All articles starting with G

Gill-man

Gill-man is the amphibious monster of Universal's Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), designed by Milicent Patrick, played by Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning, and an influence on The Shape of Water.

Gillberg (wrestler)

Gillberg was the comedy persona of wrestler Duane Gill, a WWF parody of WCW's Bill Goldberg debuting November 1998. Despite losing constantly, he held the Light Heavyweight Championship 445 days, the longest reign in the title's history.

Oct 22, 2026

Giller Prize

The Scotiabank Giller Prize, founded in 1994 by Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his wife Doris Giller, awards C$100,000 annually for the best Canadian fiction in English.

Gilles Bernheim

Gilles Bernheim, born 1952, is a French Orthodox rabbi who served as Chief Rabbi of France from 2009 until 2013.

Gilles Brassard

Gilles Brassard (born 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist at the Université de Montréal who co-invented quantum cryptography through the BB84 protocol and co-introduced quantum teleportation, winning the 2025 Turing Award.

Gilles de Rais

Gilles de Rais (c. 1404-1440), Marshal of France and Joan of Arc's comrade at Orléans, executed in 1440 for child murder; later fused with Perrault's Bluebeard legend, a disputed identification.

Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher of difference, metaphysics, and concept-creation; author of Difference and Repetition and, with Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus; taught at Paris VIII Vincennes.

Gilles Duranton

Gilles Duranton is a French economist at the Wharton School who studies urban economics, known for the sharing, matching, and learning framework and the fundamental law of road congestion.

Gilles Holst

Gilles Holst (1886–1968) was a Dutch physicist who took part in the 1911 Leiden discovery of superconductivity and founded Philips' NatLab, pioneering industrial research in the Netherlands.

Sep 20, 2026

Gilles Laurent

Gilles Laurent, born 1960, is a French neuroethologist who directs the Department of Neural Systems and Coding at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt.

Gilles Marini

Gilles Marini, French-American actor and former model born 1976 in Grasse, France; broke out as Dante in Sex and the City: The Movie (2008), Dancing with the Stars season 8 runner-up, and star of Brothers & Sisters and Switched at Birth.

Gilles Mithieux

Gilles Mithieux (born 1958) is a French physiologist and CNRS research director who leads the NUDICE unit in Lyon, known for establishing intestinal gluconeogenesis as a gut-to-brain signal controlling hunger and glucose metabolism.

Sep 20, 2026

Gilles Montalescot

Gilles Montalescot is a French cardiologist, professor at Sorbonne Université and cardiologist at Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, who led major trials in acute coronary syndromes and antithrombotic therapy.

Gilles Müller

Gilles Müller, Luxembourgish tennis player (born 1983), left-handed serve-and-volleyer; career-high No. 21 (2017), two ATP titles (Sydney, 's-Hertogenbosch 2017), 2008 US Open and 2017 Wimbledon quarterfinalist, 2001 US Open junior champion, later Luxembourg Davis Cup captain.

Oct 22, 2026

Gilles Peress

Gilles Peress, born 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, is a French photographer based in New York, known for long-term documentary projects on conflict in Northern Ireland, Iran, Bosnia, and Rwanda.

Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson, French-born London-based DJ and broadcaster; coined acid jazz, founded Acid Jazz, Talkin' Loud, Brownswood Recordings (2006) and Worldwide FM (2016); hosts BBC 6 Music; AIM Outstanding Contribution 2025.

Gilles Pisier

Gilles Pisier is a French mathematician, born in 1950 in New Caledonia, known for Banach space geometry, operator space theory, and results including the K-convexity characterization.

Gilles R. Dagenais

Gilles R. Dagenais, also published as Gilles Dagenais, is a Canadian cardiologist and epidemiologist at the IUCPQ in Quebec City, known for the HOPE-3 trial and PURE cohort studies.

Sep 27, 2026

Gilles Roth

Gilles Roth, born 1967, is a Luxembourgish lawyer and Christian Social People's Party politician serving as Minister of Finance, leading the 2028 tax reform.

Gilles Saint-Paul

Gilles Saint-Paul is a French labor economist at the Paris School of Economics, known for explaining why employment protection persists and winning the 2007 Yrjö Jahnsson medal.

Gilles Salles

Gilles Salles is a French-born medical oncologist and hematologist specializing in B-cell lymphomas, known for leading the PRIMA trial and chief of the Lymphoma Service at MSK since 2020.

Sep 27, 2026

Gilles Simeoni

Gilles Simeoni is a French politician of the autonomist party Femu a Corsica, mayor of Bastia since 2014 and the leading figure of Corsica's autonomy project.

Gilles Simon

Gilles Simon, French tennis player (born 1984, Nice), counter-puncher nicknamed "Le Professeur"; career-high ATP No. 6 (January 2009), 14 titles, 898 matches, retired November 2022; not the FFT administrator of the same name's earlier career.

Gilles Thomas (French geneticist)

Gilles Thomas was a French geneticist and cancer researcher who helped found cancer genetics in France, directing work that identified genes for Ewing sarcoma and Crohn's disease; he died in 2013.

Gilles Villeneuve

Gilles Villeneuve (1950–1982), Canadian Formula 1 driver for Ferrari 1977–1982; 1974 snowmobile world champion, 1979 championship runner-up, six Grand Prix wins; died in qualifying crash at Zolder, Belgian GP 1982.

Oct 21, 2026

Gilles Vincent Dufaux

Gilles Vincent Dufaux (born 1994) is a Swiss rifle shooter in 300m, 50m, and 10m events; European team champion, 2018 World bronze medalist, holder of Swiss records (1181 3x40, 600 prone) and the 1770 world team record.

Gillespie algorithm

The Gillespie algorithm, also called the stochastic simulation algorithm, is a Monte Carlo method proposed by Daniel T. Gillespie in 1976 for simulating chemical reactions exactly.

Gillette

Gillette is an American shaving and grooming brand founded by King C. Gillette in 1901 that pioneered the disposable-blade safety razor and is now owned by Procter & Gamble.

Gillette Castle State Park

Gillette Castle State Park, East Haddam, Connecticut, preserves the 24-room fieldstone home (1914–1919) of actor William Gillette, famous as Sherlock Holmes, with trails on his narrow-gauge railroad bed, river camping, and seasonal castle tours.