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Glendower Capital

Glendower Capital is a private equity secondaries firm founded in 2017 by a team spun out from Deutsche Asset Management, headquartered in London with a New York office.

Glenelg Estuary and Discovery Bay Ramsar Site

Glenelg Estuary and Discovery Bay Ramsar Site (Ramsar Site no. 2344), Australia's 66th Ramsar wetland, listed 2018 in south-western Victoria; 22,289 ha of estuary, fen peatlands, dune slacks, waterbirds, and ancient greenling habitat.

Glenelg Oval

Glenelg Oval, officially Stratarama Stadium since 2023, is a 14,000-capacity oval in Glenelg East, Adelaide, opened in 1898; home of the SANFL Glenelg Tigers and Glenelg Cricket Club.

Glenfiddich

Glenfiddich, Gaelic for valley of the deer, is a Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Dufftown, Scotland, founded by William Grant, with first spirit in 1887.

Glenfinnan

Glenfinnan, a hamlet at the head of Loch Shiel in the Scottish Highlands, is home to the 1815 Jacobite Monument and the 21-arch concrete Glenfinnan Viaduct (1897–1901), crossed by the Harry Potter-famous Jacobite steam train.

Glenfinnan Viaduct

The Glenfinnan Viaduct is a curved 21-arch concrete railway viaduct in the Scottish Highlands, built from 1897 to 1901 and known for Harry Potter films.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross is David Mamet's 1983 drama about cutthroat Chicago real estate salesmen; it won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize and was filmed in 1992 with Pacino and Lemmon, plus a 2025 Broadway revival.

Glengarry Glen Ross (film)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), James Foley's film of David Mamet's Pulitzer-winning play, stars Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Alec Baldwin as cutthroat real estate salesmen; Baldwin's added "always be closing" Blake scene and the $10.7M US gross distinguish it.

Glenlivet Oil and Gas Field

Glenlivet is a gas and condensate field in the Faroe-Shetland Basin about 70 km northwest of the Shetland Islands, discovered in 2009 and producing since 2017.

Glenlochar Roman Fort

Glenlochar Roman Fort, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland: cropmark remains of a Flavian fort rebuilt in the AD 140s, with annexe, Roman road, camps, and Bronze Age barrows by the River Dee crossing.

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited (NSE: GLENMARK), Indian pharma company founded 1977 by Gracias Saldanha; formulations and APIs in 80+ countries; known for Ryaltris, Winlevi, ISB 2001 AbbVie deal, and FDA warning letters.

Glenmorangie distillery

Glenmorangie is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery in Tain, in the Scottish Highlands, founded in 1843 and known for its tall pot stills and cask finishing.

Glenn A. Schurman

Glenn A. Schurman (1922–2010) was an American mechanical engineer at Chevron who led the Ninian Central Platform project and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck, American conservative talk radio and TV host; hosts The Glenn Beck Program, syndicated by Premiere Networks on 400+ stations, third-highest-rated nationally; founder of The Blaze and Mercury Radio Arts.

Glenn Burke

Glenn Burke (1952-1995), MLB outfielder for the Dodgers and Athletics, first openly gay MLB player (out to teammates, public in 1982), credited with the first high five (1977), Gay Games medalist, honored by 2026 Dodger Stadium memorial.

Glenn C Turner

Glenn C Turner, also known as Glenn Cameron Turner, is a neuroscientist and Group Leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who studies how the fruit fly brain forms Pavlovian associations.

Glenn C. Micalizio

Glenn C. Micalizio is an American organic chemist who joined UC Irvine in 2025, known for titanium-mediated reductive cross-coupling reactions and the synthesis of the non-opioid analgesic conolidine.

Glenn Carano

Glenn Carano (born 1955) is a former quarterback, UNLV All-American and Dallas Cowboys second-round pick in 1977 who backed up Staubach and White for six NFL seasons (36 games, one start, 304 passing yards), played one USFL season, and is Gina Carano's father.

Glenn Close

American stage, film, and television actress (born 1947, Greenwich, Connecticut); eight Oscar nominations, three Tonys, three Emmys; known for Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, 101 Dalmatians, Damages, and The Wife.

Glenn Corbett

Glenn Corbett (Glen Edwin Rothenburg, 1933-1993, birth year disputed) was an American actor known as Lincoln Case on Route 66, Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek's "Metamorphosis", and Paul Morgan on Dallas.

Glenn Cunningham (runner)

Glenn Cunningham (Glenn Vernice Cunningham, 1909-1988), the Kansas Flyer or Iron Man of Kansas, was an American miler who overcame childhood burns, set world records in the mile (4:06.8, 1934), 800 m (1:49.7, 1936), and indoor mile (4:04.4, 1938), and won 1936 Olympic 1500 m silver.

Glenn Curtiss

Glenn Hammond Curtiss (1878–1930) was an American motorcycle racer and aviation pioneer who set a 1907 speed record, won major early flight prizes, and developed the seaplane.

Glenn D. Braunstein

Glenn D. Braunstein is an American endocrinologist whose hCG assay became the basis of the modern pregnancy test; he chaired medicine at Cedars-Sinai from 1986 to 2012.

Glenn D. Prestwich

Glenn D. Prestwich (born 1948) is an American organic chemist, emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Utah, known for hyaluronic acid biomaterials and lipid signaling probes.

Glenn D. Steele Jr.

Glenn D. Steele Jr. is an American surgical oncologist and health-system executive who led Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2015, pioneering value-based care.

Glenn Danzig

Glenn Danzig (Glenn Allen Anzalone), born 1955 in Lodi, New Jersey, is the American singer-songwriter who founded the Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig, known for his deep bluesy baritone, the hit "Mother", and songs written for Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison.

Glenn Davis

Glenn Ashby Davis, nicknamed "Jeep" (1934 to 2009), was an American track athlete who won the 400-meter hurdles at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, adding a third gold in the 4 × 400-meter relay in Rome.

Glenn Diesen

Glenn Diesen is a Norwegian professor of international relations at the University of South-Eastern Norway, known for realist scholarship on Russian foreign policy, geoeconomics, and the Eurasian world order.

Glenn Dranoff

Glenn Dranoff is a physician-scientist and cancer immunologist known for GM-CSF-secreting therapeutic cancer vaccines, a professor at Dana-Farber and Harvard who led Novartis immuno-oncology research from 2015 to 2023.

Glenn Dubin

Glenn Dubin is an American hedge fund investor who co-founded Highbridge Capital Management in 1992, sold it to JPMorgan in 2004, and now invests through his family office, Dubin & Co.