edgepedia

All articles starting with G

18,970 articles

Gina Rodriguez

Gina Rodriguez (Gina Alexis Rodriguez, born 1984, Chicago) is an American actress, producer, and director, Golden Globe winner for Jane the Virgin (2015), founder of I Can and I Will Productions, and star of Carmen Sandiego, Miss Bala, and Not Dead Yet.

Gina Schock

Gina Schock, American drummer of the Go-Go's from 1979, formerly of Baltimore. Played on Beauty and the Beat (1981), the first No. 1 album by an all-female band writing and playing their own songs; Rock Hall inductee, 2021.

Gina Tognoni

Gina Tognoni, American daytime actress born 1973 in St. Louis; played Kelly Cramer on One Life to Live, Dinah Marler on Guiding Light, and Phyllis Summers on The Young and the Restless, winning three Daytime Emmy Awards.

Gina Torres

Gina Torres, Cuban-American actress born 1969 in Manhattan, known for Zoë Washburne in Firefly and Serenity, Jessica Pearson in Suits and Pearson, Tommy Vega in 9-1-1: Lone Star, and 2026 Broadway return in Buena Vista Social Club.

Gina Yashere

Gina Yashere (Gina Obedapo Iyashere, born 1974) is a British-Nigerian stand-up comedian from Bethnal Green, London, a former Otis lift engineer, first British comic on Def Comedy Jam, Daily Show British Correspondent, and co-creator of Bob Hearts Abishola.

Gina-Maria Bethke

Gina-Maria Bethke, née Schumacher (born 1997), daughter of Michael Schumacher, is a German non pro reining rider; 2019 European team champion, 2025 World Reining Championship team gold, married to Iain Bethke.

Ginaz Labyrinthus

Ginaz Labyrinthus is a 160-km-wide labyrinth terrain on Titan at 83°N, 261.7°W, an IAU-named (2017) dissected organic plateau named for the Dune-series planet, home of House Ginaz.

Gindi Singh

Gindi Singh (Joginder Singh, 1940-2002), Indian field hockey right-wing Olympian; silver at Rome 1960, gold at Tokyo 1964, and 1962 Jakarta Asian Games silver with India.

Gindibu

Gindibu was a king of the Arabs who fought Shalmaneser III at the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC with 1,000 camel riders, the earliest named Arab ruler.

Gindungo Oil Field

Gindungo Oil Field is an ultra-deepwater oil field offshore Angola in Block 32, discovered in 2003 and producing since 2018 through the Kaombo Norte FPSO.

Ginés Morata

Ginés Morata is a Spanish developmental biologist, Research Professor at CSIC's Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa in Madrid, known for Drosophila work including the discovery of cell competition.

Ginevra de' Benci

Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo da Vinci's c. 1474/1478 oil-on-panel portrait of the Florentine noblewoman, with juniper symbolism and Virtutem Forma Decorat reverse, held by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, since 1967.

Ginevra King

Ginevra King (1898–1980), Lake Forest, Illinois socialite of Chicago's "Big Four" debutantes, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love (1915–1917) and a principal model for Daisy Buchanan, Isabelle Borgé, Judy Jones, and Josephine Perry.

Gingee Fort (செஞ்சிக் கோட்டை)

Gingee Fort (செஞ்சிக் கோட்டை), also called Senji Fort, is a hill fort in Tamil Nadu, India, spanning three hills and walls about 13 km long.

Ginger

Ginger (Zingiber officinale), spice from the plant's rhizome, family Zingiberaceae; native E. Himalaya to S. Central China; pungency from gingerols and shogaols; strongest clinical evidence for pregnancy nausea.

Ginger (Brockhampton album)

Ginger (stylized GINGER) is Brockhampton's fifth studio album, released August 23, 2019 on Question Everything/RCA; a self-produced 12-song follow-up to Iridescence, scoring Metascore 75.

Ginger ale

Ginger ale is a sweetened, caffeine-free carbonated soft drink flavored with ginger, first made around 1851 in Belfast, Ireland, as a non-alcoholic counterpart to fermented ginger beer; dry-style Canada Dry, patented by John J. McLaughlin in 1907, dominates the category.

Ginger Baker

Ginger Baker (Peter Edward Baker, 1939–2019), English rock and jazz drummer, co-founder and drummer of Cream and Blind Faith; pioneer of the rock drum solo and two-bass-drum setup, later collaborator of Fela Kuti in Lagos and jazz bandleader until his 2014 album Why?.

Ginger Baker's Air Force

Ginger Baker's Air Force was a British jazz-rock and Afrobeat fusion band formed by Ginger Baker in January 1970, which recorded two albums in 1970 before disbanding in early 1971.

Ginger Banks

Ginger Banks (@thegingerbanks) is an American cam model, adult performer, and sex worker advocate known for her 2017 Ron Jeremy allegations video and 2020 police report against John Stagliano.

Ginger beer

Ginger beer is a ginger-flavored drink invented in mid-18th-century England from ginger and West Indies sugar, traditionally fermented with a "ginger beer plant" starter, once up to 11% ABV, now mostly a non-alcoholic soda and cocktail mixer.

Ginger Gilmour

Ginger Gilmour (born 1949) is a British-based contemporary painter and sculptor in Littlehampton, West Sussex, known for angel bronzes such as Aeriel, her training with Cecil Collins, and her former marriage to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.

Ginger Gonzaga

Ginger Gonzaga (born 1983, Modesto, California per some sources; Pennsylvania per others) is an American actress, writer, improviser and director known for Nikki Ramos in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Helen Tasker in True Lies.

Ginger Grant

Ginger Grant, also called simply Ginger, is the fictional Hollywood movie star stranded on Gilligan's Island (CBS, 1964-1967), played by Tina Louise after Kit Smythe's pilot version and Jayne Mansfield's declined offer, later recast as Judith Baldwin and Constance Forslund.

Ginger Liau

Ginger Liau is a partner on Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health fund focused on biotech, leading business development for the a16z life sciences portfolio since 2019.

Ginger Lynn

Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen, born 1962) is an American actress, a leading 1980s adult film star (69 films, 1983-1986, Ginger Pix Inc.) who rebuilt her career in B movies and horror, notably The Devil's Rejects and Pig Killer.

Ginger Minj

Ginger Minj (Joshua Allen Eads, born 1984) is an American drag performer from Leesburg, Florida; Drag Race Season 7 runner-up, All Stars 2 and 6 finalist, and All Stars 10 winner and Hall of Fame inductee, also an actor, singer, and author.

Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers, born Virginia Katherine McMath, was an American actress, dancer, and singer known for ten musical films with Fred Astaire and for winning the 1940 Best Actress Oscar for Kitty Foyle.

Ginger Snaps (film)

Ginger Snaps (2000) is a Canadian werewolf horror film directed by John Fawcett, written by Karen Walton, starring Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle as sisters in Bailey Downs; a puberty-as-lycanthropy cult classic with two sequels.

Ginger Zee

Ginger Zee, also known as Ginger Renee Colonomos, is an American broadcast meteorologist who joined ABC News in 2011 and became "Good Morning America's" chief meteorologist in 2013.