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Gale Harold
Gale Morgan Harold III (born 1969) is an American actor best known as Brian Kinney in Showtime's Queer as Folk (2000-2005), with later roles in Desperate Housewives, Vanished, Hellcats, The Secret Circle, independent films, and producing credits.
Gale Sayers
Gale Sayers, the Kansas Comet, Chicago Bears Hall of Fame running back 1965-71; 4,956 rushing yards, 22-TD rookie record, six-TD game, youngest Hall inductee at 34; Brian's Song subject.
Gale Sondergaard
Gale Sondergaard, born Edith Holm Sondergaard (1899–1985), was an American actress and the first winner of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, for Anthony Adverse (1936).
Gale Storm
Gale Storm (Josephine Owaissa Cottle, 1922–2009), American actress and singer, star of 1950s sitcoms My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show (Oh! Susanna), Dot Records hitmaker with "I Hear You Knocking."
Gale W. McGee
Gale William McGee (1915–1992), Democratic U.S. senator from Wyoming 1959–1977, historian, Vietnam War hawk, and Carter's ambassador to the OAS; last Democrat to hold Wyoming's Senate seat.
Gale warning
A gale warning is a marine weather warning issued for sustained winds, or frequent gusts, of 34 to 47 knots over water, excluding winds from tropical cyclones.
Gale Weathers
Gale Weathers is the fictional tabloid TV reporter and author in the Scream franchise, played by Courteney Cox in all films; Woodsboro Ghostface chronicler, Dewey Riley's wife, media-satire figure.
Gale–Shapley algorithm
The Gale–Shapley algorithm, also called deferred acceptance, is a procedure introduced by David Gale and Lloyd Shapley in 1962 that always yields a stable matching between two groups.
Gale: Yellow Brick Road
Gale: Yellow Brick Road (2026) is a British indie horror-fantasy film by Daniel Alexander, expanding his 2023 short Gale: Stay Away from Oz. It stars Chloë Crump as Emily Gale and Karen Swan as Dorothy, released one night via Fathom Entertainment.
Galea (γαλέη) (helmet)
Galea (γαλέη), Latin for helmet, Greek kranos; originally a leather or skin head covering, contrasted with the metal cassis, later the standard Roman soldier's and gladiator's helmet term.
Galeazzo Caraccioli
Galeazzo Caraccioli (1517–1586) was a Neapolitan nobleman who became a Calvinist refugee at Geneva, where he helped organize the Italian exile church and served as its ruling elder.
Galeazzo Ciano
Galeazzo Ciano (Gian Galeazzo Ciano, Count of Cortellazzo), Italian diplomat and Fascist foreign minister 1936–1943, Mussolini's son-in-law, architect of the Rome-Berlin Axis and Pact of Steel, executed in Verona in 1944; his diaries are a key source.
Galemys
Galemys, the Pyrenean or Iberian desman (Galemys pyrenaicus), a small endangered semiaquatic mole of mountain streams in northern Iberia and the Pyrenees, with a sensory trunk, webbed hind feet, and an invertebrate diet.
Galen (Γαληνός)
Galen (Γαληνός, Galēnos, 129–c. 200 CE), Greek physician of Pergamon, court doctor to Marcus Aurelius, systematized Hippocratic four-humor medicine, pioneered animal vivisection, and dominated European and Islamic medicine for about 1,300 years.
Galen B. Schubauer
Galen B. Schubauer (1904–1992) was an American fluid mechanician who spent his career at the National Bureau of Standards and gave the first conclusive experimental verification of Tollmien–Schlichting wave theory.
Galen D. Stucky
Galen D. Stucky (G. D. Stucky) is an American inorganic and materials chemist at UC Santa Barbara, known for synthesizing mesoporous silicas such as SBA-15.
Galen Rupp
Galen Rupp (born 1986) is an American long-distance runner from Portland, Oregon, who won Olympic silver in the 10,000 meters in 2012 and bronze in the marathon in 2016.
Galen S. Wagner
Galen S. Wagner was an American cardiologist at Duke University who developed the QRS scoring system for estimating heart attack size and taught electrocardiography for decades.
Galen Weston
Galen Weston (W. Galen Weston, 1940–2021), British-Canadian retailer who turned Loblaw into Canada's largest grocery chain, led George Weston Limited until 2016, built Selfridges, Brown Thomas, and Holt Renfrew holdings, and founded the Weston Brain Institute; his son Galen G. Weston now leads the group.
Galen Weston Jr.
Galen Weston Jr. (Willard Galen Garfield Weston, born 1972) is the fourth-generation Canadian chairman and CEO of George Weston Limited and chairman of Loblaw, known for Choice Properties, the 2023 grocery price hearings, and the bread price-fixing settlement.
Galena
Galena, also known as lead glance or blue lead, is lead sulfide, the world's most important ore of lead, used by humans for thousands of years.
Galena, Illinois
Galena, Illinois: a Jo Daviess County city in the Driftless Area, founded on lead mining in 1826, once the busiest Mississippi River port between St. Paul and St. Louis, home of Ulysses S. Grant, now a preserved historic tourist town.
Galentine's Day
Galentine's Day, a February 13 holiday of female friendship, was invented in a 2010 Parks and Recreation episode by Leslie Knope, "ladies celebrating ladies", and is now observed worldwide.
Galeopsis
Galeopsis L. (hemp-nettle) is a genus of about 10 annual herbs in the mint family (Lamiaceae), native to temperate Eurasia, placed in tribe Galeopsideae, with frequent hybridization and traditional medicinal uses.
Galeorhinus galeus
Galeorhinus galeus, the tope, school, or soupfin shark, a temperate houndshark (Triakidae) of all major oceans; six isolated subpopulations, IUCN Critically Endangered 2020, CMS Appendix II, proposed US ESA threatened listing 2026.
Galera Therapeutics
Galera Therapeutics is a Malvern, Pennsylvania biopharmaceutical company founded in 2012 that developed SOD mimetics to reduce severe oral mucositis from radiotherapy, then merged into Obsidian Therapeutics in 2026.
Galeria Viva
Galeria Viva (Galería Viva, Galeria Vivá) names several ventures: a community memory-and-art process around the San Javier cemetery in Comuna 13, Medellín, led by Agroarte; a SUP and surfski school in Salvador, Brazil; galleries in São Paulo and Caracas; and a Mielec shopping center.
Galerida
Galerida is a genus of crested larks (Alaudidae) established by Friedrich Boie in 1828, with the Crested Lark Galerida cristata as type species; about 6-7 species across Eurasia and Africa, 14-19 cm long, named from Latin galerum 'cap'.
Galeries Lafayette
Galeries Lafayette: French department store chain founded 1893-1894 by Théophile Bader and Alphonse Kahn, famous for its 1912 Art Nouveau dome on Boulevard Haussmann, Paris; family-owned group with owned and affiliated stores in France and international locations.
Galerius
Galerius, also known as Galerius Maximian, was a Roman emperor of the Tetrarchy who ruled the east, instigated the Great Persecution of Christians, and issued the Edict of Toleration in 311.