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Ganesh (actor)

Ganesh (ಗಣೇಶ್), the "Golden Star" of Kannada cinema, born 1980 in Bangalore, is an actor-producer who rose from TV hosting (Comedy Time) and a villain debut in Tapori to stardom with Mungaru Male (2006), which grossed about Rs 75 crore.

Ganesh Acharya (गणेश आचार्य)

Ganesh Acharya (गणेश आचार्य), born 1971 in Chennai, is a Bollywood choreographer of about 200 films, winner of two National Film Awards for Best Choreography, and a film director and actor.

Ganesh Chaturthi (गणेश चतुर्थी)

Ganesh Chaturthi (गणेश चतुर्थी), also called Vinayaka Chaturthi or Ganeshotsav, is a Hindu festival honoring Ganesha, marked by clay idols and immersion, lasting up to 10 days.

Ganesh Gaonkar

Ganesh Gaonkar is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has served as Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly since 2025, representing the Sanvordem constituency since 2012.

Ganesh Godiyal

Ganesh Godiyal is an Indian politician from Uttarakhand and a member of the Indian National Congress who serves as president of the state Congress committee.

Ganesh Gogoi

Ganesh Gogoi (গণেশচন্দ্ৰ গগৈ, 1907–1938) was an Assamese poet, playwright, composer, and footballer known as Papori kobi, whose 1934 verse collection Papori began romanticism in Assamese poetry.

Ganesh Hegde

Ganesh Hegde (born 1974, Mumbai) is a Bollywood choreographer, singer, and video director known for Babuji, Khallas, Chammak Challo, the albums G and Let's Party, opening for Michael Jackson in 1996, and choreographing The Archies.

Ganesh Joshi

Ganesh Joshi is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a cabinet minister in Uttarakhand and represents Mussoorie in the state Legislative Assembly.

Ganesh K

Ganesh K is an Indian corporate-development executive and venture investor, Partner and Head of Corporate Development at Elevation Capital since 2021, after fifteen years at Spark Capital.

Ganesh Kailasam

Ganesh Kailasam is a chemical engineer and technology executive elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for developing high-performance polymer processes, later VP of Technology at OGCI Climate Investments.

Ganesh Kartikey

Gatha Shiv Parivaar Ki Ganesh Kartikey (गाथा शिव परिवार की गणेश कार्तिकेय), also called Ganesh Kartikeya, is a Sony SAB Hindi mythological serial from 6 October 2025 by Peninsula Pictures, portraying Shiva, Parvati, Ganesha, and Kartikeya as a family.

Ganesh Kesarwani

Ganesh Kesarwani, born 1968, in Prayagraj, is an Indian BJP politician elected Mayor of Prayagraj in 2023, after serving as the party's city president there.

Ganesh Naik

Ganesh Naik is an Indian politician and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader serving as forest minister in the Government of Maharashtra, known for disputes over Navi Mumbai redevelopment.

Ganesh Pyne

Ganesh Pyne (1937–2013) was an Indian painter from Kolkata known for small, dark tempera paintings blending Bengali folklore and mythology, a style called poetic surrealism.

Ganesh Raghu

Ganesh Raghu is an American physician-scientist at the University of Washington known for clinical trials and international guidelines in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a scarring lung disease.

Ganesh Ratha

Ganesha Ratha (கணேச ரதம்), or Ganesh Ratha, is a 7th-century Pallava monolithic granite chariot-temple at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu; originally a Shiva shrine named Atyantakama-Pallavesvara-griham, it is the only Mamallapuram ratha in worship, now housing Ganesha.

Ganesh Singh

Ganesh Singh, born in 1962 in Satna district, Madhya Pradesh, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Satna constituency in the Lok Sabha since 2004.

Ganesh Venkatraman

Ganesh Venkatraman, Indian actor and Gladrags Manhunt Mr. India 2003 winner, works in Tamil and Telugu cinema; known for Unnaipol Oruvan (2009), Thani Oruvan, Varisu, and Bigg Boss Tamil season 1.

Ganesha (गणेश)

Ganesha, also called Ganapati and Vinayaka, is the elephant-headed Hindu god of obstacles, invoked at the beginning of almost any undertaking and worshipped at the yearly Ganesh Chaturthi festival.

Ganesha Daivajna

Ganesha Daivajna (Gaṇeśa Daivajña, born 1507) was an Indian astronomer and mathematician of Nandigram whose Grahalaghava, an astronomical handbook with epoch 1520, is still used by almanac-makers.

Ganesha dynasty

The Ganesha dynasty (গণেশ রাজবংশ) was a short-lived Hindu ruling house of Bengal founded by Raja Ganesha, who seized the throne from the Ilyas Shahi sultans in 1414–15.

Ganesha in Buddhism

Ganesha in Buddhism, worshipped in Japan as Kangiten (歓喜天), is the elephant-headed Gaṇapati adopted into Buddhist tantra, where he is an emanation of Avalokiteśvara or a demon trampled underfoot.

Ganesra Mound

Ganesra Mound (Gaṇeśrā, Singar/Singer Tila): two ancient mounds at Ganesra village, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, near the Chaurasi Jain temple; ASI-protected since 1910-11, yielding inscribed bricks naming Gomitra's minister Rohadeva Kohada.

Ganetespib

Ganetespib (STA-9090), a second-generation resorcinol HSP90 inhibitor developed by Synta Pharmaceuticals for cancer; its phase III GALAXY-2 lung cancer trial was stopped for futility and development is inactive.

GANEX process

The GANEX process (Grouped ActiNide Extraction) is a two-cycle solvent extraction method for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel, proposed by France's CEA in 2005, that recovers uranium, plutonium, and minor actinides together rather than separating pure plutonium.

Ganfeng Lithium

Ganfeng Lithium, formally Ganfeng Lithium Group Co., Ltd. (赣锋锂业), is a Chinese lithium producer founded in March 2000 and headquartered in Jiangxi Province, spanning refining, batteries, and recycling for customers including Tesla and BMW.

Gang

Gang: a durable association of three or more people with shared identity, symbols, and elevated criminal activity, usually meaning US street gangs; loosely structured, distinct from organized crime, historically tied to immigration and migration waves.

Gang bang

Gang bang (gangbang) is English slang for group sex with one person and several partners, or for street-gang activity; attested 1953 from gang + bang, earlier gang-shag (1927), with gang-fight and gang-rape senses.

Gang Beasts

Gang Beasts is a physics-based multiplayer party brawler by Boneloaf of Sheffield, set in Beef City, first shown in 2014, released December 2017 on PC and PS4, later Xbox and Switch, published initially by Double Fine Presents.

Gang Chen

Gang Chen (陳剛) is a mechanical engineer, the Carl Richard Soderberg Professor at MIT since 2009, known for nanoscale heat transfer, thermoelectrics, and solar steam generation, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.