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Gang Gam-chan

Gang Gam-chan (강감찬, 948–1031), originally named Gang Euncheon, was a civil official and general of Korea's Goryeo dynasty who commanded the army that destroyed a 100,000-strong Khitan invasion at Gwiju in 1019.

Gang Greg Wang

Gang Greg Wang (王刚) is a chromatin biologist and cancer epigenetics researcher, a professor at the Duke Cancer Institute known for work on the DNMT3A R882 mutation in acute myeloid leukemia.

Gang Han

Gang Han is a professor of biochemistry and molecular biotechnology at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, known for persistent luminescence and upconversion nanoparticles used in bioimaging and therapy.

Gang Hong-rip

Gang Hong-rip (강홍립, 1560–1627) was a Joseon dynasty official and general who surrendered to Nurhaci's Later Jin at the battle of Sarhu in 1619, then brokered the peace ending the 1627 Manchu invasion.

Gang Hua

Gang Hua is a computer vision researcher and IEEE Fellow who has held research roles at Microsoft, Stevens Institute of Technology, Wormpex AI Research, and Amazon.

Gang Jo

Gang Jo (강조) was a Goryeo military official who seized power in the 1009 coup, deposed King Mokjong, and was executed by the Khitan in 1010.

Gang of Eight (immigration)

The Gang of Eight was a 2013 bipartisan group of four Democratic and four Republican US senators (Schumer, Durbin, Menendez, Bennet, McCain, Graham, Rubio, Flake) who wrote S. 744, the immigration reform bill the Senate passed 68-32 but the House never took up.

Gang of Eight (intelligence)

The Gang of Eight is the U.S. congressional group, defined by 50 U.S.C. §3093, that receives restricted covert-action notifications: House and Senate party leaders plus the chairs and ranking members of the two intelligence committees.

Gang of Four (band)

Gang of Four: English post-punk band formed in Leeds (1976/77) by Jon King, Andy Gill, Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham; funk-dub-punk sound, Entertainment! (1979), major influence on later rock.

Gang of Four (四人帮)

Gang of Four (四人帮): Jiang Qing, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan; radical Cultural Revolution faction arrested 6 October 1976 by Hua Guofeng, tried by the Special Court 1980-81, and blamed for the Cultural Revolution in the 1981 Party Resolution.

Gang of Youths

Gang of Youths: Australian alternative rock band from Sydney led by David Le'aupepe, now London-based; albums The Positions, Go Farther in Lightness, angel in realtime; returned 2026 with "Things Take Time".

Gang rape

Gang rape is rape of a person by two or more perpetrators, also called multiple perpetrator rape. Key facts: paired offenders commit about half of group offences; South Africa mandates life imprisonment; ICTY Foča convictions defined rape as torture.

Gang Related

Gang Related is a 1997 American crime thriller directed by Jim Kouf and starring Tupac Shakur and James Belushi as corrupt detectives; it was Shakur's final completed film.

Gang Ren

Gang Ren (任罡) is a Chinese electron microscopist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for determining the 3.7 Å structure of the AQP1 water channel.

Gang Signs & Prayer

Gang Signs & Prayer is the 2017 debut studio album by British grime MC Stormzy, the first pure grime album to reach number 1 on the UK Albums Chart.

Gang stalking

Gang stalking (gangstalking) is a persecutory belief system in which targeted individuals believe groups, including government, monitor and harass them; clinicians view it as delusional.

Gang Starr

Gang Starr was an American hip-hop duo of rapper Guru and producer DJ Premier, formed in Boston in 1986 and known for pioneering jazz sampling in East Coast rap.

Gang Tian

Gang Tian (田刚) is a Chinese mathematician known for work on Kähler–Einstein metrics and for introducing K-stability, who held the Eugene Higgins Professorship at Princeton and directs BICMR in Beijing.

Gang Wu (chemist)

Gang Wu is a Professor of Chemistry at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for developing NMR methods for quadrupolar nuclei, especially oxygen-17, and for 2014 work on N-heterocyclic carbene monolayers on gold.

Gang Wu (energy researcher)

Gang Wu is an energy researcher known for atomically dispersed iron–nitrogen–carbon catalysts that could replace platinum in fuel cells, and a Washington University in St. Louis professor since 2024.

Gang Ye

Gang Ye, also known as Ye Gang (叶刚), is a Singapore-based technology executive who co-founded Sea Limited with Forrest Li and David Chen and has served as its chief operating officer since January 2017.

Gang Yun Mi

Gang Yun Mi (강윤미, Kang Yun-Mi), born 1988 in Seoul, is a retired South Korean short track speed skater, 2006 Turin Olympic 3,000 m relay gold medalist and 2005 world championship medalist; distinct from the North Korean gymnast of the same name.

Gang Zheng

Gang Zheng is a medical biophysicist and nanomedicine researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and University of Toronto, known for porphysome nanotechnology for cancer imaging and treatment.

Ganga (ಗಂಗ)

Ganga (ಗಂಗಾ) is a 2015 Kannada action drama directed by Om Saiprakash, produced by Ramu, starring Malashri as an autorickshaw driver; released 22 October 2015, U/A certified, distinct from the 1984 film, the 2019 short film, and the Zee Kannada serial of the same name.

Ganga Bhishen Agarwal

Ganga Bhishen Agarwal, nicknamed Haldiram, was an Indian snack-food entrepreneur from Bikaner, Rajasthan, who refined Bikaneri bhujia from moth lentil flour and built the family trade into Haldiram's, one of India's largest snack businesses.

Ganga Canal

The Ganga Canal (गंगा नहर) is an irrigation canal in Rajasthan built by Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner, carrying Sutlej water and opened in 1927.

Ganga Devi

Ganga Devi (गंगादेवी), also called Gangambika, was a Sanskrit poet and queen of the Vijayanagara Empire, wife of prince Kumara Kampana and author of the Madhuravijayam.

Ganga Expressway (गंगा एक्सप्रेसवे)

Ganga Expressway (गंगा एक्सप्रेसवे) is a 594-kilometer, six-lane expressway in Uttar Pradesh, India, linking Meerut and Prayagraj through 12 districts. Inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2026, it is the state's longest expressway.

Ganga Ki Saugandh (गंगा की सौगन्ध)

Ganga Ki Saugandh (गंगा की सौगंध), also written Ganga Ki Saugand, is a 1978 Hindi action drama directed and produced by Sultan Ahmed, starring Amitabh Bachchan as Jeeva, a dacoit avenging his mother, with Rekha and Amjad Khan; released 10 February 1978.

Ganga Lahari

Ganga Lahari (गङ्गालहरी, "A Wave of the Ganga") is a Sanskrit devotional hymn of 52 verses in praise of the river goddess Ganga, composed by the seventeenth-century poet Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja.