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Gordon H. Williams
Gordon H. Williams is an American endocrinologist and Harvard Medical School professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known for describing hypertension with inappropriate aldosterone stimulation.
Gordon Hammes
Gordon Hammes is an American biochemist and Duke University professor known for enzyme kinetics and single-molecule studies of enzyme dynamics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973.
Gordon Hanson
Gordon Hanson is an American economist at Harvard Kennedy School known for research on the China trade shock and its effects on US manufacturing jobs.
Gordon Hayward
Gordon Hayward (born 1990, Brownsburg, Indiana) is a retired NBA forward, 2010 ninth pick from Butler, All-Star in 2017 with Utah; 14 seasons with Utah, Boston, Charlotte, and Oklahoma City; retired August 1, 2024.
Gordon Heslop
Gordon Heslop is an American politician and Republican candidate for the US House in Louisiana's 4th congressional district, with the primary scheduled for November 3, 2026.
Gordon Highlanders
The Gordon Highlanders was a British Army infantry regiment raised in 1794 as the 100th Foot, renumbered the 92nd, merged with the 75th in 1881, and amalgamated into The Highlanders in 1994.
Gordon Hoare
Gordon Rahere Hoare (1884–1973), English amateur inside forward; won 1912 Stockholm Olympic football gold with Great Britain, scoring twice in the 4–2 final win over Denmark; played for Glossop, Arsenal, Fulham.
Gordon House (Silverton, Oregon)
The Gordon House is a Usonian house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957 for Conrad and Evelyn Gordon, completed in 1964 and the only Wright building in Oregon.
Gordon J. F. MacDonald
Gordon J. F. MacDonald (1929–2002) was an American geophysicist whose work spanned high-pressure geochemistry, seismology, planetary science, and environmental policy; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences at 32.
Gordon J. Freeman
Gordon J. Freeman is an American immunologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School who identified PD-L1 and PD-L2 as the ligands of PD-1.
Gordon J. Lithgow
Gordon J. Lithgow is an aging biologist and Professor at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, known for a 2011 study showing an amyloid-binding dye extends lifespan.
Gordon J. Quist
Gordon J. Quist, born 1937 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Michigan, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Gordon Jackson (actor)
Gordon Jackson, full name Gordon Cameron Jackson, was a Scottish actor best known as the butler Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and as George Cowley in The Professionals.
Gordon Jenkins
Gordon Hill Jenkins was an American arranger, conductor, and songwriter known for lush string arrangements, his work with Frank Sinatra, and the musical narrative Manhattan Tower.
Gordon Johnson (New Jersey politician)
Gordon M. Johnson is an American Democratic politician, a New Jersey state senator from the 37th district since 2021 after 19 years in the General Assembly.
Gordon Jump
Gordon Jump (Alexander Gordon Jump, 1932-2003), American character actor, played Arthur Carlson on WKRP in Cincinnati and Soap's Chief Tinkler, and was Maytag's Ol' Lonely repairman from 1988/1989 until 2003.
Gordon K. Danielson
Gordon K. Danielson, full name Gordon Kenneth Danielson, Jr., was an American cardiovascular surgeon at the Mayo Clinic who pioneered operations for complex congenital heart defects, including Ebstein anomaly repair.
Gordon K. Smyth
Gordon K. Smyth is an Australian statistical bioinformatician who leads a laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, creating the widely used limma and edgeR packages.
Gordon Kahl
Gordon W. Kahl, North Dakota farmer, Posse Comitatus member, and anti-tax fugitive, killed two U.S. marshals at Medina, ND in 1983 and died in an Arkansas shootout.
Gordon Keller
Gordon M. Keller is a Canadian stem cell biologist known for the 1997 discovery of the hemangioblast and for directing pluripotent stem cells into blood and heart cells.
Gordon Kidd Teal
Gordon Kidd Teal (1907–2003) was an American physical chemist who grew the first single-crystal germanium and silicon for transistors, co-invented the grown-junction transistor at Bell Labs, and built the first commercial silicon transistor at Texas Instruments.
Gordon Korman
Gordon Richard Korman (born 1963) is a Canadian-born author of over 100 children's and young-adult novels. His first book, This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall, was written in 7th grade and published by Scholastic in 1978; his 100th, The Fort, appeared in 2022.
Gordon L. Brownell
Gordon L. Brownell, also known as Gordon Lee Brownell, was an American MIT physicist who pioneered positron imaging of brain tumors in the 1950s, a technology that evolved into PET.
Gordon L. Hager
Gordon L. Hager is an American molecular biologist who heads the Hormone Action and Oncogenesis Section at the National Cancer Institute, known for showing steroid receptors bind DNA dynamically.
Gordon Lightfoot
Gordon Lightfoot (1938–2023), Canadian singer-songwriter from Orillia, Ontario; folk-pop star behind "Sundown", "If You Could Read My Mind", and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"; 21 original albums, 17 Juno Awards, Order of Canada.
Gordon Lish
Gordon Lish, born in 1934, is an American writer and editor who led fiction at Esquire and Knopf and is known for his heavy editing of Raymond Carver's stories.
Gordon Liu (刘家辉)
Gordon Liu (劉家輝, Lau Kar-Fai) is a Hong Kong martial arts actor and Hung Gar practitioner, star of The 36th Chamber of Shaolin as monk San Te and of Pai Mei and Johnny Mo in Tarantino's Kill Bill; not the Peking University economist Gordon G. Liu.
Gordon Lowe
Gordon Lowe, born 1949, is a Scottish physician-scientist who was Professor of Vascular Medicine at Glasgow from 1993 to 2009 and showed that raised clotting factor levels increase thrombosis risk.
Gordon M Shrum hydroelectric plant
The Gordon M Shrum hydroelectric plant, completed in 1968 at the W. A. C. Bennett Dam on the Peace River, is BC Hydro's largest facility at 2,857 MW.
Gordon M. Shepherd
Gordon M. Shepherd (1933–2022) was an American neuroscientist at Yale whose work on the olfactory bulb, brain microcircuits, and neurogastronomy shaped the study of smell.