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Gunther Huber

Günther Huber, born 1965 in Brunico, Italy, is an Italian former bobsledder who won two-man gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics and bronze in 1994.

Gunther Krichbaum

Gunther Krichbaum is a German CDU politician who has been Minister of State for Europe since 2025 and has represented Pforzheim in the Bundestag since 2002.

Günther Laukien

Günther Laukien, also spelled Gunther Laukien, was a German physicist who founded Bruker Physik in Karlsruhe in 1960, building it into a leading maker of NMR instruments.

Günther Quandt

Günther Quandt (died 1954) was a German industrialist who built a fortune on batteries, armaments, and coal, used some 50,000 forced laborers under the Nazis, and whose heirs held 46.7 percent of BMW.

Günther Rupprechter

Günther Rupprechter is an Austrian materials chemist and professor at TU Wien who studies heterogeneous catalysis with operando spectroscopy and microscopy, including single catalytic particles.

Gunther S. Stent

Gunther S. Stent, born Günter Siegmund Stensch, was a German-born American molecular biologist and neurobiologist at UC Berkeley who studied bacterial viruses and the leech nervous system.

Günther Schiemann

Günther Schiemann (1899–1967) was a German chemist, born in Breslau, who described the Balz–Schiemann reaction in 1927, a two-step conversion of aryl amines into aryl fluorides still used industrially.

Günther Schütz

Günther Schütz (1940–2020) was a German molecular biologist who studied steroid hormone gene regulation and headed a division at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

Gunther Tiersch

Gunther Tiersch (born 1954, Ratzeburg), German coxswain and meteorologist; won 1968 Olympic gold in the men's eight at 14 years 173 days, carried the 1972 Olympic flag, and presented ZDF weather for about 35 years.

Gunther Uhlmann

Gunther Uhlmann, born 1952 in Quillota, Chile, is a Chilean-American mathematician at the University of Washington known for inverse problems, electrical impedance tomography, and cloaking.

Gunther von Hagens

Gunther von Hagens (born Gunther Gerhard Liebchen, 1945–2026), German anatomist who invented plastination in 1977 at Heidelberg and created the Body Worlds exhibitions; died 24 July 2026, aged 81, with his body to be plastinated per his wish.

Günther von Kluge

Günther von Kluge, also Hans Günther von Kluge (1882–1944), German Wehrmacht field marshal; commanded 4th Army in Poland and France, Army Group Center 1941–43, and OB West in 1944; refused the 20 July plotters and died by poison in August 1944.

Günther Wilke

Günther Wilke (1925–2016) was a German organometallic chemist who discovered the selective cyclotrimerization of butadiene, demonstrated ligand control in nickel catalysis, and led the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung from 1969 to 1993.

Guntō (軍刀)

Guntō (軍刀), meaning "military sword", is the general term for the regulation swords carried by Imperial Japanese Army and Navy officers from the 1870s until Japan's 1945 surrender.

Guntong Oil and Gas Field

Guntong is a large offshore oil and gas field in the Malay Basin off Peninsular Malaysia, developed from 1985 with about 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

Guntur (landform)

Guntur (Gunung Guntur), "thunder," is a 2,251 m complex stratovolcano in West Java near Garut, last erupting in 1847 after 24 eruptions since 1690; it drives the Kamojang and Darajat geothermal fields.

Guntur (గుంటూరు)

Guntur (గుంటూరు) is a city and municipal corporation in Andhra Pradesh, India, district headquarters, 2011 population 647,508, home of Asia's largest chilli yard with 2023 sales over ₹10,000 crore.

Guntur district (గుంటూరు జిల్లా)

Guntur district (గుంటూరు జిల్లా), Andhra Pradesh, India: formed 1 October 1904, headquarters Guntur city; after 2022 bifurcation into Palnadu and Bapatla it has 2 revenue divisions, 18 mandals, 10,863 sq km, population 34,06,061.

Guntur Kaaram (గుంటూరు కారం)

Guntur Kaaram (గుంటూరు కారం) is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language action drama film directed by Trivikram Srinivas, starring Mahesh Babu, released on 12 January 2024 during the Sankranti festival season.

Gunturu Seshendra Sarma

Gunturu Seshendra Sarma (గుంటూరు శేషేంద్ర శర్మ), known by the title Yuga Kavi, was a Telugu poet and critic best known for the long poem Naa Desam, Naa Prajalu.

Gunugus

Gunugus, or Gunugu, was a Phoenician trading post and port on the Mediterranean coast of Algeria, about 31 km west of Cherchel, later a Roman veteran colony under Augustus.

Gunung Abong Abong

Gunung Abong Abong (Gunung Abeuengabeueng, Mount Abongabong) is a 2,985 m stratovolcano peak in Nagan Raya Regency, Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, part of the Bukit Barisan range, with 1,104 m prominence and a Dutch-era triangulation pillar (P.127) on its summit.

Gunung Benum

Gunung Benum (Gunung Benom), a 2,107 m ultra-prominent mountain in Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia; third most prominent peak on the peninsula after Gunung Tahan and Gunung Korbu, a standalone massif with a multi-day jungle trek.

Gunung Binaiya

Gunung Binaiya (Binaya, Binaija), 3,027 m, is the highest mountain of the Maluku Islands, a karst peak on Seram Island in Manusela National Park and one of the Seven Summits of Indonesia; the climb takes 7–10 days from near sea level.

Gunung Cikuray

Gunung Cikuray (Gunung Cikurai) is a 2,821 m stratovolcano in Garut Regency, West Java, Indonesia, the fourth highest in the province, with no active crater, no recorded Holocene eruptions, and popular Tapak Gerot and Pemancar hiking routes.

Gunung Kapalatmada

Gunung Kapalatmada (also Kakupalatmada, Kaku Ghegan) is the highest point of Buru island, Maluku, Indonesia, at about 2,683-2,700 m with equal prominence, an ultra and Ribu, largely unclimbed.

Gunung Leuser

Gunung Leuser is a non-volcanic peak in the Bukit Barisan, northern Sumatra, highest summit of Gunung Leuser National Park at 3,466 m (sources also give 3,404 m), second highest in Sumatra, in a UNESCO World Heritage rainforest.

Gunung Leuser Biosphere Reserve

Gunung Leuser Biosphere Reserve (Cagar Biosfer Gunung Leuser), a UNESCO MAB reserve designated in 1981 in Aceh and North Sumatra, Indonesia, covering about 5.29 million ha with Gunung Leuser National Park as core area.

Gunung Liman

Gunung Liman, also written Ngliman, is the highest peak of the Wilis range in East Java, Indonesia, rising 2,563 m (8,409 ft) on the Nganjuk–Ponorogo border.

Gunung Matebeanfeto

Gunung Matebeanfeto (Mount Matebian, mountain of souls) is a 2,372 m ultra-prominent massif in Baucau, Timor-Leste, with Mane and Feto summits, sacred pilgrimage site and former FALINTIL resistance stronghold.