All articles starting with G
18,970 articles
Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin (born 1956, Winnipeg) is a Canadian filmmaker known for silent-era pastiche films like Tales from the Gimli Hospital, The Saddest Music in the World, and the docu-fantasia My Winnipeg; Order of Canada 2012.
Guy Madison
Guy Madison (Robert Ozell Moseley, 1922–1996), American film and TV actor, star of The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951–1958) and later Italian westerns; discovered in uniform for Since You Went Away (1944).
Guy Mannering
Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer is Walter Scott's second novel, published in 1815 under the byline "the author of Waverley" and set in Galloway, south-west Scotland.
Guy Marrian
Guy Frederic Marrian (1904–1981) was a British biochemist who isolated pregnanediol and crystalline oestriol from pregnancy urine, developed the Kober Test, and held chairs at Toronto and Edinburgh.
Guy Martin
Guy Martin, born 1981 in Grimsby, is a British former motorcycle road racer and television presenter known for 17 Isle of Man TT podiums without a win.
Guy Menga
Guy Menga, born Gaston Guy Bikouta Menga, was a Congolese novelist, playwright, and radio broadcaster, considered a founding father of Congolese theater; his 1966 play La Marmite de Koka-Mbala became a classic of French-language African theater.
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (Australian TV series)
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee is an Australian ABC comedy panel show (2024– ), adapted from Montgomery's New Zealand series of the same name. It pairs host Guy Montgomery with assistant Aaron Chen, later Sam Campbell, testing four comedians across five absurd spelling rounds each episode.
Guy Nickalls
Guy Nickalls (1866-1935), British oarsman, won the 1908 Olympic eights gold with Leander at 41, the oldest rowing champion in Olympic history, and holds the Henley record of 22 wins.
Guy of Lusignan
Guy of Lusignan (Guy de Lusignan), Poitevin noble, king of Jerusalem 1186–1187 through marriage to Sibylla, defeated and captured by Saladin at Hattin in 1187, then purchased and ruled Cyprus 1192–1194, founding the Lusignan dynasty there.
Guy of Warwick
Guy of Warwick (Gui de Warewic), legendary English knight of a medieval romance first written in Anglo-Norman French c. 1205-1220; hero wins Felice, becomes penitential pilgrim, fights giants Amorant and Colebrond; adopted by the Beauchamp earls of Warwick.
Guy Parmelin
Guy Parmelin, Swiss SVP politician from Bursins, Vaud, Federal Council member 2016–2026, head of EAER, president of Switzerland in 2021 and 2026, signed Bilaterals III and resigned in October 2026.
Guy Pearce
Guy Pearce, English-born Australian actor born 1967 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, rose from Neighbours' Mike Young to L.A. Confidential, Memento, an Emmy for Mildred Pierce, and a 2025 Oscar nomination for The Brutalist; also a musician.
Guy Penrod
Guy Penrod (born 1963, Abilene, Texas) is an American gospel and country vocalist, lead singer of the Gaither Vocal Band for 14 years and a 2009 Grammy winner for Lovin' Life, later a solo artist with albums such as Breathe Deep and Hymns.
Guy Pratt
Guy Pratt (born 1962, London) is an English session bassist for Pink Floyd and David Gilmour since 1987, also of Roxy Music, Icehouse, and Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets; played on Madonna's "Like a Prayer" and Michael Jackson's "Earth Song", and wrote My Bass and Other Animals.
Guy Rachet
Guy Rachet is a French archaeologist and historian who authored dictionaries on ancient Egypt and Greece. He also wrote a five-volume novel cycle about Fourth Dynasty pyramid builders.
Guy Remmers
Guy Remmers (born 1995, Bristol) is a British actor and model who plays Theo, Duke of Tintagel, in Apple TV+'s The Buccaneers (2023– ), his screen debut after stage work at the Bristol Old Vic and National Theatre.
Guy Reschenthaler
Guy Reschenthaler, Republican U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 14th District since 2019, former Navy JAG officer, state senator, and House Chief Deputy Whip in the 119th Congress.
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie (born 1968, London), English director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Sherlock Holmes, Aladdin, The Covenant, and the TV series The Gentlemen, MobLand, and Young Sherlock.
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant is a 2023 war film directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a US Army sergeant who risks everything to rescue the Afghan interpreter who saved him.
Guy Rouleau (neurologist)
Guy Rouleau is a Canadian neurologist and neurogeneticist, Chair of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, known for identifying more than 20 disease-causing genes in brain disorders.
Guy S. Salvesen
Guy S. Salvesen is a biochemist and Professor Emeritus at Sanford Burnham Prebys in La Jolla, California, known for his research on caspases, the proteases that execute programmed cell death.
Guy Sebastian
Guy Sebastian, Malaysian-born Australian singer (born 1981), first Australian Idol winner 2003; six #1 singles, two #1 albums, Eurovision 2015 fifth place, The Voice coach, AM honoree.
Guy Siner
Guy Siner (born 1947, Manhattan) is an American-born British actor, best known as Lieutenant Hubert Gruber in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1982-1992), with credits in Doctor Who, Star Trek: Enterprise, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Crown, and Star Wars video game voice work.
Guy Spier
Guy Spier is a Zurich-based value investor who managed the Aquamarine Fund, a Buffett-style partnership, from 1997 until 2026, and wrote The Education of a Value Investor.
Guy Standing (economist)
Guy Standing is an economist known for popularizing the precariat, for a career largely at the International Labour Organisation, and for designing basic income pilots in India and Namibia.
Guy Stockwell
Guy Stockwell (1933-2002), American film and television actor, older brother of Dean Stockwell; starred in The War Lord, Beau Geste, and The Plainsman, and later taught acting in Los Angeles.
Guy Strait
Guy Strait (Elmer Guy Strait, 1920-1987), "The Porno King," was a San Francisco gay activist and publisher who founded the League for Civil Education, launched the city's first gay newspaper LCE News in 1961, and was later imprisoned in Illinois in the 1970s on charges involving minors.
Guy Thwaites
Guy Thwaites is an English infectious diseases physician and Oxford professor who directed the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam from 2013 to 2026, researching tuberculosis.
Guy Tillim
Guy Tillim (born 1962) is a South African photographer from Johannesburg who covered African conflicts for Reuters and AFP before turning to large-scale series on the architecture and street life of postcolonial cities.
Guy Turcotte killings
Guy Turcotte killings: 2009 stabbing deaths of Anne-Sophie and Olivier Turcotte in Piedmont, Quebec, by their father, ex-cardiologist Guy Turcotte; NCR verdict in 2011, overturned, second-degree murder conviction in 2015, life sentence.