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GrafTech

GrafTech International Ltd. is an American manufacturer of graphite electrodes for electric arc furnace steelmaking, founded in 1886 and headquartered in Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, with plants in Europe and Mexico.

Grafted (film)

Grafted (2024) is a New Zealand body horror film and the feature debut of director Sasha Rainbow, starring Joyena Sun, Jess Hong, and Eden Hart. It premiered at NZIFF in August 2024 and streams on Shudder from January 24, 2025.

Grafting

Grafting joins a scion and rootstock so two plants grow as one; ancient technique (5th century BCE) used for fruit trees and vegetables to add disease resistance, stress tolerance, and yield stability.

Grafting density

Grafting density is the average number of polymer chains tethered to a unit area of a surface, and it determines whether attached chains behave as isolated coils or stretched polymer brushes.

Grafton Elliot Smith

Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937) was an Australian-born anatomist and Egyptologist who held chairs in Cairo, Manchester, and London and pioneered palaeopathology on ancient Nubian remains.

Grafton monster

Grafton Monster, also called the Beast of Grafton or Headless Horror, is a West Virginia cryptid reportedly seen June 16, 1964 by reporter Robert Cockrell near the Tygart Valley River: a pale, headless, whistling humanoid, later popularized by Fallout 76.

Graha Merah Putih

Graha Merah Putih, Indonesian for "Red and White Building", is the name of two Telkom Indonesia office buildings: the head office tower in South Jakarta and a former headquarters in Bandung.

Graham A. Colditz

Graham A. Colditz is an Australian-born cancer epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, known for linking postmenopausal hormone therapy to breast cancer risk and for breast cancer risk prediction models.

Graham A. MacGregor

Graham A. MacGregor, also known as G A MacGregor, was a British professor of cardiovascular medicine who founded Action on Salt and drove the UK's national salt-reduction program.

Graham A.R. Johnston

Graham A.R. Johnston, born 1939 in Sydney, is an Australian medicinal chemist and pharmacologist who established bicuculline as a GABA antagonist and was Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Sydney from 1980 to 2011.

Graham Alexander

Graham Alexander (born 1971) is an English football manager and former Preston player who has managed Fleetwood, Scunthorpe, Salford, Motherwell, MK Dons, Bradford City, and Preston North End, winning three promotions.

Graham Barham

Graham Barham, American country singer-songwriter from Oak Ridge, Louisiana; debut single "Preachers Need People" (2022), viral hit "Oil Money" (2025), debut album CLUB COUNTRY (June 12, 2026), No. 1 songwriter on Blake Shelton's "Stay Country or Die Tryin'."

Graham Bell Island

Graham Bell Island, an island in eastern Franz Josef Land, Barents Sea, Arctic Russia; about 1,640-1,708 km2, 71 percent glaciated, discovered by Baldwin in 1899, later a Soviet strategic-bomber ice airfield.

Graham Blanks

Graham Blanks (born 2002) is an American distance runner from Athens, Georgia; two-time NCAA cross country champion for Harvard, 2024 Paris Olympian (ninth, 5000m), and New Balance professional.

Graham Bonnet

Graham Bonnet (born 1947, Skegness, England) is an English hard rock vocalist, also known as Graham Bradley, formerly of the Marbles, Rainbow, the Michael Schenker Group, Alcatrazz, and Impellitteri; he sang on Rainbow's Down to Earth (1980) and still tours with the Graham Bonnet Band.

Graham Brady

Graham Brady, Baron Brady of Altrincham (born 1967), Conservative MP for Altrincham and Sale West 1997-2024 and Chairman of the 1922 Committee 2010-2024, keeper of no-confidence letters who oversaw the exits of May, Johnson, and Truss; now a life peer.

Graham C. Goodwin

Graham C. Goodwin, born 1945 in Broken Hill, Australia, is a control engineer at the University of Newcastle whose 1980 adaptive control proof is considered seminal.

Graham C. Mullen

Graham C. Mullen, born 1940, is a retired United States district judge for the Western District of North Carolina who served as chief judge from 1998 to 2005.

Graham C. Walker

Graham C. Walker (born 1948) is an American molecular biologist, a longtime MIT professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, known for DNA repair research.

Graham Carpenter

Graham Carpenter is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University who joined Stanley Cohen's EGF program, helped characterize the epidermal growth factor receptor in 1978, and studied ErbB receptor signaling.

Graham Carr

Graham Carr (born 1944, Corbridge, England) is an English former footballer, manager, and Newcastle United chief scout 2010-2017, father of comedian Alan Carr; managed Northampton Town to the 1986-87 Fourth Division title.

Graham Chapman

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) was a British comedy writer, actor, and physician, a founding member of Monty Python and John Cleese's writing partner. He played King Arthur in Holy Grail and Brian in Life of Brian, and wrote A Liar's Autobiography.

Graham Corporation

Graham Corporation is an American engineering and manufacturing company in Batavia, New York, founded in 1936, building vacuum, heat transfer, and turbomachinery equipment for defense, energy, and space markets.

Graham Coxon

Graham Coxon (born 1969) is the English guitarist of Britpop band Blur and a solo artist with eight albums and four film scores, the WAEVE duo with Rose Elinor Dougall, and the 2026 release Castle Park.

Graham cracker

Graham cracker: thin, crisp American cookie made from graham flour, invented 1829 by Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham as a bland anti-vice health food; now sweetened with honey and cinnamon and used in s'mores and pie crusts.

Graham D. Farquhar

Graham D. Farquhar, also known as G. D. Farquhar, is an Australian plant physiologist at the Australian National University, best known for the 1980 Farquhar–von Caemmerer–Berry model of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation.

Graham Elliot

Graham Elliot (Graham Elliot Bowles), American chef and TV personality, MasterChef and Top Chef judge, youngest US four-star chef at 27, two-Michelin-star Chicago restaurant, Far Out Hospitality partner in Fort Worth, Texas.

Graham F. Hatfull

Graham F. Hatfull is a University of Pittsburgh microbiologist who studies mycobacteriophages, built the PhagesDB collection, and developed phages used in the first engineered phage therapy.

Graham Feingold

Graham Feingold is a South African-born atmospheric scientist at NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, known for his 2009 and 2010 Nature papers on aerosol-cloud interactions.

Graham Fellows

Graham Fellows, English comedian, actor, and songwriter from Sheffield, creator of the 1978 UK number 4 hit "Jilted John" and of comedy characters John Shuttleworth, Brian Appleton, and Dave Tordoff, with radio, TV, and film work including Father Earth.