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Gunma Flower Park

Gunma Flower Park (ぐんまフラワーパーク), now Gunma Flower Park+, is a flower park in Maebashi, Gunma, Japan; opened 1992, closed 2023 for renovation, reopened October 10, 2025 as an experiential 'Enjoy! Play with flowers' park with five areas and signature roses, hydrangeas, and clematis.

Gunma Insect World

Gunma Insect World (ぐんま昆虫の森) is a Gunma Prefecture insectarium in Kiryu, opened August 2005, a 45-hectare satoyama park with 1,400+ insect species, a Tadao Ando glass building, and hands-on catch-and-release programs.

Gunma Prefecture

Gunma Prefecture (群馬県), capital Maebashi, is a landlocked central-Honshu prefecture bordering five others; area 6,362 km², population about 1.86 million, top national producer of konnyaku and summer-autumn cabbage.

Gunma Safari Park

Gunma Safari Park (群馬サファリパーク) is a drive-through safari zoo in Tomioka, Gunma, Japan, opened May 1, 1979; about 100 species and 1,000 animals, first Japanese African elephant breeding (1986).

Gunmetal

Gunmetal is a copper-based casting alloy, essentially a tin bronze with zinc added, named for its historical use in casting cannon and now used for valves and pumps.

Gunn diode

A Gunn diode is a two-terminal semiconductor device with no p-n junction that generates microwave oscillations through the transferred-electron effect; J. B. Gunn discovered the effect at IBM in 1963.

Gunn diode oscillator

A Gunn diode oscillator is a microwave signal source using the negative differential resistance of a gallium arsenide or indium phosphide diode, based on the Gunn effect reported in 1963.

Gunn High School

Henry M. Gunn High School, a public high school in Palo Alto, California, opened 1964, PAUSD's Titans, 1,652 students, Niche #3 in California, distinct from Palo Alto High School.

Gunn Rita Dahle Flesja

Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå, Norwegian cross-country mountain bike racer born 1973 in Stavanger; 2004 Athens Olympic champion, 10 world titles, four straight World Cup overalls 2003-06, record 30 World Cup wins; retired 2018.

Gunna (rapper)

Gunna (born Sergio Giavanni Kitchens in 1993) is an American rapper from College Park, Georgia, whose melodic Atlanta trap albums include the Billboard 200 chart-toppers Wunna and DS4Ever.

Gunnar Ågren

Gunnar Ågren, born 1907 in Nacka, was a Swedish physician and biochemist who served as professor of medical chemistry at Uppsala University from 1947 to 1973.

Gunnar Akerlund

Gunnar Åkerlund (Ernst Gunnar Åkerlund), Swedish sprint canoeist, Nyköpings KK; with Hans Wetterström won K2 10,000 m gold at London 1948 and silver at Helsinki 1952, plus world championship titles.

Gunnar Asmussen

Gunnar Henry Asmussen, Danish track cyclist born 1944 in Aarhus, won 1968 Olympic gold in the 4,000 m team pursuit, took five Danish team-pursuit titles with Niels Fredborg, and later ran a bicycle shop and made funny bikes.

Gunnar Bentz

Gunnar Bentz (Joseph Gunnar Bentz, born 1996) is an American swimmer, two-time Olympian, and Rio 2016 4x200m freestyle relay gold medalist who swam for the University of Georgia.

Gunnar Bjork

Gunnar Björk (Ernst Gunnar Björk, 1891-1980), Swedish road cyclist, 51st in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic road race and non-scoring member of the gold-medal Swedish team; also a 1952 Olympic reserve skier and a quantum-optics physicist.

Gunnar Blix

Gunnar Blix (Fritiof Gunnar Blix, 1894–1981) was a Swedish medical chemist, professor at Uppsala University from 1930 to 1961, known for isolating sulfatide and crystallizing sialic acid.

Gunnar Brinkmann

Gunnar Brinkmann is a senior full professor of mathematics at Ghent University known for graph generation software, including plantri, the fullerene generator fullgen, and the House of Graphs database.

Gunnar C. Hansson

Gunnar C. Hansson, born 1951 in Lessebo, Sweden, is a Swedish biochemist and professor at the University of Gothenburg known for the two-layer model of colonic mucus.

Gunnar Ekelöf

Gunnar Ekelöf, a Swedish poet and Swedish Academy member, is known for introducing surrealism and modernism to Swedish poetry, and received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1966.

Gunnar Eriksson

Gunnar Eriksson (Krång Erik Gunnar Eriksson, 1921-1982), Swedish cross-country skier of IFK Mora; 1948 Olympic relay gold and 18 km bronze, 1950 world 50 km champion. Not the IOC member Gunnar Ericsson or the AIK footballer.

Gunnar Fant

Gunnar Fant (1919–2009) was a Swedish speech scientist and acoustician who founded the source-filter theory of speech production and led speech research at KTH in Stockholm.

Gunnar Fosselius

Gunnar Fosselius (born 30 April 1901, Örebro) was a Swedish runner for IF Linnéa Stockholm, twin of Gösta Fosselius, who held the 4x1500 m relay world record (16:37.0, 1925) and won a 1926 Swedish championship performance award.

Gunnar Gren

Gunnar Gren (1920–1991), Swedish midfielder, Olympic gold 1948 and World Cup silver 1958; AC Milan's Gre-No-Li trio with Nordahl and Liedholm; 57 caps, 32 goals; IFK Göteborg legend and 1951 Italian champion.

Gunnar Gunnarsson

Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889–1975) was an Icelandic novelist and short-story writer who wrote mostly in Danish while living in Denmark, winning European acclaim and becoming Iceland's best-selling author abroad.

Gunnar H. Sohlenius

Gunnar H. Sohlenius is a manufacturing engineering researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, best known for his highly cited 1992 CIRP Annals paper "Concurrent Engineering".

Gunnar Hansen

Gunnar Milton Hansen (1947–2015), Icelandic-born American actor and author, played Leatherface in Tobe Hooper's 1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; later a Maine writer, poet, and documentary maker; distinct from Danish actor Gunnar Nu-Hansen.

Gunnar Heiberg

Gunnar Heiberg (1857–1929) was a Norwegian playwright, theater critic, and stage director, judged the most noteworthy Norwegian dramatist after Ibsen; his 13 plays caused famous scandals.

Gunnar Helm

Gunnar Helm, Tennessee Titans tight end No. 84, born 2002 in Greenwood Village, Colorado; Texas Longhorns standout, 2025 fourth-round pick (120th overall), 53 career receptions.

Gunnar Henderson

Gunnar Henderson (Gunnar Randal Henderson, born 2001) is an Orioles shortstop, 2019 second-round pick, unanimous 2023 AL Rookie of the Year, 2024 All-Star with 37 home runs.

Gunnar Hockert

Gunnar Hockert (Gunnar Mikael Höckert, 1910–1940), Finnish runner, 5000 m Olympic gold at Berlin 1936 in 14:22.2 (Olympic record), 3000 m and 2-mile world records in 1936; killed in the Winter War.