All articles starting with G

Gotthard Victor Lechler

Gotthard Victor Lechler (1811–1888) was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian at Leipzig, known for his studies of the apostolic age and John Wycliffe.

Gotthilft Studnitz

Gotthilft von Studnitz (1908–1994) was a German physician, physiologist, and zoologist known for research on retinal vision processes and a professorship at the University of Halle.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German Enlightenment playwright, critic, and philosopher; first officially appointed dramaturg; wrote Minna von Barnhelm, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise, and the Hamburgische Dramaturgie.

Gotti (1996 film)

Gotti (1996) is an HBO television biographical drama directed by Robert Harmon, starring Armand Assante as mob boss John Gotti, with Anthony Quinn and William Forsythe; Emmy-winning, highest-rated HBO telefilm of its time.

Gotti (2018 film)

Gotti (2018) is an American biographical crime film about mob boss John Gotti, directed by Kevin Connolly, starring John Travolta, Kelly Preston, and Spencer Lofranco; a critical and commercial failure with a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score and six Razzie nominations.

Göttingen

Göttingen, Lower Saxony university city on the Leine, home of Georg-August-Universität (founded 1737) with 45 Nobel laureates, five Max Planck Institutes, and the Gänseliesel landmark.

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen), founded 1751 by King George II; Germany's oldest continuously existing academy, learned society with ~380 members, 74 Nobel laureates, and 18 long-term humanities research projects.

Göttinger Hainbund

The Göttinger Hainbund, also called the Göttinger Dichterbund, was a literary society of students at the University of Göttingen, founded in 1772 to venerate the poet Klopstock.

Gottipati Ravi Kumar

Gottipati Ravi Kumar is an Indian politician who has served as Minister for Energy in Andhra Pradesh. He has won five consecutive assembly elections from three different parties.

Gottlieb Burckhardt

Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907) was a Swiss psychiatrist who, as director of the Préfargier asylum, performed the first psychosurgical operations on six patients between 1888 and 1890, decades before the leucotomy.

Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (1834–1900) was a German engineer who, with Wilhelm Maybach, developed a high-speed combustion engine, built the first four-wheeled automobile in 1886, and co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1890.

Gottlieb Nathanael Bonwetsch

Gottlieb Nathanael Bonwetsch (1848–1925) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian who held chairs at Dorpat and Göttingen and edited early Christian texts from Slavonic manuscripts.

Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), German logician at Jena, created the first predicate calculus in Begriffsschrift (1879), founded logicism in Grundlagen and Grundgesetze, distinguished sense from reference, and was undone by Russell's paradox.

Gottmik

Gottmik, stage name of Kade Gottlieb (born 1996), is an American drag performer and makeup artist, the first trans man on RuPaul's Drag Race, runner-up of US Season 13, later on All Stars 9, known for white-face makeup and singles like RIOT.

Oct 15, 2026

Göttweig Abbey

Göttweig Abbey, or Stift Göttweig, is a Benedictine monastery on the Göttweig Hill south of Krems in Lower Austria, founded in 1083 by Bishop Altmann of Passau.

Sep 19, 2026

Gottwood

Gottwood, also billed as Gottwood Festival, is a boutique electronic music festival held in woodland on the Carreglwyd Estate in Anglesey, Wales, founded in 2010.

Oct 15, 2026

Goturdepe Gas Field

Goturdepe (Koturdepe in Turkmen) is a large mature oil and gas field in western Turkmenistan near the Caspian Sea, operated by the Türkmennebit State Concern since 1956.

Gotye

Gotye (Wouter "Wally" De Backer, born 1980, Bruges) is a Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose 2011 single "Somebody That I Used to Know" with Kimbra sold nearly 15 million copies and won three Grammys; albums Boardface, Like Drawing Blood, Making Mirrors.

Sep 19, 2026

Götz Alsmann

Götz Alsmann, born 1957 in Münster, is a German musician and television presenter who plays German Schlager of the 1920s to 1950s in jazz style.

Götz von Berlichingen

Götz von Berlichingen (ca. 1480–1562), Franconian Imperial knight and mercenary, lost his right hand at Landshut in 1504 and wore two famous mechanical iron hands, later immortalized by Goethe's 1773 play.

Oct 21, 2026

Gou ji

Gou ji (够级, Sufficient Rank) is a six-player, three-against-three climbing card game from Qingdao, Shandong, China, played with four decks (216 cards, 36-card hands); high plays trigger a duel with the opposite player (Dui Men).

Gou Lijun

Gou Lijun (苟利军) is a Chinese astrophysicist at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences known for measuring black hole spins, including Cygnus X-1.

Sep 20, 2026

Gou Young Koh

Gou Young Koh (고유영) is a South Korean physician-scientist in vascular biology who directs the IBS Center for Vascular Research and is a distinguished professor at KAIST in Daejeon.

Gouache

Gouache, or body color, is an opaque water-based paint of pigment in gum arabic or dextrin with white fillers such as chalk; it rewets with water, dries matte, was used for miniatures, illustration, posters and animation cels, and cracks in thick layers.

Gouda cheese

Gouda: Dutch washed-curd semihard cow's-milk cheese named for the Gouda cheese market (market rights 1395), not the making town. 40–50% fat in dry matter, ripened 4 weeks to over a year; Gouda Holland PGI and Noord-Hollandse Gouda PDO are the protected names.

Gouden Ganzenveer

The Gouden Ganzenveer, or Golden goose quill, is a Dutch cultural prize awarded annually since 1955 to a person or institution for contributions to the written Dutch language.

Gouden Griffel

The Gouden Griffel (Golden Slate Pencil) is the Netherlands' annual jury prize for the best-written originally Dutch-language children's book, awarded by the CPNB since 1971 with a 10,000 euro cash prize.