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Glenn Eller

Glenn Eller (Walton Glenn Eller III), born 1982, American trap shooter, US Army Marksmanship Unit sergeant; five-time Olympian 2000-2016 and 2008 Beijing double trap gold medalist with two Olympic records.

Glenn Ellison

Glenn David Ellison is an American economist, the Gregory K. Palm Professor at MIT, known for empirical studies of mutual fund managers and learning in games.

Glenn F. Pierce

Glenn F. Pierce is an American hematologist and physician-researcher, born with severe hemophilia A and cured in 2008, who helped develop six hemophilia therapies and led Biogen's hemophilia program.

Glenn Fleshler

Glenn Fleshler (born 1968) is an American character actor known for George Remus in Boardwalk Empire, Errol Childress in True Detective, Orrin Bach in Billions, Goran Pazar in Barry, Randall in Joker, and Broadway roles including Fred Friendly in Good Night, and Good Luck.

Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford (Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, 1916-2006), Canadian-born American actor of Hollywood's Golden Age; over 50 years and 106 films including Gilda, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle, 3:10 to Yuma, and Superman's Pa Kent; 1958's top box-office star, never Oscar-nominated, one Golden Globe win.

Glenn Frederick Knoll

Glenn Frederick Knoll (1935–2014) was an American nuclear engineer and University of Michigan professor, known for the standard textbook Radiation Detection and Measurement and pioneering room-temperature semiconductor radiation detectors.

Glenn Frey

Glenn Frey (Glenn Lewis Frey, 1948-2016), Detroit-born co-founder, co-lead singer and principal songwriter of the Eagles; sang "Take It Easy," "Lyin' Eyes," "New Kid in Town"; had 1980s solo Top 40 hits; died of arthritis, colitis, pneumonia complications.

Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould (1932-1982), Canadian pianist famed for Bach's Goldberg Variations (1955 and 1981 recordings), left the concert stage in 1964 for recording, CBC radio documentaries, and television, winning four Grammys.

Glenn Greenberg

Glenn Greenberg is an American value investor in New York who co-founded Chieftain Capital Management in 1984 and, after its 2009 split, founded Brave Warrior Advisors, known for concentrated portfolios of about ten stocks.

Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald (born 1967) is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer who reported the 2013 Snowden NSA leaks for the Guardian, co-founded The Intercept, and resigned from it in 2020.

Glenn Gronkowski

Glenn Gronkowski (Glenn Thomas Gronkowski), born 1993 in Buffalo, NY, is a former NFL fullback from Kansas State; the youngest Gronkowski brother played one 2016 game for the Bills and later joined the Patriots' practice squad.

Glenn Grothman

Glenn Grothman, born 1955, is an American Republican politician who has represented Wisconsin's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2015, after serving in the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly.

Glenn H. Fredrickson

Glenn H. Fredrickson is an American soft matter theorist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for pioneering field-theoretic simulation of self-assembling block copolymers.

Glenn Hardin

Glenn "Slats" Hardin (1910–1975), American 400m hurdler for LSU; 1932 Olympic silver, 1936 Olympic gold, and world records of 52.0, 51.8, and 50.6 (Stockholm 1934, stood 19 years).

Glenn Hartranft

Glenn Hartranft (Samuel Glenn Hartranft, "Tiny"), American shot putter and discus thrower for Stanford; 1924 Paris Olympic shot put silver medalist and official discus world record holder (47.89 m, 2 May 1925).

Glenn Hoddle

Glenn Hoddle (born 1957, Hayes) is an English former midfielder and manager: Tottenham playmaker 1975-87 (490 games, 110 goals, two FA Cups, UEFA Cup), Monaco title winner, 53 England caps, and England manager 1996-99.

Glenn Howerton

Glenn Howerton (Glenn Franklin Howerton III, born 1976) is an American actor, Juilliard-trained, co-creator and star of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as Dennis Reynolds.

Glenn Hughes (American singer)

Glenn Hughes (born Glenn Michael Hughes, 1950–2001) was an American singer who played the leather-clad "Biker" in the disco group Village People from 1977 to about 1996.

Glenn Ivey

Glenn Ivey (Glenn Frederick Ivey), Democrat representing Maryland's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House since 2023; former Prince George's County State's Attorney (2003-2011) and Maryland Public Service Commission chair (1998-2000), Harvard Law-trained attorney.

Glenn L. Martin Company

The Glenn L. Martin Company, also known as the Martin Company, was an American aircraft manufacturer founded by Glenn L. Martin in 1912, headquartered at Middle River, Maryland from 1929.

Glenn Ligon

Glenn Ligon, born 1960 in the Bronx, is an American conceptual artist known for text-based paintings that stencil borrowed words from literature and comedy until they smudge into illegibility.

Glenn Loury

Glenn C. Loury (born 1948) is an American economist, Merton P. Stoltz Professor Emeritus at Brown University, first Black economist tenured at Harvard (1982), pioneer of social capital in economics, and author of Late Admissions.

Glenn M. Chertow

Glenn M. Chertow is an American nephrologist, chief of the Division of Nephrology at Stanford, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Glenn Martens

Glenn Martens (born 1983) is a Belgian fashion designer, creative director of Maison Margiela since January 2025 and of Diesel from 2020 to 2026, previously head of Y/Project and a two-time ANDAM Grand Prix winner.

Glenn Martyna

Glenn J. Martyna is a computational physicist and chemist known for the Nosé–Hoover chain thermostat and the Martyna–Tobias–Klein equations for constant-pressure molecular dynamics, developed in the 1990s.

Glenn Maxwell

Glenn James Maxwell (born 1988, Kew, Melbourne), Australian right-handed off-spin all-rounder nicknamed The Big Show. Three-time World Cup winner (2015, 2021 T20, 2023 ODIs), only Australian man with an ODI double century (201 vs Afghanistan), retired from ODIs in June 2025.

Glenn McGrath

Glenn McGrath, Australian fast bowler (1970-), nicknamed Pigeon; 563 Test wickets, the fast-bowling record until 2018, 381 ODI wickets, three World Cup wins, and the McGrath Foundation Pink Test.

Glenn McQueen

Glenn John McQueen (1960–2002), Toronto-born Pixar supervising animator behind Woody and Boo, helped shape early CG character animation; Finding Nemo was dedicated to him and Lightning McQueen of Cars was named in his honor.

Glenn Medeiros

Glenn Alan Medeiros (born 1970), Hawaiian pop singer of Portuguese descent behind "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You" (UK #1) and "She Ain't Worth It" (US #1 with Bobby Brown); later a Hawaii educator and Saint Louis School president.

Glenn Merlino

Glenn Merlino is an American cancer biologist who spent 1980 to 2024 at the National Cancer Institute, building the first human-like mouse model of melanoma and studying HGF/MET signaling.