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Glen Kacher
Glen Kacher is a technology investor who founded Light Street Capital, a Palo Alto, California technology hedge fund, in 2010; he is counted among the Tiger Cubs.
Glen Kamara
Glen Kamara (Glen Adjei Kamara), Finnish midfielder born 1995 in Tampere; Rangers 193 apps, unbeaten 2020-21 title, 2022 Europa League final; Leeds, Rennes, Al-Shabab, QPR loans; Finland 70 caps.
Glen Keane
Glen Keane (born 1954), American animator and Disney Legend; son of Family Circus creator Bil Keane. Animated Ariel, Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Tarzan, Rapunzel; won the 2018 Oscar for Dear Basketball with Kobe Bryant.
Glen M. MacDonald
Glen M. MacDonald is a UCLA geographer and paleoclimatologist elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, known for work on treelines and drought.
Glen Matlock
Glen Matlock, born 1956 in London, is an English bassist and songwriter, founding member of the Sex Pistols who wrote Anarchy in the U.K., God Save the Queen and Pretty Vacant, left in February 1977 for Sid Vicious, later formed Rich Kids and tours with Blondie.
Glen or Glenda
Glen or Glenda (1953), also released as I Led Two Lives and I Changed My Sex, is Ed Wood's directorial debut: a low-budget exploitation drama about cross-dressing and sex-change surgery, starring Wood as Glen/Glenda with Bela Lugosi, later a cult trans-representation milestone.
Glen P. Peters
Glen P. Peters is a Norwegian-based climate scientist at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, known for the 2016 commentary "The trouble with negative emissions".
Glen Powell
Glen Powell (born 1988, Austin, Texas) is an American actor known for Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone But You, Twisters, Hit Man, Chad Powers, and The Running Man; also a co-writer and producer with upcoming Apatow and Abrams projects.
Glen Power
Glen Power (born 1978, Dublin) is the Irish drummer, backing vocalist and founding member of The Script, also a songwriter and composer; sources differ on the band's founding year, and an unrelated Australian real estate agent shares the name.
Glen Rice
Glen Rice, American retired basketball forward; Michigan 1989 NCAA champion and tournament-record 184-point scorer; No. 4 pick in 1989; three-time NBA All-Star, 1997 All-Star MVP, 2000 Lakers champion.
Glen Schofield
Glen Schofield, American game director and artist, creator of Dead Space (2008), co-founder of Sledgehammer Games and director of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and WWII, later founded Striking Distance Studios and directed The Callisto Protocol (2022).
Glen Sturtevant
Glen Sturtevant, born in 1982, is a Republican attorney and member of the Virginia Senate's 12th district, previously serving in the Senate from 2016 to 2020.
Glen T. Daigger
Glen T. Daigger is an environmental engineer specializing in biological wastewater treatment who spent 35 years at CH2M HILL and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Glen Taylor
Glen Taylor is an American billionaire businessman who built Taylor Corporation into a $2 billion printing group, served ten years in the Minnesota Senate, and owned the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx.
Glen Ward (criminal)
Glen Ward, nicknamed "Mr Flashy", is an Irish organised crime figure from Finglas, Dublin, named in the High Court as leader of the "Gucci Gang" with Kinahan links; jailed in 2025 for firing an AR-15 rifle.
Glen Washington
Glen Washington, born Glenroy Washington, is a Jamaican roots reggae and lovers rock singer, songwriter, and drummer from Clarendon known for albums including Get Next To Me.
Glen Womack
Glen Womack is an American politician who serves as a Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from the 32nd district and chairs the Senate Finance Committee.
Glenbank
Glenbank is a Roman fortlet at NN 812 057, Perthshire, discovered from the air in 1983; the southernmost known installation of the Flavian Gask line, double-ditched, about 33 by 29 meters over ramparts, deliberately demolished at abandonment.
Glenbrook North High School
Glenbrook North High School (GBN) is a public 9-12 high school in Northbrook, Illinois, in District 225. Opened 1953 as Glenbrook High School, renamed 1962 when Glenbrook South opened; about 2,100 students, 23 AP courses, over 100 clubs.
Glencoe, Highland
Glencoe, in Gaelic Gleann Comhann, is a glen in Lochaber, Scotland, where the village of Glencoe draws over two million visitors a year and the MacDonalds were massacred in 1692.
Glencore
Glencore, formerly Marc Rich & Co, is a Swiss natural-resources company headquartered in Baar that both produces commodities from its own mines and markets them worldwide.
Glenda (tunnel boring machine)
Glenda is the name given to a tunnel boring machine, following the tunnelling tradition of naming such machines after women, though no published record verifies her project or fate.
Glenda Elisabeth Gray
Glenda Elisabeth Gray is a South African physician-scientist known for HIV vaccine research and preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission; she led the SAMRC from 2014 to 2024.
Glenda Farrell
Glenda Farrell (1904-1971), American actress of Enid, Oklahoma, famous as wisecracking Torchy Blane in seven Warner Bros. B films, inspiration for Lois Lane, 1963 Emmy winner for Ben Casey.
Glenda Jackson
Glenda Jackson (1936–2023), English actress and Labour MP, won Oscars for Women in Love and A Touch of Class, played Elizabeth I in Elizabeth R, served in Parliament 1992–2015, and won a late-career Tony.
Glenda M. Halliday
Glenda M. Halliday is an Australian neuroscientist and neuropathologist at Neuroscience Research Australia and the University of Sydney, known for research on Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.
Glenda Reiser
Glenda Reiser (1955-2008), Canadian middle-distance runner from Ottawa; 1972 Olympian at 1500 m, 1974 Commonwealth Games 1500 m gold medalist, and holder of Canadian U20 records at 800 m and 1500 m.
Glendale, Arizona
Glendale, Arizona: West Valley city in metropolitan Phoenix, incorporated 1910, population about 250,000. Home of State Farm Stadium (Arizona Cardinals, three Super Bowls), Westgate Entertainment District, and the delayed $1.2 billion VAI Resort and Mattel Adventure Park.
Glendale, California
Glendale, known as the "Jewel City," is the fourth-largest city in Los Angeles County, California, incorporated in 1906 and a center of the Armenian diaspora community.
Glendalough
Glendalough (gleann dá locha, glen of the two lakes) is a Wicklow valley holding an early medieval Irish monastery founded by St Kevin in the late 6th century, with round tower, gatehouse, and seven churches.