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Gladstone LNG Terminal
Gladstone LNG Terminal most commonly refers to the Santos-operated GLNG plant, a two-train LNG export facility on Curtis Island, Queensland, shipping its first cargo in 2015.
Gladstone power station
Gladstone power station is a 1,680 MW black-coal-fired power station near Gladstone in Central Queensland, operating since 1976 and supplying the Boyne Island aluminum smelter.
Gladys Asmah
Gladys Asmah (1939–2014), Ghanaian NPP politician, MP for Takoradi 1997–2009, founding Minister of Women and Children's Affairs and first female Minister of Fisheries (2005–2009), pioneer of commercial aquaculture and women's micro-credit.
Gladys Aylward
Gladys Aylward, also known as Gladys May Aylward, was an English evangelical missionary in Yangcheng, China, who in 1940 led about 100 orphans to safety.
Gladys Berejiklian
Gladys Berejiklian, NSW Liberal premier 2017-2021 and first woman elected to that office, resigned over an ICAC inquiry and was found in 2023 to have engaged in serious corrupt conduct.
Gladys Cooper
Dame Gladys Cooper (1888–1971), English actress and West End theatre manager at the Playhouse; WWI postcard beauty; three-time Oscar nominee for Now, Voyager, The Song of Bernadette, and My Fair Lady; DBE 1967.
Gladys Dick
Gladys Dick, born Gladys Rowena Henry Dick, was an American microbiologist who proved scarlet fever is caused by Streptococcus pyogenes and helped devise the Dick skin test.
Gladys Eastlake-Smith
Gladys Eastlake-Smith (Gladys Shirley Eastlake-Smith, later Lamplough, 1883–1941), British tennis player; won gold in women's indoor singles at the 1908 London Olympics, beating Alice Greene, plus All-England covered court titles.
Gladys Horton
Gladys Horton (1945–2011), American R&B singer, founder and original lead vocalist of the Marvelettes, whose "Please Mr. Postman" (1961) was Motown's first No. 1 pop hit; also sang "Playboy" and "Beechwood 4-5789".
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda's first wildlife veterinarian (UWA, 1996) and founder of Conservation Through Public Health (2003), pioneered One Health gorilla conservation at Bwindi, earning the 2021 UNEP Champions of the Earth award.
Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight (born 1944, Atlanta), the "Empress of Soul", led Gladys Knight and the Pips from 1952 through Motown and Buddah hits like "Midnight Train to Georgia", then a seven-Grammy solo career; in 2026 she announced fewer performances.
Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight & the Pips, also billed Gladys Knight and The Pips, were an Atlanta family soul group formed in 1952, known for "Midnight Train to Georgia," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and Motown and Buddah hits.
Gladys McGarey
Gladys McGarey, born Gladys Louise McGarey, was an American physician and "Mother of Holistic Medicine" who co-founded the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978 and wrote a bestselling memoir at 102.
Gladys Pearl Baker
Gladys Pearl Baker (Gladys Pearl Monroe, 1902–1984), mother of Marilyn Monroe; film negative cutter in Hollywood, married Jasper Baker, Martin Mortensen, and Eley; institutionalized with paranoid schizophrenia from 1934.
Gladys Robinson
Gladys Robinson is an American Democratic politician who represents the 28th district in the North Carolina State Senate, where she previously served as Deputy Minority Leader.
Gladys West
Gladys Mae West, born Gladys Mae Brown, was an American mathematician who spent 42 years at the U.S. Navy's Dahlgren facility modeling the Earth's shape for GPS.
Glafenine
Glafenine (glaphenine, Exidol), an anthranilic acid derivative NSAID analgesic, ATC N02BG03, marketed from 1965 and withdrawn in most countries by 1992 for anaphylaxis and hepatotoxicity.
Glagolitic script
Glagolitic script, also called glagolica, is the first Slavic alphabet, devised by Saint Cyril around 862 CE for Slavonic liturgy; superseded by Cyrillic except in Croatia, where angular Glagolitic lasted until the 1893 Rome missal.
Glaisher's theorem
Glaisher's theorem is an 1883 result stating that partitions into parts not divisible by d equal partitions with no part repeated d or more times.
Glaive
A glaive is a European staff weapon with a single-edged, cleaver-like blade on a long pole, used mainly in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and later carried ceremonially.
GLaM
GLaM (Generalist Language Model) is a family of sparsely activated mixture-of-experts language models developed by Google, introduced in December 2021, whose largest model has 1.2 trillion parameters.
Glam metal
Glam metal, also called hair metal or pop metal, is a 1980s heavy metal subgenre with pop hooks, power ballads, and a flamboyant makeup-and-spandex look centered on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip, peaking with MTV before grunge displaced it.
Glam rock
Glam rock, also known as glitter rock, is a British rock style of the early 1970s marked by performers' glittery, androgynous image, led by T. Rex and David Bowie.
Glamis Castle
Glamis Castle is a castle in Angus, Scotland, north of Dundee, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Strathmore since 1372 and childhood home of the Queen Mother.
Glamorgan
Glamorgan, also known as Glamorganshire, is a historic county of southern Wales. Its county town is Cardiff, and it includes Swansea and the Gower peninsula.
Glamorgan County Cricket Club
Glamorgan County Cricket Club, Wales's only first-class county, founded 1888 at Cardiff, first-class from 1921, based at Sophia Gardens; County champions 1948, 1969, 1997; majority owner of Welsh Fire.
Glamorous
Glamorous is a 2023 Netflix comedy-drama, 10 episodes, created by Jordon Nardino, starring Miss Benny as queer makeup influencer Marco Mejia and Kim Cattrall as mogul Madolyn Addison; canceled after one season in November 2023.
Glamour photography
Glamour photography, also called Hollywood glamour portraiture, is stylized portraiture idealizing beauty via lighting, styling, and posing; it peaked in Hollywood's Golden Age (1920-1960) with George Hurrell, Ruth Harriet Louise, and Clarence Sinclair Bull, and differs from boudoir and fashion photography in purpose and audience.
Glamping
Glamping, from 'glamorous camping', is pre-set outdoor lodging with hotel-style comfort and services. Originated in early 2000s UK; global market USD 3.8B in 2025, growing 9.5% CAGR to 2033.
Glanate
Glanate (Glandèves), ancient Gallo-Roman town on the right bank of the Var near Entrevaux, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; a Ligurian settlement turned Roman civitas, later the bishopric of Glandèves until the French Revolution.