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GWTC-1
GWTC-1 (Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 1) is the first catalog of gravitational-wave detections from compact binary mergers, compiled by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations from observing runs covering 2015 to 2017.
GWTC-2
GWTC-2 (Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog 2) is a catalog of 50 gravitational-wave detections of compact binary mergers made by LIGO and Virgo through the first half of their third observing run.
GWTC-3
GWTC-3, the third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, is a 2021 catalog by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations listing 90 gravitational-wave signals from merging compact binaries.
Gwyddbwyll
Gwyddbwyll is a board game of medieval Wales, named in Welsh literature from the twelfth century and ranked first of the board games among the 'twenty-four feats'.
Gwydir Wetlands: Gingham and Lower Gwydir (Big Leather) Watercourses
Gwydir Wetlands: Gingham and Lower Gwydir (Big Leather) Watercourses, a Ramsar site near Moree, NSW, listed 1999; four subsites, 842 ha, terminal delta wetlands with large water couch and marsh club-rush stands.
Gwynedd
Gwynedd (Cyngor Gwynedd) is a county and unitary authority in northwest Wales, created 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 and reorganised in 1996; 69 councillors, Plaid Cymru-led, 64 communities, Welsh-speaking, tourism-heavy economy.
Gwyneth Card
Gwyneth Card is an American neuroscientist, an HHMI Investigator since 2022, and chair of neuroscience at Columbia, known for studying how fruit flies select escape behaviors.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress born 1972 in Los Angeles, won the 1999 Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, played Pepper Potts in Marvel films, and founded the wellness brand Goop in 2008, which drew pseudoscience criticism and $145,000 in civil penalties.
Gwyneth Philips
Gwyneth Philips, American ice hockey goaltender born 2000 in Athens, Ohio; 2026 Olympic gold medalist with Team USA, NCAA .958 save percentage record at Northeastern, and PWHL Ottawa Charge goalie, first goaltender to win the Ilana Kloss Playoff MVP.
Gwyneth Strong
Gwyneth Strong (born 1959) is an English actress best known as Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses (1989-2003), with film debut Nothing But the Night and stage work including The Mousetrap tour.
Gwynfor Evans
Gwynfor Evans (1912-2005), Welsh nationalist politician, Plaid Cymru president 1945-1981 and first Plaid MP, winning Carmarthen in July 1966; his 1980 hunger-strike vow secured the Welsh-language television channel S4C, and he wrote Land of My Fathers.
Gwynne Shotwell
Gwynne Shotwell, born 1963, is an American mechanical engineer and President and COO of SpaceX, where she joined in 2002 as employee No. 11 and won the 2008 NASA resupply contract.
GX 339-4
GX 339-4, also cataloged as V821 Ara, is a recurrent black hole low-mass X-ray binary in the constellation Ara where a black hole pulls matter from a low-mass star.
GXO Logistics
GXO Logistics is an American contract logistics company headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, spun off from XPO Logistics in 2021, which designs and operates warehouses and fulfillment centers for other businesses.
Gyaarah Gyaarah (ग्यारह ग्यारह)
Gyaarah Gyaarah (ग्यारह ग्यारह), also called 11:11, is a 2024 Hindi ZEE5 crime thriller series, an official adaptation of the Korean drama Signal, directed by Umesh Bist and starring Raghav Juyal, Kritika Kamra, and Dhairya Karwa as cops linked by a walkie-talkie across 1990, 2001, and 2016.
Gyalha Peri
Gyalha Peri (加拉白垒, Gyala Peri), 7,294 m peak in Nyingchi, Tibet, north of the Great Bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo opposite Namcha Barwa; first climbed 31 October 1986 by a Japanese expedition.
Gyaman
Gyaman, also spelt Jaman, was a West African kingdom between the Komoé and Black Volta rivers, founded around 1690 and centered on the trading town of Bonduku.
Gyanendra of Nepal
Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, last king of Nepal (reigned 2001–2008), acceded after the 2001 Narayanhiti massacre, seized absolute rule in February 2005, yielded to the April 2006 People's Movement II, and saw the monarchy abolished 28 May 2008.
Gyanendra Pratap Singh
Gyanendra Pratap Singh (GP Singh), born 1967, is a 1991-batch IPS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, former Assam DGP (2023) and Director General of the CRPF since January 2025; distinct from namesakes in UP police and court records.
Gyanesh Kumar (ज्ञानेश कुमार)
Gyanesh Kumar (ज्ञानेश कुमार), 26th Chief Election Commissioner of India since February 2025, former 1988-batch Kerala-cadre IAS officer, central figure in the SIR voter-roll controversy and opposition removal demands.
Gyaneswar Patil
Gyaneswar Patil (born 1969) is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the Khandwa constituency of Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2021.
Gyānpur
Gyānpur (ज्ञानपुर) is a city and the administrative headquarters of Bhadohi district, Uttar Pradesh, India, lying in the Ganges plain about 45 km west of Varanasi.
Gyanvapi Mosque (ज्ञानवापी मस्जिद)
Gyanvapi Mosque (ज्ञानवापी मस्जिद) is a mosque in Varanasi, India, attributed to Aurangzeb and built beside the Kashi Vishwanath Temple after the earlier temple was dismantled in 1669.
Gyaring
Gyaring Lake (扎陵湖, Zhaling Lake) is a ~526 km² freshwater lake at ~4,280 m in Madoi County, Qinghai, on the Tibetan Plateau. The Yellow River flows through it eastward into its sister lake Ngoring; OSL dating shows overspill highstands at 14–12 ka and 9 ka.
Gyaru (ギャル)
Gyaru (ギャル) is a Japanese youth subculture of bold fashion and makeup, named from English "girl", centered on Shibuya from the 1990s kogal era, with styles like ganguro and hime gal, now revived in Japan and South Korea.
Gyasi Zardes
Gyasi Zardes, American retired forward (born 1991, Hawthorne, CA); LA Galaxy, Columbus Crew, Colorado Rapids, Austin FC; 106 MLS goals, two MLS Cups, 2018 Comeback Player of the Year, 68 USMNT caps, 14 goals.
Gyatt
Gyatt (also gyat) is internet slang for "goddamn", an exclamation of admiration, especially for a large posterior, and a noun for the butt itself; from AAVE, popularized by YourRAGE in 2021 and TikTok by 2023.
Gyda Peninsula
Gyda (Gydan) Peninsula, Гыданский полуостров, a permafrost tundra peninsula in northern West Siberia, Russia, between Ob Bay and Yenisey Bay, home to Nenets herders, the Gydansky protected area, and Arctic LNG 2 gas development.
Gyda Westvold Hansen
Gyda Westvold Hansen (born 2002), Norwegian nordic combined skier and ski jumper for IL Nansen, first women's world champion in nordic combined (Oberstdorf 2021), five world golds, two World Cup overall titles, cousin of Therese Johaug.
Gyebaek
Gyebaek (계백, 階伯) was a general of the Korean kingdom of Baekje who led a 5,000-man death corps against a 50,000-strong Silla army at the Battle of Hwangsanbeol in 660, where he died in battle.