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Geraldine Somerville
Geraldine Somerville (Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville, born 1967, County Meath, Ireland) is an Irish-born actress known as DS Jane Penhaligon in Cracker and Lily Potter in the Harry Potter films.
Geraldine Viswanathan
Geraldine Viswanathan (born 1995) is an Australian actress from Newcastle who broke out as Kayla in Blockers (2018) and stars as Mel in Marvel's Thunderbolts, after Hala, Bad Education, and Drive-Away Dolls.
Geraldo Alckmin
Geraldo Alckmin is a Brazilian politician of the Brazilian Socialist Party who has served as Vice President of Brazil since 2023, elected on President Lula's 2022 ticket.
Geraldo Azevedo
Geraldo Azevedo, born 1945 in Pernambuco, is a Brazilian singer and guitarist whose forró-inflected MPB produced hits like "Bicho de Sete Cabeças" and "Dia Branco".
Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera, American journalist and attorney, WABC Eyewitness News and 20/20 reporter, Peabody-winning Willowbrook exposé, Al Capone's Vault special, Geraldo talk show, Rivera Live on CNBC, Fox News 2001–2023, now NewsNation correspondent-at-large.
Geraldo Thomaz
Geraldo Thomaz, full name Geraldo do Carmo Thomaz Júnior, is a Brazilian software entrepreneur who co-founded the e-commerce platform VTEX in Rio de Janeiro in 2000.
Geraldo Vandré
Geraldo Vandré, born Geraldo Pedrosa de Araújo Dias in 1935, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter from João Pessoa whose 1968 protest song 'Caminhando' became the anthem of resistance to the military dictatorship.
Geraldton waxflower (Chamelaucium uncinatum) as a gin flavoring
Geraldton waxflower (Chamelaucium uncinatum), an Australian shrub, flavors gin with citrus-pine, honeyed floral notes; GRN 1321 (LuckyLiquor LLC) covers its use at up to 0.078 g/L, FDA no questions, August 2026.
Geralt of Rivia
Geralt of Rivia, Andrzej Sapkowski's mutated monster-hunter from the Witcher saga (first story 1986), voiced by Doug Cockle in the games and played by Henry Cavill then Liam Hemsworth on Netflix; Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past returns him in 2027.
Geraniaceae
Geraniaceae, the geranium family (Geraniales, rosids), includes Geranium, Pelargonium, Erodium, Monsonia, Sarcocaulon, California, and Hypseocharis; herbs and shrubs with five-parted flowers and beaked schizocarp fruits, about 830 species, mainly temperate.
Geraniales
Geraniales is a small order of flowering plants in the rosid clade Malvids, sister to Myrtales, with about 742 species including the geranium family Geraniaceae and its ornamental genera.
Geraniol
Geraniol is an acyclic monoterpene alcohol with a sweet rose-like odor, the chief constituent of oil of rose and palmarosa and one of the most used fragrance materials.
Geranium
Geranium (cranesbills) is a genus of about 337 herb species in Geraniaceae, native to temperate and tropical-mountain regions worldwide, with beaked explosive fruits; distinct from Pelargonium, the garden "geranium."
Geranium robertianum
Geranium robertianum, herb Robert or red robin, is a pink-flowered annual or biennial geranium native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, self-seeding explosively up to 6.5 m, rich in phenolics, and a noxious weed in Washington State.
Geranyl-diphosphate synthase
Geranyl-diphosphate synthase (GPPS) is a trans-prenyltransferase in plant plastids that makes geranyl diphosphate, the common precursor of monoterpenes, stopping chain growth at C10 unlike related enzymes.
Geranylgeranyl reductase, plant/cyanobacteria
Geranylgeranyl reductase (ChlP, CHLP, GGR) is the plastid FAD enzyme of plants and cyanobacteria reducing GGPP to phytyl diphosphate for chlorophyll, tocopherol, and phylloquinone synthesis, unlike archaeal GGRs that fully saturate to phytanyl.
Geranylgeranyl transferase type-1 subunit beta
Geranylgeranyl transferase type-1 subunit beta (PGGT1B) is the beta subunit of GGTase-I, a CaaX prenyltransferase that attaches 20-carbon geranylgeranyl lipids to Rho, Rac, and Rap GTPases, a cancer drug target.
Geranylgeranyl-diphosphate synthase
Geranylgeranyl-diphosphate synthase (GGDPS, GGPPS, EC 2.5.1.29; human gene GGPS1) is an isoprenoid pathway enzyme making GGPP for protein geranylgeranylation; dysregulated in diabetes, liver, lung, kidney and malignant disease, and targeted by bisphosphonate inhibitors.
Geranylgeranylglyceryl phosphate synthase
Geranylgeranylglyceryl phosphate synthase (GGGPS, EC 2.5.1.41) is a soluble archaeal prenyltransferase that joins glycerol-1-phosphate and geranylgeranyl diphosphate by an ether bond, the first committed step of archaeal ether membrane lipid biosynthesis.
Geranyltranstransferase
Geranyltranstransferase, also called (2E,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate synthase or FPP synthetase, EC 2.5.1.10, is a mevalonate-pathway transferase synthesizing farnesyl diphosphate from IPP and DMAPP; inhibited by zoledronate and other bisphosphonates.
Gerar
Gerar (Hebrew גְּרָר) was a biblical city and region of the Negev where Genesis places Abraham and Isaac with King Abimelech, generally identified with Tel Haror in the western Negev.
Gerard (lunar crater)
Gerard is a 98.78-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's western near side at 44.50°N, 80.62°W, IAU-approved in 1935 and named for Scottish explorer Alexander Gerard (1792-1839).
Gerard Adriaan Heineken
Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841) was a Dutch brewer and entrepreneur who bought Amsterdam's De Hooiberg brewery in 1864, at age 22, and built it into the Heineken brewing company.
Gérard Araud
Gérard Araud, born 1948, retired French diplomat; ambassador to the United States 2014–2019, to Israel 2003–2006, and UN Permanent Representative 2009–2014; launched Iran nuclear talks in 2003 and wrote Passeport diplomatique.
Gerard B. Odell
Gerard B. Odell (1925–1994) was an American pediatrician known for research on bilirubin metabolism and neonatal jaundice, who led pediatrics at the Medical College of Virginia and gastroenterology at Wisconsin–Madison.
Gerard Batten
Gerard Batten (born 1954) is a British politician, Ukip MEP for London and party leader February 2018 to June 2019, known for anti-Islam policies and the Tommy Robinson adviser appointment.
Gérard Ben Arous
Gérard Ben Arous is a French-born probabilist, Silver Professor of Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute and its dean since August 2025, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Gerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu (1910–1990) was a self-taught South African painter from southern Natal, known for photo-real watercolour and sepia-ink portraits and scenes of rural Zulu life.
Gérard Blitz (Belgian businessman)
Gérard Blitz (1912–1990) was a Belgian-born diamond cutter who founded Club Méditerranée, known as Club Med, in 1950 and led its first tent village in Majorca.
Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler, Scottish actor and producer born 1969 in Paisley, trained as a lawyer before acting; known for King Leonidas in 300, the Has Fallen films, How to Train Your Dragon, and Greenland.