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Gisela Mauermayer
Gisela Mauermayer (1913–1995), German discus, shot put and pentathlon athlete; 1936 Berlin Olympic discus champion (47.63 m), 1938 European champion, multi world record holder, Nazi Party member from 1932, later zoological librarian in Munich.
Gisela Medefindt
Gisela Medefindt (later Bodis), born 1957, East German rower of SC Berlin-Grünau; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold in coxed quadruple sculls as a heat rower, 1974 world bronze in double sculls.
Gisela of France
Gisela of France is a legendary West Frankish princess whom tradition says King Charles the Simple gave in marriage to the Viking leader Rollo, founder of Normandy, in 911.
Gisela Storz
Gisela Storz is an American molecular biologist at NIH known for her work on bacterial small regulatory RNAs and tiny proteins of fewer than 50 amino acids.
Gisela Stuart
Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston: German-born British former Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston (1997-2017), Vote Leave chair, Crossbench peer, and First Civil Service Commissioner from 2022.
Gisele Barreto Fetterman
Gisele Barreto Fetterman, Brazilian-born American activist and Pennsylvania second lady 2019-2023, wife of Senator John Fetterman; founder of Free Store 15104, co-founder of 412 Food Rescue and For Good PGH, immigration reform advocate.
Gisele Bündchen
Gisele Bündchen (Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen), Brazilian supermodel born 1980 in Horizontina, discovered by Elite in 1994, Victoria's Secret Angel 1999-2007 with a $25 million contract, Forbes' top earner, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador since 2009, retired from runways in 2015.
Gisèle Pelicot
Gisèle Pelicot, French victim of the Mazan rape trial; drugged by ex-husband Dominique Pelicot and raped by dozens of men 2011–2020; opened her 2024 Avignon trial to the public, saying "shame must change sides"; 51 convictions, 20-year maximum sentence.
Gisele Vallerey
Gisele Vallerey (Gisèle Vallerey-Mamelonet), French swimmer, 1948 Olympian in the 100 m freestyle and relay, world and European 100 m breaststroke record holder (1:17.4, 1950–1951), sister of Georges Vallerey Jr.
Gisele Yashar
Gisele Yashar (ג'יזל ישר) is a Fast & Furious character played by Gal Gadot: a Braga Cartel liaison turned Dom Toretto crew member, Han's partner, presumed dead in Fast & Furious 6, revealed alive in Fast X.
Giselle
Giselle, or Giselle, ou Les Wilis, is a Romantic ballet in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam, premiered at the Paris Opéra in 1841.
Giselle (Enchanted)
Giselle is the protagonist of Disney's Enchanted (2007) and Disenchanted (2022), an Andalasia princess banished by Queen Narissa to New York City, played by Amy Adams; a dynamic character studied for gender stereotypes and costume symbolism.
Giselle (지젤) (singer)
Giselle (지젤), born Uchinaga Aeri in 2000, is the Korean-Japanese main rapper and vocalist of SM Entertainment girl group aespa, which debuted November 17, 2020, and later made a Japanese debut with 'Hot Mess'.
Giselle Ansley
Giselle Ansley (born 1992) is a retired English field hockey defender for England and Great Britain, Rio 2016 Olympic gold and Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist, 2022 Commonwealth champion, MBE, retired September 2024.
Giselle Corbie
Giselle Corbie is an American physician and health equity researcher at the University of North Carolina, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.
Giselle Itié
Giselle Itié (Giselle Itié Ramos), Mexican-born Brazilian actress and director, born 1982 in Mexico City. Known for Bela, a Feia (2009) on Record and as Sandra in The Expendables (2010); moved to Brazil after the 1985 earthquake.
Gisenyi Province
Gisenyi Province (Prefegitura ya Gisenyi), a former province of Rwanda until 1 January 2006, then part of Western Province; 2002 census population 864,377; later split into Ngororero, Rubavu, Nyabihu, and Rutsiro districts.
Gisgo (officer of Hannibal)
Gisgo, also Latinized Gisco, was a Carthaginian officer in Hannibal's army. Before the battle of Cannae in 216 BC, he marveled at the Roman host, drawing Hannibal's famous retort.
Gish
Gish is the 1991 debut studio album by The Smashing Pumpkins, released May 28, 1991 on Caroline Records; produced by Butch Vig at Smart Studios, Madison, about 300,000 copies sold, reissued remastered in 2026.
Gish Bar Mons
Gish Bar Mons, a mountain on Jupiter's moon Io, IAU-named 2006 for the Babylonian sun god; about 11 km high, near Gish Bar Patera, in the Amirani-Gish Bar volcano-tectonic region.
Gish Bar Patera
Gish Bar Patera is a roughly 122-km-wide volcanic depression (patera) on Jupiter's moon Io at 16.18°N, 90.26°W, named for a Babylonian sun god, IAU-approved 1997, a persistent flow-dominated hot spot beside 11-km Gish Bar Mons.
Gish gallop
Gish gallop: a debate tactic of overwhelming an opponent with a rapid flood of claims too numerous to refute in the time available. Coined 1994 by Eugenie Scott after creationist Duane Gish; exploits Brandolini's law; not a strict logical fallacy.
Gishakidu
Gishakidu (Gišakidu) was a ruler of the Sumerian city-state of Umma around 2385 BC, whose cone and vase inscriptions are the first documents recording the Umma–Lagash border conflict from Umma's own point of view.
Gishwati Mukura Landscape Biosphere Reserve
Gishwati Mukura Landscape Biosphere Reserve: UNESCO biosphere reserve in western Rwanda, designated October 2020, around Gishwati-Mukura National Park (gazetted 2016) in the Albertine Rift; a restored chimpanzee and golden monkey forest landscape.
Giskard
Giskard is an AI startup founded in 2022 by Alex Combessie, Jean-Marie John-Mathews, and Andrei Avtomonov, offering an open-source Python library and enterprise platform for testing and red-teaming LLM applications.
Gísla saga
Gísla saga, in English Gisli Sursson's Saga, is an Icelandic saga telling how Gísli Súrsson is outlawed for killing his brother-in-law and evades capture for thirteen years.
GISP2
GISP2, short for Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2, was a US ice drilling project that recovered a 3053 m core through the full Greenland Ice Sheet in 1993.
Gisr el-Mudir
Gisr el-Mudir, also called the Great Enclosure, is a large rectangular stone enclosure on the Saqqara plateau in Egypt, west of Djoser's Step Pyramid complex.
GISS-E2
GISS-E2 is a global climate model developed at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, built on the ModelE atmospheric code, and coupled to alternative ocean models.
GiST (PostgreSQL)
GiST (Generalized Search Tree) is a balanced tree-structured index access method in PostgreSQL on which indexing schemes like B-trees and R-trees can be built, introduced in a 1995 VLDB paper.