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Gupy

Gupy is a Brazilian human-resources technology company founded in São Paulo in 2015 by Mariana Dias and three co-founders, selling AI-based recruitment and employee-lifecycle software to more than 4,000 enterprises.

Guqiao Coal Mine

Guqiao Coal Mine (顾桥煤矿) is a large underground coal mine in Fengtai County, Huainan, Anhui, China, opened in 2007 with a design capacity of 10 million tonnes per year.

Guqin (古琴)

Guqin (古琴), the seven-string Chinese zither, distinct from the 21-string guzheng: no bridges, ~120 cm body, jianzipu tablature, 3,000-year history, UNESCO intangible heritage since 2003.

Gur Shatz

Gur Shatz is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Cato Networks in Tel Aviv in 2015 with Shlomo Kramer, after co-founding the cloud web security service Incapsula.

Gur Swamps

The Gur Swamps are the wetlands of the Gur River, an Amur tributary in Khabarovsk Krai in the Russian Far East, protected within the Gursky zakaznik for fish conservation.

Gur-e Amir

Gur-e Amir (گور امیر), the Tomb of the Emir, is the Timurid dynastic mausoleum in Samarkand, built by Timur, who was buried there in 1405.

Gur-i Shapur

Gur-i Shapur, the Shapur cave near Bishapur in Fars, Iran, holds a 6.7-metre stalagmite statue of Shapur I; a Barrington Atlas site, UNESCO component, re-erected in 1957.

Gura Dobrogei

Gura Dobrogei, also formerly Cavargic, is a village in Cogealac commune, Constanța County, Romania, founded in 1885, with a 239-hectare natural reserve and a cave archaeological site occupied from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age.

Guraghe Zone

Guraghe Zone is an administrative zone of south-central Ethiopia named for the Gurage people, centered on Welkite and known for enset cultivation and cattle rearing, moved in 2023 to the Central Ethiopia Regional State.

Gurajada Apparao

Gurajada Apparao (గురజాడ అప్పారావు, 1862–1915) was a Telugu playwright and social reformer whose play Kanyasulkam, written in the spoken dialect, is a classic of Telugu theater.

Gurajala Jagan Mohan

Gurajala Jagan Mohan (GJM), Telugu Desam Party MLA for Chittoor (AC 172) in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly since June 2024; won 88,066 votes with a 14,604 margin, declared assets about Rs 142 crore and one pending criminal case.

Guram Kutateladze (fighter)

Guram Kutateladze (გურამ ქუთათელაძე), the "Georgian Viking", is a Georgian lightweight MMA fighter born 1992; a UFC veteran at 2-3 best known for his 2020 split-decision upset of Mateusz Gamrot, later fighting for ACA and Karate Combat.

Gurbachan Singh Bhullar

Gurbachan Singh Bhullar (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੁੱਲਰ; born 1937) is an Indian Punjabi short-story writer known for fiction rooted in rural Punjab, winner of the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari

Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari was a Punjabi writer and editor widely described as the father of modern Punjabi prose, who founded the monthly magazine Preetlari in 1933 and built the literary township of Preet Nagar.

Gurbanali bey

Gurbanali bey (Qurbanəli bəy) is a satirical short story by Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, published in 1907, whose hero is a boastful, two-faced landowner of the village of Qapazlı.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (born 1957) is Turkmenistan's second president (2007-2022) and, since 2023, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty titled National Leader of the Turkmen people; his son Serdar succeeded him in 2022 while he retained supreme power.

Gurbani

Gurbani (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ) is the Sikh term for the Guru's word, the sacred hymns of the Guru Granth Sahib, sung in kirtan and treated as the core guide for living.

Gurbax

Gurbax, real name Kunaal Gurbaxani, is a Bengaluru-born DJ and producer of bass-heavy electronic music who in 2020 became the first Indian trap artist to perform at Burning Man.

Gurbax Singh

Gurbax Singh was an Indian businessman who co-founded Ranbaxy in Amritsar, Punjab, in 1937, a drug distribution firm whose name merges his with Ranbir Singh's.

Gurbita

Gurbita, a Roman road station on the Stobi–Skupi route of the Via Axia in the Vardar valley, listed on the Tabula Peutingeriana; identified with Gradište near Zgropolci, Veles, North Macedonia, occupied 8th century BC to 4th century AD.

Gurbux Singh

Gurbux Singh, born 11 February 1935 in Peshawar, is an Indian field hockey Olympian: gold at Tokyo 1964 and Bangkok 1966, bronze as co-captain at Mexico 1968, later India's 1976 Olympic coach, international umpire, and Arjuna Awardee.

Gurcharan Mall

Gurcharan Mall, known as King G Mall, is a British dhol player and bandleader from Birmingham who formed Apna Sangeet and the Dhol Blasters and made the dhol a lead instrument in UK bhangra.

Gurcharan Singh

Gurcharan Singh names several Indian sports figures: hockey gold medalist Gurcharan Singh Grewal (1911–1949, Berlin 1936), Olympic boxer Gurcharan Singh (born 1977), a Padma Shri cricket coach, and weightlifter Gurucharan Singh.

Gurdas Maan (ਗੁਰਦਾਸ ਮਾਨ)

Gurdas Maan (ਗੁਰਦਾਸ ਮਾਨ), born 1957 in Giddarbaha, Punjab, is a Punjabi singer-songwriter and actor known for Dil Da Mamla Hai, the National Film Award-winning Heer, the 2011 Padma Shri, and global concerts.

Gurdeep Kohli (ਗੁਰਦੀਪ ਕੌਲੀ)

Gurdeep Kohli (ਗੁਰਦੀਪ ਕੌਲੀ), also Gurdeep Punj, Indian TV actress born January 30 (1978 or 1980 per differing sources), known as Dr. Juhi Singh in Sanjivani (2002–2005, 2019), Vedika in Sinndoor Tere Naam Ka, and film debut Rowdy Rathore (2012).

Gurdev Khush

Gurdev Singh Khush, born in 1935, is an Indian-born plant geneticist and rice breeder who spent 35 years at the International Rice Research Institute, developing IR36 and IR64.

Gurdev Singh

Gurdev Singh Kullar (Gurdev Singh), Indian field hockey inside right from Sansarpur, Punjab; 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medallist with India, Asian Games silver 1958 and 1962 as captain; died Leeds 2024.

Gurdial Singh

Gurdial Singh is an Indian Punjabi novelist and short-story writer who won the Jnanpith Award in 1999. He focused on the life of Dalit and peasant people.

Gurdih

Gurdih (گردیه), recorded in Pahlavi as Gerdik, is a woman of the Sasanian period in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, a kinswoman of Bahram Chobin and later wife of Khosrow II.

Gurdo

Gurdo, ancient name of Gourdon-en-Quercy (Lot, Occitania, France), a late-antique castrum on a 284 m rocky spur; cited in Barrington Atlas Map 14 and Ruricus, Epistulae 1.7.