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Gail Goodrich
Gail Goodrich, nicknamed Stumpy, is a retired American NBA guard (Lakers, Suns, New Orleans Jazz, 1965-79) and UCLA star who won the 1964 and 1965 NCAA titles, scored 42 points in the 1965 final, led the 1971-72 champion Lakers in scoring, and entered the Hall of Fame in 1996.
Gail Griffin
Gail Griffin is an American Republican politician representing District 19 in the Arizona House of Representatives, after serving in the Arizona State Senate, and chairs the Natural Resources, Energy, and Water Committee.
Gail Halvorsen
Gail S. Halvorsen (1920–2022), the Berlin Candy Bomber or Uncle Wiggly Wings, was a US Air Force colonel who dropped candy on handkerchief parachutes to Berlin children during the 1948–1949 Berlin Airlift's Operation Little Vittles.
Gail Kim
Gail Kim, born 1976 in Toronto, is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, also known as La Felina, who won the WWE Women's Championship in her 2003 RAW debut, was TNA's first Knockouts Champion, and became the first female TNA/Impact Hall of Fame inductee in 2016.
Gail Kineke
Gail C. Kineke is an American coastal oceanographer at Boston College who studies fine-sediment transport and fluid muds, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 1996.
Gail L. Warden
Gail L. Warden is an American health care executive who led the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit as president and CEO from 1988 to 2003.
Gail Lumet Buckley
Gail Lumet Buckley (Gail Horne Jones, 1937–2024), American journalist and author, daughter of Lena Horne; wrote The Hornes, American Patriots, and The Black Calhouns.
Gail Mandel
Gail Mandel is an American molecular neuroscientist at the Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University, known for discovering REST and developing site-directed RNA editing.
Gail Miller
Gail Miller (Gail Louise Miller-Tune), Australian water polo driver born 1976 in Canberra; won gold with Australia at Sydney 2000, the first Olympic women's water polo tournament; later a Brisbane real estate director and OAM recipient. Distinct from the Utah Jazz owner of the same name.
Gail Miller (businesswoman)
Gail Miller is an American billionaire businesswoman who co-founded a Utah Toyota dealership in 1979 and led the Larry H. Miller Group after her husband's 2009 death.
Gail Neall
Gail Neall (Gail Yeo), born 1955, Australian swimmer; 1972 Munich Olympic gold and world record 5:02.97 in the 400m individual medley; Commonwealth Games silver 1970, bronze 1974; Hall of Fame member.
Gail O'Grady
Gail Ann O'Grady (born 1963, Detroit) is an American actress and producer known for Donna Abandando on NYPD Blue (three Emmy nominations) and Helen Pryor on American Dreams, plus many TV movie leads and a 2025 role in Duster.
Gail Pellerin
Gail Pellerin is an American Democratic politician representing California's 28th Assembly District, elected in 2022 after 27 years as Santa Cruz County's chief elections official.
Gail Platt
Gail Platt (Gail Potter, Tilsley, Platt, Hillman, McIntyre, Rodwell) is a fictional Coronation Street matriarch played by Helen Worth from 1974 to 2024, married five times including serial killer Richard Hillman, mother of Nick, Sarah and David Platt, exiting after 50 years.
Gail Porter
Gail Porter, Scottish TV presenter born 1971 in Edinburgh, known for Fully Booked, Top of the Pops and the 1999 FHM Parliament stunt; later alopecia, homelessness, BAFTA documentary and Fringe stand-up.
Gail R. Martin
Gail R. Martin was an American developmental biologist at UCSF who in 1981 derived pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryos and coined the term "embryonic stem cells".
Gail Russell
Gail Russell (1924–1961), born Betty Gale Russell, an American actress discovered at Santa Monica High School by Paramount, star of The Uninvited and Angel and the Badman, whose career ended through alcoholism.
Gail Shea
Gail Shea (born 1959, Skinners Pond, PEI) is a Canadian Conservative politician, MP for Egmont 2008-2015, twice Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, also National Revenue and ACOA minister, first PEI woman in federal cabinet.
Gail Simmons
Gail Simmons, born 1976 in Toronto, is a Canadian food writer and the permanent judge of Bravo's Top Chef since 2006; former Food & Wine Special Projects Director, author of Talking With My Mouth Full and Bringing It Home, and host of Top Chef spin-offs.
Gail Simone
Gail Simone (born 1974) is an American comics writer, creator of the Women in Refrigerators website, known for Birds of Prey, Secret Six, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Deadpool, Red Sonja, and Uncanny X-Men.
Gail Strickland
Gail Strickland, also Katherine Gail Strickland, American retired character actress of The Drowning Pool, Norma Rae, and The American President; HeartBeat (1988) lesbian-nurse role, Broadway Status Quo Vadis, Drama Desk Award 1973.
Gail Zappa
Gail Zappa (Adelaide Gail Sloatman, 1945-2015), Frank Zappa's widow, ran the Zappa Family Trust, released 38 posthumous albums, enforced Zappa trademarks, and left unequal estate shares that sparked a family feud.
Gailard Sartain
Gailard Sartain (1943–2025) was a Tulsa-born character actor, comedian, and illustrator, a Hee Haw regular (1972–1990) as Maynard and Orville, the Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story, and Chuck in three Ernest films.
Gaillardia
Gaillardia (blanket flower, firewheel) is an Asteraceae genus of about 20-30 species native to North and southern South America, described in 1786, with red-and-yellow heads, the garden hybrid G. x grandiflora, and invasive G. aristata in Hungary.
Gaimanova Mogila
Gaimanova Mogila (Гайманова Могила), a 4th-century BC Scythian royal kurgan near Balky, Zaporizhzhia oblast, Ukraine, excavated 1969–70 by Bidzilia; famous for the gilded silver Gaimanova bowl in Kyiv's Museum of Historical Treasures.
Gain (electronics)
Gain, also called amplifier gain or audio gain, is the ratio of an amplifier's output signal magnitude to its input signal magnitude, a dimensionless ratio almost always expressed in decibels.
Gain (singer)
Gain (Son Ga-in, 손가인, born 1987) is a South Korean singer, member of Brown Eyed Girls since their 2006 debut, and a solo artist known for Irreversible, Bloom, Paradise Lost, and Fxxk U; distinct from trot singer Song Ga-in.
Gain clamping
Gain clamping, also called gain pinning, holds an optical amplifier's gain fixed, often stabilizing erbium-doped fiber amplifiers as WDM channels change; first proposed in 1991.
Gain flattening filter
A gain flattening filter, also called a gain-equalizing filter, is a passive optical filter that equalizes the gain of optical amplifiers, chiefly EDFAs, in wavelength-division multiplexed systems.
Gain margin
Gain margin is a control-systems measure of how much a feedback loop's gain can increase before the closed-loop system becomes unstable, usually expressed in decibels.