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Gilbert Teodoro
Gilbert Teodoro, born Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro Jr., is a Filipino lawyer serving as Secretary of National Defense under President Marcos Jr., a post he first held in 2007.
Gilbert Trigano
Gilbert Trigano (1920–2001) was a French businessman who led Club Méditerranée from 1963 to 1993, turning the tented holiday club into the pioneer of the all-inclusive resort.
Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory
The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory was a children's science kit sold by A. C. Gilbert from 1950 to 1951, containing real uranium ore for home nuclear physics experiments.
Gilbert Vassart
Gilbert Vassart, born 1944 in Brussels, is a Belgian physician-scientist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles whose laboratory cloned the TSH receptor in 1989 and showed its mutations cause hyperthyroidism.
Gilbert Walker (meteorologist)
Sir Gilbert Thomas Walker (1868–1958) was a British mathematician and meteorologist who led the India Meteorological Department and discovered the Southern Oscillation, key to El Niño research.
Gilbert–Varshamov bound
The Gilbert–Varshamov bound is a lower bound in coding theory: proved by Gilbert in 1952 and Varshamov in 1957, it guarantees codes of a certain size exist.
Gilbert, Arizona
Gilbert is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, incorporated July 6, 1920 and named for landowner William "Bobby" Gilbert. Once the Hay Capital of the World, it grew from 1,971 residents in 1970 to about 287,000 by 2025.
Gilbert's syndrome
Gilbert's syndrome (Gilbert disease), a common inherited UGT1A1-related liver condition causing mild unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia and intermittent jaundice triggered by fasting, stress, or illness; benign, untreated, with drug cautions for irinotecan and atazanavir.
Gilbertese language
Gilbertese (te taetae ni Kiribati, also Kiribati or I-Kiribati) is a Micronesian Oceanic language of Kiribati, ISO 639-3 gil, about 118,620 speakers, a 13-letter alphabet where 'ti' reads as 's', and VOS word order.
Gilberto Freyre
Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987) was a Brazilian sociologist and essayist from Recife whose masterpiece Casa-Grande & Senzala (1933) gave a positive value to cultural and racial mixture in Brazilian identity.
Gilberto Mora
Gilberto Mora, full name Gilberto Rafael Mora Zambrano, is a Mexican attacking midfielder for Club Tijuana and Mexico, a 2025 Gold Cup winner and 2026 World Cup player.
Gilberto Pichetto Fratin
Gilberto Pichetto Fratin is an Italian politician of Forza Italia who serves as Minister of Environment and Energy Security in the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Gilberto Ramírez
Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramírez (Gilberto Ramírez Sánchez), Mexican southpaw boxer from Mazatlán; WBO super middleweight champion 2016-2019, WBA/WBO unified cruiserweight champion 2024-2026; record 48-2, 30 KOs; lost title by KO to David Benavidez.
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (El Ajedrecista), with brother Miguel, led Colombia's Cali Cartel, which trafficked about 80% of world cocaine by the early 1990s; arrested 1995, extradited 2004, pled guilty 2006, sentenced 30 years, died in U.S. prison 2022.
Gilberto Silva
Gilberto Silva (Gilberto Aparecido da Silva, born 1976), Brazilian defensive midfielder nicknamed The Invisible Wall; 2002 World Cup and 2003-04 unbeaten Premier League winner with Arsenal, later Panathinaikos director.
Gilby Clarke
Gilby Clarke (born 1962, Cleveland) is an American guitarist, singer, and producer, Guns N' Roses rhythm guitarist 1991–1994 replacing Izzy Stradlin, solo albums Pawnshop Guitars and The Gospel Truth, Rockstar: Supernova, Kings of Chaos.
Gilchrist Berg
Gilchrist Berg is an American investor who founded Water Street Capital, a long/short equity firm in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1987 with backing from Julian Robertson's Tiger Management.
Gilchrist Maclagan
Gilchrist Stanley Maclagan (1879-1915), British rowing coxswain nicknamed Cocky; coxed Oxford in four Boat Races 1899-1902 and the Leander eight to the 1908 Olympic eights gold, with a record six Grand Challenge Cup wins; killed at the Second Battle of Ypres.
Gilda
Gilda (1946) is a Columbia Pictures film noir directed by Charles Vidor, starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, and George Macready. Set in a Buenos Aires casino, famous for "Put the Blame on Mame" and the black satin gown; added to the National Film Registry in 2013.
Gilda A Barabino
Gilda A. Barabino is an American biomedical engineer known for research on sickle red blood cell adhesion and president of Olin College of Engineering from 2020 to 2025.
Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner (1946–1989), American comedian and original Saturday Night Live cast member, creator of Roseanne Roseannadanna, Baba Wawa, and Emily Litella; Emmy winner, Gene Wilder's wife, died of ovarian cancer at 42.
Gildan
Gildan is a Canadian apparel manufacturer headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, known for vertically integrated low-cost production of activewear, underwear, and socks, sold mainly through wholesale and screenprint channels.
Gildart Jackson
Gildart Jackson is an English actor, writer, and audiobook narrator (over 400 books, Audie winner) known for Gideon in Charmed, Giles the Butler on Whodunnit?, and voicing Alfred Pennyworth in Gotham Knights.
Gilded Age
The Gilded Age, or Gilded Era, was a period of rapid American industrialization, wealth concentration, and political corruption from the 1870s to the 1890s, named after an 1873 Mark Twain novel.
Gilding
Gilding, also called gilding or dorure, is applying a thin layer of gold to a surface as leaf, foil, powder, or amalgam; practiced since 3000 BCE, with fire-gilding used 1500 years until electroplating (patented 1840) replaced it.
Gildo Arena
Gildo Arena (Ermenegildo Arena), Italian water polo player and freestyle swimmer born 1921 in Naples; Settebello attacker, 1948 Olympic gold and 1952 bronze, 1947 European champion, inventor of the beduina back-hand shot.
Gilead (novel)
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's 2004 epistolary novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is the letter of dying Iowa minister John Ames to his young son; it won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and launched the Gilead series with Home, Lila, and Jack.
Gilead (גלעד)
Gilead (גלעד, Gilʿad) is the rugged biblical region east of the Jordan River, between the Yarmuk and the Dead Sea, allotted to Reuben, Gad, and half-Manasseh, famed for its balm and contested by Aram and Assyria.
Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences, founded 1987 in Foster City, California by Michael Riordan, is a major biopharmaceutical company known for HIV drugs Biktarvy, Truvada, Descovy and lenacapavir (Yeztugo), hepatitis C drugs Sovaldi and Harvoni, Veklury for COVID-19, and the HHS PrEP patent litigation.
Gilean McVean
Gilean McVean, known as Gil McVean, is a British statistical geneticist at Oxford who built fine-scale recombination maps, helped lead the 1000 Genomes Project, and co-founded Genomics plc.