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Gleicheniaceae
Gleicheniaceae, the forking ferns (Chinese li bai ke, 里白科), is a pantropical leptosporangiate fern family of about 157 species in eight genera, defined by pseudodichotomous fronds, exindusiate sori, and a fossil record reaching the Palaeozoic.
Gleichschaltung
Gleichschaltung ("coordination" or "synchronization") is the German term for the Nazification of German society after 1933, by which parties, states, unions, media, and youth groups were aligned into a single-party Nazi state.
Gleiker Mendoza
Gleiker Teodoro Mendoza Barrios (born 2001, Santa Bárbara del Zulia) is a Venezuelan left winger who starred at Kryvbas, scored four goals against Dynamo Kyiv, and joined Shakhtar Donetsk in 2026.
Gleipnir (グレイプニル) (manga)
Gleipnir (グレイプニル) is a completed 14-volume dark fantasy manga by Sun Takeda, serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine the 3rd and Monthly Young Magazine from 2015 to April 2023, about high schooler Shuichi Kagaya, who transforms into a hollow monster suit, and Clair Aoki; adapted as a 13-episode anime in 2020.
Gleison Bremer
Gleison Bremer (Gleison Bremer Silva Nascimento), Brazilian centre-back born 1997; Torino 2018-2022, Serie A Best Defender 2021-22, Juventus from 2022 for €41.0m, Brazil 2026 World Cup squad.
Gleison Tibau
Gleison Tibau (Janigleison Herculano Alves), Brazilian MMA fighter from Rio Grande do Norte; 28 UFC appearances 2006-2018, two-year EPO suspension, later PFL and ACA welterweight.
Gleissberg cycle
The Gleissberg cycle is an 80- to 100-year modulation of the Sun's 11-year sunspot cycle, named for German astronomer Wolfgang Gleissberg, who described it around 1938.
Gleiwitz incident
Gleiwitz incident (Überfall auf den Sender Gleiwitz; Prowokacja gliwicka): false flag attack staged by SS men in Polish uniforms on the Gleiwitz radio station, 31 August 1939, used by Nazi Germany as pretext to invade Poland on 1 September 1939.
Glele of Dahomey
Glele (Glélé), born Badahun, was king of Dahomey from 1858 to 1889, continuing military expansion and slave raiding while shifting toward palm-oil exports under growing French pressure.
Glen
Glen: a deep, narrow mountain valley, especially in Scotland or Ireland, from Gaelic gleann; distinct from a strath; famous examples include Glen Coe, Glen Affric, and the Great Glen.
Glen A. Larson
Glen A. Larson (1937–2014), American TV producer and Four Preps singer; created Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Magnum P.I., Quincy M.E.; not the Wyoming test pilot Glen G. Larson.
Glen Affric
Glen Affric (Gleann Afraig), a Highland glen in Scotland with a 17,604-hectare Caledonian pinewood National Nature Reserve managed by Forestry and Land Scotland, known for 75 years of native forest restoration and its 2025 beaver reintroduction.
Glen Ballard
Glen Ballard, born 1953 in Natchez, Mississippi, is an American songwriter and producer, not Ballard Power Systems. Known for Michael Jackson's 'Man in the Mirror', Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill (33 million sold), six Grammys, Songwriters Hall of Fame 2023.
Glen Barber
Glen Barber is an English-born molecular immunologist and cancer biologist who discovered the STING DNA-sensing pathway in 2008, a Fellow of the Royal Society now at Ohio State.
Glen Baxter (mathematician)
Glen Baxter (died 1983) was a mathematician in probability and combinatorics whose operator identity underlies fluctuation theory and gave the Rota–Baxter algebra and Baxter permutations.
Glen Brand
Glen Brand (Glen Jenson Brand, 1923-2008), American freestyle wrestler and 1948 London Olympics middleweight (79 kg) gold medalist; Iowa State's first Olympic gold medalist, later founder of Brand Hydraulics.
Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell (1936–2017), American country-pop singer and Wrecking Crew session guitarist, the Rhinestone Cowboy, known for Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, his CBS Goodtime Hour, and his Alzheimer's farewell tour.
Glen Canyon Dam
Glen Canyon Dam is a 710-foot-high concrete-arch dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona that impounds Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the United States.
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a 1.25-million-acre NPS unit in Utah and Arizona established 1972, centers on Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam; reservoir storage has fallen to 22% of capacity amid Colorado River drought.
Glen Coe
Glen Coe (Gleann Comhann) is a glacial valley in Scotland's Grampian Highlands, site of a 420-million-year-old caldera volcano, a classical geology locality, and the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe.
Glen Coffee
Glen Coffee (Glenwood Razeem Coffee Jr., born 1987) is a former American football running back who played one season for the San Francisco 49ers before retiring in 2010.
Glen Cook bibliography
Glen Cook is a fantasy and science fiction author who wrote over 60 books, including the Black Company (1984). He composed his work while working at a General Motors plant.
Glen Cove, New York
Glen Cove, New York, a city on Long Island's North Shore in Nassau County, founded 1668 as Musketa Cove, renamed 1834, incorporated 1917; population 28,365 (2020), known for Gold Coast estates and the Garvies Point waterfront redevelopment.
Glen Davis (basketball)
Glen "Big Baby" Davis (Ronald Glen Davis), born 1986, LSU star and 2006 SEC Player of the Year, won the 2008 NBA title with the Celtics and played 514 NBA games before a 2023 health care fraud conviction.
Glen Durrant
Glen Durrant, "Duzza", English darts player born 1970 in Middlesbrough; won three consecutive BDO World Championships 2017-2019 and the 2020 PDC Premier League on debut, beating Nathan Aspinall 11-8; retired November 2022, now coaches and commentates.
Glen Edward Rogers
Glen Edward Rogers, the Cross Country Killer or Casanova Killer, was an American suspected serial killer from Hamilton, Ohio, executed by Florida on May 15, 2025, for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, with a separate California death sentence for Sandra Gallagher.
Glen Eira
The City of Glen Eira is a local government area in Melbourne's inner south-east, formed in 1994 from Caulfield and part of Moorabbin, with a 2021 population of 148,908.
Glen H. Davidson
Glen H. Davidson, born in 1941, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in Mississippi from 1985 until taking senior status in 2007.
Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard is an Irish singer and actor, known as the frontman of The Frames and co-star of the film Once, who won the 2008 Best Original Song Oscar.
Glen Johnson
Glen Johnson (born 1984) is an English former right-back for West Ham, Chelsea, Portsmouth, Liverpool, and Stoke, with 54 England caps, a 2012 League Cup, and three major tournaments.