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Gregg v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), the Supreme Court case (with Proffitt, Jurek, Woodson, Roberts) that upheld guided-discretion death penalty statutes and ended the post-Furman moratorium.
Gregg W. Stone
Gregg W. Stone is an American interventional cardiologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, known for leading the COAPT and ISCHEMIA trials.
Gregg Wallace
Gregg Wallace (born 1964, Peckham) is an English broadcaster and former greengrocer, founder of George Allan's Greengrocers, and longtime MasterChef judge from 2005 to 2024, dismissed in 2025 after a report substantiated 45 of 83 misconduct allegations.
Gregg Wayans
Gregg Wayans (born 1988) is an American actor and director of the Wayans entertainment family, known for guest roles in Marlon, Kidding, The Unicorn, Sextuplets, and Scary Movie (2026).
Gregg Williams
Gregg Williams, NFL defensive coordinator (Titans, Redskins, Saints, Rams, Browns, Jets) and Bills head coach 2001-03; central figure in the Saints bounty scandal, indefinitely suspended in 2012; later XFL/UFL DC Defenders coach.
Greggs
Greggs is a British bakery and food-on-the-go chain founded by John Gregg in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1939, with more than 2,700 shops selling baked goods and sandwiches.
Grégoire Courtine
Grégoire Courtine is a neuroscientist and full professor at EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital who develops spinal cord stimulation and brain–spine interfaces that let paralyzed patients walk again.
Grégoire Kayibanda
Grégoire Kayibanda was a Rwandan politician and leader of the Parmehutu party who served as the first president of independent Rwanda, from 1962 until his 1973 overthrow.
Grégoire Nicolis
Grégoire Nicolis (1939–2018) was a Belgian physicist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles who helped build the theory of dissipative structures and co-created the Brusselator model with Ilya Prigogine.
Grégoire Świderski
Grégoire Jean Stanislas Świderski (born 2005, Bruges, France) is a Canadian goalkeeper, ex-Girondins de Bordeaux youth, now at Deportivo Alavés (number 31) playing for Alavés B in Segunda Federación; not the Polish striker Karol Świderski.
Gregor Blaha
Gregor Blaha is a biochemist and associate professor at the University of California, Riverside since 2022, known for bacterial ribosome work and cryo-EM structures of ribosome-RNA polymerase complexes that helped reignite the study of transcription-translation coupling.
Gregor Braun
Gregor Braun, born 1955 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, West German track and road cyclist; double 1976 Montreal Olympic champion (individual and team pursuit), professional pursuit world champion 1977 and 1978; convicted of child sexual abuse in 2023.
Gregor Clegane
Gregor Clegane, the Mountain, is George R. R. Martin's freakishly large landed knight of House Clegane in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, known for the murder of Elia Martell, the Oberyn Martell duel, and resurrection as Ser Robert Strong.
Gregor Eichele
Gregor Eichele, born 1952 in Basel, is a molecular developmental biologist who established retinoids as signals patterning the vertebrate limb and later built gene-expression atlases of the mouse embryo.
Gregor Fisher
Gregor Fisher (born 1953, Glasgow) is a Scottish actor and comedian, born Gregor McKenzie, famous for Rab C Nesbitt and the Baldy Man on Naked Video, and star of BBC's Only Child.
Gregor Gillespie
Gregor Gillespie, nicknamed "The Gift" (born 1987), is an American UFC lightweight and former Edinboro NCAA Division I wrestling champion with a 14-1 pro record; his only loss was Kevin Lee's 2019 head-kick KO, and he last fought in May 2021.
Gregor Hradetzky
Gregor Hradetzky (1909–1984), Austrian canoeist and organ builder; won K-1 1000 m and folding K-1 10000 m gold at Berlin 1936, second Austrian with two Summer Games golds, later led the family organ firm.
Gregor K. Wenning
Gregor K. Wenning (Gregor Karl Wenning, 1964–2024) was an Austrian-based neurologist who led multiple system atrophy research in Innsbruck and created the standard rating scale used in its trials.
Gregor Kobel
Gregor Kobel, born 1997 in Zurich, is a Swiss goalkeeper for Borussia Dortmund who joined from VfB Stuttgart in 2021 and became Switzerland's number one in 2024.
Gregor Krause
Gregor Krause (1883–1959) was a German-Dutch physician and self-taught amateur photographer who took about 4,000 pictures of Bali as an army doctor from 1912 to 1914, published as the influential 1920 book Insel Bali.
Gregor MacGregor
Gregor MacGregor (1786–1845), Scottish soldier and Cazique of Poyais, invented the fictional Central American country of Poyais, floated a £loan on the London market in 1822, and sent settlers to a jungle where most died.
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822–1884), Augustinian friar and abbot in Brno, founded genetics through pea experiments (1856–1863, over 28,000 plants), published 1866, rediscovered 1900 by de Vries, Correns, and Tschermak.
Gregor Schlierenzauer
Gregor Schlierenzauer (born 1990, Rum, Tirol) is an Austrian former ski jumper, record World Cup winner with 53 individual victories, two overall titles, two Four Hills wins, and four Olympic medals.
Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser (1892–1934), German pharmacist and NSDAP organizer, second figure of the Nazi Party after Hitler; built party organization 1925–1931, broke with Hitler over Schleicher coalition, shot 30 June 1934.
Gregor Wentzel
Gregor Wentzel was a German-born theoretical physicist known for the WKB approximation and the first quantum field theory book, holding the Zurich chair from 1928 to 1948 before moving to Chicago.
Gregorian (band)
Gregorian is a German choral pop project founded by producer Frank Peterson (ex-Enigma) that performs Gregorian chant-style covers of pop and rock songs; Masters of Chant (1999) began a series that has sold over 10 million recordings.
Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar, also called the Western calendar, is the solar civil calendar used in most of the world, instituted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.
Gregorian chant
Gregorian chant, also called Gregorian plainsong, is the liturgical monody of the Latin church, standardized under Charlemagne in the late eighth century and named after Pope Gregory the Great.
Gregorio Allegri
Gregorio Allegri, Roman priest, singer, and composer (c. 1582–1652), contralto of the Sistine Chapel from 1629; famed for the 1638 nine-voice Miserere, orally ornamented in Holy Week and transcribed by Mozart in 1770.
Gregório de Matos
Gregório de Matos, nicknamed Boca do Inferno, was a Brazilian Baroque poet and lawyer born in Salvador, Bahia, in 1636, whose satirical verse caricatured Bahian society until his death in Recife in 1695.