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Giddens Ko

Giddens Ko (柯景騰), pen name Jiubadao, is a Taiwanese novelist and filmmaker known for the 2011 hit film You Are the Apple of My Eye.

Giddha

Giddha (ਗਿੱਧਾ) is a Punjabi women's folk dance from rural Punjab in India and Pakistan, danced in a circle with clapping to witty satirical verses called boliyan, especially at weddings and harvest festivals.

Giddings & Lewis Variax Hexapod

The Giddings & Lewis Variax Hexapod, also called the Variax Hexacenter, was a vertical machining center built on a six-legged Stewart platform and introduced at IMTS in 1994.

Gideon (גִּדְעוֹן)

Gideon (גִּדְעוֹן), also called Jerubbaal, is a judge of Israel in the Book of Judges who destroys the altar of Baal and routs Midianite raiders with an army reduced to 300 men.

Gideon A. Rodan

Gideon A. Rodan (1934–2006) was a Romanian-born bone biologist who directed bone biology and osteoporosis research at Merck and helped bring Fosamax, the first bisphosphonate approved for osteoporosis, to market.

Gideon Adlon

Gideon Adlon (born 1997, Los Angeles) is an American actress, daughter of Pamela Adlon and sister of Odessa A'zion, known for Blockers, The Mustang, The Society, The Thing About Pam, and voicing Devon Izara in Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord.

Gideon Dreyfuss

Gideon Dreyfuss is a biochemist and Isaac Norris Professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose lab discovered the hnRNP proteins and the SMN complex, whose deficiency causes spinal muscular atrophy.

Gideon Emery

Gideon Emery (born 1972, Windsor, England) is a British-born South African actor and voice artist, known as Deucalion in Teen Wolf, Balthier in Final Fantasy XII, Fenris in Dragon Age II, and Gideon in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Gideon Gathimba

Gideon Mwangi Gathimba (born 1980) is a Kenyan middle-distance runner specializing in the 1500 m; twice Kenyan champion, 2007 World Military Games winner, and member of Kenya's 14:36.23 world-record 4x1500m relay in Brussels 2009.

Gideon Glick

Gideon Glick (born 1988), American actor and writer. Broadway debut as Ernst in Spring Awakening; Tony-nominated for Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird; later Alfie in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Tommy Cothran in Maestro, and writer-star of Étoile.

Gideon Goldstein

Gideon Goldstein is an immunologist and molecular biologist known for co-discovering ubiquitin in 1975 and for isolating thymopoietin, a hormone of the thymus, at Sloan-Kettering.

Gideon Henderson

Gideon Henderson is a British isotope geochemist and Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford who uses radioactive isotopes to date past climate events, and served as Defra Chief Scientific Adviser from 2019 to 2025.

Gideon J. Davies

Gideon J. Davies is a British structural biologist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of York, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010.

Gideon Johnson Pillow

Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806–1878), Tennessee lawyer and planter, brigadier general under Polk in the Mexican-American War and Confederate general best known for escaping the surrender of Fort Donelson in 1862.

Gideon Kodua

Gideon Kodua (Gideon Nana Kwame Fosu Kodua), English forward born 2004 in London; ex-West Ham academy, loaned to Wycombe, now Luton Town in League One after a 2025/26 season of 9 goals in 38 league games.

Gideon Lack

Gideon Lack is a British pediatric allergist, Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King's College London, known for the LEAP trial showing that feeding peanut to high-risk infants prevents peanut allergy.

Gideon M. Hirschfield

Gideon M. Hirschfield is a hepatologist who directs the Autoimmune Liver Disease Program at Toronto General Hospital and led the 2024 phase 3 seladelpar trial for primary biliary cholangitis.

Gideon Rechavi

Gideon Rechavi (Hebrew: גדעון רכאבי) is an Israeli physician-scientist in cancer genomics who heads the Sheba Cancer Research Center and won the 2020 Israel Prize.

Gideon Tadmor

Gideon Tadmor is an Israeli oil and gas entrepreneur, founder and executive chairman of Navitas Petroleum, and a leader of Israel's Tamar and Leviathan gas discoveries.

Gideon the Ninth

Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb #1) is Tamsyn Muir's 2019 Tor.com debut science fantasy novel about indentured swordswoman Gideon Nav serving necromancer Harrowhark Nonagesimus in a Lyctor competition; Locus and Crawford Award winner, Hugo and Nebula finalist.

Gideon v. Wainwright

Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), the unanimous Supreme Court decision holding that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is fundamental and binds states via the Fourteenth Amendment, requiring appointed counsel for indigent defendants and overruling Betts v. Brady.

Gidget

Gidget ("girl midget") is a fictional teenage surfer based on Kathy Kohner, daughter of Frederick Kohner, star of the 1957 bestselling novel, the 1959 Sandra Dee film, sequels, and the 1965 Sally Field TV series that popularized surfing.

Gidget (film)

Gidget (1959), Paul Wendkos comedy starring Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson; Columbia adaptation of Frederick Kohner's novel about Kathy Kohner; spawned sequels, TV series, and the beach-movie genre.

Gidget (TV series)

Gidget is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1966, starring Sally Field as a surfing Southern California teenager living with her widowed father.

Gidō Shūshin

Gidō Shūshin (義堂周信, 1325–1388) was a Rinzai Zen monk of the Musō school who served the Ashikaga shogunate in Kamakura and Kyoto under shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

GIDS Shahpar-III

The GIDS Shahpar-III is a Pakistani medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed by GIDS for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and armed strike missions, unveiled in 2024.

Gie

Gie is a 2005 Indonesian biographical drama directed by Riri Riza, based on Soe Hok Gie's diary Catatan Seorang Demonstran, starring Nicholas Saputra; it won Best Film, Actor, and Cinematography at the 2005 Festival Film Indonesia.

Giebułtów

Giebułtów, village in gmina Wielka Wieś, Kraków County, Lesser Poland, ~15 km north of Kraków. Multi-period cemetery site: Roman-period princely cremation grave, 11th-12th century graveyard, St. Giles church of 1601-1604.

Giedi Planitia

Giedi Planitia is an IAU-approved 303.25 km plain on Titan, centered at 5.22°N, 357.02°W in Aaru Regio, named after Giedi Prime from Frank Herbert's Dune, adopted August 24, 2017; it is an infrared-blue, dune-free area.

Giemsa stain

Giemsa stain, a Romanowsky stain developed by Gustav Giemsa in 1904 from azure B and eosin Y, is the WHO-recommended stain for malaria microscopy and chromosome banding, stained at pH 7.2.