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G. Evelyn Hutchinson

G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903–1991) was an English-born American ecologist at Yale University, known for niche theory, limnology, and being called the father of modern ecology.

G. Frederick Wooten

G. Frederick Wooten is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, a Parkinson's disease researcher who chaired its neurology department from 1989 to 2007.

G. Gayle Stephens M.D.

G. Gayle Stephens (1928 to 2014) was an American family physician and medical educator who was one of the founders of family medicine in the United States.

G. Gordon Liddy

G. Gordon Liddy (1930–2021), American FBI agent turned Nixon operative, masterminded the 1972 Watergate break-in, served the longest prison term of the conspirators, and later hosted a syndicated radio show.

G. Janardhana Reddy

Gali Janardhana Reddy (born 1967) is a Karnataka politician and mining baron from Ballari, Obulapuram Mining Company figure, former Yeddyurappa minister, convicted in the 2025 OMC illegal mining case with conviction stayed, and KRPP founder who rejoined the BJP.

G. Julius Vancsó

G. Julius Vancsó (Vancsó Gyula) is a Hungarian-born Dutch materials scientist who held the polymer chair at the University of Twente from 1995, now emeritus.

G. K. Butterfield

G. K. Butterfield (George Kenneth Butterfield Jr., born 1947) was a Democratic U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st District, 2004–2022, CBC chair 2015–2017, chief deputy whip, former NC Supreme Court justice, succeeding Frank Ballance and succeeded by Don Davis.

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer, journalist, and Catholic apologist, author of Orthodoxy, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the Father Brown detective stories; founding president of the Detection Club and convert to Roman Catholicism in 1922.

G. K. Surya Prakash

G. K. Surya Prakash, born in Bangalore in 1953, is an Indian-born American organofluorine chemist at USC known for the Prakash reagent and the Methanol Economy.

G. K. Vishnu

G. K. Vishnu (ஜி.கே.விஷ்ணு), also GK Vishnu, is an Indian cinematographer in Tamil cinema. A computer science engineer turned self-taught cinematographer, he debuted with Mersal (2017) and shot Bigil, Krack, Jawan, and Karuppu.

G. Kaito Aye

G. Kaito Aye is an Indian politician from Nagaland and a Naga People's Front minister in the state government, holding the Roads and Bridges portfolio.

G. Kishan Reddy

G. Kishan Reddy (born 1960), BJP leader from Telangana, Union Minister of Coal and Mines and MP for Secunderabad; earlier MoS Home Affairs, Culture/Tourism/DoNER minister, and three-term Andhra Pradesh and Telangana MLA.

G. Lakshminarayana

G. Lakshminarayana, also known as Ambica Lakshminarayana, is an Indian politician of the Telugu Desam Party who has represented Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

G. M. B. Dobson

G. M. B. Dobson, Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, was an English physicist at Oxford who built the Dobson spectrophotometer and the Dobson unit for measuring atmospheric ozone.

G. M. Harish Balayogi

G. M. Harish Balayogi, born in 1991 in Kakinada, is an Indian Telugu Desam Party politician who has represented Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha since 2024.

G. M. Snow

G. Murray Snow, born 1959, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Arizona, appointed by George W. Bush in 2008.

G. M. Trevelyan

G. M. Trevelyan, George Macaulay Trevelyan, was an English historian, the most widely read British historian of his time, Regius Professor at Cambridge and Master of Trinity College.

G. Marimuthu

G. Marimuthu (மாரிமுத்து), Tamil actor-director from Theni; directed Kannum Kannum (2008) and Pulivaal (2014), famed as Adhi Gunasekaran in Ethirneechal and for Pariyerum Perumal, Vikram, and Jailer; died 8 September 2023. Distinct from other people named Marimuthu.

G. Marius Clore

G. Marius Clore, also known as Marius Clore, is a London-born biophysicist at the NIH known for pioneering 3D protein structure determination by solution NMR spectroscopy.

G. Michael Felker

G. Michael Felker is an American cardiologist at Duke University who leads clinical trials in heart failure and served as President of the Heart Failure Society of America.

G. N. Ramachandran

Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran (1922–2001) was an Indian physicist and crystallographer who proposed the triple-helical structure of collagen and introduced the Ramachandran plot, still the standard tool for validating protein structures.

G. N. S. Rajasekaran

G. N. S. Rajasekaran is an Indian politician and Bharatiya Janata Party minister in Puducherry, elected from Thirunallar in 2026 and holding the agriculture and rural development portfolios.

G. N. Watson

G. N. Watson, George Neville Watson, was an English mathematician who wrote the standard treatise on Bessel functions, co-authored Modern Analysis with Whittaker, and proved the Rogers–Ramanujan identities.

G. Nagesh

G. Nagesh, also known as Godam Nagesh, is an Indian BJP politician who represents Adilabad, Telangana, in the Lok Sabha, a seat he earlier held from 2014 to 2019.

G. Nandy Singh

G. Nandy Singh (Grahanandan Nandy Singh, 1926-2014), Indian field hockey centre forward, won Olympic gold at London 1948 and Helsinki 1952, later Indian Navy commander and hockey administrator.

G. O. Wessenauer

G. O. Wessenauer, full name Gabriel Otto Wessenauer, was an American power and civil engineer who led the Tennessee Valley Authority power system and was a National Academy of Engineering member.

G. Octo Barnett

G. Octo Barnett, born Guy Octo Barnett, was an American physician and medical informatics pioneer who founded the Massachusetts General Hospital Laboratory of Computer Science.

G. P. Rajaratnam

G. P. Rajaratnam, full name G. P. Rajayyangar, was an Indian Kannada-language poet, playwright, and composer of children's verse, best known for Ratnana Padagalu and honored with the Rajyotsava award before his death in 1979.

G. Paolo Dotto

Gian Paolo Dotto is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Lausanne, known for work on Notch signaling and field cancerization.

G. Parameshwara

G. Parameshwara, born 1951, is an Indian National Congress politician serving as Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka and the longest-serving president of the state party unit.