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G-Star Raw
G-Star Raw: Dutch denim brand founded by Jos van Tilburg in Amsterdam in 1989 (originally GAP STAR), known for raw denim and 3D denim such as the 1996 Elwood; majority-owned by WHP Global since December 2023.
G-string
G-string: minimal undergarment with a small front panel and a thin cord back, first recorded 1878 as "geestring" for Native American loincloths; etymology unknown; stripper sense from the 1930s, mass underwear from the 1990s.
G-suit
A G-suit, also called an anti-G suit, is a garment worn by aviators and astronauts that squeezes the legs and abdomen to prevent blackout during high acceleration.
G-Taste (ジィ・テイスト)
G-Taste (ジィ・テイスト) is Hiroki Yagami's erotic fetish short-story manga, serialized in Kodansha's Mr. Magazine from 1996 and Young Magazine Uppers to 2004, collected in seven volumes, with novels, an OAD, and the 2010 revival G-taste ACTII.
G-type main-sequence star
A G-type main-sequence star, often called a yellow dwarf or G dwarf, fuses hydrogen into helium in its core; the Sun is the defining G2V example.
G-Unit
G-Unit (Guerilla Unit) is a Queens, New York hip hop group formed by 50 Cent with Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks, joined by Nashville's Young Buck; known for Beg for Mercy, T.O.S., G-Unit Records, and the 2014 Summer Jam reunion.
G-Unit Records
G-Unit Records is an American hip hop record label founded in 2003 by rapper 50 Cent and Sha Money XL as a joint venture with Interscope Records.
G. A. Krause
G. A. Krause was a Michigan footwear and leather businessman who co-founded the Hirth-Krause Company in Grand Rapids in 1883, which grew into Wolverine World Wide.
G. A. Kulkarni
G. A. Kulkarni, known to readers as "GA", was an Indian Marathi short story writer (1923–1987), a leading figure of the nav-katha movement who won and returned the Sahitya Akademi Award.
G. Alexander Mills
G. Alexander Mills, born George Alexander Mills (1914–2004), was a Canadian-born American chemist in industrial catalysis who worked with Eugene Houdry and led the University of Delaware's catalysis center.
G. Arthur Cooper
G. Arthur Cooper (Gustav Arthur Cooper, 1902–2000) was an American paleobiologist who spent 57 years at the Smithsonian building the world's greatest brachiopod collection and coauthoring Permian Brachiopods of West Texas.
G. B. Senanayake
G. B. Senanayake, full name Gunathilake Bandara Senanayake (1913–1985), was a Sri Lankan writer of short stories, novels, poetry, and criticism who introduced free verse to Sinhala literature.
G. Balakrish Nair
G. Balakrish Nair, born 1954, is an Indian microbiologist who discovered the cholera serogroup Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal and received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1998.
G. C. Murmu
Girish Chandra Murmu (born 1959), Indian IAS officer (Gujarat cadre, 1985 batch), first Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir (2019-2020) and 14th Comptroller and Auditor General of India (2020-2024), former Expenditure Secretary and Modi's Gujarat principal secretary.
G. C. Spencer
G. C. Spencer (Galen Carter Spencer, 1840–1904), American archer and retired Methodist minister; won 1904 Olympic team archery gold with the Potomac Archers at age 64, placed 13th in the Double American Round, and died weeks later.
G. Charles Dismukes
G. Charles Dismukes is a chemist in bioinorganic chemistry and solar fuels who joined Rutgers University as a Distinguished Professor in 2009, known for work on photosynthetic water oxidation.
G. Chinna Reddy
Gillella Chinna Reddy, Indian National Congress leader from Wanaparthy, Telangana; four-time MLA, Rural Development minister in undivided Andhra Pradesh 2007–2009, and Vice-Chairman of the Telangana State Planning Board 2024–2026.
G. D. Bakshi
G. D. Bakshi (Gagandeep Bakshi, born 1950, Jabalpur) is a retired Indian Army major general, SM and VSM, PhD in strategic studies, prolific military-history author, and combative Republic TV defence commentator known for hawkish views on Pakistan and Bose-centered historical claims.
G. D. H. Cole
G. D. H. Cole, English socialist economist and historian, chief theorist of guild socialism, author of Guild Socialism Restated (1920) and the five-volume History of Socialist Thought.
G. D. Spradlin
G. D. Spradlin, also known as Gervase Spradlin, was an American character actor known for playing authority figures, notably in The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now.
G. David Forney
G. David Forney is an American information and coding theorist at MIT and Codex, known for concatenated codes, the trellis-diagram Viterbi algorithm, and commercially successful high-speed modems.
G. David Schine
G. David Schine (Gerard David Schine), American hotel and theater fortune heir, unpaid consultant to Senator Joseph McCarthy whose Army draft and Roy Cohn's pleas for special treatment triggered the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings; later a Los Angeles entertainment executive.
G. Denman Hammond
G. Denman Hammond was an American pediatric hematologist-oncologist at USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles whose leadership of the Children's Cancer Group from 1968 to 1992 improved childhood leukemia survival.
G. Devarajan
G. Devarajan (ജി. ദേവരാജൻ), known as Devarajan Master, was an Indian film music composer who scored over 300 Malayalam films and 1,700 songs from 1955.
G. Di Chiara
Gaetano Di Chiara, born in Cagliari in 1951, is an Italian pharmacologist and neuroscientist known for research on dopamine and the neurobiology of drug addiction.
G. E. M. Anscombe
G. E. M. Anscombe (1919-2001), British Catholic philosopher, Wittgenstein translator and literary executor; author of Intention (1957) and 'Modern Moral Philosophy' (1958), which coined 'consequentialism' and sparked the virtue ethics revival.
G. E. Moore
G. E. Moore (George Edward Moore, 1873-1958), Cambridge analytic philosopher, author of Principia Ethica (1903) with the naturalistic fallacy and open-question argument, defender of common sense, and editor of Mind.
G. E. Smith
G.E. Smith (George Edward Haddad, born 1952) is an American blues-rock guitarist and bandleader, lead guitarist for Hall & Oates 1979-1985, Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live bandleader 1985-1995, sideman to Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, and Roger Waters, and namesake of Fender's G.E. Smith Telecaster. Not a UK freight company.
G. Edward Griffin
G. Edward Griffin, born George Edward Griffin in 1931, is an American author and filmmaker known for The Creature from Jekyll Island and conspiracy-oriented books.
G. Edwin Burks
G. Edwin Burks was an American mechanical engineer in the earthmoving and construction machinery industry, elected to the National Academy of Engineering and memorialized in its Memorial Tributes.