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Gigi (musician)
Gigi, born Ejigayehu Shibabaw in 1974, is an Ethiopian singer based in the United States whose Amharic singing, produced by Bill Laswell, fuses Ethiopian melody with dub and jazz.
Gigi D'Agostino
Gigi D'Agostino (Luigino Celestino Di Agostino, born 1967, Turin) is an Italian DJ and producer behind L'Amour Toujours, Bla Bla Bla, and the slow, heavy Lento Violento style.
Gigi Dolin
Gigi Dolin, ring name of Priscilla Lee Kelly (born 1997), American professional wrestler; two-time NXT Women's Tag Team Champion in WWE's Toxic Attraction, released May 2025, now wrestling independently as Priscilla Kelly.
Gigi Edgley
Gigi Edgley (born 1977, Perth) is an Australian actress best known as Chiana on Farscape (1999–2003) and Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars; also Lara Knight in Rescue Special Ops and host of Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge.
Gigi Fernandez
Gigi Fernandez, Beatriz Cristina Fernandez, Puerto Rican-born American tennis player; 17 Grand Slam doubles titles, 14 with Natasha Zvereva, two Olympic doubles golds with Mary Joe Fernandez, doubles world No. 1, Hall of Fame 2010.
Gigi Finizio
Gigi Finizio, stage name of Luigi Finizio, is an Italian singer-songwriter born in Naples in 1965 and a leading exponent of the Neapolitan music scene.
Gigi Gorgeous
Gigi Gorgeous (Giselle Loren Lazzarato, born 1992) is a Canadian YouTuber, model, and actress who began as Gregory Gorgeous in 2008, came out as transgender in 2013, and starred in the 2017 Sundance documentary This Is Everything.
Gigi Hadid
Gigi Hadid (Jelena Noura Hadid, born 1995) is an American supermodel of Dutch and Palestinian descent, IMG-signed since 2013, with 35+ Vogue covers, Victoria's Secret shows, and her knitwear brand Guest in Residence.
Gigi Marvin
Gigi Marvin (Gisele Marie Marvin), American ice hockey player from Warroad, Minnesota; three-time Olympian with silver 2010, silver 2014, gold 2018; Gophers star, NWHL Best Defenseman, later broadcaster.
Gigi Perez
Gigi Perez, also known as gigi, is an American indie folk singer-songwriter born 2000 in Hackensack, New Jersey, raised in Florida. Known for the viral 2024 hit "Sailor Song" (UK No. 1, over 1.4 billion Spotify streams) and her self-produced 2025 debut album At the Beach, in Every Life on Island Records.
Gigi Zumbado
Gigi Zumbado, also credited as Gigi Zumbado actress, is a Cuban American actress from Miami, youngest of the acting Zumbado sisters. Known for Monica in Heart Eyes (2025), Tammy Ocampo in Bridge and Tunnel, and Ceci in CBS's DMV.
Gigli
Gigli is a 2003 American romantic comedy crime film directed by Martin Brest, starring Ben Affleck as a mob enforcer and Jennifer Lopez; it became a famous box-office failure.
Gigliola Cinquetti
Gigliola Cinquetti, born in Verona in 1947, is an Italian singer who won Sanremo and Eurovision in 1964 with 'Non ho l'età' at sixteen, giving Italy its first Eurovision victory.
Gigliola Staffilani
Gigliola Staffilani is an Italian-born mathematician who studies dispersive partial differential equations such as the Schrödinger equation; she is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Mathematics at MIT.
GIGN
GIGN (Groupe d'intervention de la gendarmerie nationale) is France's gendarmerie elite unit, created 1 March 1974 after the Munich Olympics attack. Based at Versailles-Satory with 1,000 personnel and 14 antennas, it handles counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, and organized crime in the gendarmerie zone, alongside RAID and BRI-PP.
Gigolo
Gigolo: a man paid or kept by a woman, usually older or wealthy, as companion or lover; from French gigolo (1920s English). Covers etymology, male sex work, stigma, law, and films like American Gigolo.
Gigolos
Gigolos (2011–2016) is a Showtime reality series following five Las Vegas male escorts, mainly Cowboys4Angels employees; 54 episodes over six seasons, TV-MA, later tied to a 2020 murder and a 2025 docuseries.
Gigthis
Gigthis, also written Gigthi or Gightis, was an ancient city in southern Tunisia on the Gulf of Boughrara opposite Djerba, later a Roman municipium on the olive-rich Tripolitania frontier.
Gihae Eastern Campaign
The Gihae Eastern Campaign (기해동정, 己亥東征) was a 1419 Joseon naval expedition against the Japanese pirate base on Tsushima, led by Yi Jongmu with about 17,000 troops.
Gihae Persecution
The Gihae Persecution (기해박해) was an 1839 suppression of Roman Catholics in Joseon Korea under King Heonjong, killing 3 French missionaries and over 100 Catholics.
Giheung
Giheung (기흥) is Samsung Electronics' semiconductor campus in Yongin, South Korea, where the company began making memory chips in 1983 and is building the NRD-K research complex.
Gihon Flumen
Gihon Flumen is a 225-km IAU-named channel (flumen) on Titan at 76.81°N, 215.55°W, approved December 14, 2020 and named after the biblical second River of Paradise flowing from Eden.
Gihon Spring
The Gihon Spring is a siphon-type karst spring in the Kidron Valley, Jerusalem's only natural fresh water source, protected by ancient towers, Warren's Shaft, and Hezekiah's Tunnel.
Gija
Gija (기자, known in Chinese as Jizi) is a late Shang dynasty figure whom later tradition describes as the founder of Gija Joseon in Korea, a story modern scholarship largely treats as legend.
Gija Joseon
Gija Joseon (기자조선, from Chinese Jizi Chaoxian) is a legendary ancient Korean state traditionally said to have been founded by the Shang noble Gija around the eleventh century BCE.
Gijang
Gijang County (기장군) is Busan's only gun, a 218.34 km² coastal county in northeast Busan with about 175,600 residents, named since 757, re-established in 1995, home to the Kori nuclear plant, Haedong Yonggungsa, and Jeonggwan New Town.
Gijón
Gijón (Xixón) is the largest city of Asturias, Spain, on the Cantabrian Sea's Costa Verde, population 259,867. Roman origins at Campa Torres and Cimavilla, industrial port El Musel, beaches San Lorenzo and Poniente, major tourism economy.
Gijs Damen
Gijs Damen (born 1979) is a retired Dutch 50 m freestyle swimmer; with PSV and the Netherlands he won three golds and one silver in the 4×50 m freestyle relay at the European Short Course Championships, setting a 1:25.55 world record in Dublin 2003.
Gijs de Boer
Gijs de Boer is an atmospheric scientist known for studying Arctic clouds and surface radiation and for developing uncrewed aircraft systems as weather-observing platforms; he received a PECASE award in 2016.
Gijs Wuite
Gijs J. L. Wuite is a Dutch molecular biophysicist and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who studies single-molecule DNA–protein interactions and co-founded the instrument company LUMICKS in 2014.