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Gaia Giovannini
Gaia Giovannini (born 2001, San Giovanni in Persiceto) is an Italian outside hitter for Megabox Vallefoglia and Italy; Olympic champion Paris 2024, VNL winner 2024 and 2025, world champion 2025.
Gaia hypothesis
Gaia hypothesis: James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis's 1970s proposal that Earth's temperature, albedo, and surface chemistry are homeostatically regulated by the total biota; contested by evolutionary biologists, defended via the Daisyworld model, and foundational to Earth system science.
Gaia Novarino
Gaia Novarino is an Italian neuroscientist and professor at ISTA whose work shows some autism and epilepsy cases stem from amino acid defects and may be diet-treatable.
Gaia Online
Gaia Online is an avatar-based social site and virtual world founded in 2003 by Gaia Interactive of Santa Clara, California, known for customizable avatars, forums with over a billion posts, the zOMG! MMO, and its Gaia Gold/Platinum virtual economy.
Gaia Sausage
The Gaia Sausage, also called Gaia-Enceladus, is a structure of radial-orbit stars in the Milky Way's inner halo from a dwarf galaxy merger about 10 billion years ago.
GAIA-2
GAIA-2 is a controllable generative world model for autonomous driving released by Wayve in March 2025, generating up to five consistent camera streams for synthetic data and safety validation.
Gaia-5
Gaia-5 is a mid-M dwarf about 41 pc away; its companion Gaia-5b is a ~21-Jupiter-mass brown dwarf in a 358.6-day, e=0.64 orbit, confirmed in 2025 by radial velocities following a Gaia astrometric solution.
Gaia-ESO Survey
The Gaia-ESO Survey was a public spectroscopic survey by the European Southern Observatory that obtained spectra of more than 100,000 stars across all major components of the Milky Way.
Gaia-X
Gaia-X is a European initiative for federated data and cloud infrastructure, launched by France and Germany in 2019 and run by a Brussels not-for-profit association with over 300 members.
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, is a Victorian venue known as "The Grand Old Lady of South King Street." It has hosted musicals, opera, and pantomime since 1871.
Gaigel
Gaigel, a Swabian trick-taking card game related to 66/Schnapsen, played by four in partnerships with a 48-card Württemberg double pack; first team to 101 points calls "Aus!" and wins.
Gaijin - Os Caminhos da Liberdade
Gaijin - Os Caminhos da Liberdade (Gaijin: Roads to Freedom) is Tizuka Yamasaki's 1980 Brazilian feature debut about Japanese immigration to Brazil in 1908, starring Kyoko Tsukamoto and Antonio Fagundes, winner at Gramado and Havana.
Gaijin (外人)
Gaijin (外人), Japanese for outsider or foreigner, is the casual contraction of gaikokujin (外国人). Unlike the neutral administrative full form, gaijin marks social placement, is often used for white residents, and is debated as potentially derogatory.
Gaijin Entertainment
Gaijin Entertainment, independent European game developer and publisher founded 2002, HQ Budapest; maker of War Thunder, Crossout, Enlisted, and the Dagor Engine, released open source in 2023.
Gaikoku bugyō
Gaikoku bugyō (外国奉行), or Foreign Magistrate, was the Edo shogunate office created in 1858 after the Harris Treaty to handle all diplomacy with Western powers, abolished in 1868.
GAIL
GAIL (India) Limited, founded in 1984 as Gas Authority of India Limited, is a state-owned natural gas company in New Delhi that operates India's largest gas pipeline network.
Gail A. Weilheimer
Gail A. Weilheimer is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2025, appointed by President Biden.
Gail Amundrud
Gail Amundrud (born 1957, Toronto) is a Canadian swimmer, bronze medalist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Montreal 1976, with World, Commonwealth, and Pan American Games medals.
Gail Ann Dorsey
Gail Ann Dorsey (born 1962, Philadelphia) is an American bassist, vocalist, and songwriter, David Bowie's bass player 1995–2004 and collaborator to 2016, famous for singing "Under Pressure" live; solo albums The Corporate World, Rude Blue, I Used To Be.
Gail Armstrong (New Mexico politician)
Gail Armstrong is an American Republican politician who serves as Minority Leader of the New Mexico House of Representatives, representing rural District 49 since her 2017 appointment.
Gail Cardew
Gail Cardew is a British biologist who was Director of Science and Education at the Royal Institution and became the Linnean Society's first CEO in 2021.
Gail D’Onofrio
Gail D'Onofrio is an American emergency physician and addiction-medicine researcher at Yale, known for showing that starting buprenorphine in the emergency department boosts treatment engagement.
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is a 2026 David Wain comedy starring Zoey Deutch and Jon Hamm, a Wizard of Oz parody about a Kansas hairdresser chasing Hamm in LA; Sundance premiere, Sony Pictures Classics release.
Gail Davenport
Gail Davenport is an American Democratic politician sworn into the Georgia State Senate in 2007, representing District 44 and now District 17, covering Clayton and Henry counties.
Gail Devers
Gail Devers (Yolanda Gail L. Devers), American sprinter-hurdler born 1966 in Seattle; three Olympic golds (100m 1992, 1996; 4x100m relay 1996), five world outdoor titles, overcame Graves' disease; 100m hurdles American record 12.33.
Gail E. Besner
Gail E. Besner (Gail Ellen Besner) is an American pediatric surgeon-scientist, chief of Pediatric Surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, known for discovering the growth factor HB-EGF.
Gail E. Sonenshein
Gail E. Sonenshein is a molecular biologist and professor at Tufts University School of Medicine who studies nuclear oncogenes in breast cancer and co-founded Adecto Pharmaceuticals in 2014 to develop ADAM8 antibody therapeutics.
Gail Edwards
Gail Edwards, also Gail June Edwards, born 1952, American retired actress known as Dot Higgins on It's a Living, Sharon LeMeure on Blossom, and Vicky Larson on Full House and Fuller House; retired to Sedona, Arizona in 1994.
Gail Fisher
Gail Fisher (1935-2000), American actress, played secretary Peggy Fair on CBS's Mannix (1968-1975); first African-American woman to win an acting Emmy (1970) and a Golden Globe (1971).
Gail G. Harrison
Gail G. Harrison, born Gail Kathleen Grigsby (1943–2015), was an American public health nutrition scientist at UCLA whose research on food insecurity shaped the federal WIC program.