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Gordes

Gordes, Vaucluse hilltop village in Provence, France, among Les Plus Beaux Villages de France; known for its 1031 castle, Sénanque Abbey (1148), and the Village des Bories dry-stone huts.

Gordian III (Marcus Antonius Gordianus, 225/226–244), Roman emperor 238–244, grandson of Gordian I, youngest sole emperor at 13; ruled through prefects Timesitheus and Philip the Arab, died after the battle of Misiche against Shapur I, cause disputed.

Gordian Knot

Gordian knot: legendary cornel-bark knot fastening Gordius's wagon at Gordium, Phrygia; oracle promised rule of Asia to whoever undid it. Alexander the Great cut or untied it in 333 BCE, source of the idiom for decisive solutions.

Gordias

Gordias, also spelled Gordios (Greek: Γόρδιος), is a legendary king of Phrygia, remembered as a peasant raised to kingship by an omen, as father of Midas, and as owner of the Gordian Knot.

Gordie Howe

Gordie Howe, "Mr. Hockey," was a Canadian ice hockey star who played 26 NHL seasons, mostly for Detroit, winning four Stanley Cups and six Hart Trophies into his 50s.

Gordie Howe International Bridge

The Gordie Howe International Bridge, also called the New International Trade Crossing, is a six-lane cable-stayed bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit, Michigan, opened to traffic in July 2026.

Oct 21, 2026

Gordii Fossae

Gordii Fossae, also tied to Sulci Gordii and Gordii Dorsum, is an IAU-approved (2000) system of troughs on Mars, about 339 km across, centered at 14.83°N, 232.40°E in quad MC-09, named from a classical albedo feature.

Gordion

Gordion, also known as Gordium, is the site of the ancient capital of Phrygia near Ankara, Türkiye, the royal city of King Midas, inscribed by UNESCO in 2023.

Gordita

Gordita ("little fat one"), Mexican thick nixtamalized corn-masa cake, cooked on a comal or fried, split and filled after cooking; distinct from pupusa (filled before) and arepa; also a Taco Bell item since 1998.

Gordon Allport

Gordon Willard Allport (1897–1967) was a Harvard psychologist, pioneer of trait theory (cardinal, central, secondary traits, functional autonomy), and author of The Nature of Prejudice (1954), origin of the four-condition intergroup contact hypothesis.

Gordon Anderson (sculptor)

Gordon Anderson (sculptor): unconfirmed identity; documented namesakes include Pacific Northwest sculptor Gordon Lee Anderson (UW papers, 1954-1977, work 'Cat') and Canadian artist Gordon Anderson (b. 1965, Hamilton, Ontario).

Sep 20, 2026

Gordon B. Cutler

Gordon B. Cutler, Jr. is an American endocrinologist who led the Section on Developmental Endocrinology at NIH's NICHD from 1983 to 1997, then worked with Eli Lilly.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Gordon B. Hinckley, born Gordon Bitner Hinckley, was an American religious leader who served as 15th president of the LDS Church from 1995 to 2008.

Gordon Banks

Gordon Banks (1937-2019), English goalkeeper for Leicester City and Stoke City, 73 England caps, 1966 World Cup winner, FIFA Goalkeeper of the Year 1966-1971, famous for the 1970 save from Pelé.

Gordon Baym

Gordon Baym is an American theoretical physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 1963, known for neutron-star matter, quantum fluids, and the Kadanoff–Baym formalism, and winner of the Bethe and Onsager prizes.

Gordon Behind Bars

Gordon Behind Bars, also known as Ramsay Behind Bars, is a 2012 British docu-reality series. It follows Gordon Ramsay teaching inmates at HMP Brixton to run a bakery.

Gordon Bell

Gordon Bell (1934–2024) was an American computer engineer, called the father of the minicomputer, who led DEC's PDP-8, PDP-11, and VAX designs and created the ACM Gordon Bell Prize.

Gordon Bennett (general)

Henry Gordon Bennett (1887–1962), Australian lieutenant general, commanded the 8th Division in Malaya and escaped Singapore after the 15 February 1942 surrender; postwar enquiries found the escape unjustified, ending his career.

Gordon Bennett Cup (ballooning)

The Gordon Bennett Cup, or Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, is an international gas-balloon distance race first flown from Paris in 1906, founded by James Gordon Bennett Jr.

Gordon Bowker

Gordon Bowker (1942 to 2025) was a Seattle entrepreneur who co-founded Starbucks in 1971 and Redhook Ale Brewery, an early American craft brewery, in 1981.

Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown, also known as James Gordon Brown, is a British Labour politician who was Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010 after ten years as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Gordon C. Osbourn

Gordon C. Osbourn is an American physicist at Sandia National Laboratories known for originating strained-layer superlattices, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.

Sep 27, 2026

Gordon C. Rhea

Gordon C. Rhea is an American attorney serving as Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands, nominated by Governor Albert Bryan Jr. and sworn in in 2024.

Sep 20, 2026

Gordon C. S. Smith

Gordon C. S. Smith is a British obstetrician who has been Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Cambridge since 2001, researching placental dysfunction and stillbirth prevention.

Gordon Campbell (semiconductor executive)

Gordon A. Campbell is an American semiconductor executive, formerly of Intel, who co-founded Chips and Technologies in 1984 and is credited with pioneering the fabless model of chip design.

Oct 21, 2026

Gordon Carpenter

Gordon Carpenter, "Shorty" (1919-1988), American AAU basketball player with the Phillips 66ers; won 1948 Olympic gold with the USA and coached the Denver Chevrolets to silver at the 1950 World Championship.

Gordon Cook

Gordon Cook, born 1932, is a British physician and medical historian known for research on tropical sprue and as president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Gordon Cooper

Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr., known as Gordo, was an American Air Force officer and NASA astronaut, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts selected in 1959.

Gordon D. Logan

Gordon D. Logan, also known as Gordon Logan, is a Canadian-born cognitive psychologist, Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt, known for the 1984 race model of response inhibition.