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Gregory Mallet

Grégory Mallet (born 1984, Rueil-Malmaison) is a French freestyle swimmer, CN Marseille relay specialist, with Olympic silvers in the 4x100 m relay (Beijing 2008) and 4x200 m relay (London 2012), 2013 world title, and a short course 4x100 m freestyle relay world record (3:04.98).

Gregory McCarthy

Gregory McCarthy is an American cognitive neuroscientist and the Henry Ford II Professor of Psychology at Yale, known for event-related potential and fMRI studies of word and face recognition.

Gregory Meeks

Gregory Weldon Meeks is an American Democratic politician, the U.S. Representative for New York's 5th district since 2013 and a former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Gregory Milken

Gregory Milken is a venture capitalist who co-founded March Capital Partners in Santa Monica in 2014, led its $60 million March Gaming Fund, and founded 1AM Gaming in 2023.

Gregory N. Stivers

Gregory N. Stivers is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Kentucky since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Gregory N. Tew

Gregory N. Tew is an American polymer scientist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for pioneering biomimetic antimicrobial polymers that mimic host-defense peptides.

Gregory Neil Tew

Gregory Neil Tew is an American polymer scientist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a PECASE recipient known for synthetic mimics of antimicrobial peptides.

Gregory of Narek

Gregory of Narek (Armenian: Grigor Narekatsi, ca. 950–1003) was an Armenian monk, poet, and theologian of Narek monastery on Lake Van, author of the Book of Lamentations.

Gregory of Nazianzus

Gregory of Nazianzus, also known as Gregory the Theologian, was a Cappadocian bishop, poet, and preacher who led the church of Constantinople from 379 to 381.

Gregory of Nyssa (Γρηγόριος Νύσσης)

Gregory of Nyssa (Γρηγόριος Νύσσης), c. 335 to c. 394, was bishop of Nyssa and, with his brother Basil of Caesarea, one of the Cappadocian Fathers.

Gregory of Rimini

Gregory of Rimini (Gregorius Ariminensis, c. 1300-1358), Italian Augustinian Hermit theologian at Paris and prior general of his order, author of the Sentences commentary, nominalist follower of Ockham's logic and doctrine of the complexe significabile, anti-Pelagian on grace and unbaptized children.

Gregory of Tours

Gregory of Tours, born Georgius Florentius, was a Gallo-Roman aristocrat who served as bishop of Tours from 573 until his death in 594, writing the Ten Books of Histories.

Gregory P. Asner

Gregory P. Asner is an American ecosystem ecologist who maps forests and coral reefs from aircraft and satellites, directing Arizona State University's Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science.

Gregory P. Baxter

Gregory P. Baxter (1876–1953) was an American analytical chemist at Harvard who determined the atomic weights of 29 elements and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1916.

Gregory Page

Gregory Page is an American business executive who led Cargill as chief executive officer from 2007 to 2013, growing revenue from $87 billion to $137 billion.

Gregory Palamas (Γρηγόριος Παλαμᾶς)

Gregory Palamas (Γρηγόριος Παλαμᾶς), c. 1296–1359, was a Byzantine monk of Mount Athos and Archbishop of Thessalonica whose defense of hesychast prayer became Orthodox dogma.

Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck (Eldred Gregory Peck, 1916-2003), American film star of the 1940s-1970s, Oscar winner as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, five-time Best Actor nominee, Academy president 1967-70, AFI Life Achievement 1989.

Gregory Petsko

Gregory Petsko is an American biochemist known for determining enzyme structures and founding structural enzymology, who in 2002 turned his laboratory toward finding treatments for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and ALS.

Gregory Pine

Gregory Pine is an American Dominican friar and Catholic priest who teaches dogmatic and moral theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, and co-hosts Godsplaining.

Gregory Porter

Gregory Porter (born 1971, Sacramento) is an American jazz-soul baritone and songwriter from Bakersfield, California, a two-time Grammy winner whose Blue Note debut Liquid Spirit (2013) sold over a million copies.

Gregory Powell (murderer)

Gregory Ulas Powell, Onion Field murderer, kidnapped and killed LAPD officer Ian Campbell with Jimmy Lee Smith on March 9-10, 1963; twice sentenced to death, commuted to life, died in prison in 2012.

Gregory R. Dressler

Gregory R. Dressler, also published as Gregory Dressler, is a molecular biologist at the University of Michigan known for identifying the Pax2 gene and defining its role in kidney development.

Gregory R. Mundy

Gregory R. Mundy (1942–2010) was an Australian-born physician-scientist who showed that cancer destroys bone indirectly by activating osteoclasts, credited with discovering osteoclast activating factor and directing Vanderbilt's Center in Bone Biology.

Gregory Rabassa

Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016), American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese, translator of Cortázar's Hopscotch and García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude; first National Book Award for Translation (1967) and 2006 National Medal of Arts.

Gregory Range

Gregory Range: name of two Australian ranges, one in the Pilbara, Western Australia (Fortescue Group inlier, manganese), one in Queensland, a sandstone offshoot of the Great Dividing Range between the Gilbert and Flinders rivers.

Gregory Rockson

Gregory Rockson is a Ghanaian social entrepreneur who co-founded mPharma in Accra in 2013, led it as chief executive for about 12 years, and became its board chairman in 2025.

Gregory S. Barsh

Gregory S. Barsh, known as Greg Barsh, is an American geneticist, Stanford professor emeritus and HudsonAlpha faculty chair, known for cloning the mouse mahogany gene and studying coat-color genetics.

Gregory S. Engel

Gregory S. Engel is an American chemist and ultrafast spectroscopist at the University of Chicago, known for his 2007 Nature paper reporting wavelike quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer.

Gregory S. Payne

Gregory S. Payne is an American cell biologist and Professor of Biological Chemistry at UCLA whose yeast genetics showed cells survive and secrete without clathrin.

Gregory S. Tseytin

Gregory S. Tseytin (Григорий Цейтин, 1936–2022) was a Russian and American mathematician and computer scientist known for the Tseytin transformation, Tseytin tautologies, and the extension rule in proof complexity.