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Greta R. Patzke

Greta R. Patzke (born 1974) is a German chemist, Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Zurich since 2016, researching water splitting catalysis.

Greta Scacchi

Greta Scacchi, born 1960 in Milan, is an Italian-Australian actress of Heat and Dust, Presumed Innocent, and The Player, Emmy winner for Rasputin (1996) and AFI winner for Looking for Alibrandi.

Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg, born in Sweden in 2003, is a climate activist who began a school strike outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018 that grew into Fridays for Future.

Greta Van Fleet

Greta Van Fleet, American rock band formed 2012 in Frankenmuth, Michigan, by the Kiszka brothers and Danny Wagner; Grammy-winning bluesy hard rock act repeatedly compared to Led Zeppelin, known for "Highway Tune" and albums through 2026's Palace for the People.

Greta Van Susteren

Greta Van Susteren (born 1954, Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American lawyer-turned-TV anchor who hosted Burden of Proof and The Point on CNN, On the Record on Fox News for 14½ years, then worked at MSNBC, Gray TV, and Newsmax.

Gretchen Barretto

Gretchen Barretto (La Greta), born 1970 in the Philippines, is a Filipino actress, model, and singer; a former Seiko Films "ST Queen" who won PMPC Star Awards for TV acting honors and starred in The Trial (2014).

Gretchen C. Daily

Gretchen C. Daily is an American ecologist at Stanford University who pioneered valuing ecosystems in decision-making; she co-founded the Natural Capital Project, whose InVEST software is used in more than 185 countries.

Gretchen Carlson

Gretchen Carlson, American TV journalist, Miss America 1989, former Fox & Friends and CBS anchor. Sued Roger Ailes in 2016 ($20 million settlement), chaired Miss America, cofounded Lift Our Voices against forced arbitration and NDAs.

Gretchen Corbett

Gretchen Corbett (Gretchen Hoyt Corbett), American stage and screen actress born in Oregon, best known as Beth Davenport, Jim Rockford's attorney on The Rockford Files (1974–78), with Broadway credits including Forty Carats and later films Pig and Lorelei.

Gretchen Cryer

Gretchen Cryer (born 1935, Dunreith, Indiana) is an American playwright, lyricist, and actress who wrote and starred in I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road, her 1978 feminist musical with composer Nancy Ford.

Gretchen Felker-Martin

Gretchen Felker-Martin (born 1989) is a Massachusetts-based transgender horror novelist and film critic, author of Manhunt (2022), Cuckoo (2024), and Black Flame (2025); her DC Red Hood comic was canceled in September 2025.

Gretchen Fraser

Gretchen Fraser, born Gretchen Kunigk, was an American alpine ski racer who won the 1948 Olympic slalom at St. Moritz, the first American gold medal in alpine skiing.

Gretchen Mol

Gretchen Mol (born 1972, Deep River, Connecticut) is an American actress known for The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) and Gillian Darmody on HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014), after a 1998 Vanity Fair 'It Girl' cover. Later work includes Manchester by the Sea, American Gigolo, and Horsegirls.

Gretchen Rossi

Gretchen Rossi, also Gretchen Christine Rossi, is an American reality TV personality and entrepreneur, a Real Housewives of Orange County main cast member seasons 4-8 (2008-2013) and season 19 friend, known for the Gretchen Christine brand.

Gretchen S. Lund

Gretchen S. Lund (born 1975) is an American jurist serving as a US district judge for the Northern District of Indiana since 2024, appointed by President Biden.

Gretchen Ulion

Gretchen Ulion (Gretchen Ulion Silverman), born 1972 in Marlborough, Connecticut, is an American ice hockey forward who won gold with the 1998 U.S. Olympic team at Nagano, scoring the first goal of the gold-medal game against Canada, after a record-setting Dartmouth career.

Gretchen Whitmer

Gretchen Whitmer, born 1971, is the Democratic governor of Michigan since 2019, re-elected in 2022 with about 54% against Tudor Dixon; known for "fix the damn roads," COVID-19 orders struck down in 2020, and the 2023 Reproductive Health Act.

Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot

The Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, or Wolverine Watchmen case, was a 2020 anti-government militia scheme to kidnap Michigan's governor over her COVID-19 orders; 14 men were charged, with mixed federal and state outcomes and 2026 appellate reversals.

Gretchen Wilson

Gretchen Wilson (born 1973) is an American country singer from Pocahontas, Illinois, whose 2004 debut "Redneck Woman" and album Here for the Party won her a Grammy; she later founded Redneck Records and won The Masked Singer season 13.

Grete Andersen Waitz

Grete Andersen Waitz (1953-2011), Norwegian distance runner; nine-time New York City Marathon winner, first women's marathon world champion (Helsinki 1983), 1984 Olympic marathon silver medallist, five-time world cross country champion.

Grete Frederiksen

Grete Frederiksen (Grete Ortved Frederiksen, later Therkildsen), Danish freestyle swimmer, 1918-2007. Seventh in the 1936 Olympic 400 m freestyle final; set the 1,500 m freestyle world record of 22:36.7 in Copenhagen on 26 June 1936, an improvement of 40.5 seconds that stood until 1938.

Grete Heublein

Grete Heublein (Maria Grete Heublein, 1908-1997), German shot put and discus thrower; fifth in Olympic discus 1928 and 1932, nine world records, 1930 Women's World Games shot put gold.

Grete Marks

Grete Marks, born Margarete Heymann, was a German-born British ceramicist and painter who founded the Haël Werkstätten near Berlin and fled Nazi persecution for Britain in 1936.

Grete Stern

Grete Stern, who signed her work Ringl, was a German-born photographer who trained at the Bauhaus, settled in Buenos Aires, and created the surrealist photomontage series Sueños for the magazine Idilio.

Gretel (company)

Gretel (gretel.ai), founded by Alex Watson, Laszlo Bock, John Myers, and Ali Golshan, was a San Diego synthetic data platform company; Nvidia acquired it in March 2025 for a nine-figure sum above its $320 million valuation.

Gretel & Hansel

Gretel & Hansel (2020) is Oz Perkins's dark fantasy horror retelling of the Grimm fairy tale, starring Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, and Alice Krige; a feminist coming-of-age take that grossed $15.3 million in the US.

Gretha Matiauda

Gretha Estigarribia Matiauda, also called Gretha Matiauda, is a Paraguayan economist and model crowned Miss Universe Paraguay 2026 on 26 March 2026; she represents Paraguay at the 75th Miss Universe in Puerto Rico after placing fourth at Miss Continentes Unidos 2022 and competing at Miss Earth 2023.

Grethe Barrett Holby

Grethe Barrett Holby (born 1948) is an American opera director, choreographer, and founder of American Opera Projects, Family Opera Initiative, and Ardea Arts, an original Einstein on the Beach cast member.

Gretl

Gretl (Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library) is a free, open-source cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in C and maintained by Allin Cottrell and Riccardo Lucchetti since 2000.

Gretl Braun

Gretl Braun (Margarete Berta Braun, 1915–1987), younger sister of Eva Braun and wife of Waffen-SS General Hermann Fegelein; married June 1944, widowed by his April 1945 execution for desertion, remarried postwar, died in Steingaden.