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Gregory Benford

Gregory Benford (Gregory Albert Benford, born 1941) is an American astrophysicist and hard science fiction writer, UC Irvine plasma physics professor, author of Timescape (Nebula, Campbell, BSFA, Ditmar winner) and the six-novel Galactic Center Saga.

Gregory Bovino

Gregory Bovino, also called Greg Bovino, is a retired U.S. Border Patrol officer, born 1970, who led Trump-era urban immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis as CBP commander at large before retiring in March 2026.

Gregory Breit

Gregory Breit was an American nuclear and theoretical physicist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1939, known for the Breit interaction and the Breit–Wigner formula.

Gregory C. Beroza

Gregory C. Beroza is an American seismologist, on the Stanford University faculty since 1990, known for research on earthquake sources and for machine-learning methods that improved earthquake catalogs.

Gregory C. DeAngelis

Gregory C. DeAngelis is an American visual neuroscientist, George Eastman Professor at the University of Rochester, known for single-neuron recordings revealing how visual cortex computes depth.

Gregory C. Fu

Gregory C. Fu is an American chemist and Norman Chandler Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2014, known for nickel- and copper-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions and asymmetric nucleophilic catalysis.

Gregory C. Gray

Gregory C. Gray is an American infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, known for research on swine influenza and for founding the Millennium Cohort Study.

Gregory C. Rutledge

Gregory C. Rutledge is an American chemical engineer, the Lammot du Pont Professor at MIT, known for electrospun polymer nanofibers and molecular simulation of polymer crystals.

Gregory Chaitin

Gregory Chaitin, born in Chicago in 1947, is a mathematician and computer scientist who co-founded algorithmic information theory, discovered the halting probability Ω, and spent about 40 years at IBM.

Gregory Charles Rivers

Gregory Charles Rivers, 河國榮 (Ho Kwok-wing), Australian-born Cantonese-speaking actor in Hong Kong; ex-TVB contract player in over 200 dramas; died 2 February 2024 in Sai Kung, aged 58.

Gregory Coleman (FBI special agent)

Gregory Coleman, retired FBI special agent (served 1989–2015) who led the Jordan Belfort/Stratton Oakmont securities fraud investigation, portrayed by Kyle Chandler in The Wolf of Wall Street; now founder of Coleman Worldwide Advisors.

Gregory Critchfield

Gregory Critchfield is an American diagnostics executive who served as chairman, president, and CEO of Sera Prognostics from 2011 to 2023, after growing Myriad Genetic Laboratories' revenues to $326.5 million.

Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell

Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell (c. 1520–1551), only son of Thomas Cromwell, husband of Elizabeth Seymour, created Baron Cromwell in 1540, died of sweating sickness at Launde Abbey.

Gregory D. Gadson

Gregory D. Gadson, born 1966, retired U.S. Army colonel and West Point football player who lost both legs to a 2007 Iraq IED, stayed on duty, commanded Fort Belvoir, inspired the 2007 Giants' Super Bowl win, and starred in Battleship.

Gregory D. Lewis

Gregory D. Lewis is an American cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he heads the heart failure section and directs the heart transplant program and cardiopulmonary exercise testing laboratory.

Gregory D. Scholes

Gregory D. Scholes is an Australian-born physical chemist, the William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry at Princeton, known for ultrafast laser spectroscopy of photosynthetic light harvesting and quantum coherence.

Gregory David Roberts

Gregory David Roberts (born 1952, Melbourne) is the Australian author of Shantaram (2003), based on his escape from Pentridge Prison and fugitive years in Bombay; also wrote The Mountain Shadow and The Spiritual Path.

Grégory Doucet

Grégory Doucet is a French écologiste politician who has served as Mayor of Lyon since 2020; he was re-elected in March 2026 after his list Pour vivre Lyon won the second round.

Gregory E. Simon

Gregory E. Simon is an American psychiatrist and senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute who has studied suicide risk assessment and depression care since 1990.

Gregory E. Stillman

Gregory E. Stillman, also known as Gregory Eugene Stillman, was an American electrical engineer and semiconductor researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

Gregory Foster

Greg Foster (1958-2023), American 110m hurdler from Chicago, won three consecutive world titles (1983, 1987, 1991) and 1984 Olympic silver; set 7.36 indoor 60m hurdles world record; distinct from NBA player Greg Foster.

Gregory Fuchs

Gregory D. Fuchs is an American applied physicist, the James R. Meehl Professor at Cornell University, known for quantum sensing and spin control using defects in diamond, hBN, and GaN.

Gregory G. Deierlein

Gregory G. Deierlein is an American structural engineer at Stanford University, director of the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center since 2002, known for performance-based earthquake engineering and design-code influence.

Gregory G. Germino

Gregory G. Germino is an American physician-scientist in kidney genetics who studies polycystic kidney disease and has served as Deputy Director of the NIH's NIDDK since 2009.

Gregory G. Howes

Gregory G. Howes is a theoretical plasma physicist and professor at the University of Iowa who studies turbulence in the solar wind and received a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award.

Gregory G. Katsas

Gregory G. Katsas, also known as Gregory George Katsas, is an American circuit judge on the D.C. Circuit since 2017 who previously argued more than 75 appeals.

Gregory G. Schwartz

Gregory G. Schwartz is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and Chief of Cardiology at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora.

Gregory Goodwin Pincus

Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967) was an American biologist and endocrinologist who co-developed the first oral contraceptive, Enovid, approved in 1960, and co-founded the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology.

Gregory Gregoriadis

Gregory Gregoriadis, also known as G Gregoriadis, was a Greek-born British biochemist who founded liposome drug delivery, proposing in 1971 that liposomes could carry drugs and vaccines.

Gregory Grunberg

Gregory Grunberg, M.D., is an American physician-investor and Managing Director at Longitude Capital, a life sciences venture firm in Menlo Park, California, which he joined in 2012.