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Giannina Facio
Giannina Facio Franco (born 1955, San José, Costa Rica), Costa Rican actress and producer, wife of Ridley Scott; appeared in Gladiator as Maximus's wife and produced House of Gucci.
Giannino Del Sal
Giannino Del Sal is an Italian molecular biologist, full professor of Applied Biology at the University of Trieste, known for cloning the growth-arrest gene gas1.
Giannis Alafouzos (Γιάννης Αλαφούζος)
Giannis Alafouzos (Γιάννης Αλαφούζος) is a Greek shipping and media owner who controls the Skai broadcasting group, founded Okeanis Eco Tankers, and has owned Panathinaikos FC since 2012.
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek NBA power forward for the Milwaukee Bucks; back-to-back MVP (2019, 2020), 2020 Defensive Player of the Year, $228M extension, and 2021 champion with a 50-point Finals Game 6.
Gianola
Gianola, Formia (Latina), Italy: coastal promontory in the Riviera di Ulisse park with the mid-1st-century-BC maritime villa attributed to Lucius Mamurra, Caesar's engineer, plus cisterns, Grotta della Janara, and a Roman porticciolo.
Gianpietro Dotti
Gianpietro Dotti is an Italian-trained physician-scientist who directs the immunotherapy program at UNC Lineberger, where his research engineers CAR T cells to treat lymphoma and solid tumors.
Giant
Giant: legendary humanlike being of great size and strength, known across Greek (Gigantes), Norse (jotnar), and biblical (Nephilim) traditions; worldwide mythic motif, not a verified historical race.
Giant (1956 film)
Giant (1956) is George Stevens's epic drama adapted from Edna Ferber's Texas novel, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean in his final role; ten Oscar nominations, one win for Best Director, National Film Registry 2005.
Giant (play)
Giant, Mark Rosenblatt's debut play directed by Nicholas Hytner, dramatizes Roald Dahl's 1983 antisemitism scandal at Gipsy House; it won three Olivier Awards and ran on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in 2026 with Tony-winning John Lithgow as Dahl.
Giant (Stray Kids album)
GIANT is Stray Kids' second Japanese studio album, released November 13, 2024 via Epic Records Japan/Sony Music Japan: 10 tracks, 7 Japan-original songs, Tower of God and Fuji TV drama tie-ins, No. 1 on Oricon's weekly album chart, 47 weeks on the TOP 300.
Giant African land snails as pets
Giant African land snails as pets: Lissachatina fulica, Achatina achatina, Archachatina marginata in captivity; 20 cm adults, 5-10 year lifespan, 100-500 egg clutches; banned in the US and Canada, legal to keep but not release in the UK.
Giant anteater
Giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), also called ant bear, the largest anteater species, a toothless Xenarthran of Central and South America feeding on ants and termites with a 2-foot tongue; IUCN Vulnerable, declining from habitat loss and road kills.
Giant Arc (large-scale structure)
The Giant Arc is a proposed large-scale structure of galaxies, clusters, and gas spanning about 1 gigaparsec, reported in 2021 and seen at redshift 0.8.
Giant armadillo
Giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus, tatú carreta, tatu canastra), the largest living armadillo of South America east of the Andes; up to 60 kg, termite-eating, burrow-building ecosystem engineer, IUCN Vulnerable with a 30% decline over three generations.
Giant axonal neuropathy
Giant axonal neuropathy (GAN), also called giant axonal neurodegeneration, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder caused by GAN gene mutations encoding gigaxonin, causing giant neurofilament-packed axons, kinky hair, childhood-onset progressive neuropathy, and death typically by the third decade.
Giant Baba (馬場正平)
Giant Baba (馬場正平, Shohei Baba, 1938–1999), Japanese wrestler and promoter; founded All Japan Pro Wrestling in 1972, first Japanese NWA World Heavyweight Champion, 12-time NWA International Tag Team Champion, former Yomiuri Giants pitcher.
Giant barrel sponge
The giant barrel sponge (Xestospongia muta) is a barrel-shaped demosponge found from Florida to Brazil that dominates Caribbean reefs, grows up to 2 meters, and can live over 2,000 years.
Giant Bicycles (巨大机械工业股份有限公司)
Giant Bicycles (巨大机械工业股份有限公司), also known as Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd., is a Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer founded in 1972 by King Liu, generally described as the world's largest.
Giant Biogene (巨子生物)
Giant Biogene (巨子生物) is a biotechnology company based in Xi'an, China, founded in 2000 by Dr. Fan Daidi, known for recombinant collagen skincare brands like Comfy.
Giant Bomb
Giant Bomb is a video game journalism website launched in 2008, known for its wiki, Bombcast podcast, and personality-led videos; owned by CBS, Red Ventures, and Fandom before staff Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb bought it in 2025.
Giant cell arteritis
Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis, Horton's disease) is a granulomatous large-vessel vasculitis of people over 50 causing headache, jaw claudication, and vision loss; diagnosed by biopsy, ultrasound halo sign, and 2022 ACR/EULAR criteria, treated with glucocorticoids, tocilizumab, and upadacitinib.
Giant cell tumor of bone
Giant cell tumor of bone, also called osteoclastoma, is a rare, usually benign but locally aggressive bone tumor that typically arises near joints in young to middle-aged adults.
Giant clam
Giant clams (Tridacninae) are 12 species of large Indo-Pacific reef bivalves, including Tridacna gigas, the largest living bivalve at over 1 m and 225 kg, that farm symbiotic algae in iridocyte-lined mantles; all are CITES Appendix II listed since 1985, with six IUCN-threatened.
Giant component
A giant component is a connected subgraph of a random graph that contains a constant fraction of all vertices, its size growing in proportion to the graph itself.
Giant cuttlefish
Giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama, giant Australian cuttlefish), the world's largest cuttlefish, endemic to southern Australia; famous for the unique annual winter breeding aggregation at Point Lowly near Whyalla, South Australia, now at historic low numbers amid an algal bloom.
Giant dipole resonance
The giant dipole resonance is a collective excitation of atomic nuclei in which protons and neutrons oscillate against each other, peaking at 10 to 30 MeV.
Giant Eagle
Giant Eagle, Inc. is a privately held Pittsburgh-founded supermarket and pharmacy chain (1931, Eagle Grocery plus OK Grocery families) across Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, and Indiana; Kroger agreed in July 2026 to buy it for $1.65 billion.
Giant earthworms
Giant earthworms are unusually large species of terrestrial segmented worms, several ranking among the biggest known. The Giant Gippsland Earthworm of Australia averages about 750 mm and weighs up to 381 g.
Giant eland
Giant eland (Tragelaphus derbianus, formerly Taurotragus derbianus; Derby eland), the world's largest antelope of West and Central Africa, with two subspecies, horns to 123 cm, IUCN Vulnerable status, and a critically small western population in Senegal.
Giant Gippsland earthworm
Giant Gippsland earthworm (Megascolides australis), one of the world's largest earthworms, endemic to about 40,000 ha of South and West Gippsland, Victoria. Averages 80–100 cm and 200 g, lays single 4–7 cm egg cocoons, listed EPBC Vulnerable, lives in permanent burrows in moist blue-grey clay on private farmland.