All articles starting with G

Georgios Drossinis

Georgios Drossinis (Γεώργιος Δροσίνης, 1859–1951) was a Greek poet and prose writer, a pioneer of the New Athenian School in poetry and of ethography in prose, and a founding member of the Academy of Athens.

Sep 27, 2026

Georgios Floridis

Georgios Floridis is a Greek politician of New Democracy who has served as Minister of Justice since June 2023, having previously served with PASOK, which he left in 2011.

Sep 20, 2026

Georgios Giannakis

Georgios Giannakis (Γεώργιος Μπ. Γιαννάκης) is a Greek-American electrical engineer and McKnight Presidential Chair professor at the University of Minnesota, known for statistical signal processing.

Georgios I

Georgios I (Ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ) was a king of the Christian Nubian kingdom of Makuria who in 836 renegotiated the Baqt tribute treaty with the Abbasid caliph al-Muʿtaṣim, reigning until about 887.

Georgios Kafantaris

Georgios Kafantaris (Γεώργιος Καφαντάρης, 1873–1946) was a Greek lawyer and leading Venizelist politician, briefly Prime Minister of Greece in 1924 and an uncompromising advocate of a republic without a king.

Georgios Klontzas

Georgios Klontzas (Γεώργιος Κλόντζας) was a Greek painter, scribe, and scholar of the Cretan school who worked in Candia, Crete, in the late sixteenth century.

Georgios Kondylis

Georgios Kondylis, nicknamed Thunderbolt, was a Greek general and politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Greece, overthrew the Pangalos dictatorship in 1926, and in 1935 restored the monarchy.

Georgios Konstantopoulos

Georgios Konstantopoulos is an engineer and venture investor who is Chief Technology Officer and General Partner at Paradigm, a crypto investment firm, and CTO at Tempo, a payments network.

Oct 20, 2026

Georgios Orfanidis

Georgios Orfanidis (Γεώργιος Δ. Ορφανίδης, 1859–1942), Greek sport shooter from İzmir and Athens lawyer. Won 300m free rifle gold and pistol silver at Athens 1896 and free pistol gold at the 1906 Intercalated Games; competed also at London 1908.

Sep 21, 2026

Georgios P. Chrousos

Georgios P. Chrousos is a Greek pediatric endocrinologist, born in Patras in 1951, known for work on the HPA axis, glucocorticoid resistance, and the stress system, and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Georgios Papadopoulos (Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος)

Georgios Papadopoulos (Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος), 1919–1999, Greek artillery colonel who led the 21 April 1967 coup, ruled the Regime of the Colonels as prime minister and later president, and died in prison after a treason conviction.

Georgios Papagiannis (Γιώργος Παπαγιάννης)

Georgios Papagiannis (Γιώργος Παπαγιάννης), born 1997, Greek 7'1" center; 13th pick of the 2016 NBA draft (Kings, Blazers), now Anadolu Efes after Panathinaikos, Fenerbahçe, and Monaco; Greek national team regular.

Georgios Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Νικολάου Παπανικολάου)

Georgios Papanikolaou (Γεώργιος Νικολάου Παπανικολάου), also George Nicholas Papanicolaou, Greek physician (1883–1962) who invented the Pap smear; reported vaginal-smear cancer diagnosis in 1928, validated it with Traut in 1943, and cut cervical cancer mortality.

Georgios Samaras (Γιώργος Σαμαράς)

Georgios Samaras (Γιώργος Σαμαράς), born 1985 in Heraklion, Greek forward; Heerenveen, Manchester City, Celtic 2008-2014 (four SPL titles), West Brom; 81 Greece caps, two World Cups and two Euros.

Georgios Skiniotis

Georgios Skiniotis is a structural biologist known for cryo-EM structures of GPCR–G protein and β-arrestin complexes, who won the 2011 PECASE and joined St. Jude in 2024.

Georgios Souris

Georgios Souris (Γεώργιος Σουρής), 1853 to 1919, was a Greek satirical poet who wrote and edited the weekly verse newspaper O Romios for over thirty years.

Georgios Theotokis

Georgios Theotokis (Γεώργιος Θεοτόκης) was a Greek politician from Corfu who served four times as Prime Minister of Greece between 1899 and 1909, leading the Trikoupist party.

Oct 21, 2026

Georgios Zaimis

Georgios Zaimis (Γεώργιος Ζαϊμης, 1937-2020), Greek sailor; Dragon-class Olympic gold at Rome 1960 with Crown Prince Konstantinos and Eskitzoglou aboard Nirefs; also 8th Tokyo 1964, 15th Mexico City 1968.

Georgism

Georgism, also known as geoism, is an economic philosophy named for Henry George, whose 1879 book Progress and Poverty proposed the single tax on land values.

Georgius Agricola

Georgius Agricola, born Georg Bauer, was a German scholar, physician, and mineralogist whose De re metallica (1556) remained the standard European mining and metallurgy text for two centuries.

Georgiy Gongadze

Georgiy Gongadze (Георгій Гонгадзе), Ukrainian investigative journalist, Georgian-born, founder of Ukrayinska Pravda; kidnapped and murdered in September 2000; Melnychenko tapes implicated President Kuchma; ECHR ruled against Ukraine; General Pukach convicted.

Georgiy Shilov

Georgiy Shilov (Георгий Евгеньевич Шилов, 1917–1975) was a Soviet mathematician at Moscow State University who made foundational contributions to commutative Banach algebra theory and generalized functions.

Georgiy Shulpin

Georgiy Borisovich Shul'pin (Георгий Борисович Шульпин, 1946–2023) was a Russian chemist at the Semenov Institute in Moscow who developed vanadium and manganese systems for oxidizing alkane C–H bonds with hydrogen peroxide.

Georgy Adelson-Velsky

Georgy Adelson-Velsky, full name Georgy Maksimovich Adelson-Velsky, was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician who co-invented the AVL tree and led Kaissa, winner of the first World Computer Chess Championship in 1974.

Georgy Chicherin (Георгий Васильевич Чичерин)

Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin (Георгий Васильевич Чичерин), Soviet people's commissar for foreign affairs 1918–1930; signed Brest-Litovsk, the 1921 Eastern treaties, and the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo with Germany.

Georgy Gapon

Georgy Apollonovich Gapon (Георгий Аполлонович Гапон, 1870–1906), Russian Orthodox priest and police-linked labor organizer, founded the Assembly of Russian Factory and Mill Workers, led the 9 January 1905 Bloody Sunday march, and was hanged by SR militants in 1906 after exposure as an Okhrana agent.

Georgy Girl

Georgy Girl is a 1966 British comedy-drama directed by Silvio Narizzano, adapted from Margaret Forster's novel, starring Lynn Redgrave, James Mason, Alan Bates, and Charlotte Rampling; a Swinging London film with four Oscar nominations and The Seekers' hit title song.

Georgy Golitsyn

Georgy Golitsyn, also known as Georgy Sergeevich Golitsyn (Георгий Сергеевич Голицын), was a Russian atmospheric physicist who developed a similarity theory of planetary atmospheric circulation and made the first estimates of nuclear war's climatic effects.

Sep 24, 2026

Georgy Karpov

Georgy Karpov (Георгий Карпов) was a Soviet NKGB major-general who chaired the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under Stalin from 1943 to 1960.