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Gijsbrecht van Aemstel
Gijsbreght van Aemstel (also spelled Gysbreght van Aemstel) is a five-act tragedy by Joost van den Vondel, first performed in 1638 at the opening of the Amsterdam Schouwburg.
Gil Amelio
Gil Amelio is an American technology executive and physicist who was chairman and CEO of Apple Computer from 1996 to 1997, buying Steve Jobs's NeXT before resigning amid record losses.
Gil Ast
Gil Ast is an Israeli molecular biologist and professor of human molecular genetics at Tel Aviv University known for work on RNA splicing, Alu exonization, and a therapy approach to Familial Dysautonomia.
Gil Bellows
Gil Bellows (born 1967) is a Canadian actor, producer, and director from Vancouver, known as Tommy Williams in The Shawshank Redemption and Billy Thomas in Ally McBeal, Emmy- and Peabody-winning producer of Temple Grandin.
Gil Birmingham
Gil Birmingham (born 1953, San Antonio, Texas) is an American actor of Comanche ancestry, known as Billy Black in the Twilight Saga and Tribal Chairman Thomas Rainwater in Yellowstone and its 2026 CBS spinoff Marshals.
Gil Caffray
Gil Caffray is an American hedge-fund executive who co-founded the multi-strategy firm FrontPoint Partners in 2000, ran it under Morgan Stanley ownership from 2006, and later led Tiger Management LLC.
Gil Cisneros
Gil Cisneros, born Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. in 1971, is a Democratic U.S. Representative for California's 31st district, previously representing the 39th from 2019 to 2021.
Gil Dibner
Gil Dibner is an American-Israeli venture capitalist and founding partner of Angular Ventures, a London firm he founded in 2018 to back early-stage enterprise and deep-tech companies in Europe and Israel.
Gil Garcetti
Gil Garcetti (born 1941) is an American prosecutor, Los Angeles County District Attorney 1992-2000 who oversaw the O.J. Simpson and Menendez trials, created SAGE and CLEAR anti-gang programs, and later became a photographer.
Gil Gavbara
Gil Gavbara (گیل گاوباره), also Gil ibn Gilanshah, ruled Gilan, Deylaman, and Tabaristan from about 646 to 660 and founded the Dabuyid dynasty, which endured until 761.
Gil Gerard
Gil Gerard (1943–2025), American actor, starred as Captain William 'Buck' Rogers in the 1979 film and NBC series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; former industrial chemist, The Doctors soap star, died of cancer at 82.
Gil González Dávila
Gil González Dávila, also written Gil González de Ávila, was a Spanish conquistador from Ávila who led the first formal Spanish expedition into Costa Rica and Nicaragua in 1522–1523.
Gil Grissom
Gil Grissom (Dr. Gilbert Grissom) is the fictional forensic entomologist and night-shift supervisor of the Las Vegas Crime Lab in CSI, played by William Petersen from 2000 to 2009 and again in CSI: Vegas.
Gil Hill
Gil Hill (Gilbert Roland Hill, 1931-2016), Detroit homicide division head, played Inspector Douglas Todd in three Beverly Hills Cop films, then served on and presided over the Detroit City Council and lost the 2001 mayoral race to Kwame Kilpatrick.
Gil Hodges
Gil Hodges (1924–1972), American MLB first baseman for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers and manager of the 1969 Miracle Mets; 370 home runs, eight All-Star selections, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Golden Days Era Committee in December 2021.
Gil Kalai
Gil Kalai is an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for work in combinatorics and for arguing that scalable quantum computers cannot be built.
Gil Kane
Gil Kane (Eli Katz, 1926–2000), Latvian-born American comic book artist of the Silver Age; co-created DC's Green Lantern and the Atom, Marvel's Morbius, Iron Fist, and Adam Warlock, and the early graphic novel Blackmark.
Gil McVean
Gilean A. T. McVean, known as Gil McVean, is a British statistical geneticist at Oxford who built the first fine-scale human genetic map and led the 1000 Genomes Project.
Gil Rabinovici
Gil Rabinovici, also known as Gil D. Rabinovici, is an American behavioral neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, known for PET imaging of amyloid and tau proteins in Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
Gil Roberts
Gil Roberts (born 1989), American 400m sprinter and 4x400m relay specialist; Olympic gold at Rio 2016 (2:57.30), 2012 World Indoor champion, 2017 world silver, 2014 US champion; PB 44.22.
Gil Rosenman
Gil Rosenman is an Israeli solid-state physicist and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, best known as a co-founder and chief scientist of the battery company StoreDot.
Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), Chicago-born poet, novelist, and musician, pioneer of spoken-word soul-jazz he called bluesology; wrote "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and "Whitey on the Moon," recorded 15 albums with Brian Jackson, and is called the Godfather of Rap.
Gil Shwed
Gil Shwed (גיל שווד) is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Check Point Software in 1993, invented stateful inspection, and led the company as CEO until 2024.
Gil Vicente
Gil Vicente (c. 1465–c. 1536), Portuguese court dramatist and poet, founder of Portuguese theatre; author of the Auto da Visitação (1502) and Auto da Barca do Inferno, published posthumously in the 1562 Copilaçam.
Gil Yeong Ah
Gil Yeong Ah (길영아, Gil Young-ah), South Korean badminton doubles player born 1970: three Olympic medals (1992 women's doubles bronze; 1996 inaugural mixed doubles gold with Kim Dong-moon and women's doubles silver), 1995 world champion, later first female head coach of a Korean professional badminton team and mother of medalist Kim Won-ho.
Gil-galad
Gil-galad (Ereinion) is Tolkien's last High King of the Noldor, ruler of Lindon in the Second Age, rejecter of Sauron's Annatar, co-leader of the Last Alliance, and co-slayer of Sauron who died at the Siege of Barad-dûr in S.A. 3441.
Gila (landform)
Gila River, from Yuma "Hahquahsaael" via Spanish "Xila": major Southwest river rising in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, joining the Colorado at Yuma; Huhugam canals, Coolidge Dam (1928), 1935 Gila Decree, severe 2026 drought.
Gila (protected area)
Gila (protected area): the Gila Wilderness, first federally designated wilderness (1924, Aldo Leopold), within New Mexico's 3.3-million-acre Gila National Forest; also the Gila freshwater ecoregion and Gila Box and Great Bend of the Gila conservation areas.
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico, preserves Mogollon cliff dwellings built in the late 1270s, occupied about 30 years, plus the TJ Ruin; established 1907, 533 acres, fee-free.
Gila monster
Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum), a large venomous lizard of the southwestern US and northern Mexico; grooved lower-jaw teeth, beaded scales, Near Threatened, venom source of a type-2 diabetes drug.