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Gordon Dailley
Gordon Debenham "Don" Dailley (1911-1989), Winnipeg-born ice hockey defender who won 1936 Olympic gold for Great Britain, captained GB to European titles in 1937 and 1938, became a Canadian Army colonel, and founded African Lion Safari in Ontario.
Gordon Danby
Gordon Danby (1929–2016) was a Canadian-born physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who, with James R. Powell, invented superconducting maglev trains, earning the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal.
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan is a microbiologist and genome scientist, a Senior Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute known for genomic work on drug-resistant typhoid and vaccine equity.
Gordon Dunn
Gordon Dunn (Gordon Glover Dunn, "Slinger" Dunn, 1912-1964) was an American discus thrower who won silver at the 1936 Berlin Olympics with 49.36 m behind Ken Carpenter, won the 1934 NCAA and IC4A titles for Stanford, and served as Mayor of Fresno, California, 1949-1957.
Gordon E. Forward
Gordon E. Forward is an American metallurgist and steel executive who was president and CEO of Chaparral Steel in Midlothian, Texas, and later vice chairman of Texas Industries.
Gordon Elliott (journalist)
Gordon Elliott (born 1956, Liverpool) is a British-Australian journalist and TV producer, co-host of Good Morning Australia (1981), host of The Gordon Elliott Show (1994-97), and creator of ABC's The Chew.
Gordon F. Tomaselli
Gordon F. Tomaselli is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist who spent 32 years at Johns Hopkins, leading its cardiology division, before becoming dean of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2018.
Gordon Fain
Gordon L. Fain is an American physiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA known for research on phototransduction, the conversion of light into electrical signals in retinal photoreceptors.
Gordon Ferrie Hull
Gordon Ferrie Hull (1870–1956) was a Canadian-born American physicist who, with Ernest Fox Nichols at Dartmouth College, made the first precise measurement of the pressure of light, and taught physics there for 41 years.
Gordon Fishell
Gordon Fishell is a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023 for his work on inhibitory interneurons.
Gordon Freeman
Gordon Freeman is the silent theoretical-physicist protagonist of Valve's Half-Life series, age 27 canonically, armed with a crowbar and HEV suit, named by Gabe Newell after Marc Laidlaw's Dyson Poincaré draft.
Gordon G. Chang
Gordon G. Chang (章家敦, born 1951) is an American lawyer and commentator, author of The Coming Collapse of China (2001), which wrongly predicted Communist Party collapse by 2011; distinct from historian Gordon H. Chang.
Gordon G. Wallace
Gordon G. Wallace, born in Belfast in 1958, is an Australian chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Wollongong known for electromaterials research and 3D bioprinting.
Gordon Gano
Gordon James Gano (born 1963, New York) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, frontman of Milwaukee folk-punk band Violent Femmes; wrote "Blister in the Sun"; also recorded with the Mercy Seat and solo albums Hitting the Ground and Under the Sun.
Gordon Gekko
Gordon Gekko is the fictional corporate raider played by Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987) and its 2010 sequel, whose "greed is good" speech, modeled on Ivan Boesky, made him a lasting symbol of financial greed.
Gordon Getty
Gordon Peter Getty (born 1933), American composer, son of J. Paul Getty, based in San Francisco; tonal operas Plump Jack, Usher House, The Canterville Ghost, Goodbye Mr. Chips, and The White Election song cycle.
Gordon Gilkey
Gordon Waverly Gilkey (1912–2000) was an American artist, printmaker, and army officer who led the postwar confiscation of Nazi-era German art and later curated prints at the Portland Art Museum.
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, an 18-piece contemporary big band founded in 2000 by Gordon Goodwin, blends swing, funk, and Latin idioms; won the 2015 Grammy for Life In The Bubble and continues under Vangie Gunn-Goodwin.
Gordon Gould
Gordon Gould (1920–2005) was an American physicist who coined the word "laser" as a Columbia graduate student in 1957 and spent nearly 30 years winning his patents.
Gordon Graceffo
Gordon Graceffo (gruh-SEFF-oh), born 2000, is a right-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals; drafted 151st overall from Villanova in 2021, MLB debut June 29, 2024, 2026 bullpen standout.
Gordon Gray (politician)
Gordon Gray (1909–1982), American newspaper publisher and public servant; Secretary of the Army, UNC system president, AEC board chairman in the Oppenheimer case, and Eisenhower's National Security Advisor 1958–1961.
Gordon Greenidge
Sir Gordon Greenidge (Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge, born 1951, Black Bess, Barbados), West Indian opening batsman 1974–1991; 108 Tests, 7,558 runs at 44.72; with Desmond Haynes made 6,482 Test partnership runs; famous 214 chasing 342 at Lord's 1984; knighted, ICC Hall of Fame 2009.
Gordon growth model
The Gordon growth model, introduced by Myron Gordon and Eli Shapiro in 1956, values a stock as the next expected dividend divided by required return minus perpetual growth.
Gordon Guyatt
Gordon Guyatt is a Canadian physician and Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University who coined evidence-based medicine in 1990 and co-founded GRADE, used by over 110 organizations worldwide.
Gordon H. Bower
Gordon H. Bower was an American experimental psychologist and learning theorist who spent his 49-year career at Stanford University studying human associative memory and mood.
Gordon H. DeFriese
Gordon H. DeFriese is an American medical sociologist at UNC-Chapel Hill who directed the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research from 1973 to 2000.
Gordon H. Dixon
Gordon H. Dixon (1930–2016) was a Canadian biochemist and molecular biologist who helped found the molecular study of spermatogenesis, best known for his protamine work in trout.
Gordon H. Millar
Gordon H. Millar was an American engineer who spent his career at Deere & Company, rising to Vice President of Engineering, and served as president of SAE International and ABET.
Gordon H. Orians
Gordon H. Orians (born 1932) is an American behavioral ecologist and professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, known for his studies of blackbirds, habitat selection, and mating systems.
Gordon H. Smith
Gordon H. Smith (born 1952, Pendleton, Oregon) is a Republican former two-term U.S. Senator from Oregon (1997-2009) and former president and CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters (2009-2021), previously president of Smith Frozen Foods and the Oregon State Senate.