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Gregorio del Pilar

Gregorio del Pilar (Goyo, the Boy General), 1875–1899, Filipino revolutionary general of Bulacan, nephew of Marcelo H. del Pilar, hero of Tirad Pass where he died covering Aguinaldo's retreat.

Gregorio Fernández

Gregorio Fernández (1576–1636) was a Spanish Baroque sculptor, born in Galicia and active in Valladolid, who led the Castilian school of polychrome wooden religious sculpture.

Gregorio Luperón

Gregorio Luperón (1839–1897) was a Dominican general, politician, and writer who fought Spanish annexation in the War of Restoration and served as provisional president from 1879 to 1880.

Gregorio Pacheco

Gregorio Pacheco Leyes (1823–1899) was a Bolivian silver-mining entrepreneur and politician who served as the 21st President of Bolivia from 1884 to 1888, the Conservative era's first civilian president.

Gregorio Paltrinieri

Gregorio Paltrinieri, born in 1994 at Carpi in Modena, Italy, is a distance freestyle and open-water swimmer who won Olympic 1500 m freestyle gold at Rio 2016.

Gregorio Panzani

Gregorio Panzani (1592–1660) was an Italian Oratorian priest sent by Pope Urban VIII as secret papal agent to England from 1634 to 1636, and later Bishop of Mileto.

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853–1925) was an Italian mathematician who held the chair of mathematical physics at the University of Padua and created the tensor calculus Einstein used in general relativity.

Gregorio Weber

Gregorio Weber (1916–1997) was an Argentine-born American biochemist and biophysicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, widely credited with turning fluorescence spectroscopy into a quantitative tool of biochemistry.

Gregorios IV

Gregorios IV (Γρηγόριος Δ΄), also recorded as Gregory IV of Amasia, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from April to June 1623, between Cyril I Lucaris and Anthimos II.

Gregorios Xenopoulos

Gregorios Xenopoulos (Γρηγόριος Ξενόπουλος) was a Greek novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote more than 80 novels and about 35 plays and founded the magazine Nea Estia in 1927.

Gregory A. Brent

Gregory A. Brent is an American endocrinologist at UCLA who studies thyroid hormone action and wrote widely cited New England Journal of Medicine reviews on thyroid disease.

Gregory A. Fabiano

Gregory A. Fabiano is an American clinical child psychologist and professor at Florida International University whose 174-study meta-analysis found behavioral treatment works as well as medication for childhood ADHD.

Gregory A. Fiete

Gregory A. Fiete is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist, a professor at Northeastern University known for work on topological quantum matter and chiral phonons.

Gregory A. Petsko

Gregory A. Petsko is an American biochemist and structural biologist, a pioneer of low-temperature protein crystallography and structural enzymology who later turned to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS research.

Gregory A. Phillips

Gregory A. Phillips, also known as Gregory Alan Phillips, is an American jurist serving on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2013, appointed by President Obama.

Gregory A. Poland

Gregory A. Poland is an American physician-scientist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who originated vaccinomics and has led the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group since 1989.

Gregory A. Presnell

Gregory A. Presnell, born 1942 in Tampa, Florida, is a senior United States district judge for the Middle District of Florida, appointed by President Clinton in 2000.

Gregory A. Roth

Gregory A. Roth is an American cardiologist and professor at the University of Washington who leads cardiovascular disease modeling for IHME's Global Burden of Disease Study.

Gregory A. Sotzing

Gregory A. Sotzing, also published as G.A. Sotzing, is an American polymer chemist and professor at the University of Connecticut working on electrochromic polymers and dielectric energy storage.

Gregory A. Voth

Gregory A. Voth (Gregory Voth) is a theoretical and computational chemist, the Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago since 2010.

Gregory A. Wray

Gregory A. Wray, also published as Gregory Wray, is an evolutionary biologist and Professor of Biology at Duke University who studies the evolution of gene regulation.

Gregory Abbott

Gregory Abbott, also Gregory Joel Abbott, is an American R&B singer-songwriter from Harlem whose 1986 debut single "Shake You Down" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, went platinum, and won BMI Pop Song of the Year.

Gregory Alan Isakov

Gregory Alan Isakov is a South African-born, Colorado-based folk singer-songwriter known for The Weatherman and Evening Machines, which earned him a 2018 Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album.

Gregory Alan Williams

Gregory Alan Williams, also credited as GregAlan Williams, is an American actor born 1956 in Des Moines, Iowa, known for Garner Ellerbee on Baywatch, his 1992 LA riots rescue of Takao Hirata, the book A Gathering of Heroes, and roles in Greenleaf and The Righteous Gemstones.

Gregory Alushin

Gregory M. Alushin is an American structural cell biologist who heads a laboratory at Rockefeller University, known for showing that actin filaments act as molecular force sensors.

Gregory B. Baecher

Gregory B. Baecher is an American civil engineer at the University of Maryland, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for probabilistic geotechnical risk methods.

Gregory B. Martin

Gregory B. Martin is an American plant molecular biologist at the Boyce Thompson Institute known for cloning Pto, the first plant gene recognizing specific pathogen effectors.

Gregory B. Olson

Gregory B. Olson is an American materials scientist and MIT professor known as a founder of computational materials design, designing alloys on the computer before melting metal.

Gregory Barton

Gregory M. Barton is an American immunologist who studies how the innate immune system distinguishes threatening microbes from the body's own tissues, leading Toll-like receptor research at UC Berkeley.

Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson (1904-1980), British-born anthropologist, husband of Margaret Mead, author of Naven and Steps to an Ecology of Mind; founder figure of cybernetics, double bind theorist, coined schismogenesis and 'a difference that makes a difference'.