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Gordon M. Tomkins

Gordon M. Tomkins (1926–1975) was an American biochemist who helped found molecular endocrinology, showing how steroid hormone receptors regulate gene expression, and led molecular biology research at NIH before joining UCSF.

Gordon MacRae

Gordon MacRae (Albert Gordon MacRae, 1921-1986), American baritone singer and actor, star of the film musicals Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel (1956) and of radio's The Railroad Hour, with Capitol Records hits and Jo Stafford duets.

Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978) was an American artist and trained architect known for building cuts, large sculptural incisions made in condemned buildings in New York and abroad.

Gordon McKee (politician)

Gordon McKee (born 1994, Rutherglen) is a Labour and Co-operative MP for Glasgow South since the July 2024 general election, a gain from the SNP with a 4,154 majority; former software developer and Scottish Labour campaign organiser.

Gordon McQueen

Gordon McQueen (1952-2023), Scottish centre-half for St Mirren, Leeds United, and Manchester United, 30 Scotland caps; 1974 league title, 1983 FA Cup; 2026 inquest found heading likely contributed to CTE.

Gordon model

The Gordon model is a dividend discount model that values a stock as the present value of dividends growing at a constant rate, using the formula V = D/(r − g).

Gordon Moore

Gordon Moore (Gordon Earle Moore, 1929–2023) was an American chemist and business executive who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, led Intel as CEO, and formulated Moore's Law, the 1965 prediction that chip components would double regularly.

Gordon Morgan Holmes

Gordon Morgan Holmes was an Irish neurologist at Queen Square, London, who defined the clinical signs of cerebellar disease and mapped the human visual cortex.

Gordon Moyes

Gordon Moyes (1938-2015), Australian evangelist, broadcaster and NSW Legislative Council member; Superintendent of Wesley Mission Sydney for 27 years; elected 2002 for the Christian Democratic Party, expelled 2009, then Family First, serving until 2011.

Gordon Murray

Gordon Murray (Ian Gordon Murray, born 1946) is a South African-born British automotive designer known for the McLaren F1 road car and his Formula One teams Brabham and McLaren.

Gordon Murray Automotive S1

The Gordon Murray Automotive S1 is a limited-production, three-seat supercar revealed at Monterey Car Week in August 2026, with 64 cars built around a 4.2-liter Cosworth V12.

Gordon N. Gill

Gordon N. Gill (1937–2021) was an American endocrinologist who joined the University of California, San Diego faculty in 1969 and studied hormone action and signal transduction, especially EGF receptor trafficking.

Gordon P. Gallagher

Gordon P. Gallagher, born Gordon Paul Gallagher in 1970, is a United States district judge in Colorado since 2023, appointed by President Biden and the first judge stationed outside Denver.

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), American photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer from Fort Scott, Kansas; first Black staff photographer at Life, creator of American Gothic, director of The Learning Tree and Shaft.

Gordon Peters

Gordon Peters (1948–2016) was a British molecular biologist at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Cancer Research UK, known for identifying the int-2 locus and the INK4a/ARF tumor suppressor locus.

Gordon Pettengill

Gordon Pettengill (1926–2021) was an American radio astronomer and MIT professor who pioneered radar studies of the Moon, Mercury, and Venus, and directed the Arecibo Observatory.

Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Pinsent (1930–2023), Canadian actor, playwright, and director from Grand Falls, Newfoundland; star of Quentin Durgens, M.P., The Rowdyman, and Away From Her; Genie winner and Companion of the Order of Canada.

Gordon Pirie

Gordon Pirie (Douglas Alistair Gordon Pirie, 1931-1991), British long-distance runner, 1956 Olympic 5000m silver medallist behind Vladimir Kuts, world record holder at 3000m, 5000m, 6 miles, and 4x1500m relay, 1955 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Gordon R. Bernard

Gordon R. Bernard is an American pulmonary and critical care physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who led the NIH ARDS Clinical Trials Network from 1994 to 2014.

Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay (born 1966, Johnstone, Scotland) is a British chef and TV personality whose Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea holds three Michelin stars; he runs a 103-restaurant global group and hosts Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares.

Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service

Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service is an American Fox reality series (premiered May 21, 2025) in which Ramsay secretly surveils failing restaurants via an insider and surveillance vehicle, then stages a surprise after-hours blacklight kitchen inspection, a variant of Kitchen Nightmares.

Gordon Reid (tennis)

Gordon Reid, born 1991, is a Scottish wheelchair tennis player, Rio 2016 Paralympic singles gold medallist, inaugural Wimbledon wheelchair singles champion 2016, and record doubles partner of Alfie Hewett.

Gordon Ringold

Gordon Ringold is a biochemist and biotechnology executive who led the Affymax Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, from 1991 to 2000, then co-founded Maxygen and other companies.

Gordon Ritter

Gordon Ritter is a venture capitalist who founded Emergence Capital in 2002 and is best known for Veeva Systems, the cloud software company that went public in 2013.

Gordon Rustin

Gordon J.S. Rustin is a British medical oncologist known for trials in gynecological cancer and germ-cell tumors and for CA125 research at Charing Cross and Mount Vernon hospitals.

Gordon Ryan

Gordon Ryan, "The King" (Gordon F. Ryan III, born 1995), American no-gi jiu-jitsu grappler; seven-time ADCC champion 2017–2024 across three weight classes and superfights; retired February 2026 due to gastroparesis.

Gordon S. Brown

Gordon S. Brown (1907–1996) was an Australian-born American electrical engineer who spent his career at MIT, founding the Servomechanisms Laboratory and co-writing the seminal feedback-control textbook.

Gordon S. Kino

Gordon S. Kino (1928–2017) was an Australian-born American electrical engineer and applied physicist at Stanford, best known for inventing the ultra-fast confocal scanning optical microscope and holding more than 90 patents.

Gordon Sammis

Gordon "Gordie" Sammis, American college football coach, TCU offensive coordinator since January 2026 under Sonny Dykes; former Virginia guard, ex-UConn offensive coordinator with back-to-back nine-win seasons.

Gordon Sanghera

Gordon Sanghera, full name Gurdial Sanghera, is a life-science entrepreneur who co-founded Oxford Nanopore Technologies in 2005, led it as chief executive for two decades, and took it to a £4.9 billion London listing in 2021.