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Goran C. Sedvall

Göran C. Sedvall is a Swedish psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, known for developing PET methods to measure dopamine receptors in the living human brain.

Göran Claeson

Göran Claeson (Rolf Göran Claeson), Swedish speed skater born 1945, Södermalms IK; 1972 Olympic 1,500 m bronze at Sapporo, 1973 World and European Allround champion, 1969 allround world record, Oscar Mathisen Trophy 1973.

Goran Dragić

Goran Dragić (Gogi, The Dragon), Slovenian guard born 1986 in Ljubljana; 15 NBA seasons, 2008 second-round pick; 2014 Most Improved Player, 2018 All-Star, EuroBasket 2017 champion and MVP; retired December 2023.

Göran Ekström

Göran Ekström is a Swedish seismologist at Columbia University who leads the Global CMT Project and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Goran Flodstrom

Göran Flodström (Goran Flodstrom), Swedish épée fencer born 1953 in Stockholm; Djurgårdens IF; 1976 Montreal Olympic team épée gold, =7 individual; world team titles 1974, 1975, 1977; injured in the Olympic final.

Goran Ivanišević

Goran Ivanišević (Горан Иванишевић), Croatian tennis player born 1971 in Split; 2001 Wimbledon champion as a wildcard ranked 125, the only Open Era wildcard to win a Grand Slam singles title; later coached Djokovic.

Göran Kropp

Göran Kropp, full name Lars Olof Göran Kropp, was a Swedish mountaineer who in 1996 bicycled from Stockholm to Nepal, climbed Everest without bottled oxygen, and cycled home.

Göran Lindblad (theoretical physicist)

Göran Lindblad (1940–2022) was a Swedish theoretical physicist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology who derived the Lindblad equation, the master equation for Markovian open quantum systems.

Göran Möller

Göran Möller (1936–2008) was a Swedish immunologist known for his work on B-cell activation and thymus-independent antigens, and for helping found the Scandinavian Society for Immunology in 1969.

Goran Pandev (Горан Пандев)

Goran Pandev (Горан Пандев), born 1983 in Strumica, Macedonian forward; 2010 Champions League and treble with Inter, Lazio, Napoli, Galatasaray, Genoa; North Macedonia's all-time top scorer with 38 goals in 122 caps.

Goran Perkovac

Goran Perkovac (born 1962, Slatina) is a Croatian handball player and coach: Olympic gold captain 1996 and bronze 1988, Swiss league record scorer, coach of Switzerland, Greece, Croatia (2023–24), and Iraq.

Goran Prize

The Goran Prize (Croatian: Goran za mlade pjesnike) is an annual Croatian literary prize for the best unpublished poetry manuscript by a poet up to age 30.

Goran Rađenović

Goran Rađenović (Горан Рађеновић), born 1966 in Niš, is a Montenegrin former water polo player who won Olympic gold with Yugoslavia at Seoul 1988, plus 1991 world and European titles, then coached in Serbia and Italy.

Göran Sonnevi

Göran Sonnevi, born in 1939, is a Swedish poet and translator whose 1965 poem on the Vietnam War made him a voice of left-wing political poetry.

Goran Sprem

Goran Šprem, born 1979 in Dubrovnik, is a retired Croatian handball left wing who won Olympic gold at Athens 2004, world titles in 2003, and later worked in sports travel and RTL commentary.

Goran Sukno

Goran Sukno (Горан Сукно; 1959–2026) was a Croatian water polo player who won Olympic gold for Yugoslavia in 1984 and the 1986 world championship as captain.

Göran Tunström

Göran Tunström (1937–2000) was a Swedish poet and novelist whose autobiographical, magical realist work is largely set in Sunne, Värmland; his novel Juloratoriet won the 1984 Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Goran Ungar

Goran Ungar is a polymer and liquid crystal scientist and Emeritus Professor of Polymers and Organic Materials at the University of Sheffield, known for discovering the first liquid quasicrystals.

Goran Višnjić

Goran Višnjić, Croatian actor born 1972 in Šibenik, star of ER as Dr. Luka Kovac (1999–2008), youngest Hamlet at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, films from Welcome to Sarajevo to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, returned to Croatia in 2026 after 25 years in Los Angeles and six in Cornwall.

Goran Vujevic

Goran Vujević (Горан Вујевић), Montenegrin volleyball player born 1973 in Cetinje; Olympic gold 2000 and bronze 1996 with Yugoslavia; 293 national-team caps 1995–2006; not the footballers Goran Vučević or Goran Vujović.

Gorani language

Gorani (Gūrānī) is a group of endangered Northwest Iranian varieties of the Zagros mountains (Iran/Iraq), including Hawrami and Bajalani, distinct from Kurdish; former literary language of Ardalan and sacred language of the Ahl-e Haqq.

Gorani people

Gorani: South Slavic Muslim community of the Gora region in southern Kosovo's Dragash municipality (30–40% there), speaking the Torlakian-Macedonian transitional našinski ethnolect; 10,265 in Kosovo's 2011 census; identity contested among Bosniak, Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian claims.

Gord Downie

Gord Downie (1964-2017) was the lead singer and lyricist of Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip and creator of Secret Path about Chanie Wenjack; also a Juno-winning solo artist.

Gord Fishell

Gord Fishell (Gordon Fishell) is a developmental neurobiologist, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School since 2017 and a group leader at the Broad Institute.

Gordan Grlić Radman

Gordan Grlić Radman, born 1958 in Tomislavgrad, is a Croatian diplomat and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs since 2019, previously ambassador to Germany and Hungary.

Gordan Kozulj

Gordan Kožulj, Croatian backstroke swimmer (born 1976, Zagreb), Mladost and Cal Berkeley; 2000 world short-course 200 m champion, 1:51.62 world record, triple European champion, four-time Olympian, later Deloitte Croatia director.

Gordana Dimitrievska Kochoska

Gordana Dimitrievska Kochoska (Гордана Димитриеска-Кочоска) is a North Macedonian politician who serves as Minister of Finance, presenting the 2026 budget rebalancing and representing the country at the World Economic Forum and Concordia Annual Summit in 2026.

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, born in 1953 in Ohrid, is a Macedonian politician and retired constitutional law professor serving as President of North Macedonia since May 2024.

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is a Serbian-American biomedical engineer at Columbia University who engineers human heart, lung, bone, and vascular tissue and co-founded four biotech companies, including EpiBone.

Gorden Kaye

Gorden Kaye (Gordon Kaye, 1941–2017) was an English comic actor who played café owner René Artois in all 85 episodes of the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1992) and its stage version, and earlier Bernard Butler in Coronation Street.