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Gunnar Hojer
Gunnar Höjer (Gunnar Fredrik Höjer, 1875–1936), Swedish military officer and gymnast with Stockholms GF; won team gymnastics gold (Swedish system, 438 points) for Sweden at London 1908; distinct from namesake athletes.
Gunnar Holmgren
Gunnar Holmgren (1875–1954) was a Swedish physician, Sweden's first professor of ear, nose, and throat diseases at Karolinska Institutet, remembered as the father of Swedish ENT for introducing the binocular operating microscope to ear surgery.
Gunnar Hoppe
Gunnar Hoppe (1914–2005) was a Swedish geographer and Quaternary geologist, professor of physical geography at Stockholm University from 1954 to 1980, known for his 1948 study of ice recession in Norrbotten.
Gunnar Jonning
Gunnar Jonning (Gunnar Jönning, born 2 August 1913), Swedish race walker and Stockholm bank guard; set the official 3000 m race walk world record of 12:36.0 at Mjölby on 23 August 1936, broken by John Mikaelsson in 1937.
Gunnar Juliusson
Gunnar Juliusson is a Swedish hematologist and leukemia researcher, Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Lund University, known for defining the chromosomal prognostic subgroups of CLL in 1990.
Gunnar Larsson
Gunnar Larsson (Carl Gunnar Larsson, born 1951, Malmö), Swedish swimmer, 1972 Olympic double individual medley champion; won 400 IM over Tim McKee by 0.002 seconds, prompting FINA's hundredth-second rule. Distinct from the cross-country skier of the same name.
Gunnar Luderer
Gunnar Luderer is an energy systems researcher who leads the Energy Transition Lab at the Potsdam Institute, the REMIND model, and a TU Berlin chair.
Gunnar Myhre
Gunnar Myhre is a Norwegian atmospheric scientist who leads the Atmospheric Sciences group at CICERO in Oslo, studies radiative forcing, and served as an IPCC lead author.
Gunnar Myrdal
Gunnar Myrdal, also known as Karl Gunnar Myrdal, was a Swedish economist and Social Democratic politician who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics and wrote An American Dilemma.
Gunnar Nelson (fighter)
Gunnar Nelson, born Gunnar Lúðvík Nelson in 1988, is an Icelandic professional mixed martial artist and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt who competes in the UFC welterweight division.
Gunnar Nielsen
Gunnar Nielsen (Niels Gunnar Nielsen, 1928-1985), Danish middle-distance runner for KIF Atletik; 1952 Olympic 800 m fourth, 1954 European 1500 m silver, world records at 880 yards, 1500 m (3:40.8), and indoor mile. Not the Faroese football goalkeeper of the same name.
Gunnar Nordahl
Gunnar Nordahl (Nils Gunnar Nordahl), Swedish centre-forward (1921-1995), AC Milan's all-time top scorer with 221 goals, 225 Serie A goals in 291 games, record five capocannoniere titles, and 1948 Olympic gold with Sweden.
Gunnar Nordström
Gunnar Nordström (1881–1923) was a Finnish theoretical physicist who wrote the first metric theory of gravitation, a scalar rival to general relativity, and independently found the Reissner–Nordström metric for a charged mass.
Gunnar Rasmussen
Gunnar Rasmussen (Karl Gunnar Julius Rasmussen, 1894–1945), Danish racewalker of IF Sparta, København; set four world records in 1918 (3,000 m, 5,000 m, 10,000 m, 15 km walk), won six Danish titles, and was disqualified in both 1920 Antwerp Olympic walk heats.
Gunnar Sizemore
Gunnar Sizemore (born 2005) is an American actor, writer, and director, son of Kevin Sizemore, known for voicing Bao in Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny, Greg in Everybody Still Hates Chris, and directing the award-winning short Sterling.
Gunnar Soderlindh
Gunnar Söderlindh (Erik Gunnar Engelbrekt Söderlindh), Swedish gymnast born 10 February 1896 in Örebro, died 26 December 1969; won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in men's team gymnastics, Swedish system, with Sweden's 24-man squad.
Gunnar Steineck
Gunnar Steineck was a Swedish physician and professor of clinical cancer epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet and the University of Gothenburg, known for patient-reported outcome research among cancer survivors.
Gunnar Strömmer
Gunnar Strömmer is a Swedish Moderate Party politician serving as Minister for Justice, who in 2002 founded the nonprofit foundation Centrum för rättvisa to strengthen individual rights.
Gunnar Svaetichin
Gunnar Svaetichin (1915–1981) was a physiologist who recorded the first intracellular light-evoked responses from the vertebrate retina, the S-potentials, opening the study of retinal interneurons and color opponency.
Gunnar Thorson
Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971) was a Danish marine zoologist and ecologist who founded the Marine Biological Laboratory at Helsingør, established Thorson's rule in 1950, and proposed parallel bottom communities.
Gunnar Utterberg
Gunnar Utterberg (Nils Gunnar Utterberg, 1942–2021), Swedish sprint canoeist with Jönköpings KK; Olympic gold in K2 1,000 m at Tokyo 1964 with Sven-Olov Sjödelius in 3:38.54; competed at three Games 1964–1972.
Gunnar von Heijne
Gunnar von Heijne, born 1951 in Gothenburg, is a Swedish biochemist and professor at Stockholm University known for the positive-inside rule and tools like SignalP and TMHMM.
Gunnedah
Gunnedah, NSW: a Namoi River town and shire centre on the Liverpool Plains, 80 km west of Tamworth, known for grains, cotton, coal, AgQuip, and Kamilaroi heritage.
Gunner Olszewski
Gunner Olszewski, NFL wide receiver and return specialist for the New York Giants; ex-Patriots and Steelers undrafted Bemidji State DB; 2020 first-team All-Pro punt returner with a franchise-record 17.3-yard average.
Gunner Stockton
Native to Tiger, Georgia, Gunner Stockton is a college football quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs, who transitioned from backup to the starter since the 2025 season.
Gunnery sergeant
Gunnery sergeant (GySgt, "gunny") is the E-7 staff noncommissioned officer rank of the U.S. Marine Corps, above staff sergeant. Established 1898 for shipboard ordnance specialists, eliminated 1946, restored at E-7 in 1958; insignia three chevrons, two rockers, crossed rifles.
Gunnison, Colorado
Gunnison, Colorado: county seat of Gunnison County on the Western Slope, population 6,560 (2020), home of Western Colorado University (founded 1901), known as the icebox of Colorado and gateway to Crested Butte and Blue Mesa Reservoir.
Gunntro Catena
Gunntro Catena, a 149 km crater chain (catena) on Jupiter's moon Callisto, IAU-named in 1997 for a Norse river, likely formed by a comet tidally disrupted by Jupiter like Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Gunong Yong Belar
Gunong Yong Belar (Gunung Yong Belar), 2,181 m, is Malaysia's third highest peninsula peak, second highest in the Titiwangsa range, on the Kelantan-Perak border, a G7 hike from Lojing.
Gunpei Yokoi (横井軍平)
Gunpei Yokoi (横井軍平, 1941–1997), Nintendo engineer and R&D1 head, creator of the Ultra Hand, Game & Watch, D-pad, and Game Boy, producer of Metroid, and designer of the failed Virtual Boy.