All articles starting with G

Gertrude Ederle

Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle was an American swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel, in a record 14 hours 39 minutes.

Oct 10, 2026

Gertrude Henle (1912–2006) was a German American virologist who, with her husband Werner, proved Epstein-Barr virus causes infectious mononucleosis and linked it to Burkitt lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), American historian of Victorian Britain and moral history, wife of Irving Kristol; author of Victorian Minds, Poverty and Compassion, The De-Moralization of Society; 1991 Jefferson Lecturer, 2004 National Humanities Medal.

Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), British horticulturist, garden designer, and writer; designed or advised on 400+ gardens, wrote 1,000+ articles, first woman to win the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour (1897), lived at Munstead Wood with Lutyens.

Oct 22, 2026

Gertrude Käsebier

Gertrude Käsebier, born Gertrude Stanton, was an American pictorial photographer, one of the foremost American portrait photographers around 1900 and a founding member of the Photo-Secession.

Gertrude Lawrence

Gertrude Lawrence (Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Klasen, 1898–1952), British actress, singer, and dancer; muse of Noël Coward in Private Lives, star of Lady in the Dark, Tony-winning originator of Anna in The King and I, died during its 1951 Broadway run.

Gertrude Mary Cox

Gertrude Mary Cox (1900–1978) was an American statistician known for experimental design and for building one of the first university statistics programs in the United States.

Gertrude Meredith

Gertrude Meredith was an American pair skater who competed with Joseph Savage, finishing seventh at the 1932 Winter Olympics and winning US pairs bronze in 1932 and 1933.

Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber

Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber (1911–1998) was a German-born American nuclear physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who made the first direct observation that spontaneous fission emits neutrons.

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American modernist writer, poet, and art collector; Paris salon host at 27 rue de Fleurus with Alice B. Toklas; author of Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; patron of Picasso and Matisse; Vichy-era politics remain debated.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), American sculptor, Vanderbilt heiress, and leading patron of American art; founded the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1930 after the Met declined her collection.

Gertrude Yorkes

Gertrude "Gert" Yorkes, codename Arsenic, is a Marvel Comics Runaways member created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona in Runaways #1 (2003), a sarcastic teen with a telepathic link to the genetically engineered dinosaur Old Lace, killed in 2005 and resurrected in 2017.

Sep 24, 2026

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814–1873) was a Cuban-born poet, novelist, and playwright who built her career in Spain, known for the antislavery novel Sab and her rejected 1853 bid to join the Real Academia Española.

Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American biochemist at Washington University who shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for glycogen research.

Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.

Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (418 U.S. 323, 1974) is the Supreme Court libel case holding that private-figure defamation plaintiffs need not prove actual malice, that states may set fault standards but cannot impose strict liability, and that absent actual malice only actual damages are recoverable.

Gerudo

Gerudo (The Legend of Zelda): near-all-female desert warrior people; one male born per century becomes king (Ganondorf); recharacterized in Breath of the Wild as merchants and allies with Gerudo Town, vai/voe language, and chief Riju.

Gerulata

Gerulata: Roman castellum at Rusovce, Bratislava, Slovakia, first fort on the Carnuntum–Ad Flexum Danube limes line; founded under Domitian, garrisoned by Ala I Cannanefatum, four building phases to a late-antique fort around 380 AD, now a UNESCO Danube Limes component; distinct from the Serbian Gerulata fort at Miroč.

Gerund

Gerund: an English -ing verb form functioning as a noun, also called a verbal noun; distinct from the present participle, split into nominal and verbal subtypes, with Latin-origin history and verb-complementation rules.

Gerupuk Inside

Gerupuk Inside (Inside Right, Bumbang) is a right-hand reef surf break in Gerupuk Bay, Lombok, Indonesia, about 7 km east of Kuta Lombok; boat-access only, beginner-intermediate, year-round, and among Lombok's most crowded breaks.

Sep 19, 2026

Gervais Koffi Djondo

Gervais Koffi Djondo is a Togolese businessman who co-founded Ecobank in 1985 with Adeyemi Lawson and later launched Asky Airlines; Ecobank reached $34.5 billion in assets across 39 countries by 2025.

Gervasio A. Lamas

Gervasio A. Lamas is a cardiologist who chairs medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach and led the MOST, SAVE PACe, and TACT trials.

Gervasio Deferr

Gervasio Deferr is a Spanish retired artistic gymnast who won Olympic gold in the men's vault at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004, and silver at Beijing 2008.

Gervillia

Gervillia (Defrance, 1820) is an extinct genus of bakevelliid bivalve mollusks with sword-shaped, inequivalve shells, ranging from the Triassic to the Cretaceous (possibly Paleocene) and cosmopolitan in the Jurassic and Cretaceous.

Gervinho

Gervinho (Gervais Yao Kouassi, born 1987) is an Ivorian winger who won the 2011 Ligue 1 double with Lille, played for Arsenal and Roma, won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, and finished at Aris Thessaloniki in 2023.

Gervonta Davis

Gervonta "Tank" Davis, American southpaw boxer born 1994 in Baltimore; five-time, three-division world champion, 30-0-1 with 28 KOs, WBA lightweight titleholder since 2019, known for one-punch power and 2025-2026 legal troubles.

Gerwin H. Gelinck

Gerwin H. Gelinck is a Dutch scientist at TNO and the Holst Centre who works on flexible and organic electronics, including displays and image sensors on plastic foil.

Gerwyn Price

Gerwyn Price, "The Iceman" (born 1985), Welsh PDC darts player and former rugby hooker; 2021 PDC World Champion, first Welsh world champion, former world No 1, Grand Slam 2018 and 2019 winner.

Gery Guy

Gery P. Guy is an American health economist at the CDC's Division of Overdose Prevention who studies prescription drug dispensing and the costs of substance use and overdose.

Gerygone

Gerygone (gerygones) is a genus of about 20 small insectivorous Australasian songbirds in family Acanthizidae, named by Gould in 1841, ranging from Australia and New Guinea to New Zealand and Southeast Asia.