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Grant Main
Grant Main (Gerald Grant Main, born 1960, Victoria, BC) is a Canadian rower, gold medallist in the men's coxed eight at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and sixth in 1988, later a BC deputy minister.
Grant Mitchell (EastEnders)
Grant Mitchell, full name Grant Antony Mitchell, is a fictional character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Ross Kemp from 1990 to 2026.
Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison (born 1960, Glasgow) is a Scottish comics writer of Animal Man, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles, All-Star Superman, Batman, and New X-Men, distinct as a chaos-magician "British Generation" writer, MBE 2012.
Grant Nicholas
Grant Nicholas, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Newport in 1967, fronts and writes for rock band Feeder (Buck Rogers, Comfort In Sound) and since 2014 has released solo albums Yorktown Heights and Black Clouds.
Grant of probate
A grant of probate is an official document issued by a probate registry giving an executor the legal right to deal with a deceased person's estate.
Grant of the Diwani
The Grant of the Diwani (دیوانی بنگالہ) was the 1765 transfer by Mughal emperor Shah Alam II of revenue rights over Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa to the East India Company.
Grant R. Sutherland
Grant R. Sutherland, born 1945, is an Australian human cytogeneticist known for his work on fragile sites on chromosomes and for the dynamic mutation concept underlying fragile X syndrome.
Grant Schubert
Grant Schubert (Grant Luke Schubert, born 1980, Loxton, South Australia) is an Australian field hockey striker, Olympic gold medallist at Athens 2004 and bronze medallist at Beijing 2008, with 180 Kookaburras caps.
Grant Shapps
Grant Shapps (born 1968) is a British Conservative politician, MP for Welwyn Hatfield 2005–2024, who served as Transport, Home, Business, Energy, and Defence Secretary, losing his seat in 2024.
Grant Sputore
Grant Sputore is an Australian director from Perth, founder of The Penguin Empire, whose feature debut I Am Mother (2019) premiered at Sundance and released on Netflix; he directs Godzilla x Kong: Supernova (2027).
Grant Tinker
Grant Tinker (1925 or 1926–2016), American television executive and producer; co-founder of MTM Enterprises with Mary Tyler Moore and NBC chairman-CEO 1981–1986, reviving the network with Cheers, Hill Street Blues, and The Cosby Show.
Grant Udinski
Grant Udinski (born 1996, Doylestown, PA) is the Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator since February 2025, formerly Minnesota Vikings assistant OC/QBs coach; led record-setting 2025 offense.
Grant v Australian Knitting Mills
Grant v Australian Knitting Mills [1935] UKPC 2, also 54 CLR 49, a Privy Council case: Adelaide doctor Grant won £2,450 for sulphite-caused dermatitis from underwear, holding the retailer liable under the Sale of Goods Act and the manufacturer liable in tort under Donoghue v Stevenson.
Grant v Torstar Corp
Grant v Torstar Corp, 2009 SCC 61, [2009] 3 SCR 640, is the Supreme Court of Canada decision establishing the defamation defence of responsible communication on a matter of public interest, requiring public-interest subject matter and diligent verification, broader than the UK Reynolds defence.
Grant W. Liddle
Grant W. Liddle (1921–1989) was an American endocrinologist at Vanderbilt University whose work defined the modern diagnosis of adrenal gland disorders; Liddle's syndrome, a hereditary hypertension, is named for him.
Grant Wahl
Grant Wahl (1973–2022) was an American sportswriter, Sports Illustrated senior writer and soccer specialist, author of The Beckham Experiment, 2011 FIFA presidential candidate, who died of an aortic aneurysm at the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Grant Williams (basketball)
Grant Williams (born 1998) is an NBA forward for the Charlotte Hornets, drafted 22nd overall in 2019 by Boston after two SEC Player of the Year seasons at Tennessee; career averages of 7.0 points and 37.7% three-point shooting.
Grant Willson
C. Grant Willson, born 1939, is an American chemical engineer who invented chemically amplified resists at IBM and won the 2007 National Medal of Technology and 2013 Japan Prize.
Grant Wilson
Grant Steven Wilson (born 1974) is an American paranormal investigator who co-founded TAPS with Jason Hawes and led Ghost Hunters (2004–2016, A&E revival 2019–2020).
Grant Wood
Grant Wood (1891–1942), Iowa painter of American Gothic (1930), leading American Regionalist alongside Benton and Curry; studied in Munich, taught at University of Iowa, wrote Revolt Against the City.
Grant-in-aid
A grant-in-aid is a transfer of money between levels of government for a specific purpose, subject to conditions such as matching requirements and eligible uses.
Grant's
Grant's is a blended Scotch whisky brand created in 1898 by William Grant, the Dufftown distiller who founded Glenfiddich, and still made by his family firm.
Grant's Tomb
Grant's Tomb (General Grant National Memorial) is John H. Duncan's 1897 mausoleum in Riverside Park, Manhattan, holding Ulysses S. and Julia Dent Grant in above-ground sarcophagi; largest mausoleum in North America, dedicated April 27, 1897.
Granta
Granta is a British literary magazine, founded at Cambridge University in 1889 and relaunched in 1979 as a quarterly publishing new fiction, memoir, and reportage.
Granta-519
Granta-519 (GRANTA-519, CVCL_1818) is a human mantle cell lymphoma cell line from a 58-year-old woman's peripheral blood, carrying t(11;14) with cyclin D1 overexpression, CDKN2A deletion, and ATM deficiency; a standard MCL research model.
Grantchester (TV series)
Grantchester is a British ITV period crime drama (2014–2026), adapted by Daisy Coulam from James Runcie's The Grantchester Mysteries. Set in 1950s Cambridgeshire, it pairs DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green) with three vicar sleuths, ending with an 11th season in June 2026.
Grantha script
Grantha (கிரந்தம்) is the South Indian Brahmi-derived script developed under the Pallavas to write Sanskrit in the Tamil country, distinct from Tamil script, ancestor of Malayalam, encoded in Unicode 7.0.
Grantham
Grantham is a market town in South Kesteven, Lincolnshire, on the River Witham near the Nottinghamshire border. Known for St Wulfram's 282.5 ft spire, Newton's schooling, Thatcher's birthplace, and its engineering and coaching heritage.
Grantham Coleman
Grantham Coleman (born 1990, Missouri City, Texas) is an American Juilliard-trained actor, not the musician Coleman or Leslie Grantham. Known for Hamlet at The Old Globe, MLK in Broadway's The Great Society, Bobby Seale in Seberg, and lead role in Emperor of Ocean Park (2024).
Grantia
Grantia (Fleming, 1828) is a genus of small calcareous sponges in family Grantiidae, class Calcarea, with type species Grantia compressa; a textbook example of the syconoid canal system, distinct from the homonymous plant genus in Asteraceae.