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Gephyrin
Gephyrin (GPHN) is a 93-kDa scaffold protein forming the hexagonal lattice that anchors glycine and GABA_A receptors at inhibitory synapses, and independently catalyzes molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis in non-neuronal cells.
Gepirone
Gepirone (EXXUA), a 5-HT1A receptor agonist of the azapirone class and buspirone analog, is an extended-release antidepressant approved by FDA on September 22, 2023 for major depressive disorder in adults after a two-decade regulatory history.
Gepotidacin
Gepotidacin (Blujepa, GSK2140944), a first-in-class triazaacenaphthylene antibiotic inhibiting DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV, FDA-approved in 2025 for uncomplicated UTI in females and urogenital gonorrhea.
Geppetto
Geppetto is the old woodcarver of Collodi's Pinocchio (1881-83), also called Mastro Geppetto, who carves and names the puppet Pinocchio, sells his coat for the boy's schoolbook, and is later found in the fish's belly; distinct from the Italian GPT-2 model GePpeTto.
Ger (Hasidic dynasty)
Ger, also Gur Hasidism (גער), is a Polish Hasidic dynasty founded by Yitsḥak Me'ir Rothenberg in 1859 at Góra Kalwaria near Warsaw, today the largest Hasidic group in Israel.
Ger toshav (גר תושב)
Ger toshav (גר תושב) is a rabbinic legal status for a non-Jew who accepts the seven Noahide commandments before a court, allowing residence in the Land of Israel without conversion.
Gera
Gera, kreisfreie city in eastern Thuringia, Germany, on the Weiße Elster; third largest Thuringian city, first documented 995, former Reuss residence city, Otto Dix's birthplace, about 95,000 residents.
Gera MX
Gera MX, also known as Gera MXM, is the stage name of Gerardo Daniel Torres Montante, a Mexican rapper born in 1994 who founded the label Rich Vagos.
Geração de 1870
Geração de 1870 (Generation of 1870) was a cohort of Brazilian and Portuguese intellectuals who reached adulthood around 1870 and mounted a reformist critique of the imperial and monarchic orders.
Geração de 1930
Geração de 1930, or Generation of 1930, is the second phase of Brazilian Modernism, from 1930 to 1945, including poets Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Cecília Meireles and novelists Graciliano Ramos and Jorge Amado.
Gerace Roman Villa
Gerace Roman Villa: late Roman estate centre in contrada Gerace, 10 km south of Enna, Sicily; granary, unfinished villa of Philippianus, and bathhouse; destroyed by earthquakes and fire ca. 500 CE.
Geraint F. Lewis
Geraint F. Lewis, born in Neath, Wales in 1969, is a Welsh astrophysicist at the University of Sydney who studies cosmology, galactic cannibalism, and dark energy.
Geraint Jones
Geraint Jones (born 1974, Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea), England wicketkeeper-batsman in 34 Tests and 2005 Ashes winner, famous for the Kasprowicz catch at Edgbaston; long Kent career, later Gloucestershire and PNG.
Geraint Rees
Geraint Rees is a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, Professor of Cognitive Neurology since 2006 and Vice Provost since 2022, studying the neural basis of consciousness.
Geraint Thomas
Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist born Cardiff 1986, 2018 Tour de France winner, two-time Olympic team pursuit gold medallist (2008, 2012), retired 2025, now Ineos Grenadiers director of racing.
Gerald A. Leonards
Gerald A. "Jerry" Leonards was a Canadian-born American geotechnical engineer, longtime Purdue University professor, and editor of the standard reference Foundation Engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Gerald A. McHugh, Jr.
Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr., born 1954, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2014, nominated by President Barack Obama.
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl is an American climate scientist at NCAR in Boulder, Colorado, known for his 1996 El Niño-like warming paper and 2004 heat-wave projections.
Gerald Allen
Gerald Allen is an American Republican politician serving in the Alabama Senate from the 21st district since 2011, after four terms in the Alabama House.
Gerald and Charlene Gallego
Gerald and Charlene Gallego, the 'sex-slave murders' couple, killed at least 10 people in California, Nevada, and Oregon, 1978-1980; arrested in Omaha 1980; Gerald died on death row in 2002; Charlene freed 1997.
Gerald and Sara Murphy
Gerald (1888–1964) and Sara (1883–1975) Murphy, American expatriates in Paris from 1921, hosts of Villa America at Cap d'Antibes; Gerald a Precisionist-Cubist painter of Razor and Watch, model for Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night.
Gerald Anderson
Gerald Anderson (Gerald Randolph Opsima Anderson Jr.) is a Filipino-American actor born 1989 in Subic Bay, Zambales. Rose to fame on Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Edition 2006 with love team Kimerald; known for Tayong Dalawa, Budoy, and On the Job.
Gerald B. Appel
Gerald B. Appel is an American nephrologist at Columbia University, Co-Director of Clinical Nephrology, who directs its Glomerular Kidney Disease Center and led a 2005 NEJM lupus nephritis trial.
Gerald B. Pier
Gerald B. Pier is an American microbiologist and immunologist, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for linking the CFTR protein to clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Gerald B. Stringfellow
Gerald B. "Jerry" Stringfellow (1942–2025) was an American materials scientist at the University of Utah who pioneered organometallic vapor-phase epitaxy, the crystal-growth process behind red, orange, yellow, and green LEDs.
Gerald B. Tjoflat
Gerald B. Tjoflat, born 1929, is a senior United States circuit judge of the Eleventh Circuit, appointed by President Gerald Ford in 1975 after serving on the district court.
Gerald Boudreaux
Gerald Boudreaux is an American Democratic politician who has represented District 24 in the Louisiana State Senate since 2015 and serves as the Senate's Minority Leader.
Gerald Brisco
Gerald Brisco (Floyd Gerald Brisco, born 1946, Seminole, Oklahoma), also Jerry Brisco, is a retired pro wrestler and WWE scout; Brisco Brothers tag team with Jack, 1984 GCW-WTBS sale to McMahon, Stooges era, 2008 WWE Hall of Fame.
Gerald Bull
Gerald Bull, also known as Gerry Bull, was a Canadian artillery engineer who led Project HARP, designed the GC-45 howitzer, and was assassinated in Brussels in 1990.
Gerald Carr (astronaut)
Gerald Paul Carr, known as Jerry Carr, was an American NASA astronaut and Marine Corps colonel who commanded Skylab 4, the final crewed mission to the Skylab space station, in 1973 and 1974.