathlon. A namesake holds Concept2 indoor rowing records.

Georgina Rodríguez

Georgina Rodríguez Hernández (born 1994, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Spanish model, businesswoman and Netflix star of Soy Georgina, partner of Cristiano Ronaldo, with about 70 million Instagram followers and brands OM by G and Bellhatria.

Georgina Sparks

Georgina Sparks (novel name Georgie Spark) is the recurring antagonist of Gossip Girl, played by Michelle Trachtenberg in 28 of 121 CW episodes and the 2021 HBO Max reboot, Serena van der Woodsen's scheming frenemy.

Georgina Spelvin

Georgina Spelvin, stage name of Shelley Bob Graham (born March 1, 1936, Houston), American actress and former Broadway dancer who starred in The Devil in Miss Jones (1973), appeared in over 70 adult films, then moved to mainstream roles and desktop publishing.

Georgina V. Long

Georgina V. Long is an Australian medical oncologist and melanoma researcher, Medical Director of Melanoma Institute Australia and a professor at the University of Sydney, named 2024 Australian of the Year.

Georgina Verbaan

Georgina Verbaan (born 1979, The Hague) is a Dutch actress, writer, singer, and presenter, known as Hedwig Harmsen in Goede tijden, slechte tijden, Costa!, 't Schaep met de 5 pooten, and Klem, and winner of two Golden Calfs.

Georgina Wilson

Georgina Wilson (Georgina Wilson-Burnand), born 1986, Filipino-British model, TV host, and entrepreneur; niece of Gloria Diaz, host of Asia's Next Top Model cycle 3, and co-founder of the Sunnies lifestyle brand.

Georginio Wijnaldum

Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch central midfielder born 1990 in Rotterdam; Feyenoord's youngest-ever debutant, PSV captain and 2015 Eredivisie winner, Liverpool 2016-2021 (237 games, 2019 Champions League, 2020 Premier League), then PSG, Roma, Al-Ettifaq and Al-Ittihad; 96 Netherlands caps, 28 goals.

Georgio Poullas (Γεώργιος Πούλλας)

Georgio Poullas (Γεώργιος Πούλλας), born 1998 in Canfield, Ohio, is an American freestyle wrestler and influencer behind the $1,000 'Take Me Down' challenge, a Cleveland State D-I wrestler who lost twice on points to Arman Tsarukyan at RAF 6 and RAF 7.

Georgios C. Papanicolaou

George C. Papanicolaou is an American applied mathematician at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, known for waves and diffusion in random media and financial mathematics.

Georgios Cotzias

Georgios Cotzias (1918–1977) was a Greek-born American physician and National Academy of Sciences member whose high-dose oral L-DOPA treatment reversed Parkinsonism, a milestone in neurology.