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Gloria Guida
Gloria Guida, Italian actress and singer born 1955 in Merano, star of 1970s commedia sexy all'italiana films like La liceale and Avere vent'anni; wife of Johnny Dorelli.
Gloria Hunniford
Gloria Hunniford (Mary Winifred Gloria Hunniford, born 10 April 1940, Portadown) is a Northern Irish broadcaster, singer, and Loose Women and Rip Off Britain presenter, first woman with a daily BBC Radio 2 show (1982), OBE 2017, founder of the Caron Keating Foundation.
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria in excelsis Deo ("Glory to God in the highest"), the Angelic Hymn or Greater Doxology, is a Christian hymn and one of the five Mass Ordinary texts.
Gloria Johnson (politician)
Gloria Johnson (born 1962) is a Democratic Tennessee state representative for District 90 in Knoxville, a retired special education teacher first elected in 2012, a member of the Tennessee Three who survived a 2023 expulsion vote by one vote, and the 2024 Democratic U.S. Senate nominee defeated by Marsha Blackburn.
Gloria Jones
Gloria Richetta Jones (born 1945), American soul singer and Motown songwriter; original 1964 singer of "Tainted Love" (later a Soft Cell hit), T. Rex keyboardist, Marc Bolan's partner, Queen of Northern Soul.
Gloria La Riva
Gloria Estela La Riva (born 1954) is a San Francisco labor and anti-war activist, founding PSL member, and socialist presidential candidate in 2008, 2016, and 2020.
Gloria Leonard
Gloria Leonard (Gale Sandra Klinetsky, 1940–2014), American adult film actress and publisher of High Society magazine; pioneer of Celebrity Skin and phone sex lines, Free Speech Coalition president 1998.
Gloria Loring
Gloria Loring, born Gloria Jean Goff (born 1946), American singer and actress known for the duet Friends and Lovers with Carl Anderson, co-writing the Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life themes, playing Liz Chandler on Days of Our Lives, and her JDRF diabetes advocacy; mother of Robin Thicke.
Gloria M. Coruzzi
Gloria M. Coruzzi is an American plant systems biologist and NYU professor known for research on the gene networks that control how plants use nitrogen.
Gloria M. Navarro
Gloria M. Navarro, born 1967 in Las Vegas, is a United States district judge for Nevada since 2010 and served as chief judge from 2014 to 2019.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, 14th president of the Philippines (2001–2010), daughter of Diosdado Macapagal; former senator and vice president under Estrada; survived the Hello Garci scandal, impeachment bids, and plunder charges, later returning to Congress.
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (1904–1965), American socialite, second wife of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and mother of designer Gloria Vanderbilt, who lost custody of her daughter in the sensational 1934 "trial of the century" in New York.
Gloria Muliro
Gloria Muliro is a Kenyan gospel singer and songwriter from Vihiga county who broke through with the 2012 hit "Sitolia" and the 2013 album Kibali.
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor (1950–2016) was an American novelist whose debut, The Women of Brewster Place, about seven Black women in a New York tenement, won the National Book Award for best first novel in 1983.
Gloria Obianyo
Gloria Obianyo (born 1995) is a British actress trained at Rose Bruford College. Known for Uriel in Good Omens, Dune, High Life, and Outlander; she won the 2022 Ian Charleson Award for Paradise and the 2026 UK Theatre Award for As You Like It.
Gloria Patri
The Gloria Patri, also called the Glory Be or Lesser Doxology, is a short Christian prayer praising the Holy Trinity, recited after psalms and each decade of the Rosary.
Gloria Reuben
Gloria Reuben (born 1964, Toronto) is a Canadian-American actress, singer, and author, Emmy-nominated as HIV-positive Jeanie Boulet on ER, a Lucille Lortel winner for Stuff Happens, jazz recording artist, and memoirist.
Gloria Rudenko
Gloria Rudenko (1961–2022) was a molecular microbiologist and professor at Imperial College London who studied how Trypanosoma brucei, the cause of African sleeping sickness, evades the immune system.
Gloria Serobe
Gloria Serobe is a South African businesswoman who co-founded Women Investment Portfolio Holdings (WIPHOLD) in 1994 and serves as chief executive of its financial services subsidiary WIPCapital.
Gloria Siebert
Gloria Siebert (born 1964, née Kovarik, also Gloria Uibel), East German hurdler, SC Cottbus; 100mH silver at 1988 Seoul Olympics (12.61), 1987 Rome Worlds, 1990 Split Europeans, 1987 Liévin Indoors; PB 12.44.
Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem (1934–2026), American journalist and feminist organizer, co-founded Ms. magazine, the National Women's Political Caucus, and the Women's Media Center; received the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Gloria Stivic
Gloria (Bunker) Stivic is a fictional character on All in the Family (1971-1979), daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker, wife of Michael "Meathead" Stivic, played by Sally Struthers, two-time Emmy-winning role, later star of the 1982-1983 spin-off Gloria.
Gloria Stuart
Gloria Stuart, born Gloria Frances Stewart, was an American actress, painter, and printmaker. She was a 1930s Hollywood leading lady and the oldest Academy Award nominee for Titanic.
Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson (1899–1983), American silent-film superstar at Paramount and United Artists producer; Oscar-nominated for Sadie Thompson, The Trespasser, and Sunset Boulevard; founder of Multiprises.
Gloria Talbott
Gloria Talbott (Gloria Maude Talbott, 1931–2000), American film and TV actress from Glendale, California; star of I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958), known as the 'Queen of the Bs' for 1950s sci-fi and horror roles.
Gloria Trevi
Gloria Trevi (Gloria de los Ángeles Treviño Ruiz), Mexican pop and rock en español star born 1968 in Monterrey, the "Mexican Madonna," whose 1989 debut ¿Qué hago aquí? launched a career interrupted by the Trevi-Andrade abuse case, prison in Brazil and Mexico, 2004 acquittal, and a major comeback.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Laura Vanderbilt was an American heiress, artist, and fashion designer who turned a $5 million childhood trust into a designer-jeans brand, and was the mother of Anderson Cooper.
Gloria Winters
Gloria Winters (born Gloria Carolyn Hirst; 1931-2010) was an American actress who played Penny King, niece of Kirby Grant's title character, in 72 episodes of the TV western Sky King (1952-1959), after playing Babs on The Life of Riley, and wrote the 1964 book Penny's Guide to Teen-Age Charm and Popularity.
Gloria Young
Gloria Young is a Panamanian poet, essayist, and diplomat, born in Panama City around 1953, who served as ambassador to Morocco and the UN in Austria.
GLORIAD
GLORIAD, the Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development, was a high-speed optical research and education network launched in January 2004 by the United States, Russia, and China.