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Gerontocracy
Gerontocracy: rule by people significantly older than the governed population, de jure or de facto. Also called elder rule; coined in 19th-century France. Explained by strategic selection of experienced or short-tenure leaders, older voters' participation, and youth underrepresentation in parliaments and cabinets.
Gerontology
Gerontology is the scientific, interdisciplinary study of aging and older adulthood, covering biological, psychological, and social dimensions; unlike geriatrics, it is broad rather than a medical specialty.
GeroScience
GeroScience is a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal of aging biology and age-related disease, official journal of the American Aging Association, published by Springer since 2017 as the successor to Age, with a 2025 impact factor of 6.0.
Gerostratos (king of Arwad)
Gerostratos, in Phoenician Gerashtart, was king of the island city of Arwad in northern Phoenicia in the mid-4th century BC, known from Arrian's account of Alexander the Great's campaign.
Gerousia (Γερουσία)
Gerousia (γερουσία), the Spartan council of elders: 28 men over 60 plus the two kings, serving for life, elected by acclamation; prepared assembly business, vetoed decisions, and judged capital cases.
Gerra (Lebanon)
Gerra (Gerrha) is an ancient site at Aanjar, Lebanon, with a fort occupied 330 BC to 30 BC, a palace, and public baths; Pleiades place 678160, distinct from the Tabula Peutingeriana namesake.
Gerran Howell
Gerran Howell, Welsh actor born 1991 in Barry, Wales; starred as Vladimir Dracula in Young Dracula (2006-2014) and plays Dr. Dennis Whitaker in HBO Max's Emmy-winning The Pitt, earning a 2026 Emmy nomination.
Gerresheimer
Gerresheimer AG is a pharmaceutical packaging company making glass and plastic medicine bottles, syringes, and drug delivery systems, with about 13,600 employees in 17 countries.
Gerrhonotus
Gerrhonotus (alligator lizards) is a genus of anguid lizards in Gerrhonotinae, described by Wiegmann in 1828, with about 9 species ranging from Texas to Panama and hidden diversity revealed by phylogenomics.
Gerridae
Gerridae, the water striders or pond skaters, are true bugs (Hemiptera) of about 1,700 species that skate on water surfaces from ponds to the open ocean, supported by surface tension through hydrophobic hairy legs and propelled by rowing middle legs that shed vortices.
Gerrit
Gerrit, also called Gerrit Code Review, is a free, web-based code review tool built on Git that Google introduced in 2008 for Android development, and it is used by projects including Chromium, OpenStack, and Wikimedia.
Gerrit Achterberg
Gerrit Achterberg was a highly regarded Dutch poet whose themes explored desire beyond death, and was known for killing his landlady in 1937 and later serving mandatory detention.
Gerrit Cole
Gerrit Cole (born 1990, Newport Beach, CA), nicknamed Chef G, is a Yankees right-handed starter, 2011 first overall pick, unanimous 2023 AL Cy Young winner, $324M contract, Tommy John surgery March 2025, returned May 2026.
Gerrit Dou
Gerrit Dou (Gerard Dou) was a Dutch painter who founded the Leiden school of fijnschilderij. His small, detailed works, developed as Rembrandt's first pupil, were highly valued.
Gerrit Grijns
Gerrit Grijns (1865–1944) was a Dutch physiologist who, working in Batavia from 1896, first clearly stated that foods contain substances needed to protect the nervous system, the vitamin concept.
Gerrit J. Brakenhoff
Gerrit J. Brakenhoff is a Dutch microscope developer at the University of Amsterdam whose group built confocal microscopes and demonstrated Betzig's super-resolution proposal in 1998.
Gerrit J. Poelarends
Gerrit J. Poelarends is a Dutch biochemist and professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Groningen, known for engineering enzymes to synthesize chiral amino acids.
Gerrit Jan Heering
Gerrit Jan Heering (1879–1955) was a Dutch Remonstrant theologian and leading Christian pacifist, professor at the Remonstrant Seminarium in Leiden from 1917 to 1949, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Gerrit Kouwenaar (1923–2014) was a Dutch poet and translator, a central member of the experimental Vijftigers group linked to Cobra and one of the most important Dutch-language poets after 1945.
Gerrit Krol
Gerrit Krol (1934–2013) was a Dutch novelist, poet, and essayist who worked as a computer programmer, and whose fiction draws on mathematics, logic, and computing.
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann (born 1965 in Göttingen) is a German paleoclimate scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute and Professor of Physics of the Climate System at the University of Bremen.
Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964) was a Dutch furniture maker and architect of the De Stijl movement, known for the Red and Blue Chair and the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht.
Gerrit Wildeboer
Gerrit Wildeboer (1855–1911) was a Dutch Reformed Old Testament scholar and professor at Groningen and Leiden, known for his history of the Old Testament canon.
Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn
Gerritsen Beach is a small coastal peninsula neighborhood in southern Brooklyn along Jamaica Bay, developed in the 1920s, home to one of NYC's few volunteer fire departments, and heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
Gerry (2002 film)
Gerry (2002) is Gus Van Sant's minimalist desert drama, co-written with and starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as two lost hikers, shot in long takes by Harris Savides with Arvo Part music, released by ThinkFilm in 2003.
Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams, born Gerard Adams in Belfast in 1948, is an Irish republican politician who was President of Sinn Féin from 1983 to 2018 and helped broker the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Gerry and the Pacemakers
Gerry and the Pacemakers, a Liverpool Merseybeat group formed in 1959 by Gerry Marsden, scored three consecutive UK No. 1 singles in 1963 and gave Liverpool FC its anthem "You'll Never Walk Alone".
Gerry Anderson
Gerry Anderson (Gerald Alexander Abrahams, 1929–2012) was an English TV producer behind Supermarionation series Supercar, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, plus UFO and Space: 1999.
Gerry Ashworth
Gerry Ashworth (Gerald Howard Ashworth, born 1942, Haverhill, Massachusetts) is an American sprinter, Dartmouth IC4A champion, and 1964 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in the 4x100 m relay, won in world record 39.06.
Gerry Bamman
Gerry Bamman (born 1941, Independence, Kansas) is an American stage and screen actor best known as Uncle Frank in Home Alone and Home Alone 2, an Obie-winning theater performer, and recurring player on Law & Order.